30 Fun to color Hand-drawn Wildflower Designs printed on one side of white perforated paper

It is so much fun to have a coloring book of wildflowers. I love to garden (though I grow mostly vegetables and a few select flowers that grow in our climate.) I love spring when all the wildflowers start coating the mountains and roadways. This is a coloring book that lets me have that feeling throughout the year. There are 30 hand-drawn designs in this nicely made by Lisa Congdon. The Just Add Color line of books is fairly new to me but I am quickly becoming a fan. I really like the whimsy of the designs – they are fun and easy to color. I like that I can to work in big areas of color with markers or choose to use my blending techniques with my coloring pencils. I like this coloring book for individuals who may not like intricate and small detail designs.

The designs in this book are of various wildflowers. I will list them at the end of this review. There are four colored samples of pages included in the book each one is placed behind the coloring design it depicts. That actually makes it more difficult to view if you choose to but for me, it was an interesting sample but not one that I plan to copy.

The book is really well put together. The designs are all printed on one side of perforated heavyweight paper. The designs merge into the perforations but nothing essential is lost to that area. If you plan on removing pages, you might want to do so before coloring as it is hard to get into the areas near the binding and you will lose that area when you remove the page in any case. The book is glue bound but as you will remove pages at the perforations, that should not be an issue. I was easily able to get the book to lay flat by breaking the spine.

All of my markers (alcohol and water-based) as well as my India ink pens bleed through or left distinct color shadows on the back of the page. My gel pens all left color shadows as well. Not an issue as you can put a blotter page behind the page you are working on or simply remove the page from the book to color it. Coloring pencils worked really well in this book. The pencils went on creamy and thick without much effort and blending was a breeze. I was even able to blend my Verithin hard lead pencils using a simply Prismacolor pencil style blender. In the comments section below, I will list the coloring medium I used to test this coloring book.

In order, these are the wildflowers in the book: Poppy, Aster, Buttercup, Fritillaria, Rose Mallow, Morning Glory, Hawkweed, Anemone, Coneflower, Sweetshrub, Sweet William, Zinnia, Wisteria, Cosmos, Comfrey, Chamomile, Wood Sorrel, Fringed Campion, Wild Rose, Pansy, Crocus, Eyebright, Indian Blanket, Bluebell, Arrowhead, Protea, Sunflower, Pea Flower, Mountain Laurel, and Spatterdock.