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5 Coloring Treats, Tips and Freebies

coloring pages and coloring techniques

thecoloringbook.club bring you 5 Coloring Treats from 2017 as we see in the new year by taking a look at our favorite coloring tips, tricks and free coloring resources from another year of adult coloring fun!

Happy New Year to everyone that brings color to the world!  As a thank you for following the blog and being a part of the best coloring community on the internet we have a free coloring page for you to hone your skills, or maybe even try coloring for the first time, in 2018!

Coloring Guides

As usual thecoloringbook.club brought you in depth guides to practicing key coloring techniques.  From pointillism to blending pen we hope you had fun practicing new coloring skills.

We were particularly proud of our shading gradients step by step guide, this is a really useful resource for anyone to enhance their colored pencil shading techniques.  Expect more coloring guides like this in 2018!

coloring with colored pencils step-by-step guide
These simple step-by-step guides are a great way to improve your coloring techniques.

Practical Coloring Examples

There are some greats tips in this article that will help you produce some fantastic coloring results!

As well as general resources to enhance your coloring skills we also brought you many practical coloring examples, like our blog on coloring foliage, flowers and leaves.   This post used coloring techniques like scumbling, blending and cross hatching and applied them to coloring petals, leaves and foliage.  There are some greats tips in this article that will help you produce some fantastic coloring results!

colored flower coloring pages
Superb examples of colored leaves and flowers like these bouquets from our monthly coloring challenge.

Enjoy Coloring!

Techniques and examples are brilliant resources to have to enhance your coloring skills, but we also brought you key tips and advice on how to best enjoy your time when coloring.  Practical adult coloring tips, like exercising your back, hands and wrists, help you to color in comfort and allow you to enjoy your hobby for many years to come!

coloring exercises to help your hands, wrist and back
Look after your back when coloring with our tips on posture and stretching exercises

Pencil, Gel Pens, Fibre, Metallic – Covered!

We brought you tips and reviews of our favorite coloring media, from our review of the best gel pens for coloring, to recommendations of our favorite colored pencils.  We learnt a lot about what makes a good coloring pen or pencil and which brands are best for those on a budget or those who want professional results!

budget pencil coloring
Not all pencils are the same. We discussed quality and budget pencils in our coloring blog.

Free Coloring Pages

Our monthly coloring challenges in 2017 provided an array of fantastic and free coloring pages for you to download and print!  Not only that, our coloring community shared some wonderful examples of their work.  

free downloadable coloring pages
Just a small sample of the free coloring pages we gave away in 2017!

We had shining coloring examples of tribal portraits, fierce tigers and elegant owls and those are just a few of the complimentary coloring pages that were free for the coloring community to download!

As a thank you for another wonderful year of coloring we bring you a bonus page of coloring designs for you to download and print

coloring mandalas
Coloring mandalas is relaxing and an easy way to try your hand at adult coloring for the first time.

Download the free mandala coloring page

Why not try out some of the techniques we have mentioned in this post and share them with us on Facebook – Happy New Year!  Here’s to 2018 being calm, colorful and crammed with fun!

If you had a favorite coloring article from 2017 let us know below.

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Comments

  1. Carla says

    December 31, 2017 at 10:31 PM

    Thank You for all the tips n tricks in 2017!! Super excited to see what’s up for next year!!!

    Happy New Year 2018

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