It’s easy to spend a small fortune on coloring books to amuse your kids (or yourself). We wanted to save you some money that could otherwise be spent on on a summertime getaway, so we reached out to five of our favorite DC artists and asked them to create custom coloring pages for us to give away.
We hope you enjoy being creative with these charming vignettes. And we’d love to see what you come up with! Please tag @washingtonianmag on Instagram so we can all admire your work.
Nevin Martell is a food, travel, and foraging writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Men’s Journal, Fortune, Travel + Leisure, The Daily Beast, BBC, and many other publications. He is author of eight books, including Red Truck Bakery Cookbook: Gold-Standard Recipes from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery, Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip, and The Founding Farmers Cookbook: 100 Recipes From the Restaurant Owned by American Family Farmers. When he isn’t working, he loves spending time with his son, foraging for wild foods, and traveling.