Kindred Creations, cover showing five women in autumn knits and patchwork outside a lamplit shop

Kindred Creations

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An autumn coloring book. Five women outside a lamplit shop in October, in knitted sleeves and patchwork and boots that have been rained on, carrying plants and pie and each other's company.

Autumn is the season people most want to color and most often end up disappointed by, because it gets drawn as fiddly leaf patterns. This is drawn as scenes, with big open areas of knit and fabric and sky, which is where color choices actually show.

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Size8.5 x 11 inches
Pages82
PrintingOne design per page, a soft autumn pattern on the reverse to hide show-through
Best withPencils, markers, gel pens
AuthorShantelle Jewell
SeasonAutumn, and the dark end of the year

What is actually in it

Women of every size and shade, drawn as adults, in clothes real people wear in October.
Knitwear with the cable pattern drawn big enough to color, instead of reduced to scribble.
Porches, shopfronts, lamplight and wet pavement, which are the parts that make a page look like a place.
Plants, pumpkins, pie and enamel mugs, for when you want something small and satisfying rather than a whole scene.
No grey shading and no solid black fills, so every bit of contrast on the finished page is a decision you made.
Thick outlines that hold a marker edge, and spaces wide enough to fill without squinting.

Four pages from the book

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

Kindred Creations sample page, a woman choosing a record beside a turntable
Kindred Creations sample page, a woman having tea beside a basket and lamp
Kindred Creations sample page, a woman watering plants by a window
Kindred Creations sample page, a woman knitting in an armchair

And here's one finished. Colored with pencil crayon, nothing touched up after.

Kindred Creations sample page, finished in pencil crayon, a woman reading under a tree beside a picnic basket and pumpkins

Before you start coloring it

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