58 Pages of Wonderful Designs of a wide variety of collections printed on both sides of the heavyweight page

Fantastic Collections: A Coloring Book of Amazing Things Real and Imagined (Fantastic Cities)

By: Steve McDonald

Rating: 5 of 5

I own both of Steve McDonald’s first two coloring books and have enjoyed coloring in them. I immediately pre-ordered Fantastic Collections as soon as I saw it was available. The groupings of collections are quite interesting. Some things, such as oil cans, toy horses, locks, and even typewriters are familiar to me. Others are definitely new, such as Japanese cleaning supplies and chainsaws.

Most of the designs are presented straight-forward but a few are also interpreted into mandala style format and those become beautiful abstract designs that will be a lot of fun to color.

This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium. I will provide a list of the coloring medium I used for tests and which I use for coloring as well. You will find the list in the comments section below.

58 Pages of Designs based on a wide variety of Collectibles

Printed on both sides of white heavyweight, smooth, non-perforated paper

Sewn Binding

Designs do not merge into binding area

Book can be opened to a flat position

Alcohol-based markers bleed through page. Using these will ruin the design on the back of the page.

Water-based markers, gel pens, and India ink artist pens do not bleed through or leave color shadows on back on page. Gel pens required additional drying time.

Coloring pencils work well with this paper. I used both oil and wax based pencils for good pigment, layering multiple colors and blending using a pencil style blending stick.