Beautiful book filled with fantastic horse coloring designs

The Amazing World Of Horses

By: Cindy Elsharouni

Rating: 5 of 5

This is my second book of coloring designs by this talented artist. My first book is one of a variety of animals, including horses. In this coloring book, horses are the main theme (there are two Pegasus designs, one zebra, and one of a horse with a Native American.) Apart from those, every design is of one or more horses. The horses are beautifully and realistically drawn in the line drawing form and then the artist adds other elements and “doodles” with the horse to give the colorist the ability to have more fun when coloring the designs.

The designs are fun, easy to color, and have a nice level of detail without having small and minute areas to color. There are 42 coloring designs (45 if you include the horses on the intro pages to the book.) A number of the designs have gray scale shading already added to them, which makes shading easy as the base color (usually in marker for me) takes on a darker hue when put over the gray.

The designs are printed on one side of non-perforated paper. The binding is glued rather than sewn so you will have to cut pages out if you wish to remove them. Only two of the designs merge into the binding, so you will lose some portion of the design if you cut the page out. A couple of other come close and you will have to be careful if you cut them out. I was able to break the spine of the book and get it to lay fairly flat.

All of my markers (both alcohol and water-based) bled through this paper. My India ink artist pens did not bleed through the paper. My gel pens did not bleed through but left a shadow on the back of the page. The gel pens did not take any extra drying time. My coloring pencils worked fairly well and according to the type of lead used (soft or hard lead.) I will certainly be using some markers when coloring these designs, so I will use a piece of chip board or card stock under the page that I am working on to keep the ink from leaking through the rest of the book.

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