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Step outside and color your way into calm with adorable capybara adventures.

In Cozy Capy Nature Days Coloring, artist Helen H. Wu invites you into a peaceful world of fresh air, gentle exploration, and cozy outdoor moments. This delightful coloring book features charming capybaras enjoying nature in all its simple beauty—from quiet forest walks and lakeside lounging to garden harvests, picnics, campfires, and star-filled nights.

Designed for relaxation and creative escape, each page offers a soothing blend of whimsical illustration and everyday joy. The friendly, approachable line art makes it easy for colorists of all skill levels to jump in and enjoy the process—no pressure, just peaceful creativity.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • 60+ adorable illustrations of capybaras in outdoor settings, from forests and gardens to lakes and mountains
  • One-sided pages that minimize bleed-through and maximize shareability
  • Relaxing, beginner-friendly line art perfect for stress-free coloring
  • A variety of seasonal and everyday scenes to keep coloring fresh and engaging
  • A cozy, nature-inspired aesthetic that encourages mindfulness and calm
  • A portable, giftable format ideal for creative downtime anywhere

As the third installment in the beloved Cozy Capy Coloring series, this book expands the world of cuddles and connection into the great outdoors—offering a refreshing, feel-good coloring experience that celebrates nature, friendship, and the joy of slowing down.

The Cozy Capy Coloring series from Walter Foster is filled with adorable capybaras, calming, cozy moments, and heartwarming themes—designed for stress relief, relaxation, and creative comfort.

Enjoy even more cozy capy fun with:Cozy Capy Cuddles Coloring and Cozy Capy Love Coloring

Color your way into a world of love, calm, and cozy capybara cuddles.

Step into a heart-melting world of softness and serenity with Cozy Capy Love Coloring, a feel-good adult coloring book filled with adorable capybaras, sweet moments, and gentle reminders to slow down and savor love in all its forms.

A charming follow-up to Cozy Capy Cuddles Coloring, this book celebrates romantic love, friendship, family love, self-care, and more through irresistibly sweet illustrations designed to relax your mind and lift your mood. From cuddly capy couples to cozy hangouts with friends, each page invites you to unplug, unwind, and color your way into calm.

Perfect for quiet evenings, mindful breaks, or creative self-care rituals, Cozy Capy Love Coloring features friendly, non-intimidating line art that’s easy and enjoyable to color—whether you’re a seasoned colorist or just getting started.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • 60+ charming capybara illustrations celebrating love and togetherness
  • One-sided pages that minimize bleed-through and maximize shareability
  • Kawaii-inspired artwork that’s soothing, playful, and joyfully cozy 
  • Romantic, friendship, and self-care scenes perfect for stress relief
  • An ideal gift for Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day, or “just because” surprises

Capybaras have taken over social media—and it’s easy to see why. Their calm, friendly energy makes them the perfect companions for a coloring experience rooted in comfort and connection. Whether you’re coloring solo, gifting to someone you love, or adding to your cozy collection, Cozy Capy Love Coloring delivers warmth, whimsy, and a whole lot of heart.

The Cozy Capy Coloring series from Walter Foster is filled with adorable capybaras, calming, cozy moments, and heartwarming themes—designed for stress relief, relaxation, and creative comfort.

Enjoy even more cozy capy fun with:Cozy Capy Cuddles Coloring and Cozy Capy Nature Days Coloring

Calling all cat lovers! Relax and color your way through a world of adorable squishy cats and kittens in cozy, playful scenes.

Squishy Cats & Kittens Coloring & Sticker Book by Vera Kay, a rising young artist who goes by @veekachoo online, features floofy kitties enjoying sweet treats, outdoor adventures, magical worlds, and everyday cozy moments. Color cats wrapped in blanket “purritos,” a kitty book club, a bustling squishy bakery, donut and cupcake kitties, and a flower field picnic. Travel to a mushroom forest, cherry blossom garden, beach day, and cozy campsite, then explore fantasy settings like fairy villages, unicorn farms, potion shops, and crystal caves. Even more adventures await under the sea with mermaid cats, treasure coves, and seahorse rides. 

The bold, easy-to-color line art makes the pages relaxing and approachable for both adult coloring fans and younger artists. The book features:

  • 46 adorable coloring pages featuring squishy cats and kittens
  • Cute cat stickers to decorate pages, journals, and anything else 
  • Thick, high-quality paper suitable for colored pencils, markers, and gel pens
  • Perforated pages for easy tear-out and display

These sweet, squishy kitties are full of personality and charm. Perfect for cat lovers, kawaii enthusiasts, serenity seekers, and creative types of all ages, this activity book delivers comfort and calm on every page. Whether you are heading out on a long trip or snuggling up on a rainy day, grab your favorite coloring tools and bring each cozy scene to life.

Enter a year of tiny seasonal charm with Kawaii Cozy Corner: Seasonal Sticker Scenes, a cozy stickering experience filled with 6 warm, whimsical miniature interiors to complete.

