Whimsical Patterns: Butterflies, Birds, and Flowers
By: Janelle Dimmett
Rating: 4 of 5
This is my third coloring book by Janelle Dimmett. The other two were published by Pomegranate and were of a higher quality of paper. This book is published by Kindle Direct Publishing (Amazon’s in-house publishing group.)
While the paper is night and day different from each other, the designs are still the same quality from this artist. There are lots of flowers and butterflies, some birds, landscapes, etc.
The only complaint that I have is that some of the pictures seemed to have been scaled wrong for the page. In one, both edges of a bouquet of flowers are cut off just before their edge. The image would have had to been smaller to fit on the page but I would have preferred it that way.
This book has Janelle Dimmett listed as illustrated and has Francis Keene co-listed. I’m not sure what Ms. Keene’s part in the book is, perhaps as a small publisher who handled the transfer? Other of Ms. Dimmett’s independent coloring books do not list Ms. Keene.
The designs are detailed and some have intricate and small areas to color. A good number of the designs continue to and are cut off at the page ends. For me, at least, that makes it a little more difficult to color as I can’t get the same pressure on the edges that I get elsewhere on the page.
