Jasmine Becket-Griffith Coloring Book: A Fantasy Art Adventure

Great coloring book for when you need to relax a bit

Beautiful drawings. My wife loved this as a gift for her art fixation. Very well made amd great value

The media could not be loaded. When I think of beautiful girls in fantasy art, Jasmine Becket-Griffith is one of the first names that comes to my mind. She has brought her ethereal girls to a coloring book in an outstanding fashion. There are 46 pages of coloring art filled with 55 different images. There are 43 full page designs and three pages which include 4 each smaller designs. It is interesting to get the smaller ones and I appreciate that by doing the publishing this way, I get more to color. The artist mentions that it was difficult to choose which artwork to put in the book, as she has so much to choose from. I think she did an excellent job and my response is – come out with more coloring books! That should solve the dilemma!The designs are on the right hand side of the book. On the sheet opposite (which is the backside of the previous design), the artist ha provided the name of the artwork and when it was created and for what purpose. She then gives us some background information as to how and why she created the artwork the way that she did. I think this is fantastic. It really gives a new layer of enjoyment to the process of coloring.I'm torn about the actual coloring. Her artwork is so fantastic, I am tempted to mimic it (though mine would be a pale and less than stellar shadow.) On the other hand, it is fantasy and now it can become my fantasy if I decide to color it my way. Knowing my tendencies, I am sure to color it my way in the end.This coloring book is printed with designs on one side of the non-perforated page. There is wording (as discussed above) on the back of the page. The paper is a nice heavyweight cream and the book is a standard coloring book size (about the size of a standard sheet of paper.) There is a beautifully illustrated dustcover; however, the inside of the cover is blank where other publishers sometimes print something that can be colored. The binding is sewn so if you wish to remove a few pages at a time, you can do so with a few snips of thread. Each of the designs (including the smaller ones) has a thin framing line around the outside. I really appreciate being given a natural stopping point as it saves me time and ink as well as giving me a more finished looking project.All of my alcohol-based markers bled through on this paper. None of my water-based markers did. My gel pens did not bleed through or leave shadows or indents on the back of the page. My coloring pencils worked well for their type of core (soft or hard.) My pencils were especially easy to blend with this paper which is fantastic given the style of design. I will certainly be using alcohol-based markers for at least the first layer, so I will be putting a blotting sheet below the page I am working on. My current favorite is chipboard as I can reuse it over and over but you can also use card stock, file folders, or even a few pieces of regular paper (be careful to check how many sheets you need first.) For anyone interested, I will list the coloring medium I used for my tests in the comments below.

The Jasmine Becket-Griffith Coloring Book is another amazing coloring book! It's actually the artist's debut coloring book, but I purchased her Halloween Coloring Book first. This one also contains 55 of her Strangling portraits as line drawings for our coloring pleasure. 43 are full page illustrations, and the other 12 are quarter pages (quicker to color, but no less gorgeous and detailed). The pictures range from cute to creepy, and there’s a wide variety of girls. There’s mostly fairies and angels, but there's also some witches, pirates, and fairy tale characters!The Jasmine Becket-Griffith Coloring Book is very high quality. While it is a paperback, the cover is sturdy cardboard with a nice dust jacket over it. The paper for the coloring pages is very thick, slightly textured, and off white. I primarily used colored pencils and gel pens, which glide right over the pages with no problem. I also used markers, which only leave very faint shadows on the back of the page. However, the pictures are printed single-sided so that’s not something you need to worry about. The backs of the pictures actually have a short paragraph describing the picture on the facing page, which is a very nice touch.Even though the pictures are single sided, the pages are not perforated for easy removal (probably because of the descriptions). However, all of the pictures have a lined border around them. I love this for two reasons. One, none of the pictures run into the binding! Two, it gives a natural stopping point for the backgrounds. So, if you would like to remove your finished pages, or the page you’re working on, you certainly can since there’s plenty of space between the coloring area and the binding.If you’re looking for a cute and whimsical coloring book, the Jasmine Becket-Griffith Coloring Book is it! There’s a range of details to suit any mood and coloring ability. Some pages have a lot of wide spaces, some have a lot of little details, many have a mix of details and larger areas to fill in. The girls in the pictures are absolutely adorable and there's several familiar faces among the bunch. It’s easy to let your imagination run wild when choosing colors, or you can always look up the artist’s original work for some ideas.