A while back I was talking with a group of travellers about how nervous flyers pass time on long haul flights and someone mentioned colouring books. Colouring books? I remember at the time this sounded a bit odd; I couldn’t remember the last time I had seen an adult colour in public, let alone done so myself, but fast forward a few years and this seems to be the latest trend.
Just before the Christmas holidays I walked into my local arts and crafts store back home, and what do you think I saw? Yes, a giant display of adult colouring books with all types of designs – sea creatures, plants and flowers, exotic animals, geometric patterns, and even the world of Anna Karenina. I had been curious about these books for a while now, so seeing as they were on sale and I had a trip coming up, I decided to pick up a copy with floral designs and put it to the test. These books are meant to be a great way to destress, so perhaps they would help a nervous flyer?
Well, while my new colouring book didn’t necessarily eliminate all my flying jitters, I will say that it distracted me and time passed so much faster than it usually does. I had barely coloured a quarter of the page (yes, I take my time with all the intricate details) when suddenly the 3 hour flight down to Florida was over.
Then a few weeks ago I heard that fellow travel bloggers Katie and Geoff from Wandertooth had launched an adult colouring book called Travel Between the Lines. What they did is take photographs from their travels and transform these into illustrations that they bound into a colouring book. How cool is that?
They asked me if I’d like to put my colouring skills to the test, so I immediately said yes. Since I’m about to leave for South America in a few days and I knew the book wouldn’t arrive on time, they sent me a few designs that I printed and got to test out for myself.
My thoughts?
Their illustrations were a lot of fun to colour! Travel Between the Lines has a nice mix of very detailed images and simpler ones that allow for lots of creativity in terms of patterns and designs.
I also liked that the destinations in their book are quite varied; I had a little preview and they include a mix of cityscapes and street scenes ranging from temples in Kyoto to street corners in Oaxaca, and building tops in Havana to views from Alhambra.
There are countless adult colouring books out there, but this was my first time seeing one with a travel theme, so for someone who enjoys travel so much, their designs were perfect.
But now on to the giveaway!
How to enter the giveaway
Katie and Geoff have kindly offered to give away 3 copies of their adult colouring book Travel Between the Lines to readers, so we’ll be selecting 3 winners at random. This contest is open to participants worldwide.
To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment below answering the following question: What’s one landscape you’d love to see as an illustration in a colouring book? You can also earn additional entries by following @WanderTooth on Twitter and sharing this contest.
I’d love to see Iceland as a landscape!!! Or the Northern Lights would be cool.
I’d love to see Ait Ben Haddou in Morroco as a coloring book page!
I think a Peruvian market scene would be lovely, as they are super colorful and unique! Machu Picchu or other Incan ruins would be nice too, but would be hard to color with all the greens and browns! 🙂
Amazing! Thanks so much for taking some of the images for a test-drive and so thrilled to know you liked them. It’s a bit nerve-wracking putting your baby out there in the world… 🙂
I would love to see some Guatemalan markets!
A scene from the Swiss alps would be lovely!
One landscape that I would love to see are the northern lights. Another one would also be some of the Buddhist temples, their colors are beautiful and you can play them up or down.
In the coloring book I would love to see Venice. That would be pretty nice !
I would love to see a scene from a morning market….lots of food, people, and things for sale
I’d love to see the back ally ways of Amsterdam, Portugal, London, and Moscow.
I would love to see Shwedagon Pagoda (Myanmar) and surroundings as a form to color in an adult coloring book.
I’d love to see the Croatian Coast. Or Copenhagen, my favorite city. Wouldn’t it be awesome if everyone could upload their favorite pictures and then turn them in to illustrations to color in? That would make a great gift 🙂
I would love to see the unique and colorful village of Bosa in Sardinia, Italy included in a coloring book! If you’re in Sardinia, it’s definitely worth making the trip there.
I would looooooove to see any busy market from rural Asia. Spices, colors, fruits, beautiful locals. Or a street in India, with food sellers, women dressed in saris… that’s my kind of ‘landscape’!
I’d love to see the beautiful landscape of Guilin, China in a colouring book. It is most picturesque place in the world i have ever visited…
A scene of a village in the Swiss Alps 🙂
I would love to see the schwarzwaldhochstrasse landscape.
Thanks for the chance!!!!
The Great Barrier Reef! And the night markets of Taipei.
