30 Nautical Designs Fun and Easy to Color printed on one side of non-perforated paper

Adult Coloring Book: Breezy Sea Patterns

By: Francis Keene

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a fun book of designs which center on the ocean. There is everything from fish to mermaids to light houses (and there is even a bear which I don’t quite understand but then again, I don’t know a lot about the habits of bears!) What I really like about the designs is that while they have a good amount of detail, the designs are open and easy to color. This is a great book for someone who loves the sea but can’t color in some of the other books which have teeny tiny details. A lot of the sea animals have doodle style designs within their outlines to give the colorist a lot of opportunity to use many colors in their project.

All of the designs 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 the designs have a framing line around the outside. I really like this as it gives me a natural stopping point, saves ink/pencil, and also gives me a more finished looking project when I color.

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, it appears that this is the quality that comes from CreateSpace (which is an Amazon company.) What I really like about the CreateSpace is it is a way that independent artists can get their work self-published. That way, I get a huge choice of design styles albeit with not the best paper.

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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