The Fantasy Forest Adult Coloring book (Mayo Family Adult Coloring Books) (Volume 1)
By: Shawn Mayo
Rating: 4 of 5
The Fantasy Forest is an interesting set of licensed designs which feature fantasy forest animals and flowers and other plants.
The designs are all licensed from Shutterstock and the Mayo family has done a good job of curated these images as most are not familiar to me.
The printing is rather uneven in this coloring book. Most of the designs are well printed with black print; however, there a couple that are lighter shades of gray. What is nice is that the editors put a framing line around each of the designs for a natural stopping point, and the designs are generally well fit to the page.
For my first project in this coloring book, I chose to do a grouping mushrooms houses that make up a little city. There are several mushroom designs in the book but this one struck my fancy first. I used a variety of Bic Mark-it and Tombow markers to finish my design.
This is what I found in this coloring book:
23 fantasy Forest style designs designs (licensed from Shutterstock)
Page for checking colors, etc.
Designs printed on one side of the page
Paper is thin, white, slightly rough, non-perforated.
Glue Bound
Designs do not merge into the binding area
Alcohol and water-based markers bleed through the page (I suggest you use a blotter page under your work.)
Gel pens and India ink leave colorful shadows on the back of the page.
Coloring pencils work well good color, layer and blend well. Hard pencils dent the back of the page.