Another Beautiful Tropical Coloring Book by Jane Gedeon and this time it focuses on tropical plants and animals

Rainforest Escape: My Island Animal, Exotic Flower and Tropical Plant Color Book

By: Jade Gedeon

Rating: 5 of 5

I recently purchased Jade Gedeon’s first coloring book primarily to learn how to use water colors. As soon as I received it, I purchased a second copy and then pre-ordered two copies of Rainforest Escape. It is really just that good. I want to be able to color one book with colored pencils and use the second one for my learning purposes.

In this new book Ms. Gedeon explores the plants and animals of her tropical experiences (the previous book focused considerably on architecture.) The designs remind me of my own tropical vacations in the Caribbean, Hawaii, and even Bali. There is a lush feeling to the vegetation that makes me remember how it felt to actually be in a rainforest environment.

The paper is a cream tone and is heavyweight watercolor paper. There are ten double page fold-out designs. All of the pages are perforated for easy removal from the book. While the book is sewn binding, none of the designs cross over the perforations. If you want to remove pages to frame them, you won’t lose any portion of the design in taking the page out via the perforations.

I found, once again, that all of my coloring medium worked well with this paper. The only issue I had was with some of my Copic markers that were extremely full and juicy. With those, there was a slight tendency for feathering.

This is what I experienced in coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper. I didn’t text any form of watercolor medium as I am just learning how to use it. Because of that, I shy away from saying how it worked for me as any issues I come across are sure to be because of my inexperience rather than any issue with the book. I will provide a list of the coloring medium I use for testing and for most of my coloring projects in the comments section below.

Lush and Exotic Rainforest inspired Artwork Designs

Printed on one side of the page with ten double page fold-out designs

Paper is thick watercolor paper in cream, rough texture and all pages are perforated for easy removal.

Sewn Binding

Designs stop short of perforations

Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page and can feather side-to-side if the marker is juicy

Water-based markers, India ink pens, and gel pens do not bleed through the paper. Gel pens dry exceptionally quick with this paper.

Colored pencils work well with the page though, due to the texture, it takes several layers to get a deep pigment. Both oil and wax based pencils worked equally well. I was able to get good color, layer different colors easily and blend extremely easily using a pencil style blender stick.