22 Cute Fun and Fanciful Fantasy designs designs printed on one side of the page

Janelle Dimmett: Fun & Fantasy Coloring Book

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Rating: 5 of 5

This is my second coloring book by Janelle Dimmett. In this book the designs are mostly animals but there are a few fanciful designs that are flowers, cupcakes and other cute non-animal designs. The book is published by Pomegranate and is made to their usage high standard. The designs are nicely hand-drawn and are detailed. A few of the designs have more intricate small parts to color but for the most part, I won’t need any sort of special markers or pens to color in this book.

Thumbnails of the original colored designs are printed in glossy prints on the inside of the front and back covers. It’s nice to see what the artist original had in mind but I generally color my coloring books to suit my color mood.

This is what I experienced in coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper. I will list, in the comments section below, the coloring medium I use to test with and which I use most of the time to color my projects.

22 Fun Animal and Fanciful Designs

Designs are printed on one side of the page

Paper is heavyweight, slightly off-white, slightly rough to the touch and non-perforated

The Designs are bound by two heavyweight staples which can be removed to release all of the page from the book without any loss of design.

Designs do not merge into the binding area

Pages can be cut out if you wish without losing any design elements.

Book easily opens to a flat position for coloring.

Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper easily.

Water-based markers leave shadows and slight spots of color bleed through on the back of the page

Gel pens and India ink pens do not bleed through the page.

Colored pencils work well with the paper. It has a slight roughness to it that allows good pigment coverage from both oil and wax based pencils. I was able to layer and blend easily with both as well.