31 Mehndi Style Designs with a black background printed on one side of the page

This is my third coloring book by Lindsey Boylan. In all three, she has utilized black backgrounds. I find that this style, along with the use of bright and pastel colors is a way to get a big pop of color. I am looking forward to coloring more designs in this book as I have enjoyed both of Ms. Boylan’s previous books. The designs have a free-flowing and ornate look to them which is consistent with the style I have come to expect from this artist.

I decided to do a seahorse as my first project. I used alcohol-based markers with bright tones on the seahorse and then gray and pink only on the surrounding design. I will include a photo of the finished project along with the two colored samples from the book. I will update with more project photos as I finish them in the future.

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

31 Designs in Mehndi style with black backgrounds
Printed on one side of page
Page is smooth and perforated. Has a different feel from other Creative Haven paper
Glue Bound
Designs merge past the perforations but nothing essential will be lost if you remove the page from the book
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 were mixed. The soft lead pencils laid down good color but blending did not work well. My wax-based pencils worked better than the oil-based. Hard lead pencils dented the back of the page.

I removed my pages from the book but if you choose to keep your book together, I suggest a blotter page be used behind the working page to keep the rest of the book free from mars and seeping ink.