Pumpkin Palooza Poster to Color

It's harvest time and the pumpkin palooza rages on with this new coloring poster at my web site Clip Art and Crafts. Color it in to reduce your post-Halloween or pre-Thanksgiving stress. 

With all these pumpkins in a prolific pile, you have plenty of options for getting creative with coloring or embroidery. Add different colors and textures, or use this pumpkin poster coloring page to design a poster for your Thanksgiving dinner invites.

Plethora of Pumpkins Coloring Poster

Brand new, just added to the Thanksgiving coloring pages collection with an add in to the Halloween set for next year as well.

Happy Harvest Holidays!

Lady Bugs Design Pattern Adult Coloring Craft Sheet

Ladybugs Design Pattern for Coloring

Spring fling for colorists! Enjoy this overall pattern design, Lady Bugs, for a relaxing adult coloring experience or use this template to create a background for papercrafts or to make a fabric craft pattern of your own. The simple lines of the ladybird bugs let you decide on embellishments (dots or not, for example) and you can use fabric paints, crayons or embroidery to add color and texture.

Of course this is also a design pattern for coloring, so if you're looking for a spring design to work on with markers or colored pencils, print this sheet and start making art.

Lady Bugs Design Pattern is a new printable at LeeHansen.com, free for personal/non-commercial use only. Please respect copyright of the artist.

Happy Easter Mandala Coloring Design

Bunnies and chicks, flowers and eggs - all  the classic symbols of spring are part of this happy Easter mandala coloring page with a fresh grass wreath and bubble letters.
Happy Easter!

Easter Mandala Wreath Line Art

Mardi Gras Design in the Round

Each spring as Mardi Gras season rolls on, and the ultimate party day (Fat Tuesday) gets nearer I start thinking about new ideas for greeting cards and paper crafts.

 This year I've made a new digital design that incorporates  traditional symbols  of the biggest bash held every year in New Orleans' French quarter.

This new mandala line art design  features jester's pattern jewel diamonds, king crowns, word art and  traditional fleur de lis motifs with one smack in the center.

Put on some music and relax while adding color to this Mardi Gras mandala design. Although the choice of  hues is up to you, keep in mind the traditional colors of the season: purple, green, gold.

Let the good times roll!

Let's Paint a Lighthouse Scene

If you love art and enjoy coloring, you may want to try to create a painting or pencil drawing of your very own.  When I was learning about art, the hardest thing for me to do was to draw the initial sketch for a painting.

Well I've been making art for more than 50 years now, and I'm pretty comfortable with sketching from photographs. I'm  adding a new section on my web sites in the printable art and coloring pages for adults: art sketches, ready to print and paint or color in.

Here's a recent art sketch I drew for ClipArtandCrafts.com. It's a sketch  drawing of a lighthouse and beach walk. I got the idea from a photograph I took several  years ago when I visited the beaches on Long Island.

Print out the art sketch and use the reference photo from the same page to make your own lighthouse painting or colored pencil drawing. It's more than a coloring page, it's a paint by number picture where you make up the numbers for each coloring in section, so you can make your art in any style: realistic, impressionistic or any other method you like.

Try working the picture art in several ways - perhaps in monotone, then as a summer scene or with a dramatic sunrise/sunset behind the lighthouse.

Printable lighthouse art sketch is free for noncommercial use; print it at ClipArtandCrafts.com.

All You Need is Love - and some markers

Love Coloring Poster, printable

The Beatles had it right: all you need is love to make it through life. Here's a new calligraphy design poster with LOVE at the forefront.

All you need is a printer, this adult coloring page, and some markers or colored pencils to make a sweet statement or shower decoration.

Love Coloring Poster is a free printable for personal use; you can pin it or share on Facebook or Twitter using a link and small image like the one above.

Secret Message Graffiti Poster

Mashup lettering  design spells LOVE in Chinese

With hints of geometric design or street art, this abstract lettering pattern is made up of the Chinese characters for the word LOVE.

Characters arranged in multiple layers, flipped over words and varied sizes of the same text combine to create a line art graphic that's both challenging to color and intriguing to decipher.

Create a secret message poster from this original calligraphy design by Lee Hansen Hoch.

Printable PDF  Chinese lettering design poster - LOVE, available for download (free for any noncommercial use).

Crows Design Sheet - Who's Counting?

Flock of Birds Design Sheet

I live surrounded by farms, woodlands and birds. I mean LOTS of birds, including several families of large black crows and ravens who nest in the tall pine trees near my house. They make quite a racket when they're trying to fledge their young. I often see them gathered in big flocks like this picture, walking about in the fields with their friends and family just after corn planting time. They congregate again after the hay mowing and corn harvesting are done, and if there happens to be any interesting roadkill around.

