Beautiful Birds and Treetop Treasures

Very beautiful

Exquisite. Beautiful designs with a range of intricate, less intricate images. Thick paper which takes wet [ish] media. Have used watercolour and acrylic washes for backgrounds. Look online and Instagram for examples of Millie's work which people have completed. Very beautiful and inspiring colourists out there. These MM books are the least twee books I have come across so far. No fairies or dragons here.

Me encanta esta autora y sus libros pero me choca que se traspasa de una hoja a otra si coloreas con plumas o plumones, siempre tienes q sacrificar el dibujo de la parte de atrás...

Beautiful photos on quality card-stock. The paper is thick enough that you can erase your mistakes without damaging the paper. The drawings are absolutely gorgeous :)

As the whole collection of coloring books by Millie Marotta this is another beautiful book with many different kind of birds and other animals. Quality paper, tick and nice white pages that holds watercolor and make easy coloring with most brands of coloring pencils. Perfect fitting of illustrations on both sides of the pages. Delivery was right in time as always.

I own all of Millie Marotta's previous animal theme coloring books and some of her postcard books as well. In “Beautiful Birds” Ms. Marotta has focusing first and foremost on various Birds but does include an interesting number of other animals which favor living in trees. At the end of the book, there is a listing of the birds and animals (in page order) with both their common name and their Latin name. As with all of her coloring books, the designs are detailed without being intricate. The illustrations are beautifully done. There are a number of designs that cross over the binding and, in my copy, they line up well but it is difficult to get into the binding area to color. Some of the designs are done twice – on the left side with lots of detail and then again on the right side (facing each other) with limited detail. That way, you can do a lot more blending and shading work, making the design your own. The book is in the larger square format at 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 x .5 inches as are the other books in Ms. Marotta's series. The book cover is very pretty. It has touches of color and gold foil on the front of the cover. You could certainly color the remainder of the design if you so choose. The inside of the covers are plain white and very slick to the touch. This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing it with my coloring medium: Designs are printed on both sides of the page Some designs merge into the binding and some spread across the binding for a two-page design. Paper is white, heavyweight, slight rough and non-perforated. Sewn Binding Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper easily. Water-based markers, India ink pens and gel pens leave extremely light shadows on the back of the page, especially dark and very bright colors. My coloring pencils did the best of the various medium, with the exception of Pablo and Irojiten pencils. Most pencils went on well and blended well. I tested both oil and wax based pencils and could layer and blend easily using a blender stick. The Pablo and the Irojiten did well with everything but blending with a stick. I found that wet blending medium worked better for those two brands.