Coloring Pages for Adults

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Adult coloring pages are the best way to relax and be creative. Coloring pages for adults are great for reducing stress and setting your mind free. If you loved coloring books as a child, or you want an interesting hobby that results in a work of art, why not start having fun again coloring pages designed especially for grown ups and older kids?

Coloring pages and coloring crafts are tons of fun for kids and adults! You can stay inside the lines of the design on a complex coloring page, or add your own artistic details and embellishments. Get creative with coloring page pictures - add your own colorful touches to the complex designs you find online and print out.

NOTE: All adult coloring pages and printable coloring sheets linked from this page are rated G and suitable for viewing by everyone. I really appreciate comments and feedback. Be sure to visit and sign the Guestbook.

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Adult Coloring Tools Poll

Do you color with crayon, colored pencil, markers, or something else?

I've always been a colored pencil lover. I color with markers, pastels, paints, pens and crayons, but my first choice to color or draw is my collection of blendable colored pencils. To get more artsy I use a bit of water on a brush to create a wash, or add outlines and details with fine line permanent ink markers. There's a wide variety of art tools, pencils and paints you can use for your adult coloring projects. Which coloring tools do you prefer?

Photo Credit: Michael Maggs - coloured pencils photo (Wikimedia).

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How to Find All The Free Adult Coloring Pages

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Monster Squid Drawing by rahlhogaboom, flickrAdult coloring page favorites include line drawings of fine art masterpieces, original detailed black and white pictures waiting to be colored in, mandala coloring pages, 3D design coloring pages, kaleidoscopic art and op art printable pictures to color and whimsical, vintage and nostalgic drawings with plenty of details.

Mandala Coloring Pages
Kaleidoscope Coloring Pages
Small Coloring Pictures
3D Coloring Pages
Posters and Murals to Color
Thousands of free printable adult coloring pages
Squidoo Coloring Page Collections
Tattoo Design Ideas

Giant Squid Monster Line Drawing art - ralphhogaboom, flickr


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Design Your Own Coloring Pages

Adult Coloring Pages You Can Make

If you're a wee bit handy with Photoshop, you can design your own printable coloring pages using Photoshop tools: brushes, fonts and custom shapes. If you have a favorite snapshot you can convert it into an artistic coloring page. If you make coloring pages for your own use, there's no copyright worry, but don't use a photo by someone else to make a coloring page to publish on a lens, blog or in any commercial publication.

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Check out Photoshop Tips (with links to free Photoshop brushes to add to your collection).

Image illustrations copyright Lee Hansen aka Pastiche - used with permission

Photo credit: Jorge Barrios - wax crayons photo (Wikimedia).

Wax Crayons - Too Old School for Adult Coloring Artists? 

Superb Adult Coloring Books by Kendall Bohn

Fantasy art, abstract drawings, kaleidoscopic coloring pages

Kendall Bohn is a fine artist who creates fantastic hand drawn coloring pages for adults and older kids. His collection of fantasy coloring books will open your mind and help you explore your creative side.

Winged Adventure: a KALEIDOSCOPIA coloring book by Kendall Bohn

Winged Adventure: a KALEIDOSCOPIA coloring book by Kendall Bohn

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Undersea Adventure: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

Undersea Adventure: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure VIII: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: Geoscopic Patterns by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure VIII: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: Geoscopic Patterns by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure V: a KALEIDOSCOPIA coloring book by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure V: a KALEIDOSCOPIA coloring book by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure: The Original (Kaleidoscopia Coloring Books) by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure: The Original (Kaleidoscopia Coloring Books) by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure VII: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: Organiscopic Patterns by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure VII: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: Organiscopic Patterns by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure VI: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure VI: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure II: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure II: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure IV; Coloring Outside the Box: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure IV; Coloring Outside the Box: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

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Prehistoric Adventure: A Kaliedoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

Prehistoric Adventure: A Kaliedoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure IX: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: Assorted Mosaics by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure IX: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: Assorted Mosaics by Kendall Bohn

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Abstract Adventure X: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: An Adventure On Every Page by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure X: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: An Adventure On Every Page by Kendall Bohn

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Fantasy Adventure: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

Fantasy Adventure: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

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Adult Coloring Pages Blog

The best murals, posters and adult coloring pages on the planet

adult coloring page maine lighthose copyright lee hansen aka pastiche on squidooAdult Coloring Pages blog posts new updates weekly with printable cool complex coloring pages for adults and posters (all rated G) for older kids and adults to color or use for craft designs. The adult coloring page selections run from posters to masks to pop culture and sometimes you'll find a printable mandala coloring page or a geometric design pattern you can print and color in.
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Islands, Adult Coloring Book

Relax, Get Creative, Experiment with Color and Texture

Here's one example from the wonderful selection of Coloring Books for Grown Ups you can find to buy online at Amazon.

