31 Beautiful Designs of Animals and Flowers – printed on one side of heavy weight perforated page

This is a coloring book with designs of animals and plants (including many flowers.) Unlike Posh books from earlier years, this book focuses on a single artist, Zoe Ingram, instead of a single subject matter with multiple artists. The designs in the book are beautiful and will be a joy to color. There are all sorts of flowers and a few of the animals include: deer, rabbits, peacocks, an owl, and a swan. There are also some lovely mandalas included. The designs in this book are detailed and beautiful. While they will take some time to color, I don’t think that they will require anything special by way of coloring medium.

The pages are a heavyweight of bright white paper that is micro perforated. The designs are printed on one side of the page only and while most stop prior to the perforations, a few extend beyond it. The designs do not merge into the binding area; however, a number of design elements are cut off on the edges of the designs which leaves open-ended parts to the design.

The paper in this book is also acid-free which means that it will not turn colors with age and all the work you put into coloring the designs should be safe. The binding is glued rather than sewn. If you are willing to break the spine a bit, it can be pushed into lying flat to give you access to make coloring in this book if you prefer that over taking pages out.

My alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper. My water-based markers do not. My gel pens work fine and do not leave a shadow on the backside of the page. Coloring pencils work well and as expected according to their type (soft or hard core.) If you are using alcohol based markers or just for general safety, you can put an extra page of card stock or chipboard under the page you are working on to keep 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