Book 1
Mara at Home
Forty large-print coloring pages of one Black woman at home, drawn in African patterns with natural hair, locs and braids. Nothing pre-shaded. Book One of The Afrohemian Collection.
The Afrohemian Collection
Her skin is
yours to choose.
Somewhere in a stack of coloring books there is a Black woman with a nose too narrow and lips too thin, her hair already filled in solid black so there is nothing left for you to decide. This is not that.
What makes it different
Nothing has been decided for you.
This is a detailed collection, not a bold and easy one: patterned textiles, braids and coils drawn strand by strand. It stays large print and single-sided.
No gray on her skin
Skin is left completely open. Whatever brown you reach for is the right one, and it will not be fighting a layer of shading somebody else put there first.
Hair drawn as open shapes
Every coil, loc, braid and twist is a large open shape rather than a solid black mass, so you can color it, highlight it, or leave it pale.
African pattern throughout
Adire indigo and bogolan mudcloth, rattan chairs, beaded curtains, woven baskets and monstera leaves. The patterns are the point, not the background.
Book two
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Questions about
the collection
What does Afrohemian mean?
It is the look this collection is built around: African textiles and patterns meeting relaxed, plant-filled bohemian interiors. Adire indigo, bogolan mudcloth, rattan chairs, beaded curtains, woven baskets and monstera leaves.
Why does it matter that nothing is pre-shaded?
Most coloring books fill in Black hair as solid black and add gray shading to skin, which decides those choices before you open the book. In The Afrohemian Collection every shape is left open, so the skin tone, the hair color and the light are all yours to choose.
How many books are in the collection?
Mara at Home is Book One. More books following Mara are planned, each in the same large-print, single-sided, nothing-pre-shaded format.