Escapes Joyful Gardens Coloring Book Paperback – Import, 20 October 2016

I’m loving this book. I have several of Sngelas books and I love the zentaingle designs. I use alcohol markers as each page is single sided .Then shade, highlight etc with pencils. The drawings are not as detailed as are most of her books. I do find I love the smaller size and ivory paper. I can get thru these beautiful drawings faster and with such satisfaction. If you love Angela’s work and don’t have this book...get it

The media could not be loaded. This is my third coloring book in Creative Haven's new Escapes line. Dr. Angela Porter is a designer who is one of my absolute favorites. I always have a lot of fun coloring the beautiful and detailed designs she creates. The designs in this book celebrate flowers and gardens. There are a few other fun elements, such as birds, balloons and even a castle to make coloring all the more fun.I have a number of her books by other publishers and two in the Creative Haven line. I found that “Joyful Gardens” while detailed, is definitely less so than some of her more recent "Entangled" books. I like the change as I am able to use broader tip medium with some of the designs in this book. The garden designs are still detailed but do not contain as many intricate and tiny elements.The Escapes book does not have colored samples in it (unlike Dover's Creative Haven line.) It does have some line art on the inside of both the front and back cover. While Dover calls the paper ivory, I found that it is closer to cream color and is similar in feel to that of the Creative Haven line.With my previous books in this line, I found that while the pages are perforated, I found them a tad more difficult to remove without tearing them. I think it may have to do with the width of the book being longer. After slightly tearing a couple of pages as I tried to remove them, I put a chipboard under the page and scored over the perforations with a box cutter (though a knife or scissor would have worked as well.) Once I did that, I could easily remove the page from the book without tearing it. So far, with this book, I am keeping the pages intact.This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium:55 Detailed Garden/Flower DesignsPrinted on one side of cream/ivory color paperPaper is perforated and has a slightly smooth to to the touchBook and designs are presented horizontalDesigns stop before the perforationsDesigns have a framing line or a designed frame around the outer edge so elements are finished with no unfinished edgesGlue BoundAlcohol-based markers bleed rapidly through the paperWater based markers bleed through the paper in spotsGel pens and India ink pens left shadows of color on the back of the page.Coloring pencils worked well with this paper. I found that wax-based pencils blended with a deeper color but oil-based pencils provided a deeper coverage with less effort. I was able to layer both easily. Hard lead pencils left dents on the back of the page.I am using a blotter page of card stock or heavyweight paper below my working page. That will help stop ink and dents from marring the page below. You can also simply remove pages before coloring.

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Beautiful book.

I LOVE Angela Porters books!! This one is perfect for my mood today. Over 300 coloring books and I couldn't find one to work in. I have a whole section on this illustrator. The pictures are garden scenes filled with flowers. The pictures have a nice border around them so you can frame them. The book itself is 81/2" by 11" Not too much-just enough It is perforated for easy removal. The binding is secure. A perfect book. I hope you enjoy coloring it!!UPDATE: After many pleasant hours, what started as a ho-hum day, has been many hours of creative fun!! I am impressed with this fun and entertaining book. You need to get a copy.