Daily Archives: January 10, 2016

This is a fun book of designs which center on the ocean. There is everything from fish to mermaids to light houses (and there is even a bear which I don’t quite understand but then again, I don’t know a lot about the habits of bears!) What I really like about the designs is that while they have a good amount of detail, the designs are open and easy to color. This is a great book for someone who loves the sea but can’t color in some of the other books which have teeny tiny details. A lot of the sea animals have doodle style designs within their outlines to give the colorist a lot of opportunity to use many colors in their project.

All of the designs stop well before the binding. The designs are printed on one side of thin white non-perforated paper that is typical for books published by CreateSpace. The binding is glued but there is plenty of room for you to cut a page out if you choose to do so. All of the designs have a framing line around the outside. I really like this as it gives me a natural stopping point, saves ink/pencil, and also gives me a more finished looking project when I color.

All of my markers bleed through and my gel pens either bleed through or leave a distinct shadow on the back of the page. My coloring pencils work well with the paper. I will use a piece of chipboard or heavy paper behind the page I am working on so I don’t ruin the following page with leaking ink.

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