This inviting collection lets you decorate charming spring, summer, autumn, winter, and holiday-themed rooms—each illustrated in a 3D style and populated by adorable animal characters. From blooming garden corners and breezy seaside escapes to pumpkin-filled cottages and festive winter hideaways, every setting captures the quiet magic of seasonal living. If you adore kawaii aesthetics, miniature interiors, and calming creative rituals, this book offers a relaxing, screen-free escape.

Rather than planning or designing from scratch, the format provides a structured, satisfying process. Simply follow the full-color reference image, match the scene to its corresponding clear-corner sticker sheets, and use the included tweezers to layer each piece into place. Furniture, décor, seasonal accents, plants, and tiny characters come together step by step, transforming the background into a complete cozy vignette. Then enjoy the matching black-and-white coloring pages to personalize with colored pencils or markers.

The experience is gentle and approachable—no drawing skills required, no complicated crafting—just the soothing rhythm of placing thoughtfully illustrated stickers onto beautifully designed seasonal scenes.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • 6 seasonal and holiday miniature interiors rendered in a charming 3D style
  • Over 275 clear-corner stickers featuring décor, festive details, furniture, and sweet animal residents
  • A built-in envelope to store the stickers and tweezers for neat, precise placement
  • Full-color guide images that show exactly how each completed scene should look
  • A mini coloring book of 6 matching black-and-white scenes to color and customize

Whether you’re arranging blossoms in a spring garden, layering seashell accents in a summer cabana, styling pumpkins in an autumn retreat, or adding festive touches to a winter room, each finished scene becomes a tiny celebration of comfort and creativity. Kawaii Cozy Corner: Seasonal Sticker Scenes transforms simple sticker placement into a delightful seasonal ritual—turning miniature interiors into cozy, pocket-sized worlds.

Enter a world of cozy fantasy with Kawaii Cozy Corner: Fantasy Sticker Scenes, a relaxing sticker activity filled with whimsical miniature environments to complete.

This charming book invites you to decorate imaginative spaces—from a sweet candy shop and glowing wizard’s tower to an underwater hideaway, frog-filled forest nook, steampunk workshop, and even a cozy space station. Each scene is illustrated in a soft 3D style and filled with adorable animal characters, playful fantasy details, and tiny storytelling moments.

Instead of designing scenes from scratch, this activity offers a calm and satisfying process. On the left side, a built-in envelope holds clear-corner stickers and tweezers for precise placement. On the right, a full-color reference scene shows exactly where each sticker belongs. Simply match the scene to its corresponding sticker sheet and layer the transparent stickers to complete the magical environment. Then enjoy the matching black-and-white coloring pages to personalize with colored pencils or markers.

Each sticker adds furniture, décor, creatures, and whimsical details that slowly bring the tiny fantasy world to life.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • Whimsical fantasy miniature scenes illustrated in a charming 3D style
  • Over 200 clear-corner stickers featuring décor, magical props, and adorable animal characters
  • A built-in sticker envelope with tweezers for precise placement
  • Full-color guide images showing how each finished scene should look
  • A mini coloring book of 6 matching black-and-white scenes to color and customize

Whether you’re arranging potions in a wizard’s tower, decorating a candy shop filled with sweets, exploring a frog forest hideaway, or adding details to an underwater world, each finished scene becomes a tiny magical escape. Kawaii Cozy Corner: Fantasy Sticker Scenes transforms simple sticker placement into a soothing and imaginative creative ritual.

Discover how to create vibrant, colorful watercolor paintings of a wide range of animals.

With Colorways: Watercolor Animals, learn to paint all your favorite animals, from an elephant and a whale to a dog, cat, fish, and more. Each step-by-step demonstration shows not only how to capture the animal’s likeness, but also how to use color to create magical, otherworldly, and whimsical paintings.

In these tutorials, you will also learn how to use watercolor paint to suggest texture and fur on your animal subjects. Along the way, you will find technique instruction and tips for using different types of strokes, working with various brush shapes and sizes and using washes and underpaintings. Geared toward advanced beginners and more experienced watercolorists looking to play with color, this book offers fun subject matter and eye candy for all art lovers.

The Colorways series teaches artists how to employ color across a variety of media in unique and imaginary ways to create innovative and inspired artwork. Focusing less on realistic artistic representations and more on creating expressive art, this series invites you to break the standard rules of color and let your imagination and artwork soar to new heights in order to create unconventional, whimsical, and fanciful works of art.

Learn the customary rules of color, and then bypass them, with the help of Colorways: Watercolor Animals, a book that encourages you to use color for personal expression while painting your favorite animals.

Filled with creative exercises, art prompts, templates, and step-by-step projects, The Little Book of Rock Painting encourages interactivity for immediate results, while teaching beginners the fundamentals of the medium in an engaging and fun way.

In The Little Book of Rock Painting, aspiring artists will discover how to gather and prepare their rocks to create masterpieces that are truly one with nature. Written and illustrated by three talented rock-painting artists, the book features a range of contemporary designs to experiment with, from patterns and animals to mandalas and dots. The instructions are easy to follow and invite creativity and originality.

Grab your colors, head outside, and start painting beautiful works of art on stones!

The Little Book of … series focuses on delivering fun, approachable, and interesting art instruction in a fresh, portable format. With its contemporary design, open practice pages, creative exercises, and prompts that encourage interactivity, beginning artists learn the fundamentals of their craft, often with immediate results.
 
