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Prima Marketing 655350591052 Prima Princesses Coloring Book

By: Prima Marketing

Rating: 5 of 5

This is my first coloring book by artist Faii Sosaikum and I am really so impressed with not only the beautiful designs but also with the outstanding quality of the publishing of this book. There are 24 coloring pages which includes 19 different princesses with flowers, two full page floral designs and three pages of bookmarks (four per page for a total of 12 bookmarks.) I really appreciate that the binding is at the top of the page so no one has to color/paint over the bump of the binding.

The designs are generally of a woman (princess) with flowers intertwined in her hair or about her. There is a nice level of detail with plenty of room for blending and special effects should you wish to do so with your projects. The women are all beautiful and the images have a nice bit of shading already in place. The line drawings are done in shades of gray on an ivory heavyweight and lightly textured watercolor paper.
I used Copic markers and Polychromos colored pencils for my first project. I was pleased to see that both work well with this paper.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my various coloring medium:
24 design pages including princesses, flowers and bookmarkers
Printed one side of the page
Paper is heavyweight, ivory, slightly textured, and non-perforated
Glue binding at the top of the page. The binding is similar to notepads and pages can be removed in whole by carefully pulling the page away from the binding.
Some designs reach up to the binding but I had no difficulty in coloring into that area.
The book opens fairly easily to a flat position for coloring/painting.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through ever so lightly. Some colors did not bleed through at all.
Water-based markers and other water-based medium, gel pens and India ink pens do not bleed through the paper.
Coloring pencils work well with this paper. Both wax and oil based pencils lay down good color, layer (same and different colors) and blend well using a pencil style blending stick. I was also able to get great results using liquid blending medium as well.
Even though very few types of coloring medium bled through the fantastic paper in this book, I still used a blotter page of card stock below my working page just in case to keep ink from marring the pages below.