31 Beautiful dragonfly designs

I love coloring Angela Porter’s designs. I have them in another Creative Haven book Entangled and in several others by another publisher. Her designs are always beautiful and involved and a real pleasure to color. As I also love to color dragonflies, this book was a must have for me.

There are 31 different dragonfly designs. I like them all so it was hard to decide which one to color for my first project. Once I made my decision, I knew that I wanted to use a variety of alcohol-based markers to get a big pop of color. I’ll include a picture of the finished project along with the two colored samples from the book as well. I’ll add more photos as I finish projects in the future.

This is what I found in going through this coloring book:

31 Detailed and Intricate Dragonfly Designs
Printed on one side of white page
Page is white, slightly rough, and perforated
Glue Bound
Designs stop before the perforation
Alcohol and water based markers bleed through to some degree
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page
Coloring pencils work well with this standard Creative Haven paper. Soft lead lays down good color, layers and blends well. Hard lead pencils leave dents on the back of the page.

I recommend either removing the coloring page from the book to color it or if you are keeping the book together, the use of a blotter page under the page you are working on, regardless of coloring medium you use. That way you can keep the pages below free from seeping ink or marring dents.