100 Bird and Birdhouse designs printed one side of the page

Lang Reflections Coloring Book by Tim Coffey (1020106)

By: Lang

Rating: 4 of 5

This is a lovely book of bird and birdhouse designs. The designs are quite detailed though not what I would consider intricate with small areas to color. Tim Coffey’s designs are fairly open with easy to color spaces.

My only issue with the book is that all of the designs extend to the edges of the paper on all four sides (including past the perforations and spiral binding on the bound side.) This makes it difficult to color.
The coloring book has 100 pages and is very well made. I wish most coloring books were made to this level, let alone having so many designs to choose from. It is an extremely well published book (as are all of the spiral bound Lang books.)
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:
100 Original Bird and Birdhouse designs by Tim Coffey
Designs are printed on one side of the page
Paper is medium weight, white, slightly rough and perforated
Almost all of the designs do cross over the perforations and past the spiral binding. However, if you remove pages from the book, you will lose does not contain essential elements of the design.
Spiral Binding with hard covers that help the book lay flat and provide a good coloring table
Alcohol-based markers bled through this paper only slightly. I would still use a blotter of card stock to protect the designs below my working page when using these style of markers.
Water-based markers, gel pens and India ink pens did not bleed through or leave shadows on the back of the page.
Colored pencils worked well with this paper. It has a good tooth and allowed for applying layers of the same color to get rich pigment. I could also layer multiple colors well and I could blend both oil and wax based pencils easily with a pencil style blending stick.