Dover Creative Haven Art Nouveau Animal Designs Coloring Book

These Marty Noble books are a great hobbie for adults - it's fun to figure out what colors to use and how to do the shading and bringing the images to vivid life with bright colors. It demands serious concentration which makes it very relaxing as all thoughts have to leave your head so you can work on the complicated designs - it's almost a form of meditation. And, when you are done you have a beautiful drawing (I use colored pencils, my favorite medium), suitable for framing. These Art Nouveau Animal Designs are particularly lovely. Art Nouveau is French for "New Art," it was an art movement that brought nature into design (flowers, birds, all kinds of animals) and believed art should be part of everyone's everyday life. For instance, art should not just be something you go and see at a museum, your house and furniture should be artistically designed, the knives and forks you eat with should be artistically designed - that's why you can see art nouveau styled household objects like lamps and chairs, because we should all be living with art. Art Nouveau, and it's philosophy, later lead to the Arts & Crafts movement.

This is a GORGEOUS colouring book. The images are all beautiful! There is a great variety and each image fits the art nouveau theme quite well. The only page that seems "off" is one featuring a cat and a cocker spaniel, since most others are wildlife. There are many underwater and fish designs which I looove. - All images have a black border and don't go to the edge of the pages (typical of art nouveau). The pages are perforated for easy tearing out! - There a little over 30 pages (not sure exactly how many since I tore some out), and they are printed on only one side of the page. - The quality of the paper is great. I'm not sure it's thick enough to watercolour heavily but if you use markers, you'll be thrilled with the one-sided pages. - The print quality is perfect (you can see this in my review pic). All lines are crisp and clean and that doesn't vary by page like others I've used. Overall, this is one of my favourites and I'd definitely consider buying another one as a gift for anyone who uses books like these! This is a fantastic price for the quality and the number of pages. Loving these Marty Noble books.

Full of beautiful pictures.... Each page is full of detail, and fun to color.... Love this brand so many different kinds of books tho choose from. I looked over all kinds of reviews before making a purchase, I looked over lots of the pictures posted as well. Very impressed with them. Have only colored a few pictures, but a great way to pass time. I would recommend for anyone who may be recovering from a surgery like myself. I also purchased staedtler triplus fineliner 0.3 mm 36 pack which included the neon colors, I would recommend them. Love them i may try and find some a little bigger. But these are great for small details. I also purchased a pack of Lolliz gel pens 48 pack, tip range from 0.6 to 1.0. I DO NOT recommend them for the following reason they take a while to dry, i have smeared multiple places on the pages. Not fun tho cover up. I plan on returning the Lolliz gel pens. I will try again with a different brand for now i will use the 16 pack I bought at Wal-Mart. I also made a page protector out of a placemat from the dollar store. A child's plastic one, cut it in half, rounded the coners. I place it behind the page I'm Coloring as a precaution, it also helps with keeping my place in the book. They may make something like this but it only cost a dollar and it works so well. Just make sure it's smooth or when you use color pencils it will leave a texture. Plus at times I push hard on the page this stops it from denting or leaving an impression on the next page. I hope sharing my experience, thoughts and ideas help you. Reading other peoples reviews is what helped me making a decision on my purchases.

This is one of the first coloring book that I bought from Amazon. I love all of the beautiful animals design. If you like coloring animals this is the perfect coloring book for you. I enjoyed all the time I have spent in coloring the many birds, fish, horse, monkeys, insects, cats, dogs, butterflies, sea creatures, there are even a pair of chicken and more. All fun to color. This coloring book have over 30 beautiful pages to color and bring to life with the colors of your choice. This book is printed on bright white medium weight paper. The design are only printed on one side of the page, the back is blank. I have used color pencils, gel pens, and markers in this coloring book. I use a heavy cardstock between each page to protect the next design. I recommend this beautiful coloring book to anyone who loves to color.

have colored most all the illustrations. very enjoyyable.

formato grande, un libretto di non tantissime pagine, con disegni solo su una facciata e la possibilità di staccare i fogli poiché sono traforati all'interno vari disegni coi contorni fini e sul tema della natura, compreso il pavone della facciata, che è stato la ragione per cui l'ho preso sinceramente rispetto ad altri album, un po' una delusione, pensavo di trovare chissà che.... invece liberty forse vuol solo dire.... disegni di animali. ok sono ignorante!!!!

Les dessins sont superbes, on prends plaisir a rentrée dans cet univers, et a y mettre de la couleur. Je le recommande vivement !

片面印刷で切り取れます。 数えてみたところ、イラストは31枚ありました。 色鉛筆で塗ったので裏面が染みる事はありませんでしたが、手持ちの「自律神経を整えるぬり絵」に比べると紙は薄いです。 塗り心地(触り心地)にあまり差はないように感じました。 動物、特に鳥類多めです。 魚や昆虫(蝶トンボ蝸牛)等も出て来るので、飽きなくて良いかも？！ デザインはどれも素敵で大満足です。 私は片面切り取りが大前提でぬりえを探し歩いたのですが、日本のぬりえ本は両面タイプが多くて… あとデザインが小さすぎたり、線が薄かったり細いのもストレスになるので避けています。 このcreative havenシリーズ？はそんな私の要望を満たしてくれています。 普通の本屋さんには置いてないので、手に取って中身を確認出来ないのが残念ですね。 もう少し厚みがあれば☆5でした。

This is just so lovely, too nice to colour in! The designs are intricate enough to really immerse yourself in, and the paper is reasonable quality, though a little on the thin side. The pictures are printed both sides, so bleed through has been a slight problem. I would recommend using coloured pencils.