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Horses: An Adult Coloring Book with Beautiful Wild Horses, Romantic Country Scenes, and Relaxing Western Landscapes

By: Jade Summer

Rating: 5 of 5

The designs in this coloring book are of horses in many different scenarios. There are horses running free, horses with their female owners, racing horses and a good number of designs based on cowboys and the wild west. The designs are lovely and detailed with elaborate settings as well as beautifully drawn horses.

The designs are extremely detailed and have many intricate and small areas to color. There is a lot of shading by way of delicate crosshatch (lines) rather than a heavy use of black. Because of the intricacy of most designs, I don’t recommend this book for anyone with fine motor or vision issues.
While you can have access to .PDFs when you purchase this book, my review is based on the book as it is received from Amazon. That way you will know what the pages look like and how they accept color. I like that the publisher provides the digital version as well so you can choose the paper you wish to use and/or to color the pictures as many times as you choose.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium:
20 Horse designs with two copies each for a total of 40 coloring pages
Designs are printed on one side of the page
Paper is typical of CreateSpace: white, thin, slightly rough and non-perforated. The back of the page is printed black.
The designs do not merge into the binding. There is a heavy framing line at the outer edges of the design to give the project a more finished look, especially for framing.
Glue Binding (there is room to cut the pages out if you choose to do so.)
Though you cannot see the bleed-through easily due to the back of the page being printed in black, I recommend the use of a blotter page when working in this book. I use a page of card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper under my working page. It keeps seeping ink and marring dents from ruining the pages below.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page quickly.
Water-based markers bleed through in spots.
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on back of the page. India ink can bleed through if you apply heavily or multiple coats.
Coloring Pencils work well with this paper. I found that I could layers the same color for deeper pigment or multiple colors and I could blend easily using a blending stick. I tested both oil and wax based pencils. I also found that hard lead pencils leave dents through the paper.