Here is where paint by numbers kits offer a solution. These packs include a pre-drawn canvas featuring numbered areas. Each number corresponds to a unique paint color.

Have you ever wanted to join an art class or paint in your free time, but the intimidation of an empty white canvas stopped you? Try using a paint-by-number kit. These kits include outlined ...

Paint-by-numbers started out decades ago as a product; now it is heading back in that direction. I just put it through my own filter.

The midcentury paint-by-number craze revealed a belief that with enough curiosity, and the ability to follow basic directions, anyone can be an artist.

Thank Dan Robbins for the Paint-by-Number Craze Robbins, who died this month at 93, came up with the kits that let millions of people try their hand at painting ...

Jessica Huynh, top, and Alana Roecker brush in the colors of a paint-by-number canvas of the original World Trade Center towers, at a news conference, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 in New York.