Description

Explore the tranquil world beneath the ocean with this incredible coloring book, featuring 45 vintage natural history illustrations and black-and-white versions to fill with color.

From coral-filled seabeds to shimming schools of fish, coloring enthusiasts will love these beautiful images of the ocean world. There are underwater scenes that reveal the plants and other organisms that live beneath the waves, often with little sunlight; beautiful studies of seashells; exotic fish; amazing amphibians; sleepy seals; and birds who thrive in their coastal habitats.

These artworks have been selected from some of the earliest illustrated books published on the natural history of the oceans, including The Great Barrier Reef of Australia by William Saville-Kent, The Naturalist's Miscellany by George Shaw and Ocean Gardens by H. Noel Humphreys. These original illustrations a shown in full-color beside black and white line versions rendered by Diego Vaisberg to be filled with color.

Features:
- Thick, high-quality paper to prevent bleed-through
- A key of full-color, thumbnail images to preview the designs
- Full-page prints of original full-color artwork to display

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Sirius Classic Nature Coloring series includes archival illustrations by some of history's most acclaimed naturalists, including Audubon, Pierre-Joseph Redoute and William Lizars. These original full-color illustrations are presented beside the black and white designs for reference and inspiration.