Daily Archives: July 2, 2018

This is the second coloring book by Molly Hashimoto released by Pomegranate. While the animals are still predominantly birds, there are other animals as well, including a love fox that will be my first project in this book. The drawings are uncolored block prints which have big, bold black lines.

Included on the inside of the front and back covers are full color thumbnails of all of the original artwork. The title of each design is listed both on the contents page at the beginning of the book as well as the design page itself. The contents page also gives the size of the original artwork, the medium in which it was done and also the date it was finished.

The designs are easy to color but with a heavy use of black which is very prominent due to the nature of block prints. I used to use my markers for this type of design but as I am unable (due to health reasons) to use alcohol or solvent based markers for an extended length of time), I will be using my Tombow water-based pens and my coloring pencils to color these designs. With coloring pencils, I have to take care to not color over the black as the pencils have a tendency to look gray on top of the heavy black.

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