Some coloring books ask you to be an artist. Bold and easy books ask you to show up, pick a color, and fill in a shape that’s bigger than your thumb. That’s the whole pitch. If you’ve ever opened an intricate adult coloring book, felt your shoulders tighten at the mandala, and closed it again … 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
Cafe scenes are everywhere in 2026’s bestselling coloring books — cocoa cups on window sills, steam curling off lattes, warm light pooling through rain-streaked glass. They’re also the pages most likely to come out muddy. The problem isn’t your pencils. It’s that cocoa, wood, and shadow all pull from the same brown family, and without … Read more
Knit fabric is the most common thing in fall and holiday coloring books — and the most commonly flattened. You pick a nice warm beige, color the whole sweater in, maybe add some darker lines along the pattern, and step back to find a brown rectangle with stripes. It reads as cloth, not yarn. The … Read more