Unfortunately, I can't have plants of my own because I tend to kill them........ So I guess I can live vicariously through the coloring books featuring plants. I wish I had my mom's talent with growing things, but I don't so I choose to not torture any plants trying LOL. My big brother has a reasonably good hand at growing things. I guess I'll just let nature do its thing and enjoy it that way.
I have two books to share with you today. One is Johanna Basford's Secret Garden and had lots of lovely plants, gardens etc. shared in different ways. Some are even styled in the mandala type of format. The pages are lovely and thick so using markers and pens might fare well also. I did notice a little ink bleed in some areas, so I'd use page breaks to prevent bleed onto future pictures you'd wish to color in. Her Christmas book was technically one sided though the back of pages were light greyscale designs between the main pictures, but the Secret Garden book is two sided. Both books have lovely thick pages that any medium would work well on. I'm not the greatist with markers, I do notice when I color I have some fiber break down, so there may well be a technique of using them that avoids this effect, but I don't know of any. If your chosen medium is markers, this would be a good book to use them with.
I did get away with not having to color all the lead in items because the cover is a removeable dust cover, and I'll likely color it at some point, but it didn't fall into my "rules" of things to color first. The book cover is a cardboard one, and also didn't fall into the rules, because I'm not sure that coloring the brown cover would be viable....though I may try that as well at some point LOL. I'll share the first actual picture first as it's a garden picture, and in keeping with spring it'll be a lovely one to help bring in the time of growing.
The second book is another from Sherri Baldy. Again it features double copies of single sided pictures to do with a friend or family member. I still wish they were perforated edges, but as long as you're careful you can tear out the pictures if you wish to use them that way. This book is the My Besties Steampunk book. The pictures are very cute in her usual style of big eyed lovelies that are quick and easy to color with most pages having larger accents that are easy to see. I enjoyed coloring the one I'll share here, and used tissue to blur the edges and blend colors a bit.
Hopefully you will enjoy today's entries, and get a giggle from our way round the "rules", I look forward to hearing all about your adventures in coloring too!
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