Art With Kids: Coloring Pages

I subscribe to Dover's Free Sampler, which often has fun printables like coloring pages, paper dolls, etc.  I especially love the artwork coloring pages they sometimes share.  These coloring pages based on famous works of art and artistic styles would be great to help expose kids to artists from various periods.  I like the idea of letting kids color the picture first without seeing the original, then see how theirs differs, and what difference that makes in how the artwork looks.

Dover doesn't keep these up indefinitely, so you may want to download these for later use.  (A few of these are not from Dover, but most are)

Spot the Difference Artwork (Van Gogh and Mona Lisa)

Van Gogh Paintings

Impressionist Art Stained Glass (includes work by Degas and Van Gogh)

Impressionist Art (Degas, Renoir)

Renoir, Various Works,

Degas, Dancers

Art Nouveau Stained Glass

Various Still Life Coloring Pages (including Cezanne and Riviera)

Cezanne, Various Works, Artwork 2 

American Painters (including Benjamin West and Thomas Hart Benton)

Mona Lisa

Monet, Resource 2, 3, 4 (various  paintings)

Raphael (The Sistine Madonna)

Mexican Folk Art

How to Draw Mandelas

More Fine Art Coloring Pages on Education.com

Abstract Art

Golden Age Illustrators (Famous Fairy Tale Illustrations)

Art Appreciation Mempory Puzzles 

More Artistic Coloring Pages Here  (it may show this post first, but will also show all my other similar posts if you scroll down)

Art With Kids: Coloring Pages

Dover publishing has several wonderful coloring pages from famous artworks in it's recent samplers.  These are a great way to explore art with your kids.  Because they include the original works, you can let your kids compare how they colored them to how the original work was colored.

• Tiffany Windows
• Paintings by Women Artists
• More in a previous post here (some from other sources)
• My Own Scribbleprint Coloring Pages  (OK, I'm not in the same category of these other, but still.  *grin*)

(Note that the images in the Dover Samplers are not often available for long, so save these to your computer if you plan to use them later)

Christmas Tree Freebie

Just wanted to remind everyone about the free Christmas Tree coloring pages I have on my site! I also have several other designs to choose from. Long car trip ahead? Need something to occupy little ones while visiting family?  These might be just the thing.

Click on the picture below for the printer size version.

(Non commercial or classroom use only)

If you or your little one color one of my coloring pages and would like to share what you made, please e-mail me at ecarian at yahoo dot com and show me it! Let me know if I can use it as an example on my site, and if you post it up on your blog send me the link so I can link to it. :-)

Freebie Friday

Pin Me Party

Art With Kids: Coloring Pages

 

Some of Dover's recent samplers featured some more free coloring pages that would be great for teaching kids about art.  These samples are only up for a limited time, so you may want to save them for later ( You can right click to save the images).

• There are two coloring pages here of famous artowork including American Gothic and the piece above by Asher B. Durand..    I love the idea of letting them color it before they see the original, so they can see what different color choices bring out in a picture.

• There are several coloring pages featuring Art Nouveau patterns and would be a fun way to expose kids to the Art Nouveau movement.  

• This beutiful artwork by Golden Age of Illustration artist Helen Stratton is not technically a coloring page, but being black and white could certainly work as one.  They also have several coloring pages based off the illustrations of Arthur Rackham, another Golden Age illustrator (and one of my favorite artists).

• This website, which is NOT part of Dover, has tons of coloring pages based on famous artworks.  The only things is you have to wait through a lot of ads (yep, so if all you see is an add at first, just wait for it to time through and you'll see coloring pages.)

• These Mosaic Coloring pages help kids explore the art of mosaics.

Valentines Printable Coloring Page

Happy Valentines Day everyone!   I wanted to remind you all about the free printable heart coloring page I have on my site!  I also have several other non-Valentines printables to choose from here. 

Click on the picture below for the printer size version.

(Non commercial use only - not for redistribution)



Here's an examples of it colored...

Thanks Petra for this great example!

Thanks to the following blogs for letting me link up...

