Adult Coloring Beautiful Birds Coloring Book (Adult Coloring Books: Animals)

Beautiful variety of birds in natural habitats, some with wide open spaces, others with a good bit of detail. I like to color scenery and wildlife, and this looks to be one of the better ones in my collection. I bought this sight unseen based on my enjoyment of other Dot Barlowe coloring books. This book will work best with colored pencils in my opinion.
As with all Creative Haven coloring books, the pages are perforated and single sided.

Pro:
many types of birds with many types of backgrounds
Perforated pages so you can share a book with someone else- I get birds, father in law gets flowers, and we give each other half the pages

Con: 1. There are repeat pages from other non-Bird coloring books, like a tropical island themed book I bought. This is ridiculous. If you color for artistic reasons, for fun, to reduce stress, or for medical/therapuetic reasons (helping with focus, brain fog,distraction from pain,hand rehab), nobody wants to spend the money on several books and find they have the same pictures in them. It never occurred to me that if I buy from the same company that the pictures would be the same as in other books they produce.

2. Pages are not white, they are off white or recycled paper, they are not thick either so using pens or non-pencil items may be a problem, not good quality like Millie Marotta. It is not the thinnest paper but not what I expected.

3. The pictures are the biggest problem-there's a lot of pointless lines that ruin them. Most good books have well defined, black lines with either tiny detail space or big spaces, but the lines are all placed solely for the purpose of outlining or coloring within that space. This book has a lot of haphazard shading or pencil sketch marks that are within the space to be colored. If you have a log, I don't mind a few inner lines for definition but when there's a body of water, full of lines, they are not definition lines, they fill the space and unless you color it really dark, you will see them and it looks bad. You cannot really use them as definition lines because there are so many. It is not meant for coloring.

I absolutely love this coloring book! The pictures are gorgeous. It has a handy guide on the back, inside cover that tells what each bird is, and the colors the bird's plumage should be.
Something I really enjoy about all Creative Haven coloring books is the pages are scored for easy removal from the books. Which makes the pictures easier to color since you're not contending with the spine of the book, or constantly having to hold the previous pages from closing over the picture you're trying to color.

Very nice book. I like that it has the reference in the back of the book to find the name of the birds and the colors that they are. I just looked up the name of the bird on the internet and found pictures of the bird that I am working on to get them correct. I am an artist and plan on using this as a good reference book later.

I get my inspiration for coloring animals on "Pinterest .com". Do you remember when you were a kid and you colored the trees etc all kinds of colors that didn't make sense to you. Well just look on "Pinterest " for ideas like I did. I saw pictures of the most beautiful birds in the world. Some of them had 3 or more colors. And the colors were turquoise, yellow, orange, lavender etc. I just wanted to experience coloring birds with these amazing colors for myself and to know yes, these birds are real. This is one of the bird coloring book that I felt I could color.

It's a little difficult. You need to shade to make it work. You need a little talent to make this work.

Most of the illustrations are nicely drawn and I love the coloring guide at the back of the book. I would have given the book 5 stars, had it provided a little information on the birds themselves such as their song or what part of the States they normally can be found. I would gladly pay more for such a book. All in all, I'm happy with my purchase. Also, the book arrived quickly! :)

This is a beautiful book. I love this kind of art for coloring. I don't care for the mandelas and prefer nature and realistic art. The pictures are one-sided (Yeah!). The designs are well laid out for coloring.

Incredibly beautiful! I can't stop ordering the Creative Haven library of color books! Detailed, each book is so different, & great for artists of any skill set!!!

VERY poor book! One reviewer puppluv stated it well! Aimless lines not conducive to definition in the pictures, repeat pictures found in other books, poor drawings. The pages do not have much tooth at all for colored pencils at all. Did not hold up to even mixed media of colored pencils and watercolor pencils even with a very light touch of water or mixed water based blenders like Stampin' Up. Some of my pages had along the whole edge length 3/4 - 1" black smudge streaks from top to bottom! What a waste of money!