31 Decorated Animal Head Designs printed one side of page

Creative Haven Animal Calaveras Coloring Book (Adult Coloring)

By: Mary Agredo

Rating: 5 of 5

For me, calaveras designs involve skulls which is what the word translates from Spanish. I usually see these types of designs in Day of the Dead coloring books. The 31 designs in this book are actually of animal head portraiture rather than decorated skulls or calaveras. While the name of the book doesn’t seem quite applicable, the designs are very nice and are quite fun to color.

There are lots of animals in this book, including a bull, bear, jaguar, pig, owl, horse, wolf, elephant and more. The designs are filled with lots of doodles but the doodles are quite large and are not difficult to color. I had a lot of fun with my first project in this book, which was the raccoon.

This is what I found when coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:. In the comments section below, I will provide a list of the coloring medium I use for testing and which I use for most of my coloring projects.

31 Animals Head Portrait Designs decorated in a style similar to calaveras designs

Printed on one side of the page

Paper is medium weight, white, lightly rough and perforated

Glue bound but pages can be removed easily at perforations

Designs stop before the perforations

Alcohol and water based markers bleed through to some degree

Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page

Coloring pencils work well with this paper. Both wax and oil based pencils lay down good color, layer and blend well. Hard lead pencils leave dents on the back of the page.

I remove pages or use a blotter page of card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper to keep ink and dents from marring the pages below.