20 Fun and Fanciful Halloween Faery coloring designs printed one side of the page

Halloween Faeries Coloring Book

By: Amy Brown

Rating: 5 of 5

I am having a lot of fun with Amy Brown’s light-hearted book of Halloween faeries. The designs are extremely cute and are easy to color. The artist’s sense of humor is evident from the cauldron on legs to what looks like her take on Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors.

The 20 designs are of cute fairies dressed in Halloween clothes and in Halloween settings. There is a nice level of detail to the line drawings without anything too intricate. I’m always looking for cute Halloween coloring books and this one is certainly cute. I own another Amy Brown coloring book so I knew the great quality of artwork to expect.

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.

20 Halloween Designs featuring Faeries by Amy Brown

Printed one side of the page

Paper is thin, white, slightly rough, and non-perforated. It is standard for any books published by CreateSpace.

Glue Bound

Designs do not merge into the binding and there is space to cut pages out if you want to do so.

Book opens fairly flat for coloring if you break or crease the spine.

Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper rapidly.

Water-based markers bleed through in spots.

Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on the back of the page which show colors easily. India ink pens can seep through in spots if used heavily or in multiple coats.

Colored pencils worked nicely with this thin but slightly rough paper. I tested both oil and wax based pencils and got good color with multiple layers of the same color, good results from layers of different colors and nice blending results using a blending stick. Hard lead pencils easily dent through the page and can damage the page below.

I suggest using a blotter page of card stock or a couple of sheets of heavier weight paper under your working page. It can keep seeping ink and marring dents from ruining the pages below.