Brown teapot and cup
Free printable · Color by number
Color by number pages for adults
8 color by number pages to print: brown teapot and cup, sunflower, garden rose, cat asleep on a cushion and watering can and more. Each page is a grid of small squares with a number in every square and a key underneath that matches each number to a color.
These are square-grid pictures, the kind sometimes called mystery mosaics or pixel coloring: you fill squares, not curved shapes, and the picture appears as the colors go in. The last page shows every finished picture small, for checking or for anyone who would rather know what is coming.
Prints on US letter paper, one picture to a page with its color key: 8 pages, then the finished pictures (10 pages in all). Under every page is a button to print just that one. In the print window, choose your printer, or Save as PDF to keep a copy.
Sunflower
Garden rose
Cat asleep on a cushion
Watering can
Stone cottage
Lighthouse on the point
Sailboat on the bay
Finished pictures
Finished pictures
What you need
Colored pencils are the best fit, since the squares are small: about three tenths of an inch on the 24 by 24 pictures and a little under a quarter inch on “Sailboat on the bay.” Fine-tip markers work too. The key prints each color as a swatch with its name beside it, so on a black and white printer you can still match by name.
You do not need the exact shades. The pictures use 8 to 13 colors each, and any set of pencils with a few blues, greens, browns and a red will do. Where two key colors look close, keep the lighter pencil for the lower number of the pair so they stay apart on the page.
Which picture to start with
“Brown teapot and cup” has the fewest colors, 8, and 576 squares, so it is the quickest. “Lighthouse on the point” has the most colors, 13, and “Sailboat on the bay” has the most squares, 1024.
A calm way to work is one number at a time: color every 1, then every 2. The background number usually covers the most squares, so doing it first shows the outline of the subject early.
Where the pictures come from
They are eight of the 74 pictures in Linseed Loft Color by Number, a free CozyWorld game, laid out for paper by a program. Nothing here was scanned or traced. The pages are free for personal, classroom, library and care home use; please do not sell or repost them.
Play on a screen
The same eight pictures, and 66 more, can be painted on a screen in the game: Linseed Loft Color by Number.