Unusual and Interesting Chalkboard style designs with matte black backgrounds

Creative Haven Chalkboard Art Coloring Book: Inspirational Designs on a Dramatic Black Background (Adult Coloring)

By: CJ Hughes

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a really unusual coloring book as it mimics chalkboard style art. It is printed on a soft black matte background and the words and other drawn elements have the appearance of being written in chalk. While there are no instructions on how the samples were colored, it appears that the white portions of the designs were filled in with color. I am guessing that you will need to use a lighter tone perhaps pastel or neon tones to allow the black underlying part of the chalked areas to show through.

The artist responsible for these designs, CJ Hughes, is a professional chalkboard artist. He works in both chalk artwork and chalk-look art and has had a wide variety of customers, including Microsoft, Wendy’s Hamburgers, ESPN, and Rachel Ray Magazine among many others.

There are 31 designs in this coloring book which are made up of inspirational messages. These are on a fairly heavy stock with the background black though the backside of the page is bright white. The designs are printed on one side of the page only and the edges of each page have good perforations which make it easy to remove from the book.

All of my gel pens and markers bleed through on Creative Haven books and this book is no different. I use chipboard, card stock, freezer paper, or a heavy weight paper in between the sheets (if I am keeping it in the book) or under the page if I remove it from the book. I find that any of these methods it work well for me. I use what I have but I test it to make sure each and every time.