Islands: A Coloring Book for Adults (30 Drawings, 30 Poems)

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The selection of coloring books for older children and adults includes coloring pictures of mandalas, human anatomy, geometric patterns, historic buildings, masters paintings, fashions, unicorns, cats and just about any other topic you can imagine. Adult coloring books with mature content also exist, for example a coloring book of nudes, Magical Men.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso”

Free Adult Coloring Pages

Finding the best adult coloring pages and complex coloring pages for teens and older kids

Adult coloring page free printable mandala

Mandala design adult coloring page - click image for more information

There are thousands of free coloring pages available online, but many are based on cartoon characters or children's popular stories. I'm always on the lookout for new pictures and line art that's more complex - there's a big linked list of my favorite adult coloring pages in the Printables section of this lens - check 'em out, they're free and all rated G!


You can create your own coloring books or coloring pages from digital photographs - it's not hard to convert a photo to a coloring page if you have a scanned photo or digital camera image plus PhotoShop or a similar program - really!


Coloring is a wonderful creative activity for therapy, relaxation or meditation. You can color pictures to keep your mind active or to quiet it down - coloring isn't just for preschoolers; in fact, adult coloring is cool!

Adult Coloring Page Artist

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I spend part of every day making new digital art, and I always include an adult coloring page in my new work. Some of my drawing is inspired by photos, other ideas just pop into my head. Every new season and holiday bring me new ideas for making coloring pge ... gee this is sounding like the Squidoo muse. Want to drop me a note or leave a comment - visit the Guestbook!
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Vintage St. Nicholas Detailed Coloring Page

European Santa with reindeer, toys and fir tree

Adult coloring page vintage Santa Claus

Recently added adult coloring page section features several winter holiday coloring designs for grown ups and older kids including this vintage Santa coloring poster based on vintage clip art.

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Lots of printable coloring pages, posters and crafts

Whatever you like to color, I've found plenty of printable adult coloring pages for your art endeavors. Here are just 15 of my popular coloring page lenses at Squidoo ...

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More Adult Coloring Pages

Earth and Galaxy Coloring Poster for Adults

Flammarion Woodcut - Ready for Adult Coloring

Adult coloring poster, Flamarrion woodcut, earth and heavens poster

The Flamarrion public domain image is a beautiful, complex poster for adult coloring
Download this redrawn image (by jfrancis at Flickr)
or download the scanned version of the original woodcut print available at Wikimedia

GIANT Coloring Projects - Coloring Posters and Mural Art

Jumbo size adult coloring patterns and projects

Print your own Mega Maps free, or try the projects in these resource links:
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5 Creative Ways to Use Adult Coloring Pages

Get Creative and Crafty with Free Coloring Pages

Try these ideas for creative crafts made with coloring pictures and line drawings. Adult coloring crafts are fun and artistic!

1. Use line art drawings as templates for fabric crafts such as applique or embroidery. Here's another embroidery project created from a simple drawing - it's colored in with, yep, crayons.

2. Print out coloring page drawings to use as outlines for paper crafts, including pieced paper designs for cards or collages.

3. Make your own tee shirt or tote bag transfers from coloring pictures you've enlarged and printed, then color in the designs with fabric paints or heat-set crayons.

4. For a great party activity, print out several coloring sheets to assemble into a creative coloring project "wall of fame." Let guests color in the pictures (or embellish with paper, glitter and other craft findings) and add their signatures. This is fun for kids, teens and adults.

5. Use coloring sheet drawings for making unique die cuts for scrapbooking and cardmaking, or try some paper embroidery.

Make a Coloring Sheet from a Photo

Convert Your Pictures into Coloring Pages

Make Coloring Pages from Digital Photos - a good tutorial from the fototiller blog. I made the coloring picture above of my granddaughter in less than 5 minutes using Photoshop.

If you don't' have Photoshop you can use DUMPR, an online tool that converts any photo into a line art sketch.

Here's a coloring picture I made by converting another photo of my granddaughter to a greyscale picture sketch using DUMPR.NET, a free online tool:

Make a Coloring Picture from a Photo
Dumpr - Photo Fun I could color or paint this line drawing, or trace it and transfer the final outlines to another sheet of paper.

Creative Craft Ideas for Adult Coloring Pages

5 nifty projects you can make with complex coloring designs

Pizza coloring page by Lee Hansen (Pastiche)1. Start with a simple coloring picture outline, then work with your favorite graphics editor to add color, patterns and textures.

2. Use a line drawing you like to make a temporary tattoo, or to design your personal body art.

3. Use coloring page drawings to create your own die cuts for card making or scrapbooking.

4. Project your favorite line drawing onto a wall, pencil it in, then paint a mural!

5. Use coloring book pictures to make stencils and screen print designs.

Do you have an adult coloring craft idea to share? Contact me, or post a comment with link in the Guest Book to share!

Pizza Coloring Page-copyright Lee Hansen aka Pastiche

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Fine Art and Famous Art Coloring Books

Color Pictures Drawn by the Masters

Learn about artistic expression and the artist styles behind some of the world's greatest fine art masterpieces with these famous art coloring books.

