31 Sweet Cat and Dog Designs with background details printed one side of page

Creative Haven Lovable Cats and Dogs Coloring Book (Adult Coloring)

By: Ruth Soffer

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a very cute coloring book for cat and dog lovers. The designs are of cats and dogs together or separately. It makes for a nice variety of designs. The drawings have a nice level of detail with good backgrounds as well. A number of animal books I own are of just the animal without any form of background. In these designs, the backgrounds are both inside and outside.

The animals have a nice level of detail as well but leave plenty of room for adding your own finishing touches. You can choose make them a single color or to change it up a bit and make them multiple colors. I like the freedom this provides while I am coloring the designs.

What I did miss was the framing line that most Creative Haven coloring books have on the outer edges of the designs. It made it more difficult to have a nicely finished project. Otherwise, I really liked the designs in the book.

I decided to do a design of a kitten and a puppy snuggling in sleep as my first project. I had fun using my oil-based pencils and adding fur to the animals. I’ll post a photo of my first project as well as samples from the book.

This is what I saw 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.

31 Cat and Dog designs some with cats and dogs together and some where they are shown separately.

The designs are printed one side of the page

Paper is the usual Creative Haven quality: white, medium weight, slightly smooth and has perforated pages.

Glue Binding but with perforated pages so removing a page is fairly simple.

The designs stop well before the perforations

Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper

Water-based markers bleed through in spots and show colorful shadows 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 when I apply more than one layer of ink.

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

I suggest either removing pages from the book to color or using a blotter page under your working page. I like card stock as it keeps ink from seeping through and damaging the pages below.