Also available from the series:The Little Book of Sketching, The Little Book of Lettering & Word Design, The Little Book of Manga Drawing, The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration, and The Little Book of Drawing Dragons & Fantasy Characters.

When you’re short of ideas for your next painting, Pocket Prompts Oil Painting has 50+ lessons, exercises, and inspirational ideas to get your artistic practice going.

Pocket Prompts Oil Painting is the essential creative companion for anyone who loves the rich texture and depth of oil paint. This compact guide is filled with practical tips, techniques, and creative prompts designed to spark ideas and keep your artistic energy flowing. Learn layering, blending, glazing, and brushwork basics while exploring expressive ways to capture color, light, and form. Whether you’re in your studio or painting outdoors, Pocket Prompts Oil Painting offers on-the-go inspiration and guidance to enhance your artistic process.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • Creative prompts and exercises: Build skills and discover new oil painting techniques.
  • Techniques and tips for all experience levels: Learn layering, color mixing, and textural effects.
  • Portable format: A compact book you can take anywhere for instant creative inspiration.

With Pocket Prompts Oil Painting, you’ll have everything you need to keep your creativity flowing and your brushes moving—anytime, anywhere.

The Pocket Prompts series is for artists who want to stay inspired wherever they go. Maybe you’ve painted a few pieces, filled a sketchbook or two, but you’re ready for more—more creativity, more confidence, more play. Each compact guide is packed with quick prompts, easy techniques, and expert tips from trusted Walter Foster artists who make learning feel approachable and fun. By the end of every book, you’ll have a toolkit full of new ideas and the confidence to keep creating—anytime, anywhere.

Also available in the series: Pocket Prompts Watercolor, Pocket Prompts Drawing, and Pocket Prompts Acrylic.

When you’re short of ideas for your next acrylic painting, Pocket Prompts Acrylic has 50+ lessons, exercises, and inspirational ideas to get your artistic practice going.

Pocket Prompts Acrylic is a handy, portable resource for artists eager to explore the expressive potential of acrylic paint. This mini guide is filled with creative prompts, exercises, and techniques that inspire play and help artists overcome creative blocks. Learn how to experiment with impasto textures, subtle glazes, and color mixing while refining your skills. Whether you’re painting at home or traveling, Pocket Prompts Acrylic offers instant creative ideas to get your brush moving and your imagination flowing.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • Creative prompts and acrylic exercises: Experiment with layering, glazing, and texture.
  • Techniques and tips for all skill levels: Build confidence while learning essential acrylic methods.
  • Portable format: Easy to carry anywhere, keeping inspiration close at hand.

With Pocket Prompts Acrylic, you’ll stay inspired to paint vibrant, expressive works anytime, anywhere.

The Pocket Prompts series is for artists who want to stay inspired wherever they go. Maybe you’ve painted a few pieces, filled a sketchbook or two, but you’re ready for more—more creativity, more confidence, more play. Each compact guide is packed with quick prompts, easy techniques, and expert tips from trusted Walter Foster artists, who make learning feel approachable and fun. By the end of every book, you’ll have a toolkit full of new ideas and the confidence to keep creating—anytime, anywhere.

Also available in the series: Pocket Prompts Watercolor, Pocket Prompts Drawing, and Pocket Prompts Oil Painting.

Immerse yourself in an interactive coloring mystery set at a misty summer camp where strange things are happening.

In Color & Sleuth: Creepy Cabin by Rebecca Demos, Camp Hallowed Pines is reopening after being closed for 25 years—but the mystery of three missing staff members still haunts the camp. As campers arrive for swimming, archery, and camp games, eerie clues begin to surface: bones washing up by the lagoon, missing camp gear, and strange activity around the boathouse after dark. Each intricately illustrated page reveals a different corner of the haunted camp—from creaky cabins and wooded trails to cliff edges and “the pit”—along with written scenes that pull you deeper into the mystery.

As you color, you’ll uncover clues and piece together answers to four key questions that reveal the truth behind the camp’s long-buried secrets. Solve the mystery correctly to unlock downloadable rewards, including a collectible poster and bonus coloring pages. For an extra layer of atmosphere, scan a QR code to access a spooky soundtrack while you color and sleuth.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • Spooky summer camp scenes to color: Detailed illustrations filled with hidden clues.
  • Engaging text and story clues: Every scene includes written narration to help you solve the mystery. 
  • Clue sheets and badge challenges: Track suspects, gather evidence, and test your detective skills.
  • Exclusive downloadable rewards: Unlock bonus coloring pages and a collectible poster when you solve the mystery.
  • Immersive soundtrack: Use a QR code to access a curated playlist that enhances the spooky atmosphere.

The Color & Sleuth series blends coloring, storytelling, and puzzle-solving into one creative experience. Color & Sleuth: Creepy Cabin delivers a cozy mystery filled with campfire chills—perfect for colorists, puzzle lovers, and fans of spooky stories.

Also available from the series: Color & Sleuth: Haunted City, Color & Sleuth: Ghost Town, and Color & Sleuth: Phantom Farm.