City Coloring Book for Adults Fantastic Cities, Splendid Creative Designs (Cities Coloring Book) (Volume 1)
By: Grace Sure
Rating: 5 of 5
This is a book of 32 designs which are based on architecture and buildings. As far as I can see, the cities mostly exist in the imagination as I only recognized a few buildings, etc. It may be that they are real places but that I have never seen them. The styles of the drawings vary quite a bit from very straightforward architectural drawings to more abstract ones. Some will be fairly easy to color and others have very intricate and small details. In addition to the building themselves, there are people, cars, and more details. Usually in city scenes that tend toward architecture, I am not used to seeing these types of details so this will be an unusual and different book to color.
The pages are printed on thin white paper which is not perforated. The designs are printed on one side of the page with the back left blank. The designs stop well short of the glued binding and can easily be removed with a pen knife if you so choose.
My gel pens and markers all leaked through this paper. My coloring pencils went on well but left a shadow at the back of the page, too. Not a problem, though, as I can put a piece of chipboard or a couple of heavy weight pieces of paper under the page I am working on to keep the ink from leaking through.
What is really quite nice about this line of books by Grace Sure is that she is also making them available for you to print additional copies if you purchase the book. You can either purchase the book and get the access to the on-line version. If you prefer, you buy the Kindle version of the book or, at the time I am writing this review, you can use your Kindle Unlimited to borrow it, too. You can decide to print the designs on whatever paper can use in your printer. When I have this option, I use my laser printer on chipboard. It keeps it safe from my water-based markers and water colors and gives me a good surface to color on. I may do this for a couple of prints but I am happy with the quality of the printed book for most of my coloring needs.
A free sample of this coloring book was provided for test and review purposes.