Daily Archives: May 7, 2017

Colors of the Seasons Color by Number Coloring Art

By: Product Concept Mfg Inc.

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a lovely color-by-number coloring book which has Bible Scripture quotes on each of the design pages. In some cases, the emphasis is on the quote and it is integrated into the design while on others, the quote is simply placed at the bottom of the page. The picture are really lovely but do not reflect the wording of the quotes.

The Scripture is from both Old and New Testaments and cites are provided; however, the publisher did not provide which a listing of translations the quotes were taken from. They did not give any credits for artists.
The designs are quite detailed and a few have intricate spots to color. The designs are cut off on all sides, so you will be coloring unfinished elements. A simple fix for this is to size down the image a bit and put a framing line around the design but that was not done in this case. A nice touch is that on the back of the book, there is a spot to sign and date your work. The color key is on the back of the book.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper.
24 hand-drawn designs of various subjects. Bible Scripture is included on each page.
Printed on one side of the page
Paper is white, medium/light weight, slightly smooth and perforated
Staple Bound
Designs cross over the perforations but nothing essential to the design is lost if you remove a page from the book
All wet medium: markers (alcohol and water-based), India ink pens an gel pens bleed through the paper to some extent. I suggest using a blotter page under your working page or removing the page from the book before coloring. That will keep ink from leaking through and damaging the rest of the book.
Colored pencils worked well with this book. I was able to blend, layer the same and multiple colors using both oil and wax-based pencils.