ADULT COLOURING

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) is often considered a tragic figure, yet he could be delightfully amusing. Writing to his sister Willemina from Provence, the artist offered a self-portrait in prose: "My complexion has changed from green-greyish-pink...

Artist Molly Hashimoto lives in the Pacific Northwest where she is close to mountains, forests, and waterways, and the many kinds of birds that live there. She explores the wild areas, encountering rare and commonplace species alike. Sketchbook and...

What do you want to be when you grow up? A baker? A doctor? A painter? A firefighter? The options are nearly endless. And you don't have to decide just yet (no matter how old you are). Artist Manuel Bennett has drawn twenty-two people at work, doing the...

Before impressionist painter Claude Monet painted the famous flowers and water lilies from his garden, he created the paintings in this Colouring book. These paintings, usually filled with people (often his family or friends) rather than flowers, are...

Artist Jane Galloway has been expressing herself through art since she was a child. She didn't take any art classes, but her ballet lessons were reflected in her drawings of dancers. Later, she graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, New...

Fairy tales, flowers, food, and fun—you'll find them all here with a dash of fantasy from the creative mind of Janelle Dimmett. Dimmett (American, b. 1990) grew up drawing farm animals and wildlife in rural Missouri and earned a bachelor's degree in fine...

Umberto Brunelleschi (1879–1949) was an illustrator and costume and set designer. Born in Italy, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, then moved in 1900 to Paris, where he spent most of his career. Brunelleschi became one of Europe's...

Tom Thomson (Canadian, 1877–1917), the sixth of ten children, grew up on a farm near Leith, Ontario (on the shore of Georgian Bay), but chose to earn a living as a commercial artist. He was an avid outdoorsman, fisherman, and canoeist, spending much of...

American artist Lisa Houck (b. 1953) expresses her view of nature through wild and vibrant paintings, ceramics, prints, and mosaics. The creatures and plants that appear in her waterColours and oil paintings seem to be curling, swirling, twirling, and...

Born in South Carolina to a poor African American family, William H. Johnson (1901–1970) moved to New York at age seventeen. He worked a variety of jobs to pay for an art education at the prestigious National Academy of Design, where he earned numerous...

Kawase Hasui was born in Tokyo in 1883. His parents were merchants, but after trying his hand at the family business, Hasui decided it wasn't for him. Instead, at the age of twenty-five he began studying art at the school of master Japanese painter...

Almost 150 years ago, a group of French painters created a shocking new style. Instead of painting the usual illustrations of historical events or grand portraits of kings and queens, they set out to capture moments from everyday life. Their paintings...