Wild animals in our midst come to life in this unique, carefully rendered coloring book. Forty-two detailed black-and-white illustrations depict a garter snake, Virginia deer, garden spider, Japanese beetles, chickadees, raccoons, honeybees, cardinals, squirrels, and many more.
This book allows you to paint or color right on the book pages!
Pet Parents will love drawing their own pet!
Draw polar bears, wolves, grizzeles, mountain goats, and other awesome creatures roam their habitats in this book!
This is Pat's Pick of the Pond, it is a true-to-life illustrations of the content of animals that you can actually find in your own backyard!!
Find out how we teach art with a wildlife twist!
Painting With Pat connects Kidz to Nature and Wildlife through the ARTS!

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The following books are 'family friendly books that promote our mission statement.
These books are provided by Sinking Creek Studios, LLC with all proceeds going towards general support of Painting With Pat, Inc.
Pet Parents will love to draw their own dogs!
Backyard Nature Coloring Book
Pat chose this book as the focus book of the month because of the 'true to life' illustrations and the realism of the content of animals that you can actually find in your own backyard! Coloring these animals and identifying them in our backyards connects us to nature more closely.

Dot Barlowe

Our price $ 9. 97
Availability: 15 in Stock
Page Count: 48
Dimensions: 8 1/4x11


Alaskan Wildlife Coloring Book
Jan Sovak

Our Price $9.97
Availability: In Stock
Format: Coloring Books
Page  Count: 32
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

The stark beauty of Alaska's forests, mountains, and seas serves as a glorious backdrop for its native wildlife. Wolves, grizzlies, mountain goats, polar bears, and other awesome creatures roam their habitats in this educational and fun-to-color collection of 30 accurately rendered drawings.
Nocturnal Creatures Coloring Book
Ruth Soffer

Our Price $9.97
Availability: In Stock
Format: Coloring Books
Page Count: 48
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Fact-filled guide to 45 creatures that restrict their food gathering and other activities to the nighttime, including the flying squirrel, raccoon, Texas banded gecko, long-eared owl, lesser bush baby, margay(also known as the American tiger cat), California leaf-nosed bat, and many more...
Realistically rendered and portrayed in their natural habitats!
Wild Animals Coloring Book
John Green

Our Price $9.97
Availability: In Stock
Format: Coloring Books
Page Count: 48
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Detailed and ready-to-color drawings of 47 species: rhinoceros, snow leopard, giraffe, reindeer, gorilla, tiger, giant panda, elephant, kangaroo, many more.
Brief captions describe habits of each species.
Colorists will find this volume entertaining and educational; artists and designers will find practical use for the royalty-free illustrations.
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Rain Forest Coloring Book
Annika Bernhard

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Availability: In Stock
Format: Coloring Books
Page Count: 48
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Forty-five excellent drawings realistically depict tribes of the Amazon Basin, as well as a number of plants and animals native to many environmentally threatened habitats. Fact-filled captions accompany finely detailed illustrations of a water buffalo, mountain gorilla, ring-tailed lemur, jaguar, giant armadillo, mangrove swamps, a bamboo forest, and more. Includes fact-filled captions.
How to Draw Birds
John Green

Our Price $12.95
Availability: In Stock
Format: Book
Grade Level: Kindergarten -5  (ages 5 - 10)
Page Count: 32
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Easy-to-follow guide for beginning artists of all ages shows how to create likenesses of a strutting peacock, graceful swan, a duck swimming, plus a cardinal, penguin, toucan, owl, ostrich, and 22 other avian creatures. Simple diagrams reveal how to draw figures and also demonstrate the fundamentals of shape and dimension.

How to Draw Dogs
Barbara Soloff Levy

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Availability: In Stock
Format: Book
Grade Level: Kindergarten -5 (ages 5 - 10)
Page Count: 32
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Step by Step instructions, (just like Pat instructs), show how to use simple shapes to draw accurate character-filled images of 30 favorite breeds cocker spaniel, golden retriever, collie, Dalmatian, Saint Bernard, poodle, and 24 more!
120 black and white illustrations.
How to Draw Cats
Barbara Soloff Levy

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Availability: In Stock
Format: Book
Grade Level: Kindergarten -5 (ages 5 -10 )
Page Count 32
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Simple step-by-step diagrams, (just like Pat instructs) ,for rendering delightful likenesses of cats and kittens in assorted poses: seated, stretching, preening, ready to pounce, and more. Instructions also included for creating portraits of a lion, bobcat, cheetah, and other felines of the wild!
How to Draw Insects
Barbara Soloff Levy

Our Price  $12.97
Availability: 12 in Stock
Format: Book
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 5 (ages 5 - 10)
Page Count: 32
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Easy-to-follow guide shows would-be artists of all ages how to create accurate images of a grasshopper, monarch butterfly, tarantula, caterpillar, cicada, praying mantis, walking stick, scorpion, carpenter ant, Japanese beetle, inchworm, centipede, termite, and 17 other insects. Step-by-step diagrams not only help create figures that are fun to draw from your own backyard, it also teaches fundamentals to carry over to other projects.
Nautical Scenes

Our Price  $10. 95
Availability: In Stock
Format: Coloring Book
Page Count: 48
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Paint or Color worlds of natural beauty!
Create a rowboat on a pond to a luxury liner by moonlight. This book of 23 illustrations run the gamut of nautical scenes. Realistic drawings depict beaches, sailboats, fishermen, a tranquil alpine lake, and many more!
Horse Scenes to Paint or Color
John Green

Our Price  $10.95
Availability: 3 in Stock
Format: Coloring Book
Page Count: 48
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11

Realistic galloping steeds for the horse lover in you!
Working horses, show horses, wild poines, and 23 more life-like renderings show off the grace and power of equine beauties.
Paint them, color them, or learn to draw them!

7 Maze Fun Books

Our Price  $24.50
Availability: In Stock
Format: Boxed Sets
Grade Level: Preschool - 2 (ages 3 - 7)

Kids can learn about animal habitats by helping animals search for food and search out places to hide and rest with these engaging Maze Fun Books.   7 easy and entertaining volumes, all with solutions, include Bugs Mazes, Sea Life Mazes, Dinosaur Mazes, Easy Animal Mazes, Bird Mazes, Nature Mazes, and Easy Mazes Activity Book.

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Click here to print a free sample coloring book page of Alaskan Wildlife.
Click here to print a free sample page of 'Nocturnal Creatures' coloring book.
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  • Journal Pages
  • National Standards
  • Index
  • Soft Cover 68 Pages
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Pelican Pete's Backyard Adventures
is a fun little book created to help readers, big and small, "connect with nature". Filled with interesting facts and no-materials-needed activities, it offeres endless possiblilites for anyone wondering what to do when told to 'Go Outside!'
"A book that will help children learn to love and understand the mysteries of nature in their own backyard."
--Martin B. Maine, Ph.D., Wildlife Ecology & Conservation
"Encouraging and entertaining"
--Children's Bookwatch
Nature Discoveries and Outdoor Fun!
A 'Must-Have' Book for 2010!
Also available is 'Pelican Pete' 8" Plush Toy
Author: Frances Keiser Illustrator: Hugh Keiser
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