Great Ocean and Underwater inspired designs printed one side of the page

Magical Ocean: A beautiful coloring book for adults

By: Ebony Rainn

Rating: 5 of 5

I love the artwork in this coloring book and that you get 30 designs with white backgrounds and then the same designs set up for black backgrounds (total of 60 coloring pages) is great.

The designs have a nice level of detail and are both fun and fairly easy to color. The subjects are mostly underwater creatures (including a mermaid) and shells. Having both colors of background allows me to play with different colors and come up with fairly different looking projects.
This is what I discovered while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:
30 x 2 each (total of 60 pages) ocean inspired designs. Each design is printed on both white and black backgrounds.
Printed one side of the page
Paper is typical inexpensive quality used by CreateSpace: white/black thin, slightly rough and non-perforated.
The designs do not extend into the binding area.
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.
I like to use a blotter when working in the book regardless of which medium I use. Even though you don’t see the bleed through with the black background, it does exist. 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.