32 Winter and Holiday Inspired Intricate and Detailed Designs 22 Large and 10 Medium size printed on one side of the page

Hello Angel Winter Wonderland Coloring Collection (Hello Angel Coloring Collection)

By: Angelea Van Dam

Rating: 4 of 5

As a quick note, the cover of the book currently showing on Amazon (skater’s boots) is not the cover of the book I received. My cover (as seen in my video) has a montage of skates, gloves, and scarves. It is the same book but obviously the cover on Amazon was a concept photo and not what was actually used in publishing. Both designs are in the book in the smaller, medium size format.

Once again, I love the designs in this book but am less than pleased with the face that the publisher is printing 10 of the designs in less than full size. Admittedly, in this book, they have shrunk the designs less than in others but I wish that they would go back to all full size designs. They have included a thumbnail color sample and some sample colors used in their design for inspiration. It takes up the bottom 1 inches of the page. In the last few book I purchased, it took up a full 3 inches of the page. This information could be printed on a separate page or on the actual color sample page rather than on the coloring page. Because of the shrinking of the designs, I have detracted a star from my rating of this book.

In this book, it makes a big difference. Hello Angel books have intricate and detailed designs. By shrinking them down, it takes them from slightly difficult to challenging. I can’t recommend this book for anyone with vision or fine motor issues because of the complexity of the designs and especially for the tiny size of the designs elements.

The designs are really beautiful. They speak to both winter and to the holiday season. I really appreciate the level of detail this designer has put into her work. I like using colored pencils with really sharp points because of the tiny spaces but it is fun and something that I enjoy. The smaller designs are much more difficult to deal with but, for me, there is a way around it but it is at an additional cost.

A good number of the designs in this book (including those that were reduced in size) are available in full size in two of Design Originals anthology Christmas coloring books this year: Deck and Halls and Merry and Bright. I own all three books and it doesn’t bother me to have the duplications as buying the three books gave me most of the full size designs I wished for in this book.

This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium. In the comments section below, I will list the coloring medium I use for testing and coloring.

32 Intricate and Detailed Winter inspired designs 22 Full Size and 10 Medium Size

Printed one side of the page back of page has a softly colored design, journal lines and a quote appropriate to the subject of the coloring book

Paper is medium weight, white, slightly rough and perforated

Glue Binding

Designs stop well before the perforations

Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page quickly.

Water-based markers bleed through the page in heavy spots.

Gel pens and India ink pens can spot through to the back of the page

Colored pencils work well with the paper. Both oil and wax based pencils provide good color, layer, and blend well. Hard lead pencils can dent through the page.

I use a blotter page of card stock or heavyweight paper (two sheets0 to keep seeping ink and dents from marring the pages below. I recommend using a blotter or that you remove pages before coloring.