Daily Archives: October 26, 2017

This is another lovely coloring book of designs based on the Christmas/winter artwork of Margaret Tarrant. For the most part, the designs have been rendered in line drawings very well. There are a number; however, which are too simplistic (especially those of snowmen) and could have had more detail added.

Unlike the fairies book (which was brown lines on white paper), this coloring book is done with green lines on white paper. Perhaps to show the holiday spirit. The line drawings are on the right side of the page and a full color image of the artwork is shown on the facing left side of the page.

While some of the designs are lacking in detail, most have a good amount of detail sufficient for coloring but still allowing room for shading, blending, and adding one’s own embellishments.

There is, once again, a short history of Ms. Tarrant’s art at the front of the book. Unlike the previous book, there are no title banners on each of the designs. Both ways work for me, so I have no problem with it. It might have been nice to include a page which gave pertinent information about each design.

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