Whimsical and Charming Journey of a Young Girl in Coloring Book format

The Time Garden: A Magical Journey and Coloring Book

By: Daria Song

Rating: 5 of 5

“The Time Garden” is the color book representation of a young girl’s journey through a magical clock. She follows a fairy into the clock and enters into a wonderful world. The story reminds me of an updated version of “Alice In Wonderland”. The story is told in a few short words on a smattering of pages. The words do not distract from the illustrations as they are kept to their separate pages.

Daria Song, the artist/writer of this book, has received advanced degrees in fine arts in her native South Korea. Early in her life, she also spent time in San Francisco and that translates into the art in this book. The designs are charming and will be a pleasure to color. I really enjoy the story book form of coloring book as a change from straight coloring. I find both to be extremely relaxing for me and sometimes the most challenging are the ones that take me out of my daily stress the most.

The book is printed on both sides of the good quality paper which seems to be the normal for the “story book” style of coloring book. I generally use my soft color pencils with these to be sure that I don’t have any ink bleed through the book onto the backside of the page. As I go along, if I want to use a gel pen or other medium, I find a title page to test the specific pen. If it is good, then I go ahead and use it.

The designs in this book include a number of intricate details and I am sure I will need to keep my magnifying lamp nearby for those bits and pieces.

This coloring book is so lovely and so much fun, I will certainly be purchasing the follow-up to it, “The Time Chamber” as soon as it becomes available. I am hoping that Ms. Song will return again in the future with more delightful and beautiful adult coloring books.

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