Inkspirations Love by Design: Coloring the Divine Path to Manifest Your Soulmate
Illustrated by: Manja Burton
Rating: 4 of 5
This is a coloring book with illustrations by Manja Burton and text written by Arielle Ford. The designs are quite lovely and will be fun to color. The text (which for me, is secondary) gives advice on how to find your soulmate. As I already have mine, I gave a cursory read to the text. I am much more interested in the designs. The designs are detailed and, while a few have smaller and intricate areas to color, I don’t consider it a difficult and intricate book to color overall.
The designs each seem to be inspired by the text on the opposite side of the page. Sometimes the tie between the two is obvious and other times it is less so. For instance, “Feathering your nest” talks about decluttering your home and the picture shows a young woman on s scooter seeing clothes flying out the window of a nearby house. The text is on the facing page, so if you remove the page, the design and text will no longer be together. Additionally, there are small designs on these text pages which tie to the larger design page opposite.
This is what I found while coloring in the book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:
31 love inspired designs with advice text
The designs are printed one side of the page with text on the back of the page
Paper white, medium weight, slightly rough and has perforated pages.
Glue Binding but with perforated pages so removing a page is fairly simple.
The designs stop well before the perforations and have a framing line at the outer edges.
Book has a stay flat binding which allows the book to easily open to a flat position for coloring.
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 slight 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 lay down, layer the same color and multiple colors and to blend easily using a pencil style blender. I tested both oil and wax-based pencils with similar results.
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.
Here are some sample designs from the book:
This is a coloring book with illustrations by Manja Burton and text written by Arielle Ford. The designs are quite lovely and will be fun to color. The text (which for me, is secondary) gives advice on how to find your soulmate. As I already have mine, I gave a cursory read to the text. I am much more interested in the designs. The designs are detailed and, while a few have smaller and intricate areas to color, I don’t consider it a difficult and intricate book to color overall.
