31 Spooky and highly detailed designs – printed one side of page

Eerie Entangled Art Coloring Book

By: Dr. Angela Porter

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a great Entangled coloring book by Dr. Angela Porter. True to her signature style, the designs are quite detailed and a few cross over into intricate and somewhat difficult to color (needing special, smaller nib pens or highly sharpened pencils.)

The designs have a Halloween/Day of the Dead vibe to them. There are lots of skulls and bats and other spooky creatures. At first glance, I don’t see any witches. There are a few jack-o-lanterns that have devilish smiles, though.

Coloring one of Dr. Porter’s designs is always a pleasure and one that can take a lot longer to finish due to the complexity of the designs. Be aware of this high detail. Because of it, I don’t recommend the book for anyone with visual or fine motor skill issues. For the rest of us, be prepared and have fun and remember its just ink and paper and there are no coloring police in real life. Have fun!

I’ve noticed that the paper quality seems to change quite frequently on the Creative Haven line. Because of that, if you buy one of these books, it may be slightly smooth or slightly rough depending on when and where it was printed. I’ve found that coloring medium, including pencils, work similarly with both slightly rough and slightly smooth paper from Creative Haven. In this case, my coloring book pages are slightly rough.

This is what I found in this coloring book and how my coloring medium works with Creative Haven books.

31 Eerie designs with lots of skulls and other spooky elements are included in the book

The designs are printed on one side of the page

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

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

The designs do not cross over the perforations

Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page

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 Creative Haven paper. I am able to get good pigment (color) lay down, layer the same color and multiple colors and to blend easily using a pencil style blender. Both oil and wax-based pencils have 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.

Here are some sample photos from the book: