Coloring Books
The Coloring Book world now includes books that are not just line art, but images in shades of gray which are then colored over with colored pencils so the values still show through, giving the pictures depth and realism. My oil paintings from my children’s books converted to grayscale are really fun to color. I have made a number of videos on coloring grayscale pictures on YouTube: My COLORING TUTORIALS
Beautiful Birds!
My new coloring book for 2023 is Beautiful Birds, a grayscale coloring book for adults. The images are from many different picture books I’ve done over the years that have images of birds in them. The Secret…
Grayscale Fantasy Coloring Book
Grayscale Fantasy contains 36 images from my fantasy and fairytale art in both lighter and darker grayscale. Here are a few sample images:
Nursery Rhymes
Color your own pictures of these 36 delightful nursery rhymes. With the rhymes included! I carefully converted the color images to a light grayscale, so you can color right over the tones with colored pencils, and the…
Christmas Magic
Watch a Flip Through of All the pages on YouTube. Download this free Santa picture and color along with Ruth in the video below!
Fantasy Faces
These 24 images are grayscaled from my many paintings. There is a bonus section at the back of the book with 6 practice portraits and color combinations for various skin colors. The book includes a lighter and…
Fairies
Bring these fey creatures to life with your own color! These 24 grayscaled images were created from my many paintings of fairies. The print version of the coloring book contains both a lighter and darker version, as…
Beautiful Fairy Tales #1: The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Volume I of BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALES, with 24 unique pictures to color. I carefully converted the color images to a light grayscale, so you can color right over the tones with colored pencils, and the tones help…
Beautiful Fairy Tales #2: Cinderella
Volume II of BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALES, with 24 unique pictures to color. I carefully converted the color images to a light grayscale, so you can color right over the tones with colored pencils, and the tones help…
Beautiful Fairy Tales #3: Goldilocks
Volume III of BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALES, combines 24 unique pictures to color from the pencil drawings that I created as underdrawings for the paintings, and there is also a bonus section of 12 images that are the…
Beautiful Fairy Tales #4: The Snow Princess
The Snow Princess is Volume IV of the Beautiful Fairy Tales series of grayscale adult coloring books based on my picture books for children. Features 24 images from The Snow Princess, a Russian ballet inspired fairy tale.…