52 Beautiful and Intricately detailed designs printed one side of great perforated paper

Tangled Treasures Coloring Book: 52 Intricate Tangle Drawings to Color with Pens, Markers, or Pencils – Plus: Coloring schemes and techniques

By: Jane Monk

Rating: 5 of 5

This is beautiful coloring book by Jane Monk filled with hand-drawn designs that is both lovely and extremely well made. The designs in the book cover a wide range and include a good number of tangled abstract designs that will be fun to color as they can be interpreted to be anything. Additionally, there are a good number of flower designs as well as other subjects, too. The artist’s style is flowing and fun with many of the designs having very intricate and sophisticated elements. I started with with Ms. Monk’s second coloring book Tangled Gardens and, after coloring two of the designs in that book, immediately purchased her first book, too. The designs are simply fun to color.

As if the designs alone were not enough, the artist has included multiple pages regarding how-to color with various mediums. The information is similar but slightly different in both of her books. Together, they are forming the most comprehensive and useful information I have received outside of actual books on how to draw and color. I’m impressed and will certainly be putting some of Ms. Monk’s suggestions into practice she actually covers a number of medium that I have recently purchased and was slightly hesitant to try.

The book is very well made and is slightly smaller than a standard coloring book. The pages are printed on one side of heavyweight bright white perforated paper. Some of the designs extend past the perforations but nothing of note will be missing if you remove the page from the book. The binding is sewn in rather than glued.

My markers were a mixed bag when it came to coloring in this book. The only ones that consistently did not leak through were my Staedler triplus fineliners. My Tombows dual end brush did not leak when I used the brush end but did with the marker end. All other markers both water and alcohol-based leaked through. My gel pens did not leak through but needed extra drying time. My various coloring pencils all worked well. Whatever coloring tools you decide to use, you can either put a heavyweight page below the page you are working on or you can remove the page easily from the book to keep ink from leaking through to the next design.