Free Coloring Pages and Comics!
For special events, holidays, and everyday fun
I love making art that inspires you to make art. Pages are often created to support local nonprofits and community groups, for engagement at comic cons & festivals.
The Coloring Cause (2025)
Beyond releasing new designs, the latest development has been to expand on the coloring experience itself.
Already, I would give away pages within comic cons & community art spaces, and personally while on-the-go.
Now I often carry a portable coloring box that can be activated anywhere/time, and have them stationed at Everyone Comics and elsewhere in LIC/Astoria Queens (currently checking status) where you can enjoy them any day when visiting these local businesses!
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While I love to make them freely available, receiving funding and various support will help me assemble, maintain, and expand upon this initiative that allows for anyone to instantly tap into their creativity.
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-Fall Fun -
NEW 2025: Adapted previous pumpkin
pages to read "Fall Fun" so they can stay relevant all season, related yet not tied to Halloween, useful for any fairs & festivals.
(Download pdf: Full size / 2 set / 4 set)
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Made versions that also include tags for: Freelancers Union - available at their hub
Peace by Piece - used in local street fair Culture Lab LIC - at gallery desk Full x2 x4
Street Lab.org - for Trick Or Streets Full x2 x4
A+ Art Gallery & Framing - store giveaway
and continuing with Everyone Comics, etc.
(For requests, contact ellen.sted@gmail)
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Next: Hoping to revive/expand designs with dog costumes, fall leaves, and fun prompts like "write a spooky haiku". Excited to offer more collaborations with schools, nonprofits and local businesses. Online, I could feature the creative process, and showcase a gallery of community coloring. To help this happen, you can provide funding via Venmo, PayPal, ongoing Patreon, or other forms of Support.
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Locally in NYC, I work with art/community organizations hosting coloring tables. Available for hire, open to barter,
volunteering if sponsored.
Download in full size, 2set, 4set
or enjoy coloring at the next event!​
- KCC returns Saturday, Dec.13th 2025 -
Shining Like A Star!
Special coloring page premiered at Kids Comic Con 2024 and became the featured page in events of 2025.
Center space can be colored freely, or respond creatively to the prompt:
"How can you be kind today?"
To shine a light in the night...
(drafting a story on Vocal.media to describe inspiration & journey)
Classic Coloring Pages
Early designs were the result of doing art workshops + having an exhibitor table at Kids Comic Con and similar activities, where I wanted an easy & affordable giveaway item for kids to immediately engage with.
These ones are little puns - bookworm and snail mail.
Eventually, I combined them into 1 page (cut in half)
for twice the fun! Click pic to download.
Free Comic Book Day
This mini-book/zine was timed for Free Comic Book Day (May 6, 2023) and featured
my activities with the non-profit Street Lab. Now I continue to give it away!
Previously & since, aiming for a new FCBD release each year.
>> Click here to read more and download <<
Holiday season!
Wreaths can be decorated with different colors.
Also put pictures, special words, or stories inside!
While seeking a seasonal update to the Halloween pumpkins, these wreaths imply Christmas but can have fall or wintery themes, various color schemes.
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They premiered at the opening reception of a holiday art exhibit, were shared with a library's adult coloring group, kids at church, holiday parties, and beside my display of live sketches at a holiday-themed performing arts night.
Coloring page continued to be available in person, especially at Street Lab's WRITE activity Wednesdays,
December 20th & 27th (2023) at Pier 57 in Manhattan. Practice calligraphy or recount a holiday memory!
Created for Earth Day 2022 in collaboration with
The Blue Bus Project art workshops, but left undated
so it can be used for all future Earth Day activities.
Designed a customized coloring page for my workshop in a community garden with the City Artist Corps grant,
Summer/Fall 2021 > Read more <
Click an image to download PDF, then print or digitally color.
These pictures are provided for personal use, to enjoy at home with family and friends.
Please send a request for any commercial or public/event use.
Email photos of your completed
creations to possibly post online!
(ellen.sted at gmail.com)
or tag on Insta @ EllesaurArts
Draw your own Jack-o-lantern face!
From the Fall Festival at Forest Park 2021, in collaboration with The Blue Bus Project, or a blank template for anyone/anywhere.
(Culture Lab 2-set)
Save PDF with one, two, or four per page
(Made a similar page a few years prior,
for the Connection Church neighborhood party where I hosted a coloring table.
Two versions: blank and pre-drawn face)
more art and info to come...
featuring past, ongoing & future coloring endeavors!
(like this t-shirt template & bottle for a POP ART lesson)
Open Studios of May 2024, I set up
a coloring table
in the hallway for visitors to enjoy,
along with a new portfolio showing all these designs!
Looking for Activity Ideas?
During the COVID lockdown, I started an info page of free/fun online activities for kids & all ages. Much is still relevant for days indoors,
when stuck at home, or sparking creative inspiration. Click here!
Includes a recording from the KCC Morning Show by Kids Comic Con, with my livestream drawing demo while interviewed by a puppet!
