32 Adorable designs of mouse, rabbit, bird and more village scenes – printed one side of page

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Iiiireader

Serene Little Village

By: Julia Rivers

Rating: 5 of 5

I love little villages and I especially love little villages filled with cute animals dressed up in their Sunday best. This coloring book is one of the cutest I have seen in this style. The designs are detailed with lots of fun elements to color. The animals are tricked out in human garb and we see them as they go about their day in this hidden vale.

There are some areas with smaller than average elements to color but not what I would consider too difficult or hard to color.

This book is published under the imprint name of Julia Rivers but unlike many of their other books, this one does not contain the name of the actual artist(s) responsible for the book. I can only hope that the publisher will encourage that the person(s) responsible for it and we will see new books in the future.

This is what I found in this coloring book:

32 cute, cute cute designs of fantasy village of little animals creatures are in the book

Printed one side of the page

Paper is typical inexpensive quality by CreateSpace printing: white, thin, slightly rough and non-perforated.

The designs do not merge into the binding. There is a framing line at the outer edges of each design.

Glue Binding

Create Space Paper/Media Quality

Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page quickly.

Water-based markers bleed through in spots.

Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on back of the page. India ink can bleed through if you apply heavily or multiple coats.

Coloring Pencils work fairly well with this publisher’s paper provided you don’t press extremely hard while coloring. I find that I can layers the same color for deeper pigment or multiple colors and blended easily with a pencil style blending stick. This is true of both oil and wax based pencils. I have also found that hard lead pencils leave dents through the paper.

I like to use a blotter when working in this type of book. I use a page of card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper under my working page. It keeps seeping ink and marring dents from ruining the pages below.

Here are some sample design pages from the book: