Art of Coloring: Poster Art of the Disney Parks: 36 Postcards to Inspire Creativity
By: The Imagineers and DBG
Rating: 2 of 5
By this time, I would think I would have learned my lesson about Disney’s Art of Coloring books et al. I’ve bought most of them and, with only a few exceptions, have been mostly unhappy with them.
However, I loved going to Disneyland with my kids when they were little, so the idea of having postcards to color that commemorated the rides, etc. was too strong to deny. So I bought the cards.
The designs are simply too small. As a coloring medium, it is almost impossible to color the larger ones and, for the life of me, I can’t figure out what to do with the majority of them. I own very expensive Japanese gel pens with teeny tiny scratchy nibs and even those are too big for most of the designs. Take a gander at the design for Adventureland to see one of the worst examples of small print.
More than half of the postcards are made up of wall-paper designs (which they present as “from” a piece of poster art.) That might be true but they are simply repeating patterns that are too small to color.
I generally like to tell you know my various coloring medium work with the paper, or in this case, cardstock that the designs are printed on. I won’t be doing that this time as I am simply going to enjoy the designs for the line art. That is why this review is a 2 instead of a 1. For me, it fails for coloring but it does still have some nice line art to keep with my other Disneyana.
What is sad is that it could have been done better. It would have been great (except for the abundance of wallpaper designs) IF Disney had printed these designs in a poster size book, one sided and on the same excellent weight cardstock. What they should have done with the postcards is print the in full color. But they didn’t and this is what we are left with.
Here are some sample photos from the set of postcards:
By this time, I would think I would have learned my lesson about Disney’s Art of Coloring books et al. I’ve bought most of them and, with only a few exceptions, have been mostly unhappy with them.
