31 Cute Grumpy Cat Designs with an international flair and lots of patterning printed one side of the page

Creative Haven Grumpy Cat Vs. The World Coloring Book (Adult Coloring)

By: Diego Jourdan Pereira

Rating: 5 of 5

This is my second coloring book of Grumpy Cat designs. In this book, Grumpy Cat takes a whirl-wind trip around the world and shows up in various costumes from countries with a floating element that pertains to that country (for example, floating Eiffel Towers are on the French Grumpy Cat design.) The designs have a lot of gray and black included. There are small elements to color or, as I did, use a single color to put a large swathe over a bunch of the tiny elements and leave the intricate detail simply as patterning below the color.

I choose to do the cowboy grumpy cat which seemed to be the one that represented the USA. I had fun with the hotdogs floating around in space. I used a variety of markers to finish the design. I’ll post a photo of my first project as well as samples from the book.

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.

31 Grumpy Cat designs representing countries around the world

The designs are printed one side of the page

Paper is what I have come to expect from Creative Haven: 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 with most having 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 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 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.