Beautiful and Intricate Garden Designs more than 50 printed on one side of non-perforated page

Inky Garden is beautiful and intricate coloring book with more than 50 pages of hand-drawn coloring designs. The designs, by artist Helen Elliston, cover a wide range from flowers to animals to wishing wells to topiaries. I really enjoy this artist’s work. It is very detailed and presents a beautiful picture both before coloring and afterward. There is a quest included in the book as well as a fold-able 3D flower (with pages and instructions at the end of the book.)

As with her first coloring book, for the most part, I consider the book to be printed on one side of the page only. The back side of most pages have a slight design. There are perhaps nine designs that seem to spread across two pages. For those, I will ignore the small portion of the design on the opposite page and treat it as if it was a single page design. In some cases, that may have been the artist’s intent as the designs stop well before the binding and trying to color them as an entire design would leave a big white space between the two pages.

All of the design stop well before the binding. The designs are printed on one side of thin white non-perforated paper that is typical for books published by CreateSpace. The binding is glued but there is plenty of room for you to cut a page out if you choose to do so.

All of my markers bleed through and my gel pens either bleed through or leave a distinct shadow on the back of the page. My coloring pencils work well with the paper. I will use a piece of chipboard or heavy paper behind the page I am working on so I don’t ruin the following page with leaking ink.

While I could wish for thicker, perforated paper, the designs in this book are so lovely it just doesn’t matter that to me. I stumbled across Ms. Elliston’s first book Inky Ocean and I am now a real fan of her work. I will be looking for more great books from her in the future.