20 Carousel inspired designs by David Palmer – printed one side of the page

Carousel: a Coloring Jones coloring book for adults: featuring the horses, menagerie animals and design motifs of classic American merry-go-rounds (Coloring Jones coloring books)

By: David Palmer

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a lovely little carousel inspired coloring book. While most of the line art designs in the book are of carousel animals, some are highlights of other parts of a carousel. I grew up near the Santa Monica Pier and was delighted to find that it was featured in this book.

The designs are open and fairly easy to color with lots of room for blending. An unusual feature of the coloring book is that there is a blotter page behind each design page. I’ve found that while it is enough to stop most water-based markers from leaking through (two pages), it is not enough to stop alcohol-based markers. I suggest using extra pages or a heavy duty page such as card stock behind your working page. The extra page is still very nice to use for testing color schemes, etc.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:
20 carousel inspired designs in a smaller format book (8.5 x 8 inches)
Printed one side of the page
Paper is typical of CreateSpace: white, thin, slightly rough and non-perforated.
Designs do not merge into the binding and there is plenty of room to cut out pages if you choose to do so. A cutting line is provided as a guide
Glue Binding
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 blending stick. I tested both oil and wax based pencils. I also found that hard lead pencils leave dents through the paper.