Kerby
Rosanes taps into the gothic world in his latest coloring
book. For those unfamiliar with his style it is intricate,
beautiful, quirky, busy and makes you look, and look again!
On the front cover there is the caption “An extreme
colouring and search challenge” which puts it in a nutshell,
for as you color in the nineteen pictures (plus This Book
Belongs To page) there are things to find. Turn to the back
of the book for a double page spread showing all of them and
see how many you can spot. If you get stuck there are also
pages of answers, a useful feature. The book has bright white
paper with the images printed on only one side of the page
so you can use felt tips with a light hand if you put some
paper underneath while you work. The paper is thin to medium
weight, fairly smooth quality so I would not advise using
markers like Sharpies or paint. Some of the 9¾”
square pictures vanish into the spine but this book does open
fairly flat being quite thin; there are no dotted lines for
easy removal. All of these images are on one page, there are
no two page spread this time so the pictures could be mounted
on a wall in groups. I would personally love to see a larger
format edition as has happened with some of Mr Rosanes’
other titles; these pictures are great small but would look
even better large! Choose from a skull erupting into butterflies,
a clockwork spider in a decorated web, steampunk cat, beetles
made from jewels and a forest made from fancy swords. Everything
is drawn as usual in pen with not a pixel in sight and nice,
visible black lines for many hours of coloring pleasure. One
of the best series of coloring books around.
Reviews
of other titles in this series
Imagimorphia
Mythomorphia
Fantomorphia
Geomorphia
Colourmorphia
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