222 page, 8.5 x 11", spiral bound and tabbed Artist Edition book dedicated to charting and swatching colored pencils, pastel pencils, watercolor pencils, ink, and markers. Book includes 49 pre-labeled charts (with color names and numbers) of the most popular brands. Book also includes blank charts for additional brands and media, and a large number of original line art illustrations that can be colored. This book was designed and illustrated for the adult coloring market by Susan Carlson (aka Ruby Charm Colors).

Have you ever been a little nervous about starting a new coloring page? Afraid to ruin a design before you even begin coloring? This unique art journal filled with distinctive line art gives you the freedom to explore, experiment, test out and track your ideas on smaller fragments of the art before committing to the full plate illustrations. Get ready to nourish your inner artist, have fun, and relax while taking your coloring to another level with Volume 2 of the Ruby Charm Colors Adult Coloring Art Journal designed especially for pencil-loving colorists! Once you fill this interactive book with your own notes and color swatches, it just might become your go-to book when you want to remember how you colored something that turned out really well, or which blending techniques or mix of pencils and colors gave you the results you wanted. It's your book to personalize and store all your treasured coloring ideas. And you can apply your notes from this art journal to coloring pages in other coloring books in your collection, too! Pair it up with Volume 1 to build a treasury of your own coloring notes and ideas. This 144 page 8.5 x 11 inch book features: * a velvety, matte black cover with art colored by the artist and a gallery of hand-picked fan colorings on the back cover * 24 full illustration plates featuring unique and fanciful line drawings of flora and fauna * Black-backed plates with titles and room to write your name * 55+ art journal pages featuring places to write, create and track color swatches, and experiment with colors on pieces of art pulled from the plates so you can truly visualize how an idea or palette of colors will work * snippets from the artist about her inspiration for each illustration * 11 pages of advanced coloring tips and ideas to try * Mandala-style color wheel to fill out using your own pencil brands for better understanding of basic color theory * 10 color charts with 65 rectangles for charting out your favorite pencil brand colors * 11 note pages * 22 thumbnail images of the illustrations included in Volume 1 *** Colored pencils are recommended! *** Not recommended for heavy markers like Copics or Sharpies as bleeding will occur. *** Watercolor pencils and watercolors are fine, though saturating the pages with water are not advised. The artist/author encourages colorists to feel free to make copies of the plates (for personal use only) to experiment with color pallets, try art on different types of paper and card stock with different media (like markers and watercolor), and to keep a clean copy of the illustration in tact for future coloring projects. *** The pages in this book are not perforated, but you may carefully score them with a ruler and blade for removal.

Like the other Ruby Charm Colors adult color books, Oceanimaginary is designed as an art journal with plenty of room to test and track your colors. In addition to 34 full designs (or plates) printed with a black backing page to help prevent bleed-through, there are numerous smaller designs to color and plenty of room to write notes and experiment with different media and color palettes. Each design illustrated by Susan Carlson was inspired by the immense beauty of the ocean and the creatures who call it home.

I walked out into the autumn morning and smelt a bonfire behind the exhaust fumes. I only had to cross the road to walk into the tall glass cube that would be my art school for the next three years. Evie has left her father, her life in Cornwall and her childhood behind her to begin a very different sort of life in London. At first the great city provides her with a world of inspiration. Her imagination is fired by the history, and the scenes of London. With Rob, Bianca and 'the ballerina', Evie discovers the ancient and ever-changing city and her paintings are filled with colour and fantasy as she indulges her need to escape. This new life seems safe and peaceful until the moment her alcoholic father arrives and spins this new world around so that the past is again her present. Evie struggles to carry on with the life she has been building but her fears and memories are never far away. The dreams and the nightmares come together on the canvas of Evie's young life and it is her new friends, the city she has fallen in love with, and most of all, her growing friendship with a talented young sculptor, that must hold her together. This is the story of a daughter, an artist and the moment when you realise your life is your own. Helena McEwen draws together the themes of art, love, friendship and memory with a painter's skill, in a story filled with hope.

Artist and bestselling author Rachel Reinert creates a sumptuous collection of gorgeous blooms and bouquets to color. Floral Wonderland explores the endless beauty of flowers and their myriad possible arrangements. The designs include: *Seasonal bouquets *Arrangements from around the world *Wide variety of blooms: classic cultivated flowers, wildflowers, woodland blooms, dried flowers, and more *Bridal bouquets and arrangements *Different style vases, pitchers, wreaths, sheaves, and a terrarium The drawings include variations such as bouquets from different perspectives, very simple arrangements, and overabundance, giving colorists choices on how long they want to spend coloring.

Insectimaginary is the first Ruby Charm Colors theme book and it's filled with fantastical insects for coloring enthusiasts. Like the other Ruby Charm Colors adult color books, it is designed as an art journal with plenty of room to test and track your colors.

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.