While I have been drawing, illustrating, coloring and crafting most of my life, this is the first time I have published a Coloring Book for Adults. This first book is a storybook of sorts. It features some of my favorite 3D designs, reimagined. All of these pages are single – sided for the consumer’s convenience.

All were from past projects done over the course of my life. The little snippets of words tell a small fraction of my life, at least regarding my artworks and design, dealing with the subject of our alter egos via Masks, costumes, decor, and jewelry in the same theme, of Costumery / Masquerade.

On the left pages, is a real story, about what inspired the Coloring Illustrations, The Origin Story. Opposite to each story is the full-page illustration on the right pages. The back sides of each page are intentionally blank.

“This Book Belongs to:” is included as the first page you see when you open the book. It is also an extra coloring page.

The Cover Page is considered page 1, Page 3 is the “This Book Belongs to:” panel. Pages 6,7, 10 and 11 are the Pictorial Table of Contents showing the Coloring pages as Thumbnails and what page you can find them on. At the back of the book are Color Test Charts. There are 34 Coloring Panels and 34 Origin Stories. The backs of each page are numbered, even though they are blank.

The Thumbnail style Table of Contents was chosen because sometimes flip-throughs don’t give you a full accounting of the images available in a book.

The Thumbnail pages are single sided as well, just in case someone who likes to work on smaller images with lots of detail chooses to color on them.

Coloring Recommendations

I recommend that a sheet of card stock or some other material of your choice be used, behind the page you are coloring, to keep markers from bleeding to the next page or the pencils leaving impressions onto the next page. I also recommend a light touch with the markers, even the best papers can soak up the ink in a hurry. I personally prefer Coloring Pencils, and Watercolor Pencils very lightly wetted. (Wait for any watercolor media, even watercolor pencils to dry before moving on to traditional Coloring Pencils and markers.) Once done, if I need deeper depth or some kind of accent, then I use Markers. The wax or oil base of coloring pencils help mitigate the bleed. Close to the edge of colored-in spaces, I usually move to fineliner markers and/or pens. Some pens and markers can get clogged with the wax or oil. I use a scrap piece of paper to rub the tips onto until the ink begins to flow again.