Nola R Hintzel

Old Southwest Missouri Nola R Hintzel

Do you enjoy historic architecture, old buildings, or discovering abandoned structures such as barns and vintage gas pumps? Are you inspired by nostalgia? If you found yourself in an old town square that still had cobblestone streets and buildings with arched windows or doorways, would you want to walk through that town square to get a closer look at the interesting construction? To touch the coolness of the bricks that are more than 100 years old? These are the types of buildings and structures you will find in this very unique coloring book: rustic images with a surreal quality with building bricks that blend into each other, sidewalks that appear cracked from aged concrete, and rickety metal stairs that crawl up the sides of the old structures, these stairs serving as fire escapes. The images in this grayscale coloring book are a collection of 37 very special images that encompass the qualities just described.

It was a series of day trips into Southern Missouri that inspired this artist/photographer to create Old Southwest Missouri, an unusual and definitely different grayscale coloring book. It is earthy and realistic, and attempts to capture the essence of the historic, the old, the forgotten, and the past.