76 pages of Magical and Very Intricate Designs printed on both sides of page

Tangle Magic: A spellbinding colouring book with hidden charms

By: Jessica Palmer

Rating: 5 of 5

Tangle Magic is the third in a series of coloring books by Jessica Palmer. I own the previous two as well as this one. My first observation of this book is that the designs are much more intricate than those of the prior two books. The designs are still quite lovely but they are more difficult to color and most require the use of ultra-fine markers, small nib gel pens or sharp pointed pencils.

The 76 pages of designs (not including the title page) are done in Ms. Palmer’s flowing style. There are also hidden charms on each page some are easy to find and others are a tad more difficult. A key to their location was not provided in this book. There is a page at the front which gives a few examples of what charms may look like. While the book is printed on both sides of the page, most designs are contained to a single page. I counted 11 designs that spread across two pages.

I was happy to find fairy tale characters interspersed through the book. There are other magic related designs that I understood quite easily but there are others that I may have to spend some time thinking about.

Here is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the pages with my coloring medium. I will list, in the comments section below, the coloring medium I used for testing and for most of my coloring projects.

76 pages of Magical and Fairy Tale style intricately drawn designs

Designs are printed on both sides of the page.

Paper is heavyweight, white, somewhat smooth and non-perforated

Sewn Binding (You can remove pages a few at a time by snipping a couple of threads though it is difficult to realign designs printed across two pages once they are out of the book.)

Some designs merge into the binding area

Eleven designs spread across two pages

Book can be made to lay fairly flat due to its special style of book cover/binding.

Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper. If you use this style of marker, you will mar the design on the backside of your working page.

Water-based markers, gel pens, and India ink pens do not bleed through the paper. Gel pens can require additional drying time.

Colored pencils work well with the paper. Even though it is somewhat smooth, I was still able to layer the same color, multiple colors, an blend easily using a pencil style blending stick. This was true of both oil an wax based pencils.