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Review on 🎨 Immerse Yourself in Artistry: Prima Marketing Prima Princesses Coloring Book by Angela Rodriguez

Revainrating 5 out of 5

24 beautiful designs on heavyweight watercolor paper - printed one side of a sheet

Media could not be loaded. This is my first coloring book by the artist Faiya Sosaykum and I am really impressed not only by the beautiful design but also by the excellent quality of this book edition. There are 24 coloring pages, including 19 different princesses with flowers, two flower pages and three bookmark pages (four per page for a total of 12 bookmarks). You need to stain/paint over the bulge of the binding. Typically, the designs feature a woman (princess) with flowers woven in or around her hair. There's a good level of detail with plenty of room for blending and special effects if that's what you want with your designs. All women are beautiful and there is already a beautiful shadow in the pictures. The line drawings are done in shades of gray on thick and lightly textured ivory watercolor paper. For my first project I used Copic markers and Polychromos colored pencils. I was happy to see that both options work well with this paper. Here's what I found after coloring this book and testing the paper with different dyes: 24 pages of designs including princesses, flowers and bookmarks. One side of the sheet is printed. The paper is thick, off-white, lightly textured, not perforated, perfect bound at the top of the page. The binding is like a notepad and the pages can be completely removed by gently pulling the page out of the binding. Some of the designs extend all the way to the cover, but I had no problem coloring that area. The book opens to a flat position fairly easily. for colouring/drawing. Alcohol-based markers bleed very easily. Some colors didn't come through at all. Water-based markers and other water-based mediums, gel pens and Indian ink pens will not bleed through the paper. Colored pencils work well with this paper. Both wax and oil pastels blend well in color, layer on top of each other (same and different colors) and blend well with a pencil smudge pen. I was also able to achieve great results with a liquid mixing medium. Although very few types of color media bleed through the fantasy paper in this book, I used a cardboard blotter underneath my master page, just in case, to save ink and not smudge the pages underneath.

Pros
  • Craft
Cons
  • Power outlet required