Daily Archives: April 22, 2016

This is my third coloring book by Cindy Elsharouni and my second one that is devoted to horses. The horses are once again beautifully and elegantly hand-drawn. They can be realistically drawn or have lots of doodle artwork within them to allow me to play with various colors. This book has a few more designs with a young girl in them along with her horse rather than just the animal.

I like the idea of colorful horses, so for my first two projects I decided to have fun. In one design, I colored the horses somewhat realistically with lots of colorful emblems and in the second design, I decided to go all out with imaginary horse colors. I like using my Tombow brush end water-based markers with Ms. Elsharouni’s artwork. Flowing brushwork appeals to me along with the free-flowing designs of these horses.

This is what I found in the coloring book:

40 Horse Designs with additional thumbnails at the front of the book.
Designs are printed on thin white, slightly rough non-perforated paper typical of CreateSpace coloring books
Some designs merge into the binding area
Glue Binding
Alcohol and water-based markers bleed through the page
Gel pens and India ink pens leave color shadows on back of the page
Coloring pencils work well: soft lead lay down color, layer, and blend well; hard lead dent the back of the page but lay down good color

I use a piece of card stock as a blotter page below the page that I am working on. It keeps ink from seeping through and dents from marring the page below.