Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book (For Adults, mindfulness coloring)
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Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book (For Adults, mindfulness coloring) Details
Review "...a coloring book even adults will want to use." - MarthaStewart.com"There are few art forms as meditative, nostalgic and all-around blissful as the coloring book.Consider trading in your yoga mat for a set of markers and peruse the gorgeous gardens of Basford's imagination." - Huffington Post"Artist Johanna Basford is at the forefront of the grown up coloring trend. Her whimsical artwork just makes us want to drop all our responsibilities and color forever." - Hello Giggles"...this book has multigenerational appeal. It's not just a coloring book, by any means. Some pages have space where the garden is incomplete so kids (and adults) can create a little flora and fauna of their own." - CoolMomPicks.com"...the prettiest coloring book of the season." - GirlsLife.com"...a sublime labyrinth of gorgeously detailed coloring pages, and yet it's so much more." - TakesAVillage.net Read more About the Author Johanna Basford is an illustrator and ink evangelist who creates intricate and hand-drawn illustrations rooted in the flora and fauna that surrounds her home in rural Scotland. Read more
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This is the list of items I use for coloring all the beautiful intricate details of this amazing coloring book.* Prismacolor Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils* Prismacolor Premier Verithin Colored Pencils* Pilot G2 07 Fine Point Retractable Gel Ink Pens-Multiple Color 20 pen pack* Small Aluminum handheld pencil sharpener* Sanford Peel-off Magic Rub #1960 EraserI color each page using all mediums, and haven't had any problems of colors seeping through to other pages, getting smudged, rubbing off or flaking off.* I keep my colored pencils sharpened and pointy to be able to color tiny areas of the designs.* I purchased the set of 150 colored pencils, but I think a set of 48, or at the most 60 colored pencils, is more than adequate.Prismacolors are easy to blend so by combining colors you can achieve the colors you need/want.If you purchase the 48 or 60 color set and later on decide you want a color not in your set, you can purchase other colors individually.* I had tried using other brands of colored pencils for a mandala coloring book, but none of the other colors had enough color pigment. So I found myself having to press hard on the pages to deposit enough color, but having Rheumatoid Arthritis made my already painful hands hurt even more.* Prismacolors are more expensive than the other brands I had, but for me it was worth the price because I was able to color without pain in my hands.