Browse this brief collection of Coloring Books for Adults available from Amazon.
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Free Printable Adult Coloring Page

My favorite complex coloring sheets for adult coloring

Fish design lotus mandala coloring page

I'm always searching the internet and reviewing black and white printable drawing pages to make new recommendations for adult coloring pages. I look for interesting subjects, complex designs and large, free printable outline drawings.

This section features linked lists of the best printable adult coloring pages I've found online. You can download these adult coloring pages and complex line drawings to color for a hobby, relaxation, art therapy, creative inspiration or to design your own coloring crafts patterns and projects.

Lotus abstract mandala coloring design used with permission of the artist- click image to download a full size printable page

Adult Coloring Extreme Details

Beautiful Back Tattoo Design


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Small Line Art For Coloring - Good Bits to Make Tattoos or Clip Art

Printable Coloring Book Pictures in Smaller Sizes

I like to use these small black and white drawings to make paper crafts (stickers, labels, bookmarks and bookplates) or as inspiration for a tattoo or craft project. You can enlarge small coloring pictures using a scanner or a photo copy machine to make larger artwork for posters, pieced paper and fabric mosaics or embroidery patterns.
Mehendi - Tattoo Designs
Make photocopies of these hand and foot designs, add your own colors. Beautiful designs.
Celtic Art - Dragons
Items in the clip art section are free for PERSONAL or NONPROFIT purposes. A
Grandma's Graphics: Colouring Outlines
Grandma's Graphics offers unique graphic images and clipart from the 1890's to the 1940's.
Complex artwork to challenge your coloring abilities
Detailed and complex, these black and white drawings are exquisite as they are and will offer a challenge for adult coloring fans. Try them with fine tip markers or very sharp colored pencils.
Artsology: Coloring Book
Nifty coloring pages and design motifs based on ancien symbols and classic art masterpieces.

Tattoo Ideas - Coloring Pages for Adults

Unique Body Art

Many unique tattoos and body art designs come from unique coloring pages.
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Kindle Fire is Perfect for Adult Coloring!

Coloring Books for Adults, Kindle Editions

I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas and was amazed at how many fun apps I can add, especially drawing and Coloring Books for Adults.
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Free Printable Coloring Pages for Adults and Older Children

Complex Posters and Pages with Interesting Designs to Color

Here's the big list of adult coloring page printables. I find many coloring pictures with more complex pictures for older children and adults to color as I research new and interesting art or printable coloring page sites, and I add new links to this section every week.

