GENERAL COLOURING

We give all sorts of things an extra layer of meaning, a symbolic meaning. A white bird in a painting is a dove, but it's also a symbol of peace. Since peace is an idea, it can't be drawn directly, so artists have found a way to convey that idea with a...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) is one of the most well-loved painters in the history of modern art. Mostly he painted landscapes in the south of France, scenes of his family, and portraits of various people. He painted in the impressionist...

As a child, artist Christopher Marley was afraid of bugs! But now he travels the world to study them, collect them, and arrange them into dazzling works of art. You'll find twenty-two of his insect images in this Colouring book. They are shown as small...

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, who founded the Tiffany and Co. jewelry store. Louis Comfort Tiffany began his artistic career as a painter. As a young man he headed an interior design firm, and then went on to...

The Group of Seven brought together Canadian artists who were searching for a new way to paint. They wanted to make art that helped people understand the way our Canadian landscape looked and felt. Their names were Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris,...

One of the most popular writers in nineteenth-century Japan was Bakin, who lived from 1767 to 1848. His most famous book, The Tale of the Eight Dog Heroes of Satomi, or Satomi Hakkenden in Japanese, was published in 106 installments from 1814 to 1842...

The paintings that John James Audubon created for The Birds of America documented American birds like never before. Audubon was an innovative artist and naturalist who searched all over the United States to draw as many birds as he could find. His...

Cape Dorset is a small town in Nunavut, a territory in the Canadian Arctic. It gets very cold there, as you can imagine! The native people of the area are called Inuit. In this Colouring book you'll find 22 pictures created by 10 different Inuit artists...

Irish illustrator and stained-glass artist Harry Clarke was born in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day, 1889. He learned the stained-glass trade in his youth, working at his father's decorating business and studying at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He...