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Bzzzzz. My Queen Bee is very concerned about proper "Beetiquette." HA!
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my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
I like to think that this millipede is reading "
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. Terwilliker." Do you remember that one by Dr. Seuss?
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A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
Cats read through osmosis - preferably when you're trying to read too.
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
In honor of UK astronaut Tim Peake, who will
be in space a few more weeks, I give you a reading astronaut!
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
What is a piggie's favorite book? Charlotte's Web of course! (Well, maybe not the opening.)
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
Spring is in the air! Flowers are blooming and everybody feels like dancing! Okay, well, it actually snowed on my way home yesterday - seriously. So, perhaps I'm dreaming. What's it like where you are?
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
What if...
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A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
Here comes Peter Cottontail... in STYLE!!!!
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A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
Long time follower Joanne recently emailed me to ask how I create my coloring pages. I was surprised that I'd never shared that with you before - so let me remedy that!
Ideas for my coloring pages come from things I love to doodle anyhow - bears, fairies, readers. You've seen them, so I hope you know! They also come from pending holidays and YOU. Dear readers, you send in some lovely ideas!
What makes a good idea? Well, my images are usually fairly simple - one character doing something silly - or reading. I really love giving teachers and book lovers reading images.
I'll often do a bunch of sketches in one batch - like this:
Do you recognize any of these? I used most of them.
Or maybe they'll be line drawings of the hand-drawn cards I create for friends.
Either way, they don't really have to be very tight drawings - I mostly use my sketches as a guide. I scan these into Photoshop and paste them into an 8.5x11" grayscale document (300ppi). The sketch remains on one layer, where I lower its opacity if it's dark. Then I create a new layer and create my 'line art' on that new layer. I use a hard-edged pen at about 13 or 19 pixels. This is one of the first standard pens that comes with Photoshop - nothing fancy. The larger the pen, the more the variation in line quality - if I'm careful. To get that line quality, I draw using a Wacom tablet with a pen-mouse. It looks a bit like this although I use a newer model now:
The work-in-progress looks like this:
Remember this one from Christmas?
I do the originals at 8.5x11" size because sometimes folks want to buy usage rights to one of my images for something else, like a t-shirt or logo. Those need to be high resolution images. But for my coloring pages, I size them down. I keep an existing template which is 1000 pixels high and 773 pixels wide. Over the years and per your feedback, I've found that size works for most home printers without printing to two pages.
You'll notice all the copyright information I have on my template. Sadly, I had to start doing this because theft of my images online is rampant. Most of the theft occurs through algorithms which collect images into temporary databases made available to the public. For those, my copyright is very important. Unfortunately, there are also the yucky people who actually strip my copyright information from my images and post them online as their own. I wrote a big article about that a while back.
CLICK HERE if you are interested in reading it.
It's why I also always put a copyright line up against my artwork along with in the template frame.
I save the "big" version of my coloring page as a "Maximum JPG" which seems to print fine for most of my followers.
I also save two other sizes of my images - a medium and a small. The medium-sized image (with it's copyright) is the one that goes on my blog posts. I usually save it as a "high JPG" at about 350 to 400 pixels wide. The small image is also saved as a "high JPG" at 200 pixels on its longest side for my online collection which you can see
HERE.
The result is what I hope you've come to enjoy and share - a finished coloring page. This one has always been one of my faves - I love snowmen. (Click the image to see its big version in a new window.)
I tell folks the main reason I create my coloring pages is to draw (ha!) attention to
MY BOOKS. But honestly, the business of children's books is a surprisingly tough one full of rejection. I can't tell you how much joy sharing my images with all of you has brought me over the years. Oftentimes, in my darkest children's book publishing moments, one of you will send me a note of thanks about my coloring pages - making me smile. So, THANK YOU to Joanne and the rest of you for being such loyal followers! You really do make all of my hard work worthwhile!
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! You know what I think you'll find at the end of the rainbow!
