Announcing the Free Clip Art Sourcebook: links to thousands of categorized free images, all in one place!
When I was a magazine art director about 100 years ago, we didn’t have electronic free clip art. That might seem incomprehensible to younger people, but we had to jump through all kinds of hoops just to get images onto the pages of a magazine. It involved X-Acto knives and sticky wax, which always seemed to be stuck to parts of me, instead of just to the back of the clip art.
I used to design a lot of small ads every month, many of which required some kind of artwork to make them stand out. That was when my love affair with clip art began. Many years later I created Vintage Holiday Crafts and started designing my own clip art because I couldn’t find the quality and type of clip art I wanted unless I paid for it. I assumed other people had the same problem.
But now I’ve developed a new problem: I have a lot of free contemporary and vintage clip art. My solution was to compile it into the Free Clip Art Sourcebook, which links to free clip art resources squirreled away all over my little online world. The images are categorized alphabetically by subject and located in one document, so everything is easy to find.
The Free Clip Art Sourcebook doesn’t just link to free clip art; it’s free to download too. So help yourself and have fun! Just click the blue button above.
You need the free Adobe Reader to view the Free Clip Art Sourcebook. You probably already have this software on your computer but if you need to download it, click here.
Here’s a little something to keep the kids out from underfoot while you prepare for the holidays. These full-page coloring pages have Christmas themes and will keep the little ones busy for hours.
Each coloring page has a holiday message on it, so your children can give them as greeting cards to friends and relatives. Glitter glue can be used on top of crayons, markers or paint to make the pages sparkle, but keep in mind that the results will be better if the pages are printed on card stock instead of paper.
Click each free Christmas coloring page to see a larger version you can download.
These coloring pages were created in Picnik, the free online graphics application. To learn how to make your own free coloring pages or clip art, read my Picnik tutorial.
Like our horse coloring pages, these 4th of July coloring pages are unusual. They were originally color vintage July 4th images that I transformed in Picnik. As a result, they don’t have the usual thick lines and white backgrounds of traditional coloring pages. But they do have something ordinary patriotic coloring pages don’t: a genuine sense of history. This would make them lovely to use for crafts, too, such as decoupage, card-making or scrapbooking. If these aren’t your cup of tea, though, see the more traditional patriotic coloring books available from Amazon at the bottom of this page.
Click one of the vintage July 4th coloring pages below to see the larger version (enlarged sizes vary).
Announcing the Free Clip Art Sourcebook: links to thousands of categorized free images, all in one place!
and sticky wax, which always seemed to be stuck to parts of me, instead of just to the back of the clip art.
