92 Pages of Animals and Plants printed on both sides of the page

This is a fun to color book of designs of animals, birds, flowers and other plants and trees. The designs are all hand-drawn and have quite a bit of doodle design within them. The style is kind of a mash-up of folk art and doodle and as I really enjoy folk art designs, it is a great book for me to color.

In addition to simply coloring, there are activity pages where you are instructed to do something (such as give the ladybugs their spots, etc.) Generally, that type of activity does not appeal to me but in I liked a few of the activities in this book and will take a shot at completing them.

The book is printed on heavy weight paper and the cover of the book is hard cardboard (front and back) that gives a sturdy surface for using below the pages I am coloring. I utilized it as when I did my first coloring project of a squirrel with which I used coloring pencils.

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

92 pages of hand-drawn nature designs
Printed on both sides of the page
Paper is heavy weight, white, smooth, and non-perforated
Designs do not spread across two pages
Quite a few of the designs merge into the binding area
Sewn binding so you can remove pages a few at a time by snipping the binding threads without loss of design
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page
Water-based markers, gel pens, and India ink pens did not bleed through the page
Coloring pencils were mixed. All soft lead pencils laid down good color with deep pigment and I could layer fairly well. Blending did not work well waxed base left too much color in the center and when I attempted to blend the oil-based, the color more color came off on the blending pencil than remained on the page. Hard lead pencils worked well with good color and did not dent the back of the page.

I wasn’t too troubled by the blending issue. There are so many details on these designs that I was not planning on attempting blending. I liked that I could still layer the colors.