30 Beautiful angel designs – printed one side of the page

Lovely Angels

By: Juliana Emerson

Rating: 5 of 5

This is the second “character” coloring book I have purchased by Juliana Emerson. I own several others of her works (generally flowers or animals) and have also purchased other Happy Coloring books as well.

I’m amazed once again at how lovely her character books are turning out. I enjoy her other books but these are even more special. The designs are detailed without being too intricate.

There are a wide variety of “angels” and they will all be fun to color. The one that caught my eye as being both different and quite elegant is the ballerina angel. That will certainly be my first project in this book.

Unlike “Fantasy Kingdom” (her last character book), this book is in standard size coloring book format. Also, I noticed that some of the issues I had with lines around the faces and necks being too stark in the last book is not an issue in “Lovely Angels”.

I want to note that the Amazon owned company, CreateSpace is now being folded into KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing.) These independent artist books will move along into the new group shortly if they have not already done so by now. According to what I’ve read, the same warehouses and printing presses will be used. No mention is made of paper but one assumes that it will be the same as well.

This is what I found in this coloring book:

30 Angel inspired figures (women, girls and boys)

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. The designs have framing lines at the outer edges.

Glue Binding

KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing – formerly CreateSpace) 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 examples from the coloring book: