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Fun GEO Patterns to Print & Color!

One of the best parts about being a working designer is the opportunity to share your work with the world. Well, for me it's primarily with my friends in Cobb County but with apps like Instagram and Twitter it's easy to reach well beyond our own serene little corner of the universe. I posted 2 pretty floral pattern designs for coloring last week and have two different designs to share today.


Same as last week the designs I'm sharing here will print at 8x10" on a letter-sized sheet of paper. If you want a really great experience coloring I suggest buying some inexpensive watercolor paper from Michaels or Targer or wherever. Cut the page to 8.5x11" and print via the sheet-feeder. The color of whatever media you use - pencil, pen, crayon - will be pretty spectacular.

For the image above I used my favorite Prismacolor pencils. The color saturation is really deep and it's pretty easy to blend color. Crayola are fine but you do have to press pretty hard to get decent color out of them and blending isn't very doable.

All artwork was hand drawn by Helen Ziga (aka Crafty In Cobb). These downloads are for personal use only. The graphics cannot be used in any capacity for any product development, design or applied to products for sale. This includes, but is not exclusive to, cards, posters, mugs, art prints, textiles, etc.

 Today's theme is GEOMETRIC. I'll post more pages now and again and will announce on Facebook and Instagram whenever I do. ENJOY!




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