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Harrison Fisher (1877 - 1934) painted lovely watercolor pictures. They are in the public domain & vetted by Wiki Med I did color by number paintings as a child, so, what if you took the 'color-by-number' approach to coloring grayscale? You could even lightly write numbers on the coloring page or just write them on another piece of paper. NOW...1. Look at the picture.2. Note how many different areas of different grays are there.3. Choose your palette. I like to choose at least 3 colors that are close to one another to for each section of the picture, plus a blending color or colored pencil blenders for oil based pencils & wax based pencils. I like white, but there many other options. Remember that If you put too many colors in the picture, it could look too 'busy'. You are already using several colors in each 'one-color' area, so there'll be plenty of color on your picture!4. ENJOY SIMPLE! Light colors over light grays, medium for medium rays, darks over the dark gray & black, so use your darker to darkest colors. 5. Work with light pressure to create light layers, color until you have the color intensity you want If you press too hard doing layers, you may burnish the paper so that it will take no more color. So, color in light layers even over dark areas.6. When you have BLACK in your picture, it's perfectly OK to just leave the black there. It makes your colors 'POP' When you use other very dark colors over black/dark grays in your pictures, the depth of your colored picture is now infused with rich color. The dark colors you use will seem 'not black' in different lighting.I think you'll be pleased with your results. ENJOY the ADVENTURE!