Color Book Download

Is there anything better than a new box of crayons? Especially the big, 64-color pack that your mom only got you on special occasions?

The smell of the wax, the precision of the perfectly molded tip, the way you searched for your favorite color, debating whether to save it or use it immediately – even today the act of opening a box of crayons transports us to our childhood.

Luckily, coloring is no longer exclusively for children! The trend of adult coloring books has grown in the past year, fed by continued reporting on the meditative benefits coloring (and crafting in general) has on the brain. Though some disagree, it’s generally acknowledged as a good outlet for creativity and can be used to help you relax, focus, and play. It’s a mindful activity, and can lower your stress level. The act of making something with your hands (even though you are coloring in something someone else drew – #collab), is satisfying and leaves one with a sense of accomplishment.

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Over the past year we’ve added a lot of new classes to help you boost your creativity, including Illustrative Stylings: Lettering and More with Photoshop, taught by illustrator Chris Piascik and Designing Surface Patterns from Scratch with Bonnie Christine.

As a thank-you for being a part of our family, we wanted to give back and share a coloring book you can use to help wind down. It’s filled with designs by staffers, teachers, and students. Anyone who wanted to participate was welcome, and everyone who submitted to us was included. There is no “wrong” way to draw something, and creativity is all about experimentation.

We love the diversity in these pages, which reflect the broad swath of interests and talent in our community. And we can’t wait to see what you create – be sure to take a picture of your work and tag @ on Instagram!

Self Care Mini 6 Printable Black Girl Coloring Pages (download)

Elizabeth is the head of 's Craft Channel. Unofficially, Elizabeth is responsible for the development of ’s employee karaoke skills — a job she takes very seriously.There are many roads to wellness. Meditation, yoga, exercise, and healthy diet are all effective therapies for bringing down stress levels. But we shouldn’t discount an activity we once used to while hours away as children, and that adults by the millions have taken to in recent years. Coloring takes us out of ourselves, say experts like Doctor of Psychiatry Scott M. Bea, “it’s very much like a meditative exercise.” It relaxes our brain by focusing our attention and pushing distracting and disturbing thoughts to the margins. The low stakes make the activity easy and pleasurable, qualities grown-ups don’t get to ascribe to most of what they spend their time doing.

Reducing anxiety is all well and good, but some art and history lovers can’t accept just any old mass-market coloring book. Luckily, a consortium of over a hundred museums and libraries has given these special customers a reason to stick with it. Since 2016, the annual #ColorOurCollections campaign, led by the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), has made available, for free, adult coloring books. The range of images offers something for everyone, from early modern illustrations like the cat at the top, from Edward Topsell’s

, below, from July 1919, a month after U.S. women won the right to the vote (from the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens).

Cinderella Activity Digital Coloring Book ( Download, Print & Color)

There are, unsurprisingly, copious illustrations of medical procedures and anatomy, like that below from the Library at the University of Barcelona. There are vintage advertisements, “canoe-heavy content” from a Canadian museum, as Katherine Wu reports at Smithsonian, and war posters like that further down of Admiral Chester Nimitz asking for “the stuff” to hit “the spot, ” i.e. Tokyo –from the Pritzker Military Museum. “The only commonality shared by the thousands of prints and drawings available on the NYAM website is their black-and-white appearance: The pages otherwise span just about every taste and illustrative predilection a coloring connoisseur could conjure.”

One Twitter fan pointed out that the initiative provides “a great way to get to know some of the collections held in libraries around the world.” Their enthusiasm is catching. But note that few of the institutions (see full collection here) have uploaded a large quantity of colorable images. Most of the “coloring books” consist of only a handful of pages, some only one or two. Taken altogether, however, the combined strength of one hundred institutions, over four years (see previous years at the links below), adds up to many hundreds of pages of coloring fun and relaxation. If that’s your thing, start here. If you don’t know if it’s your thing, #ColorOurCollections is a free (minus the cost of printer ink and paper), educational way to find out. Grab those crayons, oil pastels, colored pencils, etc. and calm down again the way you did when you were six years old.

We’re hoping to rely on our loyal readers rather than erratic ads. To support Open Culture’s educational mission, please consider making a donation . We accept PayPal, Venmo (@), Patreon and Crypto! Please find all options here . We thank you!WeTransfer is proud to be one of a handful of B Corp companies in the world. This means they take regular action for people and planet, and make sure they use their business as a force for good. This year is the third anniversary of WeTransfer becoming a B Corp and to mark this, has asked some of our favorite illustrators from across the world to contribute a page towards a downloadable coloring book, based on a cause they’re passionate about, from mental health to global equality. Here we meet the artists and find out the meaning behind their drawing. 

Alphabet With Flowers Coloring Pages (download And Print At Home)

As fun and personally enriching as it is, working in the creative industries has never been easy. In the current climate, there are many barriers today that inhibit growth and impact the livelihoods of those creatives. WeTransfer’s 2022 Ideas Report showed that creatives are overworked and tiptoeing on the edge of burnout. 75 percent report experiencing or being close to burnout, a figure which has more than doubled since 2021. While thinking about this, WeTransfer and asked some of our favorite illustrators from across the globe to contribute a page of a coloring book. Each artist was given free rein to choose a topic aligning with WeTransfer’s B Corp values, like climate change, mental health and the challenges facing the LGBTQ community. Some of them use humor and imagination to tackle their given issue, while others aim to raise awareness through telling stories – but all of them use their creativity to help make these huge and difficult topics more tangible, understandable and relatable. 

The coloring book is now available as a download on WeTransfer: you can print these templates and color them in by hand or just keep them on your computer to do so digitally. We’ll release a short video by the illustrators so you can see what was going on in their thought process while making the design. Get coloring and enjoy!

“My name is Tara Booth. I’m a painter, illustrator and comics artist from Philadelphia. My autobiographical comics shed light on invisible disabilities and mental health issues that many of us struggle with privately, like anxiety, addiction, eating disorders and depression. 

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I use humor and bright colors to encourage conversation and hopefully help destigmatize these topics. Giving visibility to the kinds of accessibility issues that have impacted me in the past; making tangible the invisible barriers that are not obvious to onlookers. In the coloring book page, I've illustrated some of the tools and books that I've found to be helpful in my healing process, whether it's meeting with a therapist, developing a meditation practice, or just trying to stay hydrated.”

“I'm an illustrator born and raised in the south of Chile in a rainy small town. I studied graphic design in Santiago where I currently live. My art features loud and saturated colors and is filled with memories of childhood. I'm obsessed with creating creatures, whether human or animal or even inanimate objects. Fear and humor are my two motivations. 

I currently work for clients such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Penguin Random House, NPR, the New Yorker, the Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, and Berliner Zeitung, among others. My work has been shown in It’s Nice That, Domestika, WeTransfer and Colossal. In 2022 I won the Young Guns award from The One Club for Creativity.

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I think I have drawn what I would consider an earth paradise – a world in which natural diversity returns to inhabit the earth. I generally draw images like this. They give me peace of mind and in a certain way they help to generate empathy.”

“My name is Rakhmat Jaka; I'm a graphic designer and illustrator based in South Borneo, Indonesia. In this illustration, I try to capture the spirit of the Indonesian community. Many diverse communities are here, including arts, culture, education, and environmental communities. They interact with each other and sometimes develop cross-disciplinary collaborations. Whatever the context,

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