Curator Prime (AKA Heidi Berthiaume) has launched a one week Kickstarter project to offer Custom Colored Vintage Illustrations. The gist of the project is that you choose one of the five available illustrations, provide the color palette of your choice, and she will use her Copic markers to render unto you a unique piece of art. Read More →
In honor of the one year anniversary of the first Vintage Coloring book, Curator Prime has created a five page sampler PDF of pages from The Art of Charles Robinson, Volume 1 print edition.
In celebration of this anniversary, The Art of Charles Robinson Vol. 1 PDF sampler will be on sale for half of the regular price from November 11th through Midnight Central Time, November 13th.
Curator Prime is delighted to announce a new aspect of Vintage Coloring – a Patreon project to create and publish special coloring books to benefit the children’s literacy charity, Kids Need To Read. Read More →
Curator Prime is overjoyed to present to you the Adult Coloring Book Treasury!
She is one of fifty-five artists who have each donated two illustrations to create this unique collection of a great variety of illustrative styles and designs for your coloring enjoyment.
Each hour of the event will be hosted by a different coloring book artist. Vintage Coloring’s hour will be from 4-5 PM EST. During that time, by commenting on Curator Prime’s posts in the event, you will have the chance to win copies of four of the existing Vintage Coloring books, as well as two Copic starter kits considerately crafted by Curator Prime herself.
You may tell Facebook you are Interested or Going to the event, which will let FB send you a reminder close to the starting time of 10 AM EST on Friday, March 4th. “Tickets” are not required, however should you wish to sign up for Inkovator‘s email newsletter {the sponsor of this event), you will also receive an email reminder from them regarding the event.
The previous Facebook event hosted this way had over 800 participants, so Curator Prime is quite excited to be able to be one of the artists of an hour. She also realized she should take her email list more seriously, so should you wish to sign up below, you will receive an email reminder regarding this event and can provide feedback should anything seem amiss with the email list email.
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Curator Prime has ventured further from the safety of her own website into the forest of the Bored Panda. Should you be interested in free vintage coloring pages from libraries’ special collections, the #colorOurCollections social media event will happen from February 1st through 5th and you are invited. More information and sample images in the Bored Panda post.
Today marks the release of the third Vintage Coloring adult coloring book, The Art of Clara E. Atwood, Volume 1. This adult coloring book features illustrations from the collection, A Book of Nursery Rhymes.
[And There Was Much Rejoicing (yaaaaaaaay!)]
You may purchase the adult coloring book on Amazon and all of the pages within are revealed here on our website.
If you’d like to try out Clara’s illustration style, you can download a free coloring page from our Free Coloring Page Friday collection.
Filled with children and parents and old women with pigs and flying geese, Clara’s endearing artwork represents childhood with elegant lines and often minimal backgrounds.
There are 20 unique full, page designs and 20 postcards-sided (4″ x 6″) images of close-ups from those original illustrations. Every page is single sided and the 60 lb. paper is excellent for colored pencils. There are also several blank pages at the end of the book so you may try out the coloring implement of your choice and practice coloring combinations.
Vintage Coloring will be releasing an adult coloring book once a month showcasing various artists from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. We look forward to sharing this beautiful bygone art with you.
Announcing a new weekly series of images regarding vintage felines which will post on Saturdays. While not designed to be colored, Curator Prime feels they offer amusement and undeniable proof that human fascination with dressing their pets is a time-honored tradition.
Image credit: From The New York Public Library, 1918
Today marks the release of the second Vintage Coloring adult coloring book, The Art of Percy J. Billinghurst, Volume 1. This adult coloring book features illustrations from the collection, A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine.
[And There Was Much Rejoicing (yaaaaaaaay!)]
You may purchase the adult coloring book on Amazon and all of the pages within are revealed here on our website.
If you’d like to try out Percy’s illustration style, you can download a free coloring page from our Free Coloring Page Friday collection.
Filled with cats and dogs and jungle animals and farm animals, Percy’s detailed artwork lets you make every leaf a different color if you wish. Read More →
Today marks the release of the first Vintage Coloring adult coloring book, The Art of Charles Robinson, Volume 1. This adult coloring book features illustrations from the novel, Once On A Time, written by A. A. Milne, the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.
[And There Was Much Rejoicing (yaaaaaaaay!)]
You may purchase the adult coloring book on Amazon and all of the pages within are revealed here on our website.
If you’d like to try out Charles’ illustration style, you can download a free coloring page from our Free Coloring Page Friday collection.
Filled with fantasy images of lords and ladies (in some exquisite gowns), maidens and knights, castles and kids, Charles’ flowing artwork lets you add specific color or flow across the page with hues however you like. Read More →
Curator Prime is creating and publishing special patronage coloring books to benefit the children’s literacy charity, Kids Need To Read.