Valentines Linky Party - Harvest Home

Be My Valentines Linky Party

Fancy Tuesday Link-Up

Fall Coloring Page

Autumn is here so I thought I'd take a little time to remind everyone about my free fall coloring pages!  And they aren't just for kids! Grown-ups can have fun coloring these too!  These are free for personal or classroom use.

I also have one sectioned into smaller cut-apart boxes.  You can cut these out and wrap them around some crayons for party favors, trick-or-treat candy alternative, or for a fun activity to keep the kids busy while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner. 



  (For non-commercial, personal use only.)  
These are just a couple of the coloring pages you can print for free from my site. See more here.

And here's some examples of them colored by my readers  (if you or you child colors one I'd love to see it!  You can e-mail it to me at ecarian@yahoo.com or if it's online just comment with the link and I'll share it on my blog). 

 Beeb colored the following.  She didn't have crayons ready, so she used a 

purple sharpie and a pink hi-lighter to make her Psychedelic Leaves. 

Petra's son colored this leaf.  Love it!

Find more Scribbleprints Freebies here!

 

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Thanks to the following blogs that let me link this post up in their linky parties!



 More Fall Blog Events

Scribbleprints Clover Coloring Page

Since St. Patricks Day is coming up, I just wanted to remind everyone about the free Clover coloring pages I have on my site! I also have several other designs to choose from.

Click on the picture below for the printer size version.

(Non commercial use only - not for redistribution)

If you or your little one color one of my coloring pages and would like to share what you made, please e-mail me at ecarian at yahoo dot com and show me it! Let me know if I can use it as an example on my site, and if you post it up on your blog send me the link so I can link to it. :-)

Did you know that St. Patrick is said to have explained the Trinity to the Irish people using a three leafed clover?  Just as the three separate leaves of the clover were part of one leaf, so the three persons of the Trinity, The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, were separate, yet one. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Find More St. Patricks Day Goodies at the following events...



And also at Fun Frugal Friday
and the St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop at Suzie QT

Free Art Coloring Pages

I subscribe to Dover's Free Sample E-mail.  They have two free coloring pages this week based off of famous artworks; one by Georges Seurat, and another by Van Gogh.  Click here to see both and download them if you want to. (Their samples are usually only availble for a month or two...so even if you want to use them later you might want to save them now.

I think these would be a great way to teach kids a little bit about art.  I think I'm going to tell my kids about the artists who made these but not show them the paintings in color until AFTER they've had a chance to color these themselves.   It might be fun to discuss the colors they used, versus the colors the original artist used (though I want to make sure they don't think they colored it "wrong" because they didn't do it like the artist did).

Dover also has some fun space coloring pages and space shuttle airplanes, and some monster coloring pages this week (plus some tattoo art and ironwork).  You can see all in their sampler here.  If you'ld like some coloring pages from a much less famous artist (me), you can find some of those here.

Scribbleprint Coloring Pages

Like to color? Have kids who like to color? Well, here's some fun coloring pages you can color yourself or use with your kids!  (Sadly...I lost some of these.   Eventually I'll redo them or figure out where they are, but for now, here's the ones I still have)

Sadly all the ones below are ones that I've lost.   

If you happen to have one of these in a file I would love if you would send it to me.   The best way is through a private message to my facebook page here.

Click on the images above to get a larger version to print. These printouts are free for you and your kids to use. They can be used as coloring pages in schools, day-cares, churches, or of course, at home. They may NOT be re-posted on another website or used commercially without my permission. You may, however, post pictures of the print-outs you or your child has colored on your personal, non-commercial website or blog (or on flickr, facebook, or other social networking sites).

And here's some pictures of some my website visitors have colored:

Regina colored a heart together with her daughter Aurora.
You can see more pictures on her blog here.

 

Beeb used a purple sharpie and a
pink hi-lighter to make her Psychedelic Leaves.

Petra (a forum friend of mine)
colored this heart...

...and her son colored this heart...

...and this leaf.

If you'ld like to color a Scribbleprint like these, they are free to print here.

 

If you or your child has colored one of these, and you want to share it, you can e-mail me a picture of it at ecarian@yahoo.com, or post it on your blog or website and leave a link in the comments and I'll add it to this page!