Books in Underwater Designs Coloring Books series

Blankets of splendid geometric configurations — drawn from time-honored patchwork quilt motifs — fill this festival of traditional folk art. Thirty designs offer endless coloring possibilities, and will surely delight quilters, collectors, and colorists alike. A wonderful collection for artists of every skill level!Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 11/2/2007Pages: 32Reading Level: Age 8 and Up

These 16 dazzling designs are derived from The Glazier's Booke by Henry Shaw, an 1848 volume of stained glass patterns. Contemporary praise of the original source by The Art Journal noted that "some of the designs are very quaint and curious, others most elaborately beautiful, leading the eye in winding mazes of intricate invention." After coloring, place the images near a light source to admire the brilliant effects.

Dive below the waves to meet notorious predators in their natural habitat! These 30 realistic black-and-white scenes to color will transport you into the exciting world of sharks. Illustrations of many species depict hammerhead, great white, mako, bull, tiger, blue, and leopard sharks. Each page also offers fun facts about sharks, such as their feeding habits, size, and other interesting information. At the center of the book, you'll find 30 colorful stickers that you can use to complete each picture.

Things are never quite what they seem in this unique series of 30 swirling symmetrical designs. In a style similar to M. C. Escher's well-known lithographs and woodcuts — and in the tradition of Dover's ever-popular optical-illusion coloring books — comes this mind-bending collection. Discover intricate, interlocking images of people, animals, and abstract patterns ranging from realistic figures to bug-eyed frogs, alien creatures, and flying pigs. There's even a dashing group of Santas and a forest of Christmas trees in the mix. Just add color and see the amazing results!

Weird creations of the imagination, triads are surprisingly versatile design modules that can form countless improbable structures. This exciting treasury of unusual triad designs (some of which seem to move forward and backward) contains extended and overlapping framed triads, small triads inside large ones, triads with holes in the center, triangular triads centering around a star, and many other illusions. Add color to these reality-defying shapes and voilà! You're looking at designs that will dazzle the eye and boggle the mind.

An ancient and enduring art form, mosaic art has survived for centuries, decorating architecture since the beginning of recorded history. Some tile designs — such as the ones in this eye-grabbing collection — are composed of swirling and interlocking repeat patterns. Adapted from an ultra-rare portfolio, the motifs offer artists hours of coloring challenges. Each of the fifteen plates are shown twice, making it easy to double your fun with different color combinations.

Forty-five original geometric designs dazzle, recede, advance, shimmer when colored. Designs include Art Deco prisms, curves, line and angle, flexed rectangles, in infinitude of balance, asymmetry, swirl. Endless design possibilities. Treasury of inspiration for artists and craftsmen and excellent source for advertising, packaging, embroidery, posters, much more.