Daily Archives: February 24, 2016

The designs are full page (edge-to-edge) and many of them are in what I call wallpaper style a design that repeats its elements over and over again. There are a few pages which not in this style, so I appreciate the different styles. Many of the designs are complex and detailed and several have intricate and small details that may be difficult for individuals with fine motor or vision issues.

The 24 floral designs and images in this book are licensed from AE Publications Ltd./Shutterstock, Inc. That may mean that you will have seen some of these images before in other books. I haven’t seen these particular designs before, so they were new to me It is a bit surprising to me that Leisure Arts is licensing images as they have a huge group of designers in other crafts so I would expect that they would do something similar with adult coloring books. Perhaps that will happen in the future.

The designs are printed on one side of the white perforated paper. The binding is stapled rather than glued or sewn. You can easily release the pages all at once by removing the staples but I prefer to remove pages one at a time at the perforations. I can easily get the book to lay flat by opening and pushing down on the binding. All of the images merge into the binding through the perforations. Nothing of importance will be lost if you remove the designs from the book.

All of my markers (fine, ultra-fine, and brush) bled through the paper easily. My gel pens and India ink artist pens either bled through or left color shadows at the back of the page. My coloring pencils worked exceptionally well with this paper. All soft and hard lead pencils went on thick and creamy and I was able to easily blend both types of pencils. If you want to keep the book complete and use some of the medium that bleed through, put a blotter page under the page you are working on to keep the ink from seeping through. Otherwise, you can simply remove each page from the book at the perforations. In the comments section below,

These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:

Markers: 1) alcohol-based Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) Bic Mark-its (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, and Staedler triplus fineliners

India Ink: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens (brush tip)

Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo in the following sizes – 0.28/0.38/0.5/1.0 and Tekwriter

Coloring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castell Polychromos