GENERAL COLOURING

An avid naturalist, Charley Harper enjoyed painting the insects, plants, birds, and animals he loved. He masterfully portrayed a host of species using simple lines and shapes. From the smallest lady beetle to the largest monkey, Harper conveyed not only...

Painting complex creatures with simplicity, and without losing their true character, was a signature skill of Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007). He painted animals from all continents, both wild and domestic, and created now famous posters for...

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...

The twenty-one drawings in this Colouring book are based on paintings created by Native American artists from the Apache, Hopi, Navajo, and Pueblo tribes (the Acoma, Hopi, Jemez, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Zia, and Zuni Pueblos). These artists were...

The artwork of Gabriella Denton is full of bright Colours and whimsy. She paints scenes of country life, gardens, and her favorite animals, but with a twist. Rather than making realistic pictures, Denton paints critters and people that make us laugh...

During the 1920s and 1930s, the Chicago Transit Authority hired many talented graphic artists to create posters featuring parks, beaches, museums, universities, and other interesting locations inside and outside the Chicago city limits. These posters...

A collection of 1,001 adventurous and fanciful tales, the Arabian Nights stories were told in Persia, Arabia, India, and Asia for thousands of years before they were written down. These ancient tales have been translated into many languages and are still...

In 1912 and 1913, Paris fashion designs for women were high waisted, long sleeved, floor length, and often made of flimsy, see-through material. Dress silhouettes were wide at the hips and very narrow at the ankle. Fashionable clothing was only for the...

Since its publication in 1900, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has become America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairy tale. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow, the story tells the tale of Dorothy and her dog, Toto, who are carried away from...

"America is a land of wonders," famed French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1835, "in which everything is in constant motion." Railroads have been a prime means of seeing those wonders since well before 1869, when the link-up of the Union Pacific...

Maybe you've had the pleasure of taking a nap under a patchwork quilt, enjoying its bright Colours and dazzling patterns as well as its warmth. Quilts are often made by piecing together cloth shapes to create a quilt top, adding warm cotton batting and a...

After the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish, 1868–1928) and his wife, Margaret Macdonald, left the Scottish city of Glasgow and moved to London, they began painting designs for two large manufacturers of fine fabrics. Most of the pictures in...