40 Lovely swirling designs mostly flowers and some animals designs printed one side of page

Adult Coloring Books: Floral Garden Coloring Books for Adults Relaxation (Flowers, Animals, and Gardens)

By: Adult Coloring Books

Rating: 4 of 5

This is a coloring book which has a variety of subjects in it. The title does not specify which; however, on the title page it does mention gardens and floral animals. I would say the majority of the designs have flowers in them.

It is fairly obvious that many of the elements of a design are reused over and over within the design (e.g., the same flower in different sizes and flipped and angled differently throughout the design.) Some elements are repeated within more than one design. Having said that, the designs are still pleasing to color. These are not wall-paper style designs (though there are a few of those in the book) where a design is filled with repeats over and over again. I just wish there was a little more variation on the repeated elements.
The designs are detailed and fun to color. Some of the designs have intricate and small areas to color. These may require small nib pens/markers and thin, sharp pencil points for coloring. Because of this, I don’t recommend this coloring book to any one who has fine motor or vision issues.
This is what I discovered while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:
40 Detailed and Swirling Designs with emphasis on flowers and animals
Printed one side of the page
Paper is typical inexpensive quality such as that used by CreateSpace: white, thin, slightly rough and non-perforated.
Some designs merge into the binding; however, most do not. Most have unfinished elements at all four edges of the edges with blank space beyond.
Glue Binding
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 well with this paper. I found that I could layers the same color for deeper pigment or multiple colors and I could blend easily using a blending stick. I tested both oil and wax based pencils. I also found that hard lead pencils leave dents through the paper.
I like to use a blotter when working in the 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.