Daily Archives: November 13, 2015

These designs are aptly named Serenity Swirls. You are hard pressed to find a straight line or a sharp corner in them. They are perfect for times when you just want to go with the flow while coloring. Really coloring just for the sake of letting your mind release whatever has been troubling it. I find that when I color and especially when I color something so flowing, I am able to put my mind only on where my pen, marker, or pencils is going next. In that sense, I find it a great stress reliever.

While some of the designs have floral and other plant life incorporated into them, for the most part, the swirls are simply organic type shapes versus anything one might see in reality.

The designs are printed on one side of a nice medium weight non-perforated paper. The binding is glued rather than sewn but all of the designs stop well before the bound edge, so you can easily cut them out if you choose to do so without losing any part of the design. The designs, for the most part, have finished elements at the outer edge or, in a few cases, have a frame around the designs so that there is a designated stopping point. I really appreciate both of these techniques as it gives my work a stopping point and a more finished look once I am done coloring.

All of my markers seeped through the page. My gel pens left a shadow on the backside of the page. My coloring pencils worked well with this grade of paper. If I choose to use anything other than pencils, I will put a heavyweight paper or chipboard under the page I am working on to keep any ink from damaging the rest of the book.