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

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

Paperback – Illustrated, July 15, 2015

Price
$5.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
64
Publisher
Dover Publications
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0486804019
Dimensions
8.25 x 0.25 x 11.25 inches
Weight
7.6 ounces

Description

From the Back Cover Over 30 Beautiful Birds to ColorFrom the ruby-throated hummingbird to the monk parakeet and the great blue heron, this book features 31 realistic illustrations of songbirds, game birds, waterfowl, and many other birds in their natural habitats. A color guide appears on the inside back cover.Specially designed for experienced colorists, Creative Haven® coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment.Perforated pages printed on one side only for easy removal and display.Previously published as Birds to Paint or Color .Find your true colors with Creative Haven® and hundreds of other coloring books: www.doverpublications.com/CreativeHaven About the Author Dot Barlowe has created more than 50 Dover titles, many of them in collaboration with her late husband, Sy. Dot specializes in nature themes, and the incredible details of her drawings attest to her meticulous research. The extent of her 80-plus years of knowledge about animals and botany is surpassed only by her enthusiasm.

Features & Highlights

  • Birders, naturalists, and coloring enthusiasts will enjoy adding vibrant hues to this captivating collection of birds, from the classic to the exotic, in their natural habitats.
  • From the ruby-throated hummingbird to the monk parakeet and the great blue heron,
  • this book features 31 realistic illustrations
  • of songbirds, game birds, waterfowl, and many other birds in their natural habitats.
  • A color guide appears on the inside back cover
  • .
  • Pages are perforated and printed on one side only
  • for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists,
  • Beautiful Birds
  • and other
  • Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment
  • . Previously published as
  • Birds to Paint or Color
  • . Each title is also
  • an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.
  • Bring nature into your home in 31 realistic drawings: Enjoy breathtaking illustrations of birds from the ruby-throated hummingbird to the great blue heron, each in their natural habitat surrounded by lush foliage. You'll be inspired to color the beauty of songbirds, game birds, and other gorgeous birds.
  • Bring nature into your home in 31 realistic drawings
  • : Enjoy breathtaking illustrations of birds from the ruby-throated hummingbird to the great blue heron, each in their natural habitat surrounded by lush foliage. You'll be inspired to color the beauty of songbirds, game birds, and other gorgeous birds.
  • Color guide: An affordable and easy way to create captivating art pieces. The color guide on the inside back cover provides guidance and inspiration to help colorists complete the book's artwork with ease—or use your own custom color palette with colored pencils, crayons, gel pens, or markers.
  • Color guide:
  • An affordable and easy way to create captivating art pieces. The color guide on the inside back cover provides guidance and inspiration to help colorists complete the book's artwork with ease—or use your own custom color palette with colored pencils, crayons, gel pens, or markers.
  • Perforated pages: Pages are printed on one side only, allowing you to remove each page without bleed through the other side. Enjoy sharing your creations with family and friends, or display them proudly as custom artwork!
  • Perforated pages:
  • Pages are printed on one side only, allowing you to remove each page without bleed through the other side. Enjoy sharing your creations with family and friends, or display them proudly as custom artwork!
  • Stress relief: Get lost in a world of creativity while you de-stress with beautiful designs that will inspire your inner artist and provide relaxation. Creative® Haven Adult Coloring Books offer an effective way to reduce stress and promote mindfulness.
  • Stress relief:
  • Get lost in a world of creativity while you de-stress with beautiful designs that will inspire your inner artist and provide relaxation. Creative® Haven Adult Coloring Books offer an effective way to reduce stress and promote mindfulness.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Nice artwork of birds in nature

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.
93 people found this helpful
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Repeat pages from other books, poor quality for coloring

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.
39 people found this helpful
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Educational, beautiful, and relaxing!

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.
15 people found this helpful
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Very nice book. I like that it has the reference ...

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.
13 people found this helpful
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There are amazing birds inside to color

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.
10 people found this helpful
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It's a little difficult. You need to shade to ...

It's a little difficult. You need to shade to make it work. You need a little talent to make this work.
8 people found this helpful
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NICE book for the PRICE!

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! :)
6 people found this helpful
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Good book for nature/realistic art coloring

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.
6 people found this helpful
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Creative Haven =A Lavish, Amazing, Coloring Experience

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!!!
6 people found this helpful
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Waste of money even for the advanced!

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!
5 people found this helpful