The Enchanted Forest

Description

Step through the trees into a wood where the light comes down in shafts.

Some evenings you just need somewhere green to go. Open this book, pick up your pencils, and walk into an old forest — moss-carpeted clearings, waterfalls spilling through roots, toadstools taller than the ferns, and a fox on a fallen log.

Inside you'll find 60 original full-page fantasy scenes, every one a complete world rather than a floating object on an empty page.

Each page has foreground detail, one clear subject in the middle and a receding background, drawn with clean outlines and open shapes to color. It's detailed enough to be absorbing and open enough to be relaxing. For a gentler cottagecore page, try The Honeywick Collection or The Cozy Cottage Collection.

What you’ll color in The Enchanted Forest

• Ancient oaks, hollow trunks, and stairs worn into heartwood
• Waterfalls, stepping-stone ponds, and streams under tangled roots
• Toadstool rings, fern hollows, and bluebell slopes
• Lantern-lit crossroads and tiny doors set into mossy bark
• Deer, foxes, owls, and hedgehogs going quietly about their business
• Firefly meadows, moonlit groves, and mist at first light

All 60 pages

Every design is different. Here’s the whole book, page by page:

1. A moss-carpeted clearing where a ring of ancient oaks leans over a glowing spring
2. A stone bridge wrapped in ivy crossing a fern-lined forest stream
3. The hollow interior of a giant oak with a stair worn into its golden heartwood
4. A firefly meadow at dusk on the eastern edge of the wood
5. A waterfall pouring through the exposed roots of a cliff-top tree
6. Round stepping stones crossing a shallow woodland pond
7. A fallen giant trunk bridging a ravine, its bark tiered with shelf fungi
8. A shaft of sunlight falling into a deep fern hollow
9. A briar tunnel arching over an old deer trail
10. A lily pond ringed with reeds and hovering dragonflies
11. A bluebell slope beneath a stand of white birches
12. A tiny round door set into the base of a mossy trunk
13. A lantern-hung crossroads where three forest paths meet
14. An owl's roost in a split oak above a bramble thicket
15. A crystal-lined grotto behind a curtain of falling water
16. A fox stepping onto a fallen log across a narrow brook
17. A mushroom ring in a hollow where mist gathers at dawn
18. A timber shelter built into the crook of an enormous beech
19. A standing runestone half-swallowed by ivy and fern
20. A stag drinking at the shallow head of a spring
21. An autumn glade knee-deep in fallen leaves
22. A dew-strung spider web spanning two saplings at first light
23. A wild bee hollow humming in a sun-warmed clearing
24. A moonlit grove where the canopy opens straight to the sky
25. A bank of foxgloves along the edge of a sunken lane
26. A rabbit warren under the roots of a hillside oak
27. A wooden footbridge over a stream crowded with water lilies
28. A hedgehog crossing a carpet of beech mast and acorns
29. A berry thicket heavy with fruit at the wood's edge
30. A pine hollow floored with needles and low blue shadow
31. A cascade of small falls stepping down a mossy gorge
32. An ancient yew with a hollow wide enough to walk through
33. A butterfly-crowded meadow of thistle and cornflower
34. A snow-quiet forest path between frosted pines
35. A lantern-lit stair climbing a root-tangled bank
36. A still pool reflecting the entire canopy overhead
37. A hillside of ferns beneath a leaning stand of birches
38. An owl and a fox meeting on a moonlit forest road
39. A mossy stone stair descending into a fern-filled dell
40. A stream running beneath a lattice of exposed roots
41. A cluster of giant toadstools standing taller than the ferns around them
42. A birdsong-filled thicket of hawthorn in full flower
43. A wind-bent tree on a bluff above the treetops
44. A woodland spring bubbling up through pale gravel
45. A lightning-split oak sprouting new green shoots
46. A family of deer bedded down in tall summer grass
47. An ivy-swallowed gatepost marking a forgotten boundary
48. A hollow log crossing a mossy stream, its ends fringed with fungi
49. A night meadow lit by drifting fireflies and a low moon
50. A bramble arch heavy with blackberries over a narrow track
51. An amethyst seam glinting in a mossy rock face
52. A grove of tall straight beech trunks over a leaf-strewn floor
53. A frozen stream threading between snow-hooded stones
54. A wildflower bank sloping down to a slow green river
55. Dawn mist lying low between the trunks
56. A squirrel's larder in a knot-holed maple
57. A windfall of fruit beneath a wild orchard tree
58. A fern-choked culvert under an old woodland wall
59. A rope of vines swinging above a green swimming hole
60. The forest edge at sunset where meadow meets trees

Specifications

How detailed is it?

Medium detail: broad trunks, ferns and canopy light leave plenty of open areas, while the bark, leaves and toadstool rings add fine linework. The animal and doorway pages are the simplest; the firefly meadows and mossy groves take longest.

The Enchanted Forest suits adults and teens alike — a calm, screen-free hour for fantasy readers, gamers, and anyone who colors to unwind. Because it’s a download, you can print the pages and give them in a folder, or send the file to someone who prints at home.

More from The Emberwilde Collection

The Enchanted Forest is book 1 of the ten-book The Emberwilde Collection. It’s also part of The Complete Emberwilde Collection, all ten books for $39.99. Not sure yet? Print the free sampler: one page from every book.

Looking for more like this? See all our fantasy coloring pages.

Good to know

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