Daily Archives: August 17, 2016

Creative Haven Dream Birds Coloring Book (Adult Coloring)

By: Miryam Adatto

Rating: 5 of 5

I own several coloring books by Miryam Adatto. Each new book is an adventure into her signature abstract view of design. My previous books were landscapes and beautiful abstract faces, so I was very interested to see her take on birds. This is not a book of realistically drawn birds, it is lovely abstract view of birds in various settings, including flowers, plant life and even surrounded by hearts.

The birds in the book are not all familiar to me, but I did recognize owls, a peacock, an egret, a flamingo, ducks, geese, a turkey and an eagle among them. The way the designs are formed invites the colorist to use a multitude of colors and to experiment with unusual concepts in her imaginative world.

This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium. I will list the coloring medium I test and color with in the comments section below.

31 Highly imaginative and abstract designs of birds

Printed one side of the page

Paper is Creative Haven’s typical great quality, it is white, medium weight, slightly smooth and has perforated pages.

Glue Binding but you can remove pages at the perforation easily

The designs stop well before the perforations

Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper

Water-based markers can bleed through in spots on the back of the page

Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page. India ink pens can bleed through in small spots if you apply heavily with multiple layers.
Coloring pencils work well with this paper. I was able to use both wax and oil based pencils equally well. They lay down good color, layer the same color and multiple colors and blend easily using a pencil style blender. Hard lead pencils, like Verithins, leave dents on the back of the page.

I either use a blotter page under my working page or I remove pages from the book to color. I like card stock for my blotter page but a couple of sheets of heavyweight paper works as well.