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

Hello Stranger Poster Art

I publish my drawings and graphics at Zazzle and was recently browsing art when I happened upon an artist whose work intriques me.

 I think several of her black and white printed posters would be perfect for adult or teen coloring projects.

Here is one of my favorite posters from her hand-rendered art prints collection; it is a picture of a woman waving from a city window - Hello, Stranger - is she lonely, homebound or perhaps simply shy?

Hello Stranger Poster by BarbrasArtistPad
View more Urban Posters online at zazzle

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.

Geometric Abstract Design for Colorists

Fleur de Lis Abstract Design Coloring Page

The latest category of  adult coloring pages at ClipArtandCrafts.com is a collection of original abstract designs on printable sheets.

This new fleur de lis inspired black and white pattern for coloring will provide plenty of challenging creative relaxation for teens, adults (including seniors)  or inspiration for fiber crafts and art projects.

Printable for any noncommercial use; feel free to share thumbnails and links to the download page on your favorite social sites.

Lake Scene Coloring Page

Lake Champlain Landscape Scene

I live in Vermont, not far from the Champlain Valley, named for the largest lake in the state. Lake Champlain is nestled in North-central Vermont and its shores also touch New York and Canada.

 There's an historic site in Orwell, Vermont - the  Mount Independence National Historic Site -  where the Green Mountain Boys protected Vermont and New England  from British attacks during the Revolutionary War. Mt. Independence lies on the southwestern shore of Lake Champlain.

Lake Champlain, viewed from Mt. Independence Historic site.

During a hike through the park last year I captured this image of the lake with the mountains in the background and puffy clouds in a brilliant clear blue sky. It's now available as a coloring page or painting starter drawing, along with the photograph I used to create this image. Use them together like a paint by number picture for adults.

Lake and Mountains Landscape coloring page

Bunny Tizzy Tulips Coloring Poster

I just finished this new black and white art poster, Tulip Tizzy Rabbit. It's a nice big size (16 x 20) printed on matte finish paper. If you want a larger poster or heavier stock, you can order it printed on a variety of different papers or as a canvas wrap and try your hand at painting a of a kind rabbit and tulips picture.

Tulip Tizzy Rabbit Coloring Poster by bluestonedesigners
More Coloring Posters

Celtic Design Poster

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a  Celtic art design poster ready for framing or coloring. This image can be mounted or framed as is, or you may want to try your hand at adding colors. The same design is available imprinted on pub crawl shirts, mouse pads or in white on a green poster background.

Celtic Mandala Art Poster by imagefactory

Look at another framed print on zazzle or find more Irish gifts and St. Patrick's day gear here.

Christmas Cookies in the Round Adult Coloring Page

Gather 'round gingerbread boys and girls, and form a holiday wreath  design page for adults to color in. 

Here's a cookie wreath design you can use for holiday decor or ornaments - print some out and get the kids or grandkids busy coloring in all these gingerbread kids i

arranged in a mandala.

Gingerbread Cookies Mandala Coloring Page

Owl Mandala Poster Art

I've been at the digital drawing board lots more this fall. I recently created this wise Owls and Tree Design Coloring Poster for my bluestonedesigners shop at Zazzle.

It's printed on nice poster paper so it's ready for framing, even if you don't get around to coloring in the details right away.

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.

Indulging in a bit of Fantasy

Newly added to the growing coloring collections at Lee Hansen Graphics is a special shop of artist-created coloring books, posters and supplies. 

Excerpt from Dragons Coloring Book, Dover 

So far there are 3 sets of excellent coloring books that will appeal to adults, teens and older kids: fantasy coloring books, mandalas, and abstract designs. The fantasy designs include a wide range of topics, from mermaids to steampunk, vampires to medieval monsters, with gargoyles, faires, dragons and everything you can imagine in between. 

Not freebies, but definitely not to be overlooked if you're into coloring books for adults.

Chinese I Love You Word Art

I Love You Digital Calligraphy

Make a very special cut paper or embroidered gift or add a unique page to your album or wedding coloring book with this  word art poster designed with Chinese characters that translate to "I Love You."

Chinese calligraphy printable coloring page for adults is free for noncommercial use.

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.

Boston Lobster Line Art

Boston Lobster Line Art

Celebrate Boston with this poster template.

Boston outline letters arranged in a curve above a New England lobster line drawing. Cool poster picture to color, transfer and embroider or use as a digital stamp for paper crafts.

Boston coloring poster is printable, and  free for noncommerical use.