Daily Archives: August 1, 2016

Color Crush: An Adult Coloring Book, Premium Edition

By: Paige Tate Select

Rating: 5 of 5

This is the premium edition of Color Crush. I don’t own the original version on the thinner paper so I cannot compare it specifically; however, I do own some of the other coloring books by this publisher in the old-style paper. There is a huge difference in the quality and the thickness of the paper. The Premium version is much thicker and has perforated pages as well. The larger designs will fit an 8 x 10 inch frame and the smaller designs will fit a 5 x 7 inch frame.

The design images are licensed via Shutterstock. I’m not sure if Paige Tate & Co. added the wording or if that was part of the licensed product. In any case, the words fit well with the designs.

The book is filled with inspirational messages, such as: Dream Big, Get it Girl, Strut Your Stuff and much more. The designs are cute and, in the larger size, don’t have tiny spaces to color. The smaller, sized-down images do have smaller spaces, so you might need to use ultra-fine markers and pens and sharp pointed pencils to finish those designs.

This style of design is usually a fairly quick project for me to color. The designs are fairly easy to color and the words take the prominent place in the design. I like to color this style of design as a quick gift for someone. It’s really nice that these fit well in standard size frames for gift-giving.

This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium. In the comments section below, I will include a list of the coloring medium that I used for testing this book and which I usually use for most of my coloring as well.

28 Full Page and 18 smaller inspirational message designs

Printed on one side of perforated, white, slightly rough medium weight paper

Designs do not merge into the binding area

Glue Binding

Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper. I use a blotter page of card stock or heavyweight paper when using this style of marker. It keeps ink from seeping through and ruining the next design. You can also simply remove the design at the perforations prior to coloring.

Water-based markers left shadows of color on the back of the page

Gel pens and India ink pens left indistinct shadows on the back of the page

Coloring pencils work well with the paper. Both oil and wax based pencils work equally well providing good color, layering (both same and different colors) and blending well with a pencil style blending stick.

You should note that the smaller format designs are on a perforated page; however, you will need to cut the two apart for separate use (cutting line is included.)

I was provided a free copy of this coloring book for test and review purposes.