28 Forest Designs with hidden objects mostly emphasis on trees printed one side of page

Creative Haven Into the Woods: A Coloring Book with a Hidden Picture Twist (Adult Coloring)

By: Lynne Medsker

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a coloring book with a hidden picture twist. Usually, I ignore the hidden images because they are random items, such as jewels, cups, etc. which do not pertain to the overall image. In Into the Woods the hidden objects are relevant to the designs as they are items which you would find in forests and streams. It made it fun to find them and color them to become part of the overall picture. In my first project in the book, I even found an imagine that wasn’t a hidden image after all.

The designs are of mostly trees their branches and roots. Some of the designs expand further and include other parts of the woods including streams, grassland, sky, and horizon. The designs have doodle elements which make them detailed in nature. However, though they are detailed, I did not find them intricate or difficult to color. I’ll post a photo of my first project as well as samples from the book.

The book includes a key at the front of the book that shows you the hidden images and even tells you which plates or designs on which they are included. At the back of the book, there are several pages of solutions which show you were the hidden objects are on the design. I think these extra pages are the reason why this book has only 28 designs when Creative Haven usually provides 31 in their 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 for coloring.

28 Forest inspired Designs with doodle art and hidden images

Printed one side of the page

Paper is white, medium weight, slightly smooth and has perforated pages.

Glue Binding but you can remove pages at the perforation easily

The designs stop well before the perforations and have a framing line around the outer edge

Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper

Water-based markers bleed through in spots on the back of the page

Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page. India ink pens can bleed through if you apply heavily or with with multiple layers.

Coloring pencils work well with this paper. I was able to use both wax and oil based pencils equally well. They lay down good color, layer the same color and multiple colors and blend easily using a pencil style blender. Hard lead pencils, like Verithins, leave dents on the back of the page.

I either use a blotter page under my working page or I remove pages from the book to color. I like card stock for my blotter page but a couple of sheets of heavyweight paper works as well.