50 Fun and Easy Mandalas Designs printed on one side of white paper

This is a really easy and enjoyable coloring book of 50 mandala designs. The designs are all hand-drawn which adds to the enjoyment. I can be a little more free in how I color these designs as they are not computer-generated exact match quadrants of designs. If I want make a slight error I can generally mask it as part of my design plan. I also find that hand-drawn designs, such as these, really inspire me to try new ways of looking at mandalas. I suddenly realized that I wanted to color a gray scale into a design after studying one of these. I really enjoyed that process and experiment and will probably do more of it in the future.

The designs are really open and easy to color. They are projects that I can finish in one evening. I also think this is a great book for beginners and for anyone who might find more traditional and intricate mandala designs too difficult (maybe due to vision or fine motor skill issues.)

The book is a smaller format book which cuts dead space away form the circular design of the mandala. I appreciate that as it makes it easier for me to frame my finished project if I choose to do so and saves paper from being wasted. The designs are printed on one side of bright white non-perforated paper. The designs are centered well on the page and the print quality is excellent. The binding is glued rather than sewn, so you can cut pages out if you choose to do so. I was able to break the spine enough to get the book to lay fairly flat and it was easy to get to all parts of the design to color. Each of the designs has a framing line around them which is great if you are coloring a background for the mandala you get a natural stopping point instead of having to color to all edges of the page.

All of my markers (water and alcohol-based, fine, ultra-fine, and brush end) bled through this paper. My India ink brush pen also bled through. My gel pens (all brands and nib sizes) all left a color shadow on the back of the page. My coloring pencils worked well for their lead type. The soft lead blended really well. The hard lead left indents at the page of the page if I pressed hard when coloring. All of these are non-issues for me because I place a piece of chipboard or card stock under the page I am working on and nothing mars the design on the following page. I will list, the comments section below, the coloring mediums I used in testing this book.

I received a free sample of this coloring book for test and review purposes.