You'll find cool detailed line art for adult coloring and artist design resources here and the linked artwork is safe for all ages: I visit each page and site that I recommend personally and they're all rated "G".
Adult Coloring Pages
Blog dedicated to complex pictures for adult coloring and craft designers. Rated G.
Complex Design Posters to Color In, Complex Coloring Pages for Adults and Artists
Detailed pictures to color of adult toys, kaleidoscopes, detailed drawings and mandala designs.
Free Printable Coloring Book Pages
Free printable posters and sheets to color in.
Printable Mandala Coloring Pages
Printable mandala coloring pages. Complex kaleidoscopic coloring sheets for older kids, adults and artists, part of a collection of free adult coloring pages and patterns for coloring and artistic design.
Best Coloring Collection Ever
Links and reviews of the best coloring books, pictures, line art and posters for adult coloring enjoyment and crafts design.
Peace Begins with Me Poster
Intricate village scene Christian coloring poster with Peace theme.
Streams and Wildlife Poster
Animals, fish, birds, insects and plants abound in a natural stream environment on this wildlife poster to color.
Princess Coloring Pages at Nicole's Coloring Pages
Magical Elegance - Printable princess coloring pages
Day of the Dead Coloring-Skull Mask to Color
Skull coloring sheet printable, day of the dead decorated fiesta skull mask picture to color.
day of dead decorated skull coloring picture mask
Phee's Coloring Pages. Projects and drawings to color for all ages
Coloring Pages From The Stories of Phee McFaddell.
Adult Coloring Pages, Printable Designs and Patterns
Printable adult coloring pages, coloring sheets for adults, seniors, older children, teens and designers.
Decorated Owl Coloring Picture
Stars, arrows, paisley and flowers adorn this psychedelic owl shape.
MaryEngelbreit.com | Coloring Pages
Mary Engelbreit's charmingly detailed and homespun coloring pictures.
Coloring Pages at EduPics.com
Coloring pages based on fine art masterpieces.
Calla Lily - FREE Stained Glass Panel Pattern
Calla lily Free stained glass pattern makes a nice coloring page.
National Geographic Coloring Book
Beautifully detailed realistic animal pictures to color in.
Fairy Librarian Picture to Color
Detailed drawings with complex shapes, fantasy characters.
Fairy Coloring Book and Coloring Pages
Exquisite artwork .. beautiful even in black and white.
ArtMan Graphics, Coloring Poster Designs
Sample posters with lots of detail, suitable for personal printing and coloring in: Halloween, animal farm, unicorn, dinosaurs, witch scene
Cartoons to Color
Offering free coloring book pages for kids by cartoonist
Crayon By Number - Color by Number Pages of Fine Art Masterpieces
Collection of CrayonByNumbers pictures created from paintings of 15th to 19th century masters. Two versions for each picture: Complex and Easy, plus color guide for each color in region.
Castle Coloring Sheets
4 coloring sheets featuring Medieval castles
Hummingbird and Elf Friends
Hummer and elf friends elves Coloring Page
Vikings of Denmark Danish fairy tale
Fairy tale picture of Vikings of Denmark.
Color Your Own - Line Drawings
Color Your Own are black and white line drawings, all original artwork by Summer Fey Foovay, free to can copy or save for personal use.
Reindeer Designer coloring page
Reindeer colleage coloring page - intricate design with smaller designs inside the reindeer outline makes a very interesting holiday poster.
Fairy Coloring Book and Coloring Pages
Beautifully detailed pictures of fairies and mystical scenes.
Eaton's Toys of Our Childhood Vintage Colouring Book
Children could relive the magic of the parade by colouring in the Santa Claus Parade Christmas Colouring Book that was specially created for the day.
Designs to Color
Intricate complex line drawings and mandala art in black and white for older kids and adults to color and for crafts patterns.
Kangaroo coloring page
Kangaroo coloring page with all sorts of tattoo designs to color all over the 'roo's body.
Abstract Coloring Book Printable
Adobe PDF with 12 pages of printable mandalas and complex drawings suitable for older kids and adult coloring. Some of these coloring pages are extremely complex.
Mardi Gras Coloring Posters
Elaborate Mardi Gras pictures to color - 8 imagingative detailed drawings of costumed figures and fantasy designs.
Free Adult Coloring Pages - Mandalas and More !
Free adult coloring pages including beautiful mandalas, detailed images & more ! Hours of fun - all for free !
Artist-created coloring pages for all ages!
Welcome to coloring-pages-for-all-ages.com! Author/Illustrator Sheri McClure-Pitler creates a treasure trove of free printable coloring pages, e-coloring books and more.
Coloring page flower vase. Free, printable, realistic.
Intricate line drawing of flowers and a vase - very complex, perfect picture for adult coloring and mediation.
Detailed Butterfly Coloring Page
Detailed butterfly coloring page - great for science
HSTAR Coloring Page - Fantasy creatures and Stars
Art -Fantasy Coloring Page with creatures and stars. Quite elaborate ... printable from the artist's page at DeviantArt
Moonwalker Coloring Book - MIchael Jackson Coloring Pages
In honor of The King of Pop's 51st Birthday this artist scanned & cleaned up a piece of memorabilia -- Moonwalker: The Coloring Book (32 pages + front & back) and posted it for download by page or the total coloring book.
Dragons, Fantasy Beasts, Fairies to Color
Original art by a talented artist, available for download and personal use for coloring and coloring crafts. Read and respect the artist's rules for using these beautiful and detailed coloring pages.
studio.leah - Coloring picture #1 for the July 10th studio.leah...
Coloring picture #1 for the July 10th studio.leah coloring contest!
Pools of Infinity Coloring Sheet - Carlton Hibbert's patterns for coloring blog
The squiggly lines in this random overall coloring page pattern might make you dizzy. The patterns on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
ScrapColoring - Free Online Coloring Pages
Free online coloring pages for kids with a rich variety of colorful patterns, gradients, fabrics, papers and textures for hours of fun and creativity.
Gangsta Rap Coloring Book - Google Books
The Gangsta Rap Coloring Book is just as it sounds: a series of images in thick black lines of the most popular gangsta rappers from hip-hop.
Celestial Seasonings Coloring Page: Mint Magic Artwork
Printable Coloring Pages from Celestial Seasonings feature line drawings of the famous tea company's charming packaging artwork.
Hideously Hard to Color Halloween Coloring Pages
Free horror themed coloring pages by Ray O'Bannon, from Ravensblight.
Art Room Printables
Fabulous collection of page connections suitable for adult coloring and other craft work.

Getting Creative with Adult Coloring Pages

Make Crafts, Clip Art, Iron Ons and Craft Patterns

As an adult coloring page artist, you can color line art pictures with crayons, colored pencils, chalk, water colors, markers or pastels. I like to get creative with my adult coloring projects. Sometimes I use my computer graphics editing program to add color to a drawing, then I print the picture, cut out around the coloring outlines and paste the finished pictures together to make collages. I've made all sorts of interesting posters, greeting cards and art from my adult coloring projects. Coloring page artwork makes wonderful stencils and craft patterns.

Experiment a bit: use line art from a coloring book picture to design your own craft patterns. The simple lines and shapes of coloring pages work particularly well as craft patterns for stained glass, mosaic art, paper piecing and quilting.

Artists Illustration Markers - for Serious Adult Coloring

Double Tips - Like Having 2 Sets of Color-Matched Markers

Prismacolor Premier Double Ended Art Markers, 48 Colored Markers(3611)

Mandala Coloring Sheets - Geometric Coloring Posters

Cat mandala coloring page for adults or older childrenStars and Stripes Mandala - Wavy ribbons with star center, star circle and stars on ribbon tips.

