Another large selection of 60 Architectural Designs from Penny Farthing printed on one side of non-perforated page

There are 60 architectural images in this second volume of Architectural Art from Penny Farthing. Once again, there is a variety of building types. What is different this time is that there are fewer older European style homes and instead there are a number of Asian homes and churches. There are a number of modern designs and even a very geometric design of a building in the girder stage. The designs range from open and easy to color to more intricate with a little more challenge.

I find coloring architectural designs to be vastly different from my usual flowers, animals, and folk art. Every once in a while, it is great to pull out something so beautifully graphic and just spend time coloring the building the way I would want it to look. It almost feels like a palate-cleansing coloring experience that lets me try something so out of my norm. I also own the first book in this series and enjoyed it so well, I bought this one as soon as it was made available.

I own a few books by Penny Farthing Graphics. They are published via CreateSpace which is generally used for self-publishing. The designs are drawn by a variety of artists from all over the world and are licensed via Shutterstock.com (which seems to be a front-runner in design licensing). What we end up with is a great coloring book (although on thin paper) with a large and varied selection of designs.

The pages are printed on thin white paper which is not perforated which is typical of books published by CreateSpace. 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.

These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:

Markers: 1) alcohol-based Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, Staedler triplus fineliners, and Pentel markers

Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo 0.38/0.28 and Tekwriter

Coloring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castel Polychromos