Pretty Designs of things that are found at home printed on both sides of perforated pages

Home is Where the Heart Is: A Hand-Crafted Adult Coloring Book

By: Steve Duffendack

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a pretty coloring book with filled with designs of things (including pets) that can be found in a home. The designs are all fairly easy to color and are very similar in style to other coloring books by this author. The book includes designs of wine bottles, dogs and cats, mixed drinks, flowers, bathtubs, pillows, and much more. This artist as a clean and stylized look to his designs. There is not a lot of intricate details that require tiny bits of color.

The book itself is really pretty, too. It has a dust jacket which can be colored, inside and out. The outside has a beautiful touch of red foil in addition to parts that are colored beautifully. The publishers missed an opportunity when they didn’t put coloring images on the actual cover of the book.

The designs are printed double-sided on a good heavyweight white paper. What is wonderful is that the pages are perforated for easy removal. There are nine designs which appear to be spread across two pages and which will be divided if you remove the pages from the book. The good news is that all but one of them (the free-standing desk) can easily stand-alone as single page designs. The binding is sewn rather than glued so you can remove a few pages at a time by snipping a few threads.

I tested a variety of pens and what I discovered is: my markers either bleed through (alcohol-based) or leave a shadow on the backside of the page (water-based). None of my gel pens had any problems and I was able to color with ease with a variety of pencils on the surface of the page and the pencils behaved properly according to their type of lead (soft or hard core.)

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

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