BY SUMMER BLOCK KUMAR
In the age of digital cameras, it’s not uncommon to come home from vacation with hundreds, even thousands, of photos. Instead of asking all your friends to sit through a slideshow, try this new way to share your trip highlights.
Turning your vacation photos — or any digital images — into a themed coloring book creates an easy souvenir gift for your friends or travel companions. Bundle your outlined adventures together with crayons or colored pencils, and observe whether your friends are the type that color within the lines or go their own way. Or give children the coloring books in advance as a sneak preview of their vacation destination.
Images that work best have strong, clean lines, simple geometric shapes, and high contrast. Architectural photos make great coloring book pages, while human portraits might need a little more tweaking.
Summer Block Kumar is a writer and contributor to artnet, Alarm, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek China edition, Small Spiral Notebook, Identity Theory, and many other publications. Her work can be found at summerblock.com.
Photography by Dev Kumar
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