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A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
This is another image that started out as an illustrated card (hence, the shading, which won't show up in the coloring page version). This one was for one of my students at Hollins University and it's doing a double job making this week all about OWLS!!
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
This is an image that started out as an illustrated card (hence, the shading, which won't show up in the coloring page version). This one was for one of my students at Hollins University who had a passel of kids with her. (Did you know possums carry their babies on their back?)
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
Sometimes I like to make hand-drawn cards for friends. That's how this one started out. You can see the shading behind the line art. (That won't show in the coloring version.) And you know how I love drawing elephants!
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
I love winter - it's the perfect time to hide in a good book. And if you're a Meercat, you're already inclined to the hiding part!
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
As you share this day with your favorite Valentine, don't forget to color! I have lots of Valentine's Day themed coloring pages - just CLICK HERE to see them all!
I wonder if birds ever wish they could just hibernate rather than flying south?
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
This week we painted birds using watercolor as our medium. Made me wonder, what if the birds did the painting?
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
Is it cold where you are? We had snow here in Edinburgh! Maybe we should all just curl up with a warm blanket and hibernate!
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
I'm declaring this week Unofficial Jack Tales Week at dulemba.com. I've been talking a lot about fun things that have returned to my life here in Edinburgh, and one of them is that wiley old Jack. I have a long history with Jack Tales, which you can read about
HERE (scroll down to read from the beginning). Two of my picture books are Jack Tales.
And the main character in
A Bird on Water Street is named Jack in honor. Basically, good things seem to happen in my life when I follow that boy, and lo' - I've run into him again here in Scotland! So stay tuned this week for some fascinating insights into Jack Tales!
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
I'm a tea drinker, whether it be the sweet (cold) tea I grew up on in the south, or hot tea all day long. So one of the things I've LOVED about living in Scotland is all the tea! It's a cozy treat and it makes this lady very happy as we head into the New Year.
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
I wish you a new year filled with your definition of success and happiness, but mostly good health, good living and peace. Cheers!
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
I was feeling pure silly drawing this one. I hope you enjoy him!
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THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA! Makes a GREAT teacher gift!
Don't live in Georgia? Check with your local bookseller - Sterling has a version for each state. Click the cover to learn more.
I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
While the cat's away, the mice will play - especially on Christmas Eve!
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CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA! Makes a GREAT teacher gift!
Don't live in Georgia? Check with your local bookseller - Sterling has a version for each state. Click the cover to learn more.
I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
Mousie has a surprise under the Christmas tree - a big reflection of himself!
Have a Christmas image you'd like to see? Email me!
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Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends!
CLICK HERE to download some Hanukkah images.
CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA! Makes a GREAT teacher gift!
Don't live in Georgia? Check with your local bookseller - Sterling has a version for each state. Click the cover to learn more.
I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
And we're off - officially into the holiday season. But, moooo for the Holiday Season? One of my happy discoveries here in Scotland is Highland Cattle. I'm sure you've heard of Nessie, the Lochness Monster. Yes, she's everywhere here. But so is the Highland Cow. You can buy hats, sweaters, even ear muffs in the shape of the Highland Cow. So, it seems appropriate to celebrate the Highland Cow for Christmas! MOOO!
CLICK HERE for more Christmas-themed coloring pages!
CLICK HERE to sign up to receive alerts when a new coloring page is posted each week and... Please check out my books! Especially...my debut novel,
A BIRD ON WATER STREET - winner of six literary awards. Click the cover to learn more!
When the birds return to Water Street, will anyone be left to hear them sing? A miner's strike allows green and growing things to return to the Red Hills, but that same strike may force residents to seek new homes and livelihoods elsewhere. Follow the story of Jack Hicks as he struggles to hold onto everything he loves most. I create my coloring pages for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents to enjoy for free with their children, but you can also purchase rights to an image for commercial use, please contact me. If you have questions about usage, please visit my Angel Policy page. 
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