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Daily Archives: September 2, 2017
41 Beautiful Sirens of the Sea (includes one double size poster design) – printed one side of the page
Sirena : Colorful Dream of Mermaids and Seashells – Artist Edition Adult Coloring Book + 1 mini poster, spiral bound, single sided, perforated pages, toothy paper
By: Mardel Rubio
Rating: 5 of 5
I will include both a silent flip-through video of the entire book as well as some sample photos so you can see if this coloring book will suit your needs.
I am a fan of Mardel Rubio’s coloring designs. In this coloring book, he has left behind his doodle creatures and presents beautiful mermaids as Sirens of the sea. His mermaids has a slight Asian flair to them, not only in looks but in the clothing and accoutrements which surround them. The designs are detailed and some have intricate and small areas to color.
While most of the designs are of mermaids, there are some merman designs included as well. Most of the pages are black line designs on white; however, some have black printed backgrounds. There is a fairly heavy use of black on some designs (especially on the hair of the mermaids). You are still able to color the hair as you wish; however the accent color will be black.
This coloring book has been published in a format that sets a high bar for other publishers to emulate. Not only is the paper a good heavy weight, it also has great tooth, is printed one-sided, has excellent perforations and, best of all, has a covered spiral binding that makes opening and laying this book flat a breeze.
This is what I found in coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper
41 Mermaid designs including one poster page that is a double size fold-out page.
Printed on one side of the page
Paper is white, medium/heavy weight, rough with excellent tooth and perforated pages
Binding is spiral with the cover protecting the spiral.
The book lays flat in the open position for ease of coloring.
The designs stop short of the perforations and removing pages is very easy if you wish to do so. There are unfinished elements at all edges of the page
Alcohol based markers bleed through this paper. If you use this coloring medium, I highly suggest that you either remove pages before coloring, or as I do, use card stock or several sheets of paper as a blotter below the working page. That will keep the pages or the surface below from being marred.
Water based markers, India ink pens and gel pens do not bleed through the paper though some left the slight shadow of the back of the page.
Coloring pencils extremely worked well. The paper is definitely rough to the touch and has excellent tooth for pencils. Both oil and wax based pencils worked very well for providing good pigment. I was able to layer the same color for deeper tones, layer multiple colors and to blend easily using a pencil style blending stick as well as wet blending medium for excellent results.
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