Book excerpt: Challenge your coloring skills with Color-by-Number: Dogs, an exciting new way to color by number. Take your love for coloring to the next level, while you relax, unwind, and stretch your artistic skills in a variety of mediums, including colored pencils, markers, and crayons. You'll start your coloring journey with a short introduction detailing a basic color-by-number guide with tips and examples of each medium and then you'll delve into over 30 unique, color-by-number templates that will allow and encourage you to color and create your own masterpieces. As designs become more complex, you'll have less numbers, which will provide you with an additional challenge and encourage you to choose your own colors and patterns to complete the design. Need some ideas to spark your creativity? This book is also includes a full-color reference gallery. With more than 30 color-by-number templates to color, beginners and intermediate artists of all ages will be mesmerized by this unique spin on the traditional color-by-number activity book.