26 Beautiful Grayscale Mythological Designs printed one side of the page

Colour My Sketchbook MYTHIC

By: Bennett Klein

Rating: 5 of 5

I own a number of Bennett Klein’s coloring books and have been amazed at his beautiful fantasy images (as well as his recent animals in Wild.) In Mythic, Mr. Klein and his daughter Mae Klein give us a wonderful vision of his take on mythological creatures. There are vampires, Kraken, Medusa, cyclops, sphinx, trolls and much more. One of my favorites is of Athena in part because of my Greek heritage but also because it is stunningly beautiful.

The designs are done in grayscale and with touches of line drawings. There are a couple of designs which are line drawing symbols rather than creatures and with light gray for accent. All but three of the designs are printed primarily on white background with the three exceptions done on a black background.
Because of the way the designs are presented, I will be able to use both my markers and my colored pencils while coloring in this book. I really like this as this is my preferred coloring method (markers for background and pencils for details.)
As with his latest two released coloring books, this is done as a collaborative effort with his daughter Mae Klein. The artists have once again provided a table of contents with the title of the designs. The titles are indicative of the mythical creatures more so than a fantasy style title as I have found in previous books.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper.
26 Hand-drawn grayscale designs based on mythological creatures
Designs are printed on one side of thin, slightly rough non-perforated paper typical of CreateSpace. All of the paper is white; even the one with black background, (it is black tone printed on white paper.)
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 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. 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 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.