About

Coloring, minus the decisions.

Most coloring books hand you a page and a hundred choices. Which palette, which markers, what goes where. Monochrome hands you one pen and shows you where the ink goes.

Monochrome by Maisie Bloom is a collection of one-pen coloring books for adults. Each page is a bold silhouette design in one of three styles (Paper-Cut, Stencil or Guided), and you bring it to life with a single pen.

The collection comes in three styles. The Paper-Cut books (Alice, Grimm, Odyssey and Nutcracker) are created in the style of Scherenschnitte, the old European craft of cutting pictures from a single sheet of black paper. The Stencil books (Japan and Moments) feature bold, standalone designs you can color light or dark. The Guided books, starting with Shadow Lives, mark every shape to fill with small dots.

It's made for anyone who wants to put down their phone, slow down, and actually finish something beautiful in an evening.

Life is hard. Coloring is easy.

Maisie Bloom