Daily Archives: February 5, 2016

When I find a new (to me) artist in coloring books, I try to do my research on their artwork. When I first saw this book by Rudy Fig, I was able to find a number of examples of her work and was intrigued enough to purchase the book. While much of the artwork I found elsewhere had doll-like young ladies only partially clothed, I was pleased to find that was not the case with this book. It means it gets to be in the G rated pile of coloring books in my house for kids of all ages to color if they wish. Had it been otherwise, it would have been for me alone and possibly difficult to post photos on Amazon.

Having said all of that, I did really like her artwork and I also like the coloring book form. It comes across as fun and magical a land where there are planets that look like kitty cat heads and where little girls have huge doll-like eyes. The designs range from super cute to simply adorable. They call for lots of interesting color combinations which will make for coloring in this book a ton of fun.

The designs in this book are printed on one side of the non-perforated thin white page. Most of the designs stop before the binding; however, I did find six that merged into the binding. The binding is glued rather than sewn. Cutting out those six pages will probably result in losing a small portion of the design but nothing integral to it. As I was able to break the spine and get the book to lay flat, I probably will not be cutting pages out of this book.

All of my markers (water and alcohol-based) bleed through and my gel pens and India ink artist pens leave a distinct shadow on the back of the page. My coloring pencils work well with the paper. I will use a blotter page (chipboard, card stock, heavier weight paper, etc.) below the page I am working on to keep the design below from being ruined. I will list, in the comments section below, the coloring medium I used to test this book.