Barn Quilts Coloring Book: Miss Mustard Seed (Majestic Expressions)
By: Marian Parsons
Rating: 5 of 5
I have been looking for a coloring book of quilts and was really pleased to find this one as it has many quilt patterns and also the beautiful country scenes. The quilt pattern designs are fairly open and easy to color. The country scenes are highly detailed and contain intricate and small areas to color. It’s a really nice mix of designs and color challenges in a single book.
This is what I found when coloring in this book and testing the paper with my various coloring medium:
55 Designs with Quilts, Barns, and Scripture quotes by artist Marian Parsons
Printed on one side of the page
Paper is medium weight, white, lightly rough and non-perforated
Glue Binding
Designs do not merge into the binding area and have a framing line at the outer edges. There is plenty of room to cut pages out if you choose to do so.
Book opens fairly flat for coloring if you crease or break the spine.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper.
Water-based markers, India ink pens and gel pens do not bleed through but do leave a colorful shadow on the back of the page.
Colored pencils work well with this lightly rough paper. I get good pigment lay down, can layer same and multiple colors, and blend easily with a pencil style blending stick with both oil and wax based pencils. Hard lead pencils can leave dents on the back of the page.
I use and recommend the use of a blotter page to keep ink and dents from marring the pages below. I use a piece of card stock or several sheets of heavy weight paper.