Stress-Free (Pink)

Love the color by numbers because I don't have to put in the extra thought about what colors to use and when. I also enjoy the spiral binding that eliminates annoying folding of other pages. I do put a sheet or two between the pages I'm coloring and the next page to prevent bleeding, but the pages are fairly thick and one-sided, which is nice when using markers.

It’s a great stress relief to keep you busy and help you ignore any negativity

I like how it isn’t your traditional coloring book. It has different types of pictures and a different color palette for each. Some pages come with certain areas already colored and I’m assuming that is because the areas are too small to place a number.

Great coloring although the colors aren’t the easiest to match.

I bought this as a Christmas gift to go with a huge marker set I bought my daughter. Me, my husband, and grandparents have all colored with her using this book and it’s really fun and soothing. If I had time I would definitely do this on my own to relax. I’ve already got several more of these in my cart for later.

I recently did a really complicated color by number poster with colored pencils and realized I enjoyed using those more than markers. I brought a number of cool-looking coloring books and came up short. I had no idea what colors to use. (Probably shouldn't have bought a set of 150 pencils to start with.)Since I enjoyed the poster I'd done, I bought some other color by number books next, including this one. Two others have really cool designs but you have to work with 15-20 different colors, which is a lot to handle at once.This book has 4-6 color recommendations at the bottom of each page. At first I thought that was too limited but once I tried a couple I decided it was a good way to ramp up my skills. It does fill in a few bits of the recommended colors on some drawings (but not all). I could live without that.Once I got more comfortable, I started choosing different colors completely or livening up the variety with different shades of the recommended colors. I've really enjoyed how a number of these turned out.I'd say I enjoyed coloring about half the pages in this book. I'm not really into animals or industrial designs. And some just had such wide areas for one color (like a watering can) that I preferred not to use half of one of my pencils coloring it in.I just ordered the two other books in the series. The Green one is great but I'm less impressed by the Yellow one. I'll review those separately.

Wish I could get bigger number

Love to color and I have a very difficult time holding my attention to color detail. I’m never sure on what color to use next, shading etc so that is what I love about the color by number books. It relaxes me and doesn’t give me the added stress of what should I use next. The pages are thicker so I like to still use a good plain white cardstock sheet between pages to soak any excess ink that may bleed through. I normally only color with sharpies, gel pens or colored pencils. I prefer to use gel pens on these specific coloring books.