Cat Face Mandala - coloring picture composed of connected kitten faces

Mandala Coloring Pages - A mandala, in simplest terms, is meditation made visual. Creating and/or coloring a mandala is a healing, calming, focusing meditation that is not dependent on your creativity, imagination, or artistic talent

Evil Eye - Mandala coloring picture with evil eye in center of ray spokes fanning outward

10 Mandalas - set of ten different mandala designs to color

Pendulum Circles - dowsing pattern in circular mandala format

Stained Glass Patterns - many round geometric stained glass window designs, beautiful also as coloring mandalas

Shamrock Quilt Blocks - Geometric blocks of alternating Shamrock designs in a patchwork rectangular grid frame

Butterfly Mandala Coloring Page - One of a half dozen intricate animal theme mandala coloring printables, all free for adult coloring

Valentine Mandalas - A set of beautiful heart mandala coloring printables for adult coloring or make them into embroidery patterns.

Free Printable Mandala Coloring Sheets - 100 free mandala pictures to click, download, print and color

Free Geometric Coloring Designs - printable challenging coloring pages

Fall Mandala Coloring Pages - Woo Jr. offers a big collection of printable mandala coloring pages for adults and kids including these special fall mandala coloring pages.

Fabric Crayons - For Coloring on Fabric

Transfer a coloring picture, or draw free hand and color in your art

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Kaleidoscope Coloring Sheets

Abstract geometric pictures to color

Mandalas, kaleidoscopes and intricate abstract geometric adult coloring pages are among the most popular adult coloring books.

Abstract Adventure: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book
Features hand-drawn fanstasy kaleidoscopic images by artist Kendall Bohn, this adult coloring book gets highest reviews from Amazon customers who recommend it for adults and kids who enjoy coloring complex pictures.
Free Coloring Pages for Adults and Artists
Free coloring pages of complex designs for adults and artists, printable pictures to color of adult toys, kaleidoscopes and mandala designs.
Kaleidoscope Coloring Pages
Like mandala coloring designs, kaleidoscope coloring sheets are based on geometric shapes.
Coloring Cabin: Free Printable Mandala Coloring Pages
Mandala coloring page printables.
Free coloring mandalas
Cool Coloring Pages, mandala designs for coloring. High quality coloring pages professionally formatted in Adobe pdf file format.
Geometric Coloring Designs
Download and print free geometric coloring designs and colouring pages with kaleidoscopic patterns for coloring.

No-Mess Coloring - Computer Coloring Pages

Use your mouse instead of crayons to color these pictures

These links will take you to sites where you can color using your computer and mouse.
Free Online Coloring Pages
Free Online Coloring - paint with your mouse!
NIEHS Kids' Pages Interactive and Printable Online Coloring Books
National Institute of Environmental Health interactive and printable online coloring books
Draw Your Own Super Hero - Online!
HeroMachine lets you create your own superhero. From dress, to hair, to weapons, HeroMachine 2.5 is the ultimate tool in making fantasy entertainment real.

Doodle Delights - Zen Doodling

Draw Your Own Coloring Fantasy

If you like to doodle, try ZenDoodles.

The ART of Zen Dazzle Doodles

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You'll create works of art while freeing your mind of tension when you zendoodle - anyone can do this!

Letters, Monograms, Initials, Numbers

Artistic Monograms Have Been Popular Since the Middle Ages

number 10 coloring sheetFor centuries artists have created "Illuminated manuscripts" carefully lettered with beautifully decorated initial letters on parchment. Our fascination and love for letters and monograms endures today, in simple and complex letter designs filled or surrounded with colored pictures and shapes. Use these coloring pages with letter and number outlines for your adult coloring hobby, or to use them for crafts and design. Have fun putting your own doodles and designs inside popular "bubble" letter shapes and number outlines.
Alphabet Coloring - Letters and Numbers Coloring Sheets (free printables)
Free alphabet letter pictures to color, numbers and letters coloring sheets.
Needle'nThread.com: Monograms
Monograms for Hand Embroidery - these would make beautiful colored pencil designs.
Alphabet Coloring Pages (Printable)
Free Alphabet Coloring pages. All ABC coloring pages are printable using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Alphabet Coloring from Barbara Feldman
AlphabetColoring.net: Free alphabet coloring pages, easy to download and print. Fifteen different ABC alphabets to choose from.
Coloring Alphabet Traditional Manuscript Page
Intricate pictures for coloring plus lettering guides below with lines. Remove the pictures if you don't need the handwriting practice.
Alphabet Letter Coloring Pages
Detailed pictures drawn within the outlines of each letter of the alphabet.

Iron On Transfer Paper

Make your own iron ons from coloring pages. Print out a coloring page then iron the picture onto any suitable fabric and color with fabric paints, fabric crayons or heat-set coloring pencils.

The Vintage Workshop IRON-ON TRANSFER - 7 PIECE PACK For Scrapbook, Card Making, Sewing & Craft Projects

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All you need to make your own iron on transfers from free printable coloring pages.

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Adult Coloring Rocks!

