Daily Archives: June 11, 2018

By this time, I would think I would have learned my lesson about Disney’s Art of Coloring books et al. I’ve bought most of them and, with only a few exceptions, have been mostly unhappy with them.

However, I loved going to Disneyland with my kids when they were little, so the idea of having postcards to color that commemorated the rides, etc. was too strong to deny. So I bought the cards.

The designs are simply too small. As a coloring medium, it is almost impossible to color the larger ones and, for the life of me, I can’t figure out what to do with the majority of them. I own very expensive Japanese gel pens with teeny tiny scratchy nibs and even those are too big for most of the designs. Take a gander at the design for Adventureland to see one of the worst examples of small print.

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