There is a specific December letdown: you finish coloring a page you actually love, and then it stays in the book. You cannot mail a bound book to your grandmother. The fix is simple — color on something born to be mailed. Watercolor card blanks are exactly that: real watercolor paper cut to card size, … Read more
Flat Red Circles and the Page That Made Me Quit Every colorist hits the same wall the first December: a page of Christmas ornaments comes out as flat red circles, side by side, like a row of stickers. The drawing gave you spheres — round things with highlights already inked in — and you colored … Read more
Every December, the good Christmas coloring books sell out or creep up in price, and every January I get emails asking which ones to buy. The answer is October. Buying now costs less, ships without the holiday-season stress, and — most importantly — gets the pages actually colored before the season ends instead of sitting … Read more
Order Before the Tree Goes Up — Because the Paper Decides Everything Every December, the same small disaster repeats: you order a Christmas coloring book, it arrives the week the tree goes up, and you discover the truth on page one. The pages are thin, the printing is double-sided, and your alcohol marker bleeds through … Read more