Happy Colouring!
Reviewed by Kourtney Ann Ferro
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Artist Kimberly Garvey, while has created endless quilt-like patterned paintings and designs, has illustrated her first colouring book, Strange Designs. Her doodles are fun and quirky, as well as stress relieving. You'll find aspects of nature (palm trees being my favorite motif in her book) mixed into a zentangle type theme. Her book could provide endless hours of colouring in with the 36 designs. Give them life with bold, vibrant colours, but be sure to slip a piece of paper between pages (as she well instructs on the first page) as markers will bleed through. Luckily they are only one-sided prints, a common liked interest within the adult colouring community. Seems like more artists are listening :) My only tiff with the book was all the blackened parts. I would've loved for them to be left white, leaving more room for colour. I had one of the girls from my colouring club colour in this one (I just went back and touched it up with some layering and blending). She LOVED it when I had it displayed at our first get together. It was her first colouring in as an adult and was coloured so nicely (I simply just gave it a bit of Colour Your World love) Lets get weird with these playful illustrations by Kimberly! Her colouring pages are continuously popping up more and more within the colouring groups across facebook, including the group that I created! It's becoming quite popular among the adult colouring world! So pop on over to Kimberly's website where you can watch a video of the book and be sure to take a look at her other works of art. You can purchase Strange Designs here, on Amazon. Thank you to Kimberly for sending me her lovely book for review!
Happy Colouring! Reviewed by Kourtney Ann Ferro
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5/15/2015 08:31:36 am
Thank you so much for this wonderful review. I will keep in mind your suggestion to leave out the black spaces. When I started these drawings I had no idea I was going to make them into a coloring book. I was nearly a year into the drawings when a teenage girl at a party suggested that I put them into a coloring book.
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The "Colorista"I'm Kourtney, and I'm a mother of two litle girls and the wife of a Navy sailor. I review colouring books and products for publishers and art supply companies to give my Coloristas a guide to buying and growing their collections. And of course I love to colour any chance I get (mostly when the kids are asleep!)
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