I would love to see Hawaii and other small town around Hawaii and there pinapple ect
Would love to see Machu Picchu, Peru!
How about anything geometric! Like really great tiled floors or old European architecture.
I’d love to see the long boats of Thailand set in front of the rocky cliffs!
I’d love to be able to color Machu Picchu!
I don’t think I could choose just one place! Every place I have traveled to would make amazing coloring book material. Open air markets are my favorite to photograph, so many colors and textures. Ok, time to travel more!
I wouldn’t mind seeing a scenery from Park Güell in Barcelona. Imagine all the mosaics on the stone’dragon’ (Salamander), all the colourful people around..maybe an ice cream vendor in the background?
Sounds like summer in a single colouring plate to me! 🙂
I would love to see the Patagonian mountains. Or the Dolomites. Or a bungee jumping person from a high bridge in a beautiful mountainous setting.
Would love to see the tulip fields in the Netherlands featured!
I’d definitely want to see Yerevan (Armenia) 🙂
Maybe the view of the mountain Ararat
Uuh so hard to pick just one place. But i would go for the patagonia, or snowy Prague 😀
I would love to colour something Indian… nothing more colourful than India!
Anything in Scotland.
I think an African Safari would be neat with all the animals 🙂
Everest base camp 1
I Actually JUST ordered 2 coloring books today to bring on my trip to Costa Rica next month. I have lots of flights (9 to be exact) and most of them are in little planes (those make me a bit nervey). I’m very excited to see if they help at all!
I’d love to see Indian Palaces in a coloring book…so many possibilities for color…I’m dying to color in that rug picture that you got to color! I need to put my 48 colored pencils to good use! 😀
I would love to see the temples in Thailand, the blue domes in Santorini and the colors of Carnival in Brazil!
I would love to see an underwater Great Barrier Reef scene in this coloring book !!!! 🙂
I absolutely love adult coloring books 🙂
-Sarah
I would love to see the landscapes of the cliffs of moher as in such a book! And I would love to win such a book 🙂
A colourful township landscape from South Africa – the colourful facades of the houses and advertising painted on the wall is so unique to SA. Would be great fun to colour that it.
I’ve also recently started using adult colouring books and have found some great apps for my tablet as well, not quiet the same but great when travelling light.
Am into coloring books. It relaxes me after a stressful day at work. I would love to see the terraces planted with rice of Banaue!
I’d like to see the Bavarian Alps. They are so breathtakingly beautiful!
I would love to see the Rocky Mountains
I’d love to see New Zealand, because then you’re pretty much coloring Narnia or Lord of the Rings. 🙂
The Great Barrier Reef!
I would love to see Czech landscape with its castles, rivers, hills, forests and cute little villages. That would be super cool 🙂
I love these coloring books! I would want to see an underwater one of snorkeling at Hanauma Bay Oahu
I would love to see African savanna landscape, Naples (Italy) or the Northern lights. 🙂
anything Myanmar! 🙂
I would like to see landscape of the rainforest or the Great Barrier Reef.
I just started using colouring books again, they’re so much fun!!
Stockholm as a landscape, covered in snow maybe! 🙂
These are amazing! I’d love to see a landscape of Positano, or any small town on the Amalfi coast! 😀
Would love to see the mountains from the town in mexico where we’re from. thank you!
Would love to see the streets of Edinburgh!
This is great! I just got a small coloring book to use on flights for my birthday, but I’d LOVE a travel one instead! I think it’d be great to see Arenal Volcano or the rainforest in Costa Rica 🙂
I would like to see landscape of Malaysia such as Petronas Twin Tower, KL Tower and many more.
I would like to see a coloring book of a variety of European countries, Scotland, England, France, Italy, Holland etc.
I would love to see the Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, Canada 🙂
Ohh I love my colouring books! I think I’d like to see a scene with something like Chinese lanterns, or something really intricate and colourful like that… or maybe an ancient castle, can’t go wrong there!
Great idea! I would love to see (and to colour!) images of glacial rivers like those in New Zealand, India, or elsewhere.
