Noah’s Ark told through 45 Coloring Designs printed on one side of page

This is a coloring book which shows the story of Noah and his ark. It begins with the time before the Flood and continues through until the end of Noah’s days. It tells (both in word and in pictures) about how Noah was called, the ark was built, the animals gathered, the Flood, and the finding of land. For some reason, spring always brings the story of Noah’s Ark to my mind. Along with coloring in this book, I am using it along with my Bible to re-read and study the story afresh. The Bible verses and cites in the coloring book come from a wide variety of translations.

I will provide details further on but in an overview:

– 45 hand-drawn designs

– printed on one side of white page

– non-perforated pages

– glue binding

– All markers bleed through

– All gel pens and India ink artist pens leave shadows on back of page

– Coloring pencils work well

I think that the designs are well done and show the unique skill of the self-taught artist (Erin Jons). I am enjoying all parts of this book from the animals to the ark itself. There is fun to be add in deciding whether to make the animals life-like (as I did with giraffes) or going for all colors of the rainbow.

The designs in the book are printed on one side of thin, white, non-perforated paper. The binding is glued rather than sewn, so you will have to cut pages out if you wish to remove them. Some of the images merge into the binding and you will lose portions of them if you take them out of the book. I was able to get the book to lay fairly flat by pressing down hard and slightly breaking the binding.

I test all of my coloring books with various coloring medium whether I plan to use that medium or not. In the comments section below, I will provide the full list of brands and types that I tested. Here is the results of those tests:

All alcohol-based and water-based markers bleed through the paper to some extent. My gel pens and India ink artist pens did not bleed through but did leave shadows of color on the back of the page. My coloring pencils worked well with the soft lead going on smoothly and blending well. My hard lead pencils worked well, too, but left indents at the back of the page. As I don’t plan on removing pages from the book to color, I will use a safety page of card stock under the page I am working on. That will keep ink and dents from marring the next design.