Color the Masters · Volume 1
Claude Monet: 40 Masterpieces to Color
40 works, each with its museum story, a page for color notes and a plate you can remove.
See the book on Amazon →A famous painting becomes your own picture
You may know Monet's paintings: the Japanese Footbridge, the Stacks of Wheat, the Woman with a Parasol. But have you ever really taken the time to look at one of them properly?
Color the Masters invites you to do just that. You start with a real work by Claude Monet and read what lies behind it. Then you pick up your pens and color the plate the way you see it.
Coloring makes you look more closely than simply viewing a picture does. That is how you get to know a painting again.
Try it for free
Before you buy a book, you should be able to see how it works. That is why three plates from the book are free:
- 🌉 The Japanese Footbridge
- 🌾 A Stack of Wheat
- ☂️ Woman with a Parasol
Each plate comes with the same pages as in the book:
- the coloring plate,
- the museum page with the original in greyscale and the story behind the painting,
- a page for color notes, with boxes to try out your pens.
A first name and email are all it takes. The plates arrive as a PDF to print.
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How a Monet becomes your own picture
Original, your plate, colored in. Shown here for one of the forty works in the book.
- Discover the originalLook at the real painting and find out what lies behind it.
- Study the plateThe museum photograph becomes line art that shows the main shapes of the picture.
- Choose your colorsWhich colors would you use? How should the light look, the sky, the water?
- Color the pictureTake your time and find your own version.
- Look at your pictureIn the end you have your personal version of a famous painting in front of you.
Real paintings as templates
The plates are based on real paintings by Claude Monet from three public museum collections:
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Every plate is computed from the museum photograph of the original. No motif is invented by an AI or traced freehand.
40 paintings, each with a story
The book holds 40 works by Claude Monet to color. Every work fills four pages:
🎨 Color notes
Boxes to test your pens before the first stroke goes on the plate.
🖼️ The museum page
The painting in greyscale, the collection's own credit line and a short story about the work.
👀 Look Closer
A box on the museum page points to a detail that is easy to miss.
✏️ The plate
Printed on one side only. You can remove your finished page, give it away or frame it.
The book is printed in black and white. If you want to see the original in color, every museum page links to the collection.
Who is Color the Masters for?
You don't need to be an art expert or know when Monet painted which picture. A little time and a love of color are enough. The book suits you if you
- enjoy coloring and working with color,
- are interested in Claude Monet and in art,
- want to unwind while you color,
- would like to experience famous paintings in a different way,
- want to learn something about the paintings while you color.
Take your time with one picture
Every day we see countless images. We scroll past, click on and move to the next one within seconds.
Color the Masters slows that down. One picture, its story and your colors, for as long as you like.
Three plates are free right now
Download the Japanese Footbridge, the Stack of Wheat and the Woman with a Parasol, with the stories behind the paintings. No purchase needed.
Get the 3 free platesFree PDF, ready to print right away. A first name and email address are all it takes.
Good to know
Do I need to be able to paint?
No. The lines are already there, you only choose the colors. How you apply them is up to you.
Which pens work?
Colored pencils, watercolor pencils, felt-tip pens. Each plate is printed on one side only, so there is no other picture on the back.
Why is the book black and white?
So you can find your own colors. You can see the original in color through the collection reference on every museum page.
A gift for people who love to color
For your mother, your friend or the colleague who always stops in front of a Monet: a book with 40 paintings, their stories and plates you can remove. If you like, frame your favorite page and pass it on.
If you like the plates
About the series. Color the Masters brings famous works of art together with coloring. Each volume is devoted to one artist or one group of masterpieces. Volume 1 is Claude Monet, more volumes are planned.
Just one message per new volume, without plates and emails? Go to the series page →
About the free download: We need your first name and email address. After you confirm, you get the three plates as a PDF, four short emails over the next ten days with stories about Monet's paintings and notes about the book, and later a message when a new volume comes out. You can unsubscribe at any time. We never pass on your details.