Diverse and Large number of easy to color Christmas Designs printed on one side of perforated paper

This is a large collection of designs which have been curated by St. Martin’s Griffin (Meredith Mennitt.) It looks to be a variety of designs which have been licensed for use in this book and have a number of contributing artists some of which may have hand drawn their designs while others used computer programs to generate the designs. I am guessing this to be the case as there is not an artist or illustrator attribution on the book and the author listed on Amazon is an associate editor at St. Martin’s Griffin. If I am wrong, I wish that the artist attribution had been made in the book.

The designs are, for the most part, quite simple but still a good coloring experience for most adult colorists. There are some very simple designs that might be more appropriate for children but as it is a large book of 75 designs, sharing with the kids might work out great.

The designs are printed on one side of white medium weight perforated paper. The binding is glued rather than sewn and the designs stop well short of the perforated edge.

To some degree, all of my markers bled through or left shadows on the back of the pages (the best were the Staedler triplus fineliners.) My gel pens left a shadow on the back of the page, too. My coloring pencils went on easily and creamy. As the book is printed on one side only, it is simple to put a heavy weight piece of paper under the page you are working on to keep ink from getting through and damaging the page underneath. Or you can simply and easily remove the page as it is perforated.

I like the book for someone who wants fun and fast holiday coloring projects. It is a large book, so it should last through the season.