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This is a wonderful adult coloring book for Christians. The artist, Pamela Thayer, has taken verses from the both the Old and New Testament of the King James Version and has drawn her visual interpretation of them in lovely line drawings that will be a joy to color.

The name of the book really says it all these are visual scriptures. The actual scripture which inspired the drawing is printed as well as cited below. It is not really part of the design but something to meditate on as you spend your time coloring. Ms. Thayer provides a little background information about her designs on the title page and I must say that I really appreciated her thoughts. Just looking through the book brought my emotions to the foreground. My plan is to color one of these designs every week and meditate on the the scripture of the page throughout the rest of the week. It won’t last the whole year but it will come close.

The book is printed on one side of non-perforated white paper. Many of the designs have a frame around the design to provide me, as a colorist, an ending point. I really like when this is done as I am not left hanging with open elements that I somehow have to finish without an edge. The designs that do not have the frame have definite stopping points on all parts of the line drawing. The designs stop well before the glued bound edge. You can remove pages if you wish with a penknife but I was able to break the binding enough to get the book to lie flat.

All of my markers and gel pens leaked through the paper. My colored pencils worked well with the paper. If I am going to use markers and gel pens (which I will), I will put card stock or chipboard or other heavyweight paper behind the page I am working on to keep ink from seeping further and ruining other pages.

I really appreciate the new move of Christian adult coloring books. That the scripture is taken from the King James Version of the Bible takes me back to my youth when that was the version from which I first learned about Christ and did my Sunday School memory work.

This last note is more for the artist and publisher and I am going to try to start including this at the bottom of my reviews from this point forward:

This book could physically have been improved by a adding perforated pages to make it easy to remove a page. The paper grade could have been improved but as you printed one-sided, the grade of paper used works well if the colorist remembers to put a page behind their work.