This image by @Trey Ratcliff is a perfect example!
https://www.facebook.com/treyratcliff/photos/a.736967509717008.1073741828.736444356435990/936062519807505/?type=3&theater
I would love to see Petronas Twin Towers, Petaling Street, Jonker Walk in Malacca all in one illustration!
this is amazing! i got into colouring again last year, and it has been such a fun little project. i would personally love to colour in a photo of the blue ridge parkway — i had the opportunity to drive along it in 2014, and it was absolutely stunning.
and ps — if you’re ever on a short trip or don’t want to haul around a colouring book, i love the colorfy app on my phone. it’s great for long bus rides when i’m stuck in traffic.
happy colouring! xx
World of Warcraft scenery!
I would love to see the rainforest as one of those drawings. Happy to see the Machu Picchu is there already, it was my first thought! 🙂
I can already picture myself colouring a beautiful local, desert market of Rajasthan, India. It’s a myriad of clashing colours coming together in the form of women’s colourful clothes, men in their colourful turbans, beautiful dupattas and sarees displayed outside shops and of course, those ornaments and embroidered bags that the state is famous for. It’s a riot of colours! And if we can somehow have camels in the scene, even better!
I would love to see Tuscany and an underwater scene!
Gardens by the Bay Singapore would keep me busy on a long haul.
I would love to see the Badshahi mosque of Lahore, Pakistan
I would love to see Suncheon Bay Ecological Park in Jeollanamdo, South Korea. The reeds are beautiful and the view from the top of the mountain is the best I’ve seen in Korea.
I’d love to see the stupas of Bagan in their coloring book!! Or Japan covered in cherry bloosoms! Perhaps the Serengeti during the Great Migration. I like things with alot of detail so it takes longer to color 🙂
I will really like to give a try to these coloring books. I have read several blog posts about the best ones to get and I am getting exited!
I’d love to see the Pirineos’s mountains and the Tuscan fields.
I love adult colouring in books – I have two with me on my current trip in Asia! I’d love to see some New Zealand scenery 🙂
I’d love to see a Sonoma desert-scape.
http://adult-coloring-101.com/2016/01/colored-pencil-shading-in-5-easy-steps/
I’d love to see the Scottish Highlands!
I would like to see any Spanish city, or an Appalachian Mountain sunrise/sunset.
I would love to paint the streets flanked by colorful houses with pretty windows and flowering pots / creepers
I love this! Adult coloring books are the best!
I’d love to color a landscape of Mt Fuji overlooking the five lakes!
I’ve been a color-er for a long time now, so I am SO glad it has become mainstream and it’s “cool” now. Ha! I’d love a travel themed coloring book. I think some pictures of Iceland that I’ve seen recently would be SUPER fun to color. Especially with the Northern Lights!
I would love to see the Fuji Mountains. Thanks for the giveaway.
I’d love to color the Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome… including all the resident kitty cats!
I would love to color any kind of lantern festival.
I would love to see La Boca, Buenos Aires’ pintoresque and colorful neighborhood 🙂
Well, I’d say I’ll like to see Hong Kong skyline, with all its details… It would be a great one 🙂
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Yellowstone would be great! The colors there in the prismatic pool are amazing
I would love to see Machu Picchu!
This is such a cool idea, and how fun would it be to color the travel destinations you’ve been to (and get some inspiration for future travels as well). I’d love to colour The French Quarter or The Garden District in New Orleans.
Rainforest:)
Would live to see Mont st Michel in the colouring book. It looks like Hogworts in Harry Potter but its so much prettier in real life.
I’d love to see the Rocky Mountains.
Bohemian Paradise in Czech Republic
I’ve been wanting to get an adult colouring book and I love that this one is travel themed! I’d like to see Edinburgh Castle, the Taj Mahal, or the latern-filled streets of Hoi An 🙂
I’d love to see a the bustling streets of an exciting city like Bangkok! Oh, and a tropical island of some sort would be great too 🙂
I’d love to see a the bustling streets of an exciting city like Bangkok! Oh, and a tropical island of some sort would be great too 🙂
Mountain Lake scenes with wildlife would be a really fun one I think.
I would love to see the coastline of Kauai!
Would be awesome to see Slovak mountains in there 😉
The Grand Canyon or Sequoia National Forest would be fun to color!
I would love to see Manarola, Italy, the city is so colorful and perfect for coloring books!
I’d love to see northern lights as well, that would be fun to color!
I would love to see Budapest!
I would like to see the German countryside or ancient sites like Stonehenge and Easter Island.
The rocky mountains would be a cool coloring book idea!
I’d love to see harajuku in Japan! ?