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Hooray! The second collection of Princess Pups coloring pages is available for you to enjoy: Princess Pups Coloring Plaza! I wrapped up the final touches on the layout in mid-June and finally smashed that “publish” button at the end of June!

This book collects a nice helping of Princess Pups coloring pages (without the URL, mind you) printed one-sided in a handy book so there’s less chance for colors to bleed through to your next coloring adventure! It’s also got some rad activities made just for this book, like mazes, spot the differences, and some drawing prompts! Not only that, but we also get Space Pups activities and coloring pages like the one sampled below:

Somehow July slipped away from me, in part because I’ve been working on some other illustration projects on the side. The next planned coloring pages posted to the site will show up in the wee days of August. August? What happened, why is it almost August?

For a timelapse treat, here’s a 30 second timelapse of the creation of the cover art! Marvel at the doodles of ideas before I choose one to blow up and actually draw completely! See where I leave plain text notes about where the title text goes! After you’ve done that, go ahead and pick up a copy of Princess Pups Coloring Plaza for you or for a coloring friend.

It’s June! It showed up so fast, I didn’t have a chance to do coloring pages for May?! Where did the time go?

However, I’ve been working on the next printed coloring book for Princess Pups, which took a chunk of May from me! Here’s a work in progress version of the cover (which clearly shows I don’t have a title for this coloring book yet). Just like the first coloring book (which you can buy over here), the second will include extra goodies not on the website, like Spot the Differences, mazes and more! I’ll announce once it’s all finished up and available to buy. Hopefully I’ll have thought of a title for it by then?…

For June, the theme I went with was the ocean! All the pups are enjoying the ocean in multiple ways, start off with Pug Pup, Corgi Pup, and Fluff Pup sailing in a wee boat! It looks like an ocean critter is waving at them?

Meanwhile, Teacup Pup and Scruffy Pup have found a lovely area of the ocean to go snorkeling! Scruffy Pup has managed to find yet another hermit crab pal as Teacup Pup gets a friendly smile from a large fish! I looked much too long at snorkeling images while drawing this, and then kinda winged it as far as how they looked…cuz they’re on some puppies after all 😛

The scuba image was so active, it was the obvious choice for this month’s time lapse! If you watch carefully, you can see all the times I futzed with those snorkeling masks. Remember you can nab these coloring pages and many others (including other summer themed ones!) in the coloring pages section of the site!

This month, without actually intending it, there’s a happy accident of Corgi Pup being the Main Focus of new colors pages! She discovered some dinosaur bones in a recent comic, which was the inspiration for one of this month’s coloring pages. While TeaCup Pup is helping with the dig, it seems that Scruffy Pup is falling into old habits of chomping on fossil bones…

If you’re a big dinosaur fan, this summer we released When Dinosaurs Wrestled The Earth’s second printing, which is a super fun coloring book featuring dinosaur wrestlers! The line art is by my best friend, partner, and husband James Hornsby. I had a lot of fun coloring the front and back cover art for the book. Each page features some cheeky tidbit about a particular dinosaur and their wrestling gimmick. When I noticed we were running low on our original print run, I decided to reformat the book so that each image is on a single page, which reduces bleed-through from markers. You can buy a copy here.

This month’s second coloring page that also features Corgi Pup is surfing themed! Corgi Pup seems unsure of her decision to be on a surf board (I don’t blame her – I’ve never surfed and wouldn’t know what to do!). Scruffy Pup, meanwhile, seems to know what she’s doing?

I hope you enjoy coloring this month’s pages! You can download even more coloring pages over in the coloring pages section!

It’s time for a brand-new coloring page and this month we have Pug Pup and TeaCup Pup digging into the cookie jar! While TeaCup Pup is small enough to fit into a cookie jar, Pug Pup is happy to hang out nearby said cookie jar and just keep pluckin’ cookies from the jar with a paw.

Also, as promised earlier this month, I have a free downloadable coloring page from Princess Pups Coloring Party that I released earlier this month! This coloring page is of the cover art for the still-pretty-dang-new Princess Pups Coloring Party coloring and activity book! I added it as the first page for the new coloring book as I was really happy with how it turned out. The Pups love to color!

If you haven’t had a chance to pick up a copy of the new book. you can order it on Amazon or buy a copy from me in person if you find me at an event. Like a lot of swell people did when I was a vendor at GeekCraft Expo last week, which is a super cool show for buying handmade geeky things.

Besides selling comics and coloring books with me and my husband’s artwork, I’ve been slowly designing and crocheting plush versions of Princess Pups and sold a TeaCup Pup to a super happy customer. I also crochet DINOSAUR WRESTLERS which were happily picked up by a lot of dinosaur fans.

I pre-registered for the 2023 GeekCraft Expo as well. So if you weren’t in the St. Louis area for this year’s GeekCraft Expo, you can find me next year 🙂