Indie Rock Coloring Book

Witty, hand-illustrated pages from artist Andy J. Miller. Music fans can keep themselves out of trouble for hours with mazes, connect-the-dot games, and cool, hip coloring pages - all royalties going to charity,

Indie Rock Coloring Book

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Indie Rock Coloring Book will warm the heart of even the coolest hipsters and adult coloring fans.

Paper Models to Color, Cut Out and Assemble

3D Coloring Crafts

If you enjoy making models from paper, try one of these adult coloring selections featuring three dimensional paper craft projects to color, cut out and assemble.
Printable Paper Models to Color and Cut out
Paper toys and custom paper models made to your specifications.
Color a Butterfly Mask
Butterfly Mask to color - very detailed

Design Pattern Coloring Books

Abstract Designs, Hidden Images, Geometric Patterns for Coloring

Hidden Transformations

Hidden Transformations

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Coloring Book: Nature Transformation

Coloring Book: Nature Transformation

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Hidden Images: Garden: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows

Hidden Images: Garden: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows

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Hidden Images: Magical Kingdom: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows

Hidden Images: Magical Kingdom: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows

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Magic Mirror Image Coloring Book (Dover Design Coloring Books) by Hop David, Coloring Books, Coloring Books for Grownups

Magic Mirror Image Coloring Book (Dover Design Coloring Books) by Hop David, Coloring Books, Coloring Books for Grownups

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Mind Ware Celtic Mosaic Coloring Book

Mind Ware Celtic Mosaic Coloring Book

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Images (No. 1) by Roger Burrows

Images (No. 1) by Roger Burrows

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Roger Burrows Images 5: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows

Roger Burrows Images 5: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows

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Images 3: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows

Images 3: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows

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Images 4 (Vol 4) by Roger Burrows

Images 4 (Vol 4) by Roger Burrows

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Ultimate Coloring for Adults

Eye Candy for Adults Who Like to Color

Give the creative side of your brain a kick start with this design activity book - it's a coloring book and much more.

Images: The Ultimate Coloring Experience

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Adult coloring book not only provides plenty of time to relax, it stimulates your visual creativity and lets you be an artist.

Free Coloring Book Pages Blog

New postings every week - free printable coloring pages for adults and teens

free coloring pages blog

Fun and free coloring pages blog updates every week with new pictures for adults to color or kids coloring fun.


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Top 10 Artistic Coloring Books for Grownups

Vote for your favorite adult coloring book title

These 10 quality art coloring books are all available from Amazon ... this is only a sample of my top 10 favorite adult coloring books from the hundreds of choices.

Paisley Designs Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books) by Marty Noble

Paisley Designs Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books) by Marty Noble

Woven from sumptuous motifs inspired by the elemen more...2 points

Abstract Adventure IV; Coloring Outside the Box: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

Abstract Adventure IV; Coloring Outside the Box: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book by Kendall Bohn

The wonderfully imaginative abstract images in Abstract more...1 point

Mexican Folk Art Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books) by Marty Noble

Mexican Folk Art Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books) by Marty Noble

Striking adaptations of authentic native art--rich more...0 points

Medieval Tapestries Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books) by Marty Noble

Medieval Tapestries Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books) by Marty Noble

This collection of lovely images invites coloring book more...0 points

Tiffany Designs Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by A. G. Smith

Tiffany Designs Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by A. G. Smith

boldly outlined motifs, based on actual Tiffany designs, more...0 points

Designs by Frank Lloyd Wright Coloring Book (Frank Lloyd Wright Collection) by Pomegranate

Designs by Frank Lloyd Wright Coloring Book (Frank Lloyd Wright Collection) by Pomegranate

Pomegranate's Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs coloring more...0 points

42 Indian Mandalas Coloring Book by Monika Helwig

42 Indian Mandalas Coloring Book by Monika Helwig

Some Indian mandala patterns are more than 5,000 y more...0 points

Art Masterpieces to Color: 60 Great Paintings from Botticelli to Picasso (Dover Colouring Books) by Dover

Art Masterpieces to Color: 60 Great Paintings from Botticelli to Picasso (Dover Colouring Books) by Dover

Artists of all ages are invited to add their own hues more...0 points

Erasable Colored Pencils for Adult Coloring Fun

Col-Erase Pencils Come with an Eraser Tip

Sometimes when you're drawing or coloring with a colored pencil you'd like to make a change. With most colored pencils it's hard to remove the unwanted color. Col-Erase pencils have a built-in eraser tip and will remove cleanly from your drawing paper if you make a mistake or change your mind.

COL-ERASE PENCIL SET/24

Amazon Price: $27.36 (as of 02/13/2012)Buy Now
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The 24-color set includes one each of vermillion, brown, terra cotta, tuscan red, blue, carmine red, green, yellow, black, purple, light blue and light green plus white, flesh, pink, violet, light grey, indigo, grass green, lavender, canary yellow, orange, rose and scarlet.

Color by Number / Paint by Number

Remember Paint-by-Number? It's Back!

