Creative Haven Into the Woods: A Coloring Book with a Hidden Picture Twist (Adult Coloring)
By: Lynne Medsker
Rating: 5 of 5
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.