Paint or Colour by Numbers – Fairy Tales

Bring the magic of classic fairy tales to life with beautiful paint-by-numbers artwork inspired by some of the world's most beloved stories.

Create enchanting scenes from:

Sleeping Beauty • Cinderella • Little Red Riding Hood • Rapunzel • The Little Mermaid • Beauty and the Beast • Jack and the Beanstalk • The Old Witch

This is the fifth book in my Paint by Numbers series and has been specially designed to help parents, grandparents, and art lovers create charming storybook illustrations that children will treasure. Each project begins with an original fairy-tale illustration created by the author and carefully simplified into a series of clearly defined colouring areas. These areas are numbered to guide you through the painting process, making it easy to create attractive artwork regardless of your artistic experience.

Every fairy-tale scene is presented in several formats. Alongside a full-colour reference image and colour palette, you will find a numbered paint-by-numbers template, an unnumbered version for a greater challenge, and a sketch outline that allows you to add your own artistic interpretation. Whether you prefer colouring pencils, felt-tip pens, crayons, watercolours, acrylics, or other artistic media, you can choose whichever method suits you best.

Some of the finer details contain very small numbered sections. In these cases, the reference image and colour guide will help you determine the correct colours. A magnifying glass may also prove useful when working on the more intricate areas.

For those who wish to create a more permanent artwork, the designs can be traced or transferred onto watercolour paper, canvas, or other suitable surfaces before painting.

Once completed, your pictures can be mounted, framed, and displayed in a child's bedroom, nursery, playroom, or family living space. Featuring castles, princesses, magical creatures, enchanted forests, and unforgettable storybook characters, this collection provides many hours of creative enjoyment while helping to develop concentration, observation, colour awareness, pattern-recognition skills, and artistic confidence.

Whether you are creating artwork for yourself, your children, or your grandchildren, these timeless fairy tales offer a wonderful opportunity to combine creativity, relaxation, and imagination while producing pictures you'll be proud to display.

Doctor James Reynolds, a distinguished research scientist, has sunk into alcoholic depression following the death of his beloved wife twelve months earlier. A small meteorite crashes into his garden late one evening, re-igniting his scientific curiosity. He recovers the rock to discover it contains something extraordinary: genetic material. A strange message subsequently appears on his computer with instructions on how to culturethe rock’s contents. In a short time, an alien creature emerges from the bubbling mixture in his bath. He teaches it and hides its presence fromhis close friend Valerie. But he fears he’s going mad as he repeatedly sees his dead wife. What is the purpose of the alien creature? Is he going mad?Are dark and terrible secrets about to be uncovered by the alien’s presence?An outstanding tale which grips you in a mesmerising puzzle and challenges you to resolve the mysterious events. A mature read for the intelligent reader and created using stills from the motion picture by the same name.