Make fine art easily with color by number pictures and printables. Color by number printables with colors matched up to a list of letters makes the task of choosing the right colors much easier on complex drawings, mazes and fine art masterpiece coloring page printables.
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Get Creative with Adult Coloring Designs

Design your own crafts, art, gifts and decor with printable art quality coloorng pages for adults

Celtic Knot Coloring Page, adult coloring picture

Adult coloring pages are great for a lot more than well, coloring. You can make dynamite crafts by starting with the line art of a coloring page. You can make all sorts of cool gifts and creative crafts using coloring book pictures art. The line art is your basic starting point; the only limit is your imagination.

Find new and interesting ways to transform a coloring page into another art form or a craft in two or three dimensions.

For starters, try one of these creative art projects based on complex coloring book art.

Fabric Paints - Kick Your Coloring Up a Notch

Make Painted Crafts on Fabric with Coloring Pictures

Use your coloring pictures to make a pillow, flag, tee shirt or quilt block. Transfer the design to fabric, then color in with fabric paints.
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Cat Nap Camisole Coloring Tee Shirt

Coloring Craft Tools - Tracing Paper

When I was a kid I made my own coloring pages by tracing different parts of pictures I liked to combine into a single composition.

Bienfang Parchment Tracing Paper, 9 x 12, Transparent,

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With vellum or parchment tracing paper you can trace photos or line drawings to make your own coloring pictures, then rub the back of the tracing paper with soft pencil and transfer the design to a sheet of coloring paper.

Free Printable Coloring Pages for Teens and Adults

HUGE list of high quality
free printable coloring pages

Adult Coloring Pages Blog

Coloring Pictures with Complex Designs, Coloring for Grownups

The G-rated Adult Coloring Pages Blog features complex drawings you can print and color - great for older children, coloring therapy, craft patterns or just relaxing.
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Crafty Coloring - Tee Shirt Designs to Color

Great Gift Idea for Kids or to Make for the Grandkids

Cartooning Books You Might Enjoy

Draw and Color Your Own Cartoon Coloring Pages

Top Sellers in Cartooning

Creative Coloring Techniques

Adult Coloring Lessons and Tips

How to achieve creative effects using watercolors, markers and alchohol pens for coloring.

Coloring Techniques for Card Making (Annie's Attic: Paper Crafts)

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General guide to coloring with watercolours, markers and pens for cardmaking, papercrafts and adult coloring.

Do You Enjoy Drawing?

Angelina Jolie Pencil Drawing

My favorite pencil sketches are portraits I've done of my family members. This video lets you take a look over the artist's shoulder as he creates a pencil sketch drawing of Angelina Jolie.
Angelina Jolie
by drawingomme | video info

53 ratings | 15,143 views
curated content from YouTube

Creating a Quality Coloring Book Lens

Best Practices for Linking and Copyright Respect

There are correct, approved methods for including images on a lens and for linking to online content found on web site, pages, blogs or in articles. This section includes important information for lensmasters and bloggers who publish content that includes links to images (including coloring pages in any form)

Squid Do's and Don'ts: What's the deal with Coloring Page lenses? - the approved way to link to coloring pages and other non-text content from your Squidoo lenses.

Adult Coloring - Abstract Designs Coloring Designs Book

Unique coloring pages to create your own abstract art

High quality printed pages are white on the back side making this a good choice for cutting out to copy or to frame as artwork.

Abstract Adventure IV; Coloring Outside the Box: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book

Amazon Price: $5.23 (as of 02/13/2012)Buy Now

One reviewer said " ... lot of options how to color this stuff and some of it is definitely intricate. Pages are single sided and the paper is quality. 26 pages to color. "

Free Adult Coloring Pages

Free Coloring Pages on Squidoo
printable black and white drawings
for adults and older kids to color in
Free Coloring Pages on Squidoo

Graffiti Artists Coloring Books

Street Art for Everyone

Color your own version of fantasy art from the streets - graffiti artists coloring books offer you a taste of street art expression in the comfort of your own home or studio.
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Tricky 3D Design Coloring Book

Challenging Adult Coloring Pages - 3D Designs

Your eyes might blur or your brain might twitch a bit as you color in the 3D designs and tricky pictures in this book.

The Tricky Coloring Book: Three-dimensional geometric designs

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Not your ordinary coloring book for adults or kids, this is a challenging book of optical illusion drawings to color.

Complex 3 Dimensional Adult Coloring Page

Sample Coloring Page from The Tricky Coloring Book

Sample image from the Tricky Coloring Book

Above you'll see a sample coloring page from The Tricky Coloring Book. The coloring pages in this book are really interesting optical illusions and mind bending complex pictures to color.

3D Coloring Books


Try your hand at coloring some mind-numbing 3-dimensional geometric coloring page designs. The intricate coloring designs in this collection of books will challenge your ability to stay focused.


