34 Beautiful Elephant Designs printed with black backgrounds printed one side of the page

The Art of Marjorie Sarnat: Elegant Elephants Midnight Edition Adult Coloring Bo

By: Marjorie Sarnat

Rating: 5 of 5

I own this coloring book in the first version which was black line drawings on white backgrounds. When I saw that Marjorie Sarnat was releasing a book with black backgrounds, I purchased it immediately even though I already had the original book. I did so because I have found that designs on black background have a whole new look and vibe and it makes having the design twice a new experience the second time around.

The 34 designs in this book are beautiful and detailed. What is interesting is how much easier it is to color a detailed design with a black background. I don’t have to bother with coloring it myself and I tend towards bright and/or pastel shades with midnight books. That’s really different from what I do with Ms. Sarnat’s other books. Ms. Sarnat also took it a step further than other artists have done and reversed some of the detail elements to be mostly black with white lines on their outlines. Just this extra step makes a world of difference in how the finished design looks.
As with all of Ms. Sarnat’s coloring books, the designs are very detailed but don’t have tiny, intricate details that are hard to color. There are a number of doodle style designs as well as designs which feature other types of details added to the hides of the elephants. This makes coloring fun as you can color the creatures in any fashion you can imagine.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:
34 Detailed Elephant Designs by Marjorie Sarnat
Printed on one side of the page
Paper is medium weight, white with black backgrounds printed, slightly rough and non-perforated
Glue Binding
Designs do not merge into the binding area and there is enough room to cut pages out if you choose to do so.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper. Water-based markers bleed through in tiny spots (mostly leaving colorful shadows on the back of the page.) I suggest you use a heavyweight blotter page of card stock or several sheets of paper below your project page if you are using alcohol-based markers. This will keep seeping ink from ruining the pages below.
Gel pens and India ink pens do not bleed through the paper but do leave colorful shadows on the back of the page.
Colored pencils work extremely with this paper. I tested both oil and wax based pencils and got good results with color, layers of the same color, layers of different colors, and blending with a pencil style blending stick.