Art of Coloring Flowers | Leisure Arts (6806) Paperback – December 23, 2015

The media could not be loaded.    The designs are full page (edge-to-edge) and many of them are in what I call “wallpaper” style – a design that repeats its elements over and over again. There are a few pages which not in this style, so I appreciate the different styles. Many of the designs are complex and detailed and several have intricate and small details that may be difficult for individuals with fine motor or vision issues.The 24 floral designs and images in this book are licensed from AE Publications Ltd./Shutterstock, Inc. That may mean that you will have seen some of these images before in other books. I haven't seen these particular designs before, so they were new to me It is a bit surprising to me that Leisure Arts is licensing images as they have a huge group of designers in other crafts so I would expect that they would do something similar with adult coloring books. Perhaps that will happen in the future.The designs are printed on one side of the white perforated paper. The binding is stapled rather than glued or sewn. You can easily release the pages all at once by removing the staples but I prefer to remove pages one at a time at the perforations. I can easily get the book to lay flat by opening and pushing down on the binding. All of the images merge into the binding through the perforations. Nothing of importance will be lost if you remove the designs from the book.All of my markers (fine, ultra-fine, and brush) bled through the paper easily. My gel pens and India ink artist pens either bled through or left color shadows at the back of the page. My coloring pencils worked exceptionally well with this paper. All soft and hard lead pencils went on thick and creamy and I was able to easily blend both types of pencils. If you want to keep the book complete and use some of the medium that bleed through, put a blotter page under the page you are working on to keep the ink from seeping through. Otherwise, you can simply remove each page from the book at the perforations. In the comments section below,These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:Markers: 1) alcohol-based – Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) Bic Mark-its (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based – Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, and Staedler triplus finelinersIndia Ink: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens (brush tip)Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo in the following sizes - 0.28/0.38/0.5/1.0 and TekwriterColoring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castell Polychromos

Awesome coloring book! Great pictures (each on it's own page - not printed front and back), a lot of different designs (some really intricate and others less so that you can have either a challenging or relaxing coloring experience), and the paper is thick enough that markers don't bleed through to the next page. Good work, Leisure Arts! I'll definitely be ordering this book again.

Like how I can tear the pages out... Allows me to be able to place under (while im working), and pull down, turn etc I am very please with the purchase.

I really like Leisure Arts adult coloring books. Pages printed on one side and easy to remove. Good designs.

Very pretty with nice paper thickness. Best to color with sharp color pencils or fine point markers/gel pens because lots of teeny tiny prints. Very good stress reliever.

Not as many pages as i would have liked but still happy overall.

too close to the tear off lines and not able to frame a full detailed picture

Received this as a gift. Delivery was timely and I like the pictures in the coloring book.