About a year or so ago I bought The Secret Garden coloring book for adults because I loved all the intricate designs. Â Coloring has become the new Thing For Stressed Out People To Do To Relax, and I now have 2 Johanna Basford coloring books, a lovely assortment of fine point markers and pens, and the Colorfy app on my phone. Â For those of you who are Harry Potter fans, there’s going to be a Harry Potter coloring book coming out in November. Â Because Severus Snape is both a sex-symbol and an object on which my 2 year old can scribble.
Anyway, all that is just to say that I figured out a way to create your own coloring pages out of photos, and to try it out I used a bunch of public domain photos of my favorite people and places.  So here you go – a present to you lovely readers so you can have a relaxing Sunday afternoon.  Just print these puppies out and color away.  Or you can get snazzy and do them in photoshop, though I’m not sure that the stress-reducing properties make the digital divide.  I’d love to see your finished products!  Take a picture and tweet or instagram them to me – @teysko and @hteysko respectively.  Happy Coloring!
Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  the original Tudor history podcast, started in 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. In 2019 she created Tudorcon, which is now a yearly event, in addition to writing books, and running TudorFair.com - a whimsical Tudor Merch shop.
She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 30 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history (how exciting when she got to interview Alison for the first time!). In addition to history, she is passionate about travel, and has lived in 3 countries and 4 states (not counting her perpetual state of confusion), and her family (who help her host her YouTube channel occasionally).
