Color marine illustrations that are not only technically accurate, convincing, and powerful, but also fresh, spontaneous, and full of life!
- 32 realistic designs, 24 full-size and 8 medium-size, of sea creatures to decorate with your favorite colors
- 32 finished examples to provide inspiration and help spark your creativity
- Scientific names, size, diet, habitat, and fun facts about each sea animal
- Helpful tips for building color, highlighting, shading, backlighting, and more
- Thick, toothy paper is acid-free to last 200 years and resists bleed-through
- One-side-only designs so you don't have to decide which to color and which to sacrifice
- Perforated pages detach easily to hang up and showcase your creation, or give it as a gift
An adult coloring book that is both artistic and scientific, the illustrations inside Wild Oceans Coloring Book show amazing detail and realism!
Inside this coloring book for grown-ups, you'll find some of the very best imagery available today in the field of sporting art. Author Nick Mayer is one of the top fish portrait artists in the world, an award-winning nature illustrator, marine biologist, and adventurer. After a near-death experience in the frigid Bering Sea of Alaska, Nick began pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a professional artist. With a solid, accomplished background in both biology and fine art, he creates beautifully detailed paintings that truly pay homage to the exotic fish and sea creatures he so deeply admires.
These 32 sea life portraits meet the highest standards of anatomic accuracy and knowledge. Nick knows his subject matter intimately—based on a lifetime of study and pursuit of the various species—and executes at the highest level. But he fills his imagery with artistic qualities as only a fine artist can do. The result is line art designs that are not only technically accurate, convincing, and powerful, but also fresh, spontaneous, and full of life.
Wild Oceans Coloring Book offers dozens of fascinating saltwater fish and deep-sea creatures to color, including:
- Chambered Nautilus
- Blue Lobster
- Giant Kelpfish
- Pink Abalone
- California Flying Fish
- Yellowtail
- Humpback Whale
- Leopard Shark
- Leafy Seadragon
- Blue Jellyfish
- Green Sea Turtle
- Blue Crab
- Shrimp
- Queen Angelfish
- Pacific Seahorse
- Starfish
- ...and many more!
Every drawing is also shown fully colored, packed with vivid details that will amaze and inspire. Jump-start your creativity by trying one of the eight "Show Me" pages that offer suggested color palettes to get you started, then jump into the 24 full-size patterns and let your imagination go wild!
Perfect for decorating with any of your favorite coloring implements—markers, colored pencils, watercolors, brush pens, glitter pens, crayons, gel pens, and more—each highly-detailed sea life design is printed on one side only of high-quality, archival-grade, acid-free paper that's rated to last 200 years. On the back of each design, you'll find the common and scientific name of the creature, its size, diet, and region, an interesting fact about the animal, and space to write a note or reflection. The perforated pages detach easily, either before you start if you wish to color on a different surface or after your art is complete for gifting, framing, or display.
Fishermen, sportsmen, adult coloring book enthusiasts, and anyone interested the sea and oceans will love Wild Oceans Coloring Book!
Nick Mayer is an award winning nature illustrator whose style embraces the natural beauty of fish and other marine life with a unique scientific perspective. He is a former marine biologist, an adventurer, and a lifelong fly fishing addict. A skin of his teeth survival falling overboard off a commercial fishing vessel into the Bering Sea followed by a near float plane crash in Northern Labrador inspired Nick to pursue his true calling as an artist. Painting is his passion and he has developed a celebrated touch. He has illustrated two books on fish, and his work and licensed products can be seen in galleries and stores in more than 30 countries around the globe.
