Beautiful and inspirational story and designs by Hannah Lynn printed one side of the page

I Dream in Color: An Inspirational Journey Coloring Book

By: Hannah Lynn

Rating: 5 of 5

I own several coloring books by Hannah Lynn and have enjoyed all of them. I Dream In Color is beyond a doubt my favorite. It is so inspirational in its makeup and has beautiful illustrations to color as well. It describes the journey of someone who is brave and strong and gives beautiful illustrations of that journey.

The book starts with a six page story about the girl whose story is followed through the coloring pages. These pages include areas to color. At the end, there is a surprise page about the identity of the girl. Then follows some wonderful journal pages, the first nine pages of this journal area are done as illustrated pages you can color and the remaining five are simple journal pages with lines and a few illustrations. This is something I have never seen before but which makes perfect sense and adds so much to the coloring book.
In addition to the above, there are a full 27 pages of coloring designs. They include the beautiful girl with huge eyes but they also include very detailed background elements as well. I am used to designs from Ms. Lynn which focus almost entirely on the person so it is great to get illustrations that are more balanced with background. I’m having a lot of fun with this book.
Here is what I found while coloring in the book and testing the paper with my coloring medium:
27 Full Design pages, 7 story pages with designs to color, 9 journal pages with designs to color and 5 journal pages
Designs are printed on one side of 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 have a double framing line at the outer edges
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 or apply heavily.
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. Hard lead pencils leave dents through the back of the page.
Because of the bleed through and dents, I suggest (and use) a blotter page below my working page no matter what medium I use. I prefer card stock but several sheets of heavyweight paper work as well.