Another Wonderful Grayscale Coloring book from Bennett Klein printed on one side of the page

Colour My SketchBook 4: GreyScale Colouring Book

By: Bennett Klein

Rating: 5 of 5

This is the fourth grayscale coloring book in the series by Bennett Klein. The designs in the book are based on Mr. Klein’s original artwork rather than photographs as many grayscale books are. While I like both styles in the genre, I am always impressed by the quality and imagination of Mr. Klein’s work.

With this book, the artist provides a table of contents with the title of each of his pieces of art. The designs are detailed and intricate in nature. Many of them include highly stylized animals and unusual takes on elegant women. They range from whimsical to more than a little bizarre. I always color the designs with tongue firmly in cheek as I think the most unusual of the designs merge comedy and elegance in a wonderful way.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper.
25 Hand-drawn sketches in grayscale based on the artwork of Bennett Klein
Designs are printed on one side of white, thin, slightly rough non-perforated paper typical of CreateSpace
Glue Binding
Easy to open to flat position for coloring
Designs do not merge into the binding and there is plenty of room to cut pages out if you choose to do so
Alcohol and water-based markers bleed through the page to some degree. Water-based bleed through in spots while alcohol-based bleed through freely
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of page. India ink can bleed through if you use multiple layers.
Colored pencils work well with this paper. Both oil and wax based provide good color when I use multiple layers of the same color. I am easily able to blend (using a pencil style blender stick) and layer multiple colors as well. I generally prefer wet blenders for grayscale designs as I have found that some designs with smear with a blender pencil. Hard lead pencils leave dents through the back of the page.
Because of the bleed through and dents, I use a blotter page below my working page. I prefer card stock but several sheets of heavyweight paper work as well.