Color Squared: Color, Dot, Dash, or Stamp Your Way to Awesome Pixel Art

by Lee Meredith

Paint-by-number meets the traditional coloring book in this brand new format that showcases pixelated images of cool and quirky nostalgia objects. Doodlers, artists, and puzzlers alike will enjoy this new take on coloring. With a focus on old favorites, pictures of things like cassette tapes, a rotary phone, and roller skates have been pixelated and rendered as numbered grids. To fill them in, users have options to vary the colors, just vary the shading, or even use different shapes or lines. Color Squared can relieve stress or challenge the mind, depending on the approach the reader chooses--but either way, it will keep the head and hands busy, and make for a fun trip down memory lane.

114 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2017

Reviews

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is probably the most convoluted and hard to use coloring book I have ever seen. And that’s a good thing. You can truly put your own spin on the image. Each page looks just list a black and white grid and you fill in the number with a designated color. But it’s not that easy. Each picture is pixelated, and how you fill in the boxes can also determine the effect. On the reverse side of each page, is a “answer key” if you will, that gives you a general idea of the image if you just do a boring color-in. I can not wait to do some of these, even though I am sure I will find frustration along the way.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is color by numbers for adults with a twist. each page is ;labeled with numbers or blanks to help the user form the right pixelated picture and they really do come out looking pixelated. with the current adult coloring craze this was a nice twist. I would have liked the picture to be on the front not the back but understood the choice for detaching each picture from the book. Which was very easy. I would also have liked to see the pictures in color in the book. Over all this was fun. A nice twist! I received a copy of this book from blogging for books in exchange for an honest review.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great way to get someone started creating their own pop art. The designs are cool. I am super excited to have received this from Blogging For Books exchange for an honest review. Looking forward to coloring and creating my own pop art. This is a cool book to have own your bookshelves.