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kiwi slices
19 colors410 pieces62 pages
six slices of kiwi caught mid-air on a hot yellow background, with three blueberries falling past them.
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printable paint by number, instant download
printable paint by number kits for adults
built for the alcohol markers and colored pencils you already own. print at home on the paper you already have, at 100%, and start tonight. nothing ships and nothing can get lost in the post. and here is the free ohuhu to copic conversion chart, if you just want the matches.
four kits
pick your evening
every count here came out of the kit's own files. $5.95 each.
quick and bright
citrus halves
25 colors440 pieces75 pages
citrus cut in half and laid out from above: oranges, pink grapefruit, lemons and limes on a clean white table.
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one evening
abstract sunset
30 colors304 pieces87 pages
a painterly wash of sunset color: gold and butter yellow burning through coral and hot pink into deep violet. no subject, no edges, just color doing what it wants.
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a few evenings
grapefruit cocktails
24 colors893 pieces73 pages
two grapefruit cocktails in hard summer sunlight, with rosemary sprigs, orange slices and a scatter of baby's breath.
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what is in every kit
five PDFs, sixty to ninety pages
a free tool gives you one outline. this is what you get instead.
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eighteen outlines to choose from
four darknesses, each one plain or numbered, with or without the color bar along the top. one way to use them: print the faintest plain one, and no lines or numbers show in your finished piece. the last two sit over a 1-inch grid so you can copy the design onto canvas by hand.
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the swatch card
every color as a true 1-inch square with its hex and RGB, so you can swatch your own markers straight onto it. then a page naming the closest ohuhu, copic, prismacolor and polychromos for every single color.
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the color-by-color guide
one page per color, that color alone on the page. wondering where every #12 hides? turn to page 12.
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the build-up guide
the same one page per color, but each page shows the whole picture as it grows, with only the color that page adds numbered on it. no hunting for which shape is new.
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the finished preview
in full color, plus a second copy with the numbers printed on the colors, so you can check yourself halfway through.
printing it
it prints true on the paper you already have
the art prints 8 x 10, 10 x 8 or 8 x 8 inches depending on the kit, centred on an 8.5 x 11 inch page, which is US Letter. print at 100%, not fit-to-page, and it comes out true to size. two of the eighteen outlines sit over a 1-inch grid so you can copy the design onto stretched canvas or a sketchbook by hand instead, at any size you like.
markers are see-through
no lines and no numbers in the finished piece
alcohol markers do not cover a printed line, they sit over it. so every kit ships four darknesses of outline, each one plain or numbered. one way to use them: the faintest plain one to color on, the numbered one beside you as your map, and nothing shows anywhere in what you hang up.
the part nothing else does
every color, matched to the markers and pencils you already own
a free tracer hands you a hex code and wishes you luck. every kit here matches every swatch to its closest color in four popular brands, markers and pencils both, on a card printed at true 1-inch squares so you can swatch your own markers right beside it. the guesswork is done before you uncap anything.
ohuhu honolulu
320 alcohol markers
copic
357 alcohol markers
prismacolor premier
150 colored pencils
faber-castell polychromos
120 colored pencils
what that looks like in practice
the dog at the top of this site was colored entirely in ohuhu markers first, one flat color at a time. the last hour was prismacolor pencils on top: the little hairs on his face, the grass, the texture in the hydrangeas.
two different sets, one card, and every color matched. that is the whole point: you are not guessing which marker is closest while the ink is still wet, and you can finish in pencil over marker without the two sets arguing.
this reference is built from nine independent hand-swatched sources across the four sets, swatched on more than one paper, never off a maker's chart. where nothing comes close, the card says so. where nothing comes close, the card says no close marker match instead of pointing you at something wrong.
or bring your own picture
none of these is the one you want?
send a photo and I will make it into the same kit, $14.95.
no surprises
about the printable kits
is this a physical kit?
no, and that is on purpose. everything is digital: printable PDFs for paper, or a zip of layered files for procreate. nothing ships, nothing gets lost in the post, and you can print your outline again if you ruin one.
there are free paint-by-number generators. why pay?
because a free generator hands you one machine trace and wishes you luck. a kit here is eighteen outlines at four darknesses, a page per color, the piece count and the small-piece warning in writing before you pay, and a swatch card that names the closest ohuhu, copic, prismacolor and polychromos for every color in the kit. and a person looks at your photo first and tells you if it will not paint well.
what do I paint it with?
alcohol markers, colored pencils, acrylics or watercolor all work. the kits are built around ohuhu and copic markers and prismacolor and polychromos pencils, and every color carries its exact hex and RGB, so anything else in your cup still works.
do the numbers and lines show when I am finished?
on paper, no: one way is to color on the faintest plain outline and keep the numbered one beside you as your map. on an iPad, no: the numbers are on their own layer and so are the outlines, and both switch off at the end.
what size does it print?
the art prints 8 x 10, 10 x 8 or 8 x 8 inches depending on the kit, centred on a US Letter page. print at 100%, not fit-to-page, and it comes out true to size on the paper you already have.