Daily Archives: November 24, 2015

This is a really wonderful book of cat designs for the cat loving colorist. In addition to the huge amount of designs (I counted 98 different designs), the publishers have provided advice on how and with which tools to color. While they did not include colored samples showing their techniques, etc., it was still helpful to have some suggestions with this book. There are five artists involved in the designs for this book and it shows in the beautiful variety of cats. It’s nice to have the work of all of them in one single book instead of purchasing one book per each artist. Some of the designs have small intricate elements but for the most part, the book will be fairly easy and fun to color.

The book has a nice heavyweight cardboard cover (front and back) which makes for a great solid surface to color on. The designs are printed on both sides of the page and the paper is not perforated. The binding is sewn rather than glued, so removing it takes only a few snips with a small scissor on a few pages.

The designs merge into the binding on almost all pages but if you cut the pages out via the threads, you won’t be losing anything of importance to the design. There are 15 designs which span across 2 pages. All of these are wallpaper designs of repeating images or mirror image type designs which, in my book, don’t line up perfectly. I can easily treat those as single page designs and have two of them instead of one each. There are an additional 83 designs which are one page designs. A number of the one page designs are wallpaper style but the cats are so cute, I will enjoy coloring all of those, too.

All of my markers bleed-through on this paper thought my Staedler triplus fineliners fared the best with more of a shadow image on the back of the page. I could still identify the color, so it merely bled less than the others. My gel pens worked fine and my coloring pencils worked fantastic very smooth and creamy on this paper.