Daily Archives: October 10, 2018

I first came across Denyse Klette’s artwork in her funny and quirky quilt fabrics and panels. I enjoyed her artwork so much, I have purchased all three of her coloring books.

This is the first of the three that has a disappointing issue for me. Otherwise, the book is just as fun and wacky and cute as the two previous ones. The problem I have is the nose on the female gnomes. From the side, they are fine but full face-on, they resemble duck bills.

I’ve looked carefully and found that it is because their noses are portrayed quite large. Much larger than the males both in proportion to their faces and in actual size. The noses on the male gnomes are just fine.

I’m hoping that as I color, I can diminish the look of the duck face. Perhaps using the same color without any shading can lessen it. Too bad the artist didn’t give some consideration to this slight issue. I did notice that the cover image of the book only includes male gnomes so there was no way to see this before purchasing the book.

I still like the rest of the book and will enjoy coloring in it. It just won’t be one of my favorites and there will probably be pages I will pass on.

The designs are detailed and some are quite intricate with lots of tiny details to color. To color some of the tiny detail, I will need to use extra fine nib pens or extremely sharp pointed pencils. For most of the designs, my regular coloring medium will work well.

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This is a second in a series of the Serene Little Village. I like little village coloring books and purchased the first one in this series as well. While that book was devoted to cute animals, this book is focused on fairies. Having said that, there are still little cute animals on almost every page.

The designs are detailed with lots of fun elements to color. The fairies are cute and are busy at work and play. The animals are represented more as animals rather than dressed in human clothes. There are friends of the fairies.

There are some areas with smaller than average elements to color but not what I would consider too difficult or hard to color.

This book is published under the imprint name of Julia Rivers but unlike many of their other books though as with the first of the book in this series, this one does not contain the name of the actual artist(s) responsible for the book. I can only hope that the publisher will encourage that the person(s) responsible for it and we will see new books in the future.

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