30 Cute and Festive Animal Christmas Designs printed one side of the page

Magical Christmas Adult Coloring Book

By: Cindy Elsharouni

Rating: 5 of 5

I own several coloring books by Cindy Elsharouni. I’ve found her designs to be a lot of fun to color, especially those designs which include horses. In her new Christmas book (which is noted as a limited edition), she has a variety of animals in scenes which are inspired by the holidays. The vase majority of the designs are of dogs and horses but there are a few other animals (cats, donkey, etc.) scattered throughout.

I like that Ms. Elsharouni leaves a lot of room for me to play with fur techniques, shading, and adding my own elements. I can either color the design as-is, or have fun with adding my own designs into the picture. Either way, it is always a pleasant time coloring her designs of animals.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium.
30 Animal designs with Holiday/Christmas inspired motifs
Printed one side of the page
Paper is white, thin, slightly rough and non-perforated typical of CreateSpace published coloring books.
Glue Binding
Some designs merge into the binding area; however, most do not
Book opens fairly flat for ease of coloring
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page quickly.
Water-based markers bleed through in spots.
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on back of the page. India ink can bleed through if you apply heavily or multiple coats.
Coloring Pencils work well with this paper. I found that I could layers the same color for deeper pigment or multiple colors and I could blend easily using a pencils style blending stick. Both wax and oil based pencils worked well with the paper. Hard lead pencils can leave dents through the page.
I like to use a blotter when working in the book. I use a page of card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper under my working page. It keeps seeping ink and marring dents from ruining the pages below.