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Net Galley
Daily Archives: September 30, 2016
More than 80 pages of Fun and Intricate Designs printed both sides of the page
Beautiful Days (A Pressure Releasing Coloring Book Making Life Blossom) (Chinese Edition)
By: Pu Yingmei
Rating: 5 of 5
Beautiful Days is the Chinese edition of a coloring book by Pu Yingmei. The wording within the designs are all in English; however, the covers are in Chinese. The information page states that the original version of the book was in published in South Korea in 2015 while the Chinese version was published in 2016.
The designs cover a wide range of popular subjects including animals, sewing, dolls, typewriters, paints, and even a type of hippie VW style van. There are many designs with lots of flowers and doodle art to allow the colorist the ability to re-image the designs with a wide ranging color palette.
The binding on this coloring book is sewn but it is different from what I have seen in US and UK sewn books. The stitching is in red and there is no binding cover on the edge you can see the folded edge of the paper and the stitching. Surprisingly, this works really well for getting the book to lay flat for coloring. No matter what page I turned to in the book, the book easily fell into a flat position.
The paper in this book is a cream tone and is heavyweight with a slight roughness to the paper. That provides a good tooth for gripping colored pencil pigment. I was able to test both oil and wax based pencils with good results. The pigment went on well with multiple layers of the same color, with layers of multiple colors and I was able to easily blend both types of pencils with a blending stick.
The designs are printed on both sides of the page, so I tested my other coloring medium and found that only alcohol-based markers bled through the page. I had no bleed through or shadows on the back of the page from water-based markers, India ink pens or gel pens.
Posted in Adult Color Books
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