Book excerpt: An innovative coloring book featuring 46 beautifully intricate line illustrations of famous masterpieces, coupled with illuminating short essays on the artists and their work. This is the first coloring book to take its inspiration from the most creative images imaginable-the greatest art of the world. Using carefully drawn line illustrations of famous masterpieces, the book takes the colorist on an inspiring world tour. Along the way you can try your hand at replicating the originals or applying slightly-or perhaps even entirely-different palettes. In the process you will also learn to appreciate the complexity and composition of these great works, aided by the brief, insightful commentaries. Masterpiece Collection is simultaneously relaxing, challenging, and informative: an exquisite combination that will appeal to everyone who's got the coloring bug, and to anyone on the verge of catching it.