I was thinking about  Counting Crows music and then  the Alfred Hitchchock film The Birds as I created this coloring page ... have no fear, the gang of feathered friends in this  flock of birds design can be any type of bird you like.

Bewitched Halloween Mandala Coloring Design

Bats, witches on broomsticks, a pumpkin and plenty of freeform candy corn decorate this whimsical mandala coloring page or embroidery pattern.

Printable in full size fits on 8.5" x 11" paper - I can see this also worked up as a paper pierced luminary design or die cut paper craft.

Trick or Treat Mandala, Adult Coloring Page is free for noncommercial personal use - download the PDF from LeeHansen.com.

Vintage Santa Poster for Christmas in July

We're exactly midway to the Christmas holiday season  so here's a free printable poster based on a vintage illustration of a European style St. Nicholas getting ready to visit good children. Father Christmas charming line art is ideal for adult coloring, or to design your own crafts. The picture is of an Old World style Santa in long coat with sweet treats, bells, a stuffed-full toy sack, woodland deer and a fir tree.

Printable vintage Christmas coloring sheet can be used as a digital stamp or embroidery pattern for whatever art or craft appeals to you. Start now and you'll have your project finished well before the sleigh flies.

Crafty Chick-Free Clip Art and Printable Paper Crafts: Day of the Dead Skull

Elaborate Day of the Dead skull  coloring page with a decorated designer skull, ready to color or make a mask, tee shirt, greeting card or poster.

Crafty Chick-Free Clip Art and Printable Paper Crafts: Day of the Dead Skull: 

New Mandala Coloring Page

Mandala Coloring Design

Flower wheel mandala coloring page for adults and teens. This is a brand new design pattern for coloring or decorative craft work.

Created from a digitally morphed line drawing, this abstract flower mandala design coloring page is free for non-commercial use. You're invited to share it on Facebook, Pinterest or other posting sites but not as a download from your own site or blog.

Celebrate Spring - Butterfly Poster

Nature Coloring Poster: Butterflies

The latest addition to complex coloring pages for adults at LeeHansen.com is this detailed butterflies coloring poster.

Lee is starting to publish her new spring coloring pages collection on the web site, and this butterflies design poster is the first offering.

All content on the web site is free for personal /non-commercial use ... you can download or print the PDF file directly from the page without registration.

Free Coloring Book Pages: Viking Helmet Coloring Page

Free Coloring Book Pages: Viking Helmet Coloring Page:  New free printable coloring page added to Costumes, Uniforms and Hats line art printables at Lee Hansen Graphics: Viking helmet coloring page.

Mandala Coloring Art

Mandala coloring pages are the most sought-after adult coloring pages on my blogs and web sites. I'm not surprised ... mandalas are beautiful to draw, fun to color and restful for the mind as an artwork or picture for meditation.

Their popularity inspired me to make more mandala coloring pages and to research them online.

As a result, I've just created a new adult coloring lens at Squidoo, Mandala Coloring Books. Enjoy.

Tribal Flames Tattoo Pattern for Coloring

A new adult coloring page just posted at Clip Art and Crafts on the adult coloring printables page.

This coloring page drawing could easily become a tattoo or decal design. Scroll down the main design posters page at the site to find the tribal flames mandala coloring sheet you can print or save for inspiration.

Award Winning Adult Coloring Site

This just in: Squidoo just awarded a Purple Star of Excellence to Adult Coloring Fun, a Squidoo lens (1-page web site) with hundreds of resources for adults and older kids who enjoy coloring or use coloring pages to design other crafts.

UPDATE: January 2015 - the original site where this article was published closed down in September 2014. The article Coloring Pages for Adults was moved to Hubpages where it was updated and is still available.

Patterns for Colouring

I've just discovered another fabulous site offering free coloring pages, actually patterns for colouring printables. You can download these large line drawings and use them for your own artwork, then submit your finished creations to the site for upload and display via Flickr.

I think you could make some terrific coloring crafts from these wonderful designs. The patterns are free to download for personal use, drawn by Carlton Hibbert and an assortment of invited artists.

Work on the site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

Mr. Robot Coloring Sheet

Just added to the Kids Stuff coloring pages at Clip Art 'n Crafts ... a robot coloring page!

I'm thinking this would make cool clip art - just pull it into a desktop publishing program and fill the shapes with color. I can also see this as a quilt stitch pattern or free embroidery design pattern.

Whatever you use it for, it's the newest printable in the kids coloring book collection but I think it's a cool adult coloring page.

Peace Quilt Coloring

Simple words can make a powerful statement. Design your own peace art with this peace coloring poster that forms a quilt design with the letters P E A C E forward and backward. Color in with red, white and blue for a patriotic peace design.