Mary Engelbreit’s 2017 Coloring Weekly Planner Calendar
By: Mary Engelbreit
Rating: 3 of 5
This is a smaller format weekly calendar with artwork by Mary Engelbreit. I was hoping for iconic Engelbreit images and I was disappointed. The artwork in the book are mostly flowers with some other plants and a bird or two. The designs are very simplistic and are what I would expect more from a daily type calendar than one set up for a week. It took me about half an hour to color my first design and I did that while I was watching/listening to a television show.
Otherwise, the calendar is made decently for its purpose. It has each week of the year as well as a full one page calendar for 2017 and a page which has the full year calendar for 2016 and 2018. It also has a couple of pages of planning note lines for 2018. The paper is a medium weight and the book is glue bound. It is printed on white paper is not perforated. The designs are printed on the left hand side of the page and the calendar on the right.
I found that only alcohol-based markers bled through the paper. Water-based, India ink, and gel pens did not bleed through or leave shadows. I was able to get good color, layer, and blend with both oil and wax based pencils.
The designs were too simplistic for my taste and were not what I expected from Mary Engelbreit. On the plus side, they are easy to color so this might be a good calendar to color for those who have vision or fine motor skill issues. I am keeping the book to use for its purpose. I keep a lot of information on-line but there are some things that I prefer to keep written down for privacy sake. I will use this book specifically for those and will color in it when I want a project that takes minutes rather than an hour to finish.