30 Beautiful Garden Fairy Designs in grayscale designs printed on one side of the page

Garden Fairies Grayscale Coloring Book: Featuring the Early Works of Molly Harrison

By: Molly Harrison

Rating: 5 of 5

I own a number of coloring books by Molly Harrison both in grayscale and in line drawings. I always enjoy her signature style. This coloring book is different as it is based on her earlier artworks. I can see where Ms. Harrison’s style evolved from but the designs are quite different and are beautiful as well. My previous books showed either adult or young children in fantasy. The fairies in this book seem to be more of a young teenager to young adult. As such, they bridge the gap between the subjects of my other books.

The designs are detailed and contain some intricate areas to color. The grayscale is done in lighter tones so I have more control over shading than I do with books done with darker tones.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper.
30 Garden Fairies inspired fantasy designs in grayscale based on the earlier artwork of Molly Harrison
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. There is a double framing line at the outer edge of each design.
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.