Color Me Your Way 5
By: Pamela Smart
Rating: 5 of 5
The designs are quite detailed with lots of doodle elements within the various animals. This makes for a wonderful coloring experience with lots of opportunity to play with colors and shading. As the book is quite large, the details are clear and are easy to color with a wide variety of coloring elements.
I’m so pleased with the way the book is published the spiral binding makes it easy to lay the book flat and to get to all corners of the design (which have framing lines at the outer edges to finish off all of the elements for a clean look.) By using larger format, the artist can give us large designs without printing cross a binding. It simply makes coloring easier as well as tremendous fun.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper.
25 pages of detailed animal designs including 24 large format designs and 2 card size designs.
Printed on one side of the page
Paper is heavyweight, white, lightly smooth and perforated.
Spiral bound
Designs stop well before the perforations and spiral binding. Designs have framing lines at the outer edges
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page. I use card stock or heavy weight paper below my working page if I use this type of medium. It keeps ink from seeping through to the next page. You can always remove pages from the book before coloring as well.
Water-based markers, India ink pens and some gel pens leave a very light shadow on the page.
Colored pencils work really well with this paper. I tested both oil and wax based pencils and could get good pigment on the page. I was able to layer the same and multiple colors easily. Blending with a pencil style blender worked well, too.