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Color me…not surprised. This was doomed to fade.
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Coloring books, together with the various drink-and-paint studios that have been cropping up, seem to be tapping a latent desire to be artistic that isn’t being met because people feel too intimidated to take up drawing and painting in earnest. I’d be interested to know if they’re having any impact on the arts—if they’re serving as gateway drugs that lead people down the slippery slope to art lessons, or if they’re just a symptom of how anxious and neurotic we’ve become.
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Only one color required: Fecal Brown
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Hey now.
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HUBBA HUBBA
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They didn’t make me anxious — they bored me senseless. I’m sure some people find them restful or meditative but I got about a quarter of a page done (it was a printout — I didn’t buy an entire book of them) and realized I’d rather do almost anything else: I’d sooner wash the dishes or rearrange a bookshelf, which is just as mindless and at least accomplishes something useful.
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I disagree.
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My ex ran a paint and drink wine company. The best part were always the newbies who thought they couldn’t paint at all, but ended up with something they were proud of.
The brutal side is you get maybe three repeat reservations per person, so there is a ton of hustle and competition.
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Presumably because they were easy to produce: just get a bunch of art grads to do some basic line-drawings, scan them and stick them into a basic template, and you’re done. None of that tedious editing, proofreading, author hand-holding, etc to cut into valuable drinking time.
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Put the word Hygge and an awkward reference to a Jane Austen novel in the title, then you’ve got yourself a product!
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But Hollywood has managed to get away with it for over 100 years now.
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This is totally, completely off topic, but I just realized what my porn name is:
James Austin
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Print book sales remain about as high as they’ve ever been, people just don’t go to brick-and-mortar stores to buy them anymore.
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I do, well when I wan’t a physical book and can’t get it at the library. Just not Barnes & Noble for the most part.
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Well me too, just speaking of the general trend. Certainly the way most people buy books doesn’t lend itself to their business model the way it used to.
If anything Meg Ryan’s boutique community bookstore model in “You’ve Got Mail” probably makes more sense in today’s market than Tom Hanks’ megastore chain model.
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Makes one wonder why Amazon and Barns & Noble don’t sponsor libraries under the idea of ‘you liked that book? you can buy it now at-’.
With quality material like this i’m surprised coloring book oversaturation is a thing
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I feel like doing a google search for this won’t get me the correct results.
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