| Are
you up for an extreme coloring challenge? Tired of mandalas,
florals and the animal kingdom? Here is a book filled with
intense drawings of cityscapes bursting with skyscrapers and
looking like New York on steroids! This book is a good size,
9¾" (25cm) square and with soft covers but decent
quality bright white paper. Pictures are printed on both sides
of the page so this is not the opportunity to use paints or
permanent markers like Sharpies, but coloring lightly with
water based pens does not produce much in the way of bleed.
Pictures do disappear into the spine but the book does open
out obligingly flat. The paper has a smooth, satiny feel to
it that is ideal for pens but lacks the tooth pencil users
prefer. I do think that this is going to be a book for fineliners
first and foremost, as the drawings are very detailed and
you need a good light and plenty of patience. These are hand
drawn images not computer scans and not a pixel in sight,
just nice black lines. If you are imagining page after page
of Manhattan skylines then think again as Mister Mourao shows
what you can do with this type of building and divides the
book into sections. The first part shows fairly straight views
of dizzying skyscrapers, but then he goes on to show how they
can bend, tie themselves in knots, explode into fragments
and even transform into zeppelins in a steampunk manner. The
last section is entitled Imagine and shows buildings in an
Escher style, as boats, spirals or in other bizarre shapes.
This book is likely to have a broad appeal across the sexes
and ages, and any men out there who are complaining that coloring
books are too girly might want to take a look at this. Refreshingly
different.
If you cannot find a good range of coloring materials
locally try www.searchpress.com
for a list of suppliers. |
