“Tropical World” is the second coloring book adventure by Millie Marotta. It follows her wildly successful and beautiful book “Animal Kingdom” and is every bit as gorgeous.
The book focuses on tropical flora and fauna. The drawings are so well done but the artist has gone to a higher level with her exquisitely patterned details on each and every one of the design pages.
The designs include flowers and flowers arrangements (some are in mandala-type styles), birds (including flamingos, toucan, owls, parrots, peacock and more), snakes, tiger, butterflies, elephants, frog, iguana, fish, seahorse, collage of leaves, water lilies, and so much more than I can list here.
The cover is once again gorgeous. It is beautifully drawn and has touches of color and metallic gold. The weight of the paper used is excellent; however, once again, the designs are printed on both sides of the page and the pages are not perforated.
Sixteen of the designs span across two pages so removing these may not be your choice. There are 86 pages of designs (counting both sides of each page) though less numbers of designs as some span two pages. Also, a few of the designs are set up with details drawn in on the left hand side of the page and then the artist has given us outlines on the right hand side so that we, as colorists and artists, can determine how we wish to finish it in a way that is unique to ourselves.
I will certainly be buying a second copy of this book so that I can color both sides using whatever medium I choose. This is what I have done with “Animal Kingdom”, too. Some books are simply worth having duplicate copies. If I were only buying one copy, I would stick to a soft colored pencil so that there would be no danger of ink leaking through from one side to the other.
