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Nursery Rhymes

Color your own pictures of these 36 delightful nursery rhymes. With the rhymes included! I carefully converted the color images to a light grayscale, so you can color right over the tones with colored pencils, and the tones help make the picture look realistic, like a painting. Sample Pages: Buy PDF at Etsy

Christmas Magic

Watch a Flip Through of All the pages on YouTube. Download this free Santa picture and color along with Ruth in the video below!

Nancy Drew Coloring Book

I worked on the NANCY DREW series for a number of years in the early 1980’s, and this book contains a selection of 40 sketches and finished illustrations for many of the covers and interiors. It is available on AMAZON but also available on the SHOPS page here in a signed copy for a limited time with a sketch of a magnifying glass.

Golden Dreams

GOLDEN DREAMS is a 224 page full color retrospective of the career of illustrator Ruth Sanderson. Known for her lavishly illustrated fairy tale picture books, including THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, CINDERELLA, and THE SNOW PRINCESS, this volume chronicles her beginnings as a Nancy Drew illustrator in the late 70’s, her work on Golden Books, fairy tales, book covers, horse stories, collector’s plates, fantasy art, and many personal paintings never before published. There is a preview at the end of the book of her award-winning scratchboard illustrations for THE GOLDEN KEY, a Victorian fairy tale by George MacDonald, scheduled for a 2016 release from Eerdmans Publishing.

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[See image gallery at goldenwoodstudio.com]

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Cinderella Coloring Book

CINDERELLA, Volume II of BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALES in the Grayscale Adult Coloring Book series, has just been listed on AMAZON. ORDER HERE

Here are some of the images, which I have carefully converted to a light grayscale from the artwork in my picture book for children. (Look for it in the BOOKS tab) Colored pencils work nicely over grayscale, and the tones guide your coloring and will give the picture depth and realism.

Happy Coloring!

Look under SHOPS in the top navigation bar for the link to my ETSY store, where you can purchase high resolution PDFs if you prefer to print on your own watercolor paper or other paper of choice.

Twelve Dancing Princesses Coloring Book

The Coloring Book world now includes books that are not line art, but images in shades of grey which are then colored over so the values still show through, giving the pictures depth and realism. The old masters did this with oil paintings in "Grisaille," or tones of grey, and then glazed color over the tones to create pictures with a strong sense of a "light and shade" pattern. I decided to try my hand at producing a coloring book in grey tones, or Grayscale, the term commonly used now. The Twelve Dancing Princesses seemed a perfect choice, as there is so much detail in the pictures.

I spent close to a month adjusting the images and getting proofs printed. The tones can't be as dark as the original paintings, especially the flesh tones. Here are some images from the book. THis is available on Amazon as a print book, and also on my ETSY shop as PDF downloads people can print on their paper of choice, as many times as they want.

ORDER THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES FROM AMAZON HERE

 

ORDER THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES FROM ETSY HERE

 

The World of Fairies Adult Coloring Book

My first Coloring Book For Adults, THE WORLD OF FAIRIES is available on AMAZON, and as a PDF download here in SHOPS if you prefer to custom print on your choice of  paper.
ORDER The World of Fairies from Amazon HERE
ORDER A Downloadable PDF HERE
Here is a free page for you to download, and a colored pencil video tutorial link below.




Click Here for CORGI FAIRY STEED VIDEO TUTORIAL
 

And here is a selection of the 24 images from the book. I created 8 new images for this edition. There is a bonus section at the end with 12 pictures set up in greeting card format.