37 Beautifully Hand-drawn Animal Designs with doodles – printed on one side of page

Animals: A Mindful Coloring Book

By: Georgie Woolridge

Rating: 5 of 5

This is my third coloring book by artist, Georgie Woolridge. I have been enjoying her first two books Birds and Waterlife and now have come full circle with Animals. The designs are quite detailed without being overly intricate or too hard to color. There is an emphasis on doodle style drawings within the animals themselves. The designs are a nice blend of common and unusual animals from around the world. There are a number of animals inspired by a trip the artist took to Australia.

On the back of preceding page (opposite the coloring page), there is a thumbnail of the animal along with information about it so you can familiarize yourself with it while you color. There are also thumbnails of the animals at the end of the book along with the name of the animal and what page it is printed on. I will list the animals in the book at the end of my review.

As with Birds and Waterlife, Animals is beautifully made. The cover has a lovely colored pony with copper metallic accents. The front and back cover have fold out flaps that are decorated with colored samples of designs from the book. The book itself is slightly larger than most coloring books.

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

37 Animal Designs with lots of doodle and flower details within the line drawings.

Printed on one side of the page (with animal information on the back of the page.)

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

Sewn Binding

Most designs do not run into the binding area

Alcohol-based markers bleed rapidly through the page. I also had feathering (sideways bleeding) with my juicier Copic markers

Water-based markers and India ink pens leave slight shadows on the back of the page.

Gel pens did not bleed through but some of the larger nib pens required additional drying time.

Colored pencils worked well with the paper. I was able to get good pigment from multiple layers of the same color. I was able to layer multiple colors and to blend with a blending stick. Some of my blending was a little smeary probably due to the smooth paper. I tested both oil and wax based pencils.

I will not be removing pages from this book. Instead, I am using the set of three as some of my coffee table books while I am coloring and when I have finished the books as well. I am using a blotter page below the page I am working on to keep ink from seeping through. I generally use card stock for this purpose.

Here are the animals included in this book: Armadillo, Australian Sheepdog, Bactrian Camel, Beagle, Beaver, Bengal Cat, Blackbuck, Blue Dart Frog, Eastern Box Turtle, Galapagos Giant Tortoise, Giraffe, Gold Snub-Nosed Monkey, Highland Cattle, Indian Elephant, Jaguar, Japanese Harlequin Rabbit, Kit Fox, Koala, Lion, Mandrill, Namibian Rock Agama, Panther Chameleon, Pony, Pygmy Goat, Quokka, Red Kangaroo, Red Panda, Red Squirrel, Red-Eyed Tree Frog, Red-Sided Garter Snake, Ring-Tailed Lemur, Sea Otter, Sumatran Orangutan, Thorny Devil, Vicuna, Wolf and Zebra.