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Harrison Fisher (1877 - 1934) painted lovely watercolor pictures. They are in the public domain & vetted by Wiki Media Commons. I always wanted to become a painter, but the only people I saw paint were my Father & Grandfather when they painted our house. I told anyone who asked the 'what do you want to be when you grow up', I told them I wanted to turn into a man & paint a house. I plagued my Mother by asking if I could have a bucket of water & a regular BIG paintbrush to paint the house'. I found that 'painting the house this way, I was removing dust & dirt from the lower parts of the house. I was 4-5 so I was too short to 'paint' anything much above my reach. NO ladders allowed' for a 5 year old & my 3 year old sister. Finally, along came COLOR BY NUMBER!! 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. Here's a bit on coloring grayscale: 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 th