Charles M. Schulz Museum - Paint By Numbers...Though Charles M. Schulz always drew his comics in...
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1 Peanuts Paint By Numbers Full-color Sunday comics have been a long tradition in newspapers. Sundays were reserved for big, multi-panel comic strips printed in bright colors and featured in their own section known as the Sunday Funnies. Though Charles M. Schulz always drew his comics in black and white, he did have a hand in choosing the colors for his Sunday strips. Schulz sent his completed black-and-white Sunday strips to a local printing company to have a negative made. From the negative, a reproduction of the strip was made in a smaller size than the original. Schulz would hand-color this copy and have his secretary number the colors using a color chart, as shown in the example below. The newspaper syndicates used this numbering system to identify the correct color dye for the printing plates for the Sunday Funnies. Eventually, Schulz’s secretary took over the entire coloring and numbering process under his supervision. Right: the full-color Sunday strip first published on June 13, 1965. Left: An example of a newspaper color chart. Top: an original color-coded Sunday reproduction from the Schulz Museum’s collection.
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Peanuts Paint By NumbersFull-color Sunday comics have been a long tradition in newspapers. Sundays were reserved for big, multi-panel comic strips printed in bright colors and featured in their own section known as the Sunday Funnies. Though Charles M. Schulz always drew his comics in black and white, he did have a hand in choosing the colors for his Sunday strips.
Schulz sent his completed black-and-white Sunday strips to a local printing company to have a negative made. From the negative, a reproduction of the strip was made in a smaller size than the original. Schulz would hand-color this copy and have his secretary number the colors using a color chart, as shown in the example below. The newspaper syndicates used this numbering system to identify the correct color dye for the printing plates for the Sunday Funnies. Eventually, Schulz’s secretary took over the entire coloring and numbering process under his supervision.
Right: the full-color Sunday strip fi rst published on June 13, 1965.Left: An example of a newspaper color chart.
Top: an original color-coded Sunday reproduction from the Schulz Museum’s collection.
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Look at the black-and-white Sunday comic strip below and use the numbers on the corresponding color chart to determine the correct color for each item. Color the comic strip and share it with us online @schulzmuseum or #schulzmuseum. This strip was first published on October 28, 1973.
Now it’s your turn!
C3
C3
C3
C13C1
C1
C6
C4
C4
C4
C6
C6C6
C6
C10
C11
C8
C3
C2
C1
C12
C8
C9 C9 C9C3C3
C13
C13
C13
C9C10
C5
C3
C1C12
C12 C8 C3
C13
C1 C12
C1
C8
C3
C3C13
C11
C9
C1
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C1C3
C1C1
C1C8
C10
C6 C6
C8C10
C4
C10
C8
C8 C8
C8C8
C8
C1
C6
C1
C11 C11
C11
C11C1C1C8 C8C8
C3 C3 C3 C3
C8
C8
C13
C13
C8
C5
C8
C10
C10
C12C12
C12
C12 C12 C12
C1
C1
C5
C4 C6
C6
C2
C6
C1
C8
C11
C3
C13
C13
C13
C12
C8
Ready to practice again? Just like on the page before, use the numbers on the color chart to color the Peanuts Sunday strip below. Share it with us online @schulzmuseum or #schulzmuseum. This strip was first published on May 18, 1975.
Color the strip!
C3
C8
C1
C13
C1
C13C13
C8C5
