Gilded Calm

Calm Wrapped in Elegance, Light & Luxury

An Art Deco Coloring Book for the Timelessly Feminine

Fifty original art deco designs arranged as a journey in four parts: arriving, adorning, reclaiming, and beginning again.

Sunburst mirrors, evening gowns with room to color, hat shops, city windows at night, gardens in the last of the evening sun. The women in it are visibly in their forties, fifties and sixties, because that is who the book is for.

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Size8.5 x 11 inches

Designs50, each on its own page

StyleArt deco, drawn as scenes rather than repeating pattern

Pages116

AuthorShantelle Jewell

StatusArriving on Amazon

Built on what colorists complain about

No grey shading, no hatching, no solid black masses. Filled black is a space taken away from you.

Spaces wide enough to fill comfortably, with the fine detail used as accent rather than as endurance.

Scenes with a subject, not pages of repeating chevrons. Geometry supports the picture instead of replacing it.

Women drawn as adults, with real jaws, hands and posture, rather than as fashion mannequins with identical faces.

Every design on a right hand page, with the facing page carrying a short line rather than another drawing.

Four moods, so you can open it and pick a page that matches the evening you are actually having.

Four pages from the book

Uncolored, exactly as they print. What you see is what you get.

Gilded Calm sample page, a woman with a teacup beside a sunrise window

Gilded Calm sample page, a woman trying on a wide-brimmed hat before a mirror

Gilded Calm sample page, a woman speaking at a period-inspired microphone

Gilded Calm sample page, two women watching fireworks over a river

And here is page 37, finished. Colored with alcohol markers, nothing touched up after.

Gilded Calm

Built on what colorists complain about

Four pages from the book

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