3-D Designs Coloring
(Dover Design Coloring Books)


Deco Tech:
Geometric Coloring
(Dover Design Coloring Books)


Ultimate Geometric Designs
(Dover Design Coloring Books)


Visual Illusions Coloring Book
(Dover Design Coloring Books)

Creative Art From the Heart

Links to Favorite Sketch and Coloring Art Pages

Look over the shoulder of other art lovers and sketch artists in this unique collection of personal art pages, sketchbook albums and online free art galleries.
The Sketchbook Project: 2011 Art House Co-op
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country. After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.

Anyone - from anywhere in the world - can be a part of the project. To participate and have us send you a sketchbook that will go on tour, visit this link and choose ...
Browsing Community Projects on deviantART
Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.
The Bearskinrug Sketchbook
The online sketchbook of Kevin Cornell. Contains 102 pages of sketches and drawings, presented in a Flash format. Requires 1 computer.
Fine Art Coloring Pages - Art | Practical Pages
This page is a summary of art appreciation lessons, art activities and downloads. You'll find many printable tracings of fine art masterpieces you can use as adult coloring pages or for other art projects.

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Halloween Horror Trio - 3 Coloring Pages for Adults

These pages from Ravensblight will challenge your coloring abilities

Halloween coloring pages for adults

Three fantastic Halloween designs to color - haunted house, evil skull and a spooky graveyard are available for free download at Ravens Blight Toy Shop. Click the image to visit the site and download free PDF Halloween coloring pages.

Guest Book: Coloring Book Fun Is Not Just for Kids!

Comments Please - What 's your favorite coloring page theme?

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Anime Adult Coloring Page

Fantasy fairy coloring sheet with lots of details

Anime adult coloring page - studio leah

Anime by studio leah, used with permission

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Thanks to those whose public domain work adorns this lens

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Index to Adult Coloring Pages

  1. Adult Coloring Tools Poll
  2. How to Find All The Free Adult Coloring Pages
  3. Design Your Own Coloring Pages
  4. Superb Adult Coloring Books by Kendall Bohn
  5. Adult Coloring Pages Blog
  6. Free Adult Coloring Pages
  7. Vintage St. Nicholas Detailed Coloring Page
  8. Bookmark Adult Coloring Pages
  9. Free Adult Coloring Book Lenses
  10. Earth and Galaxy Coloring Poster for Adults
  11. GIANT Coloring Projects - Coloring Posters and Mural Art
  12. 5 Creative Ways to Use Adult Coloring Pages
  13. Make a Coloring Sheet from a Photo
  14. Creative Craft Ideas for Adult Coloring Pages
  15. Can't We All Just Color Tee Shirt
  16. Fancy Adult Coloring Techniques
  17. Featured Coloring Book Lenses
  18. Fine Art and Famous Art Coloring Books
  19. Free Printable Adult Coloring Page
  20. Adult Coloring Extreme Details
  21. Small Line Art For Coloring - Good Bits to Make Tattoos or Clip Art
  22. Tattoo Ideas - Coloring Pages for Adults
  23. Kindle Fire is Perfect for Adult Coloring!
  24. Free Printable Coloring Pages for Adults and Older Children
  25. Getting Creative with Adult Coloring Pages
  26. Artists Illustration Markers - for Serious Adult Coloring
  27. Mandala Coloring Sheets - Geometric Coloring Posters
  28. Fabric Crayons - For Coloring on Fabric
  29. Kaleidoscope Coloring Sheets
  30. No-Mess Coloring - Computer Coloring Pages
  31. Doodle Delights - Zen Doodling
  32. Letters, Monograms, Initials, Numbers
  33. Iron On Transfer Paper
  34. Sound off about Adult Coloring Pages
  35. Adult Coloring Rocks!
  36. Paper Models to Color, Cut Out and Assemble
  37. Free Coloring Books
  38. Design Pattern Coloring Books
  39. Ultimate Coloring for Adults
  40. Free Coloring Book Pages Blog
  41. Top 10 Artistic Coloring Books for Grownups
  42. Erasable Colored Pencils for Adult Coloring Fun
  43. Color by Number / Paint by Number
  44. Links Voting - You Decide on the Best Coloring for Adults
  45. Get Creative with Adult Coloring Designs
  46. Fabric Paints - Kick Your Coloring Up a Notch
  47. Cat Nap Camisole Coloring Tee Shirt
  48. Coloring Craft Tools - Tracing Paper
  49. Free Printable Coloring Pages for Teens and Adults
  50. Adult Coloring Pages Blog
  51. Crafty Coloring - Tee Shirt Designs to Color
  52. Cartooning Books You Might Enjoy
  53. Creative Coloring Techniques
  54. Do You Enjoy Drawing?
  55. Design Posters - Coloring Pages for Adults
  56. Creating a Quality Coloring Book Lens
  57. Adult Coloring - Abstract Designs Coloring Designs Book
  58. Free Adult Coloring Pages
  59. Graffiti Artists Coloring Books
  60. Best Coloring Pages Ever
  61. Tricky 3D Design Coloring Book
  62. Complex 3 Dimensional Adult Coloring Page
  63. Creative Art From the Heart
  64. Guest Book: Coloring Book Fun Is Not Just for Kids!
  65. Anime Adult Coloring Page

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