The way simple lines fill with rich color and bloom into something new and unique. The interplay of paper and artistic medium. The smell of freshly sharpened pencils or a new box of crayons. It relaxes me and makes the day just a little better.
I have colored all my life. When I was little my mother colored with me and showed me all her little tricks. No mention was made of staying in the lines or how a green sky was not right. From those simple pictures of puppies and flowers I graduated to more dynamic figures from Saturday morning cartoons, Rainbow Brite, Rose Petal, Smurfs and Bugs Bunny danced across the pages. Eventually I learned to draw and started making my own art (I still kept a collection of my favorite coloring books for those days when I needed a quick fix.) But I never forgot my first love and with the introduction of Amazon I was once again able to indulge.
Amazon opened a whole new world of coloring books. no more cartoon characters, I now had Art! My first coloring book from this new era was Flower Fairies. Instead of coloring in the book I photocopied pages so I could color them over and over. Other coloring books have followed and Dover keeps printing more and more.
