31 Striking and Unusual designs in the style of woodcuts printed on one side of the page

This is my first coloring book by Tim Foley as well as my first coloring book of designs in a woodcut style. There is a heavy use of deep black in each of the designs. The designs are of a variety of subjects from animals to flowers to so much more.

I chose a baseball design for my first project. This was in some ways similar to coloring with a black background, however, the black became part of the design and not just the backdrop to it. I also loved the look of leaving some of the white uncolored which came through with a great look of brightness in my project. I used a variety of alcohol-based markers as I prefer markers when I am working with black. 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 when going through this coloring book:

31 Designs in Striking Woodcut style with heavy use of deep black
Printed on one side of white page
Page is white, slightly rough, and perforated
Glue Bound
Designs stop before the perforation and have a framing line around the outer edge of the design
Alcohol and water based markers bleed through to some degree

While I don’t plan to use these medium with my coloring book, I did test a variety of them to see how they worked with this paper:

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. Pencils do color over the black if your point strays (which mine does all the time.) That is the primary reason I don’t plan to use them with this or other designs with heavy black.

I suggest either removing the coloring pages from the book or using a blotter under the page you are working on to keep accidents from marring the pages below.