Dark coloring books for adults

Beautiful pages
for the dark hours

Skullplate is the home of the Nocetta Gothic Collection from Nocetta Press: rose windows, skulls, dark florals and memento mori, drawn as intricate line art for grown-up colorists. The first two books, Vesper Glass and Catacomb Roses, are coming soon to Amazon.

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Volume I · In production

The first book

Cover of Vesper Glass: Gothic Rose Windows, a stained glass coloring book for adults, Volume I of the Nocetta Gothic Collection, with a rose-window design in red, violet and gold

Front cover · Nocetta Gothic Collection · Volume I

Nocetta Gothic Collection · Volume IPaperback · 8.5 × 11 inFor adults

Vesper Glass

Gothic Rose Windows: A Stained Glass Coloring Book for Adults with 48 Cathedral Designs

Tracery, lancets and quatrefoils drawn from the great rose windows of gothic cathedrals, turned into 48 original mandala designs for adult colorists.

  • 48 original designs
  • Single-sided pages with a blank back
  • Large 8.5 × 11 in format
  • Black line art, ready for your colors

PAPERBACK

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PRINTABLE PDF

$5.99 · instant download

All 48 designs as a print-at-home PDF, one design per page, in US Letter and A4. Instant download after checkout.

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Volume II · Coming soon

The second book

Cover of Catacomb Roses: a sugar skull coloring book for adults with 48 ornate gothic skull designs, Volume II of the Nocetta Gothic Collection, with a colorful sugar skull inside a ring of roses

Front cover · Nocetta Gothic Collection · Volume II

Nocetta Gothic Collection · Volume IIPaperback · 8.5 × 11 inFor adults

Catacomb Roses

A Sugar Skull Coloring Book for Adults with 48 Ornate Gothic Skull Designs

Where roses bloom, even the bones have their beauty.

Catacomb Roses features 48 original gothic sugar-skull designs, each filled with beautiful details and a touch of the macabre. From delicate flowers and winding vines to mysterious creatures and cathedral windows, there's something new to discover on every page.

  • Memento Mori: skulls adorned with hourglasses, candles, crowns, and keys
  • Night Creatures: ravens, serpents, moths, and bats
  • Garden of Bones: roses, blooms, and vines
  • Cathedral Shadows: gothic arches, lanterns, and stained glass
  • Single-sided 8.5 × 11 in pages with a blank back
  • A color-testing page to find your perfect shades

PAPERBACK

$11.99 on Amazon

Paperback · 8.5 × 11 in, printed and shipped by Amazon

Coming soon to Amazon

The Nocetta Gothic Collection

Four volumes in the studio

Vesper Glass opens the Nocetta Gothic Collection and Catacomb Roses follows. Each volume is its own world of dark line art. Titles for Volumes III and IV are working titles and may change as the series takes shape.

Ornaments for Volumes III and IV are placeholders · their real art comes later

Inside Volume I

Made for the coloring

Real pages from Vesper Glass: Gothic Rose Windows: rose windows, cathedral windows, façades and tracery. Tap a page to see it full size.

6 of the 48 designs in the book

Single-sided pages

Each design sits on its own page with a blank back, so markers are less likely to bleed onto the next one.

Intricate, not fiddly

Clean black outlines with a mix of large panes and fine tracery, so you can go bold or detailed.

Big 8.5 × 11 in format

Large designs with room to rest your hand.

Made for dark palettes

Deep reds, midnight blues and metallic gel pens look striking on these designs.

Cover of the free Vesper Glass sampler

FREE SAMPLER

Free printable sampler

Free pages from Volume I

Join the list and we'll email you the free Vesper Glass sampler: five printable rose-window and cathedral designs from Vesper Glass: Gothic Rose Windows, ready to print at home. You'll also hear when each new volume arrives.

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Our sister line

From our softer side: Nocetta Press

When you want a lighter page, Skullplate's parent press makes calm mandala coloring books for quiet evenings. The Nocetta Mandala Collection opens with Elemental Mandalas, on Amazon now.

Elemental Mandalas on Amazon Visit Nocetta Press

About Skullplate

Candlelight, a set of pencils, and a page with a little darkness in it.

Skullplate is the dark-art imprint of Nocetta Press, the small independent press behind the Nocetta Mandala Collection. It's for colorists who love gothic cathedrals, tattoo flash, Día de Muertos art and the quiet beauty of memento mori. Sugar-skull designs are made with respect for the tradition they come from.

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