Customer Reviews

Fairies to Paint or Color (Dover Art Coloring Book)

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The best feature of this coloring book is the fact that the back of the page of each picture is left blank - so you don't have to worry about markers bleeding through.

I'm an older person and color as a relaxing hobby, however, I'm sure any child who is interested in fairies would likewise greatly enjoy coloring these pictures.

I only have a few minor quibbles - while nicely drawn, some of the fairies were a bit too thin looking and they seemed to have a tendency towards large feet, but that in no way takes away from the pleasure of coloring them.

The pictures are fanciful, featuring the fairies with butterflies and playing among the flowers, resting by a pool or interacting with an adoreable field mouse and that sort of thing.

This Darcy May coloring book is, of course, great fun for kids. However, for adults looking for some easy relaxation it is sophisticated enough to be entertaining. The pictures are elegant, and can be used as an inspiration for other craft projects incorporating fairies. I enjoyed it, myself, and it also made a great gift for another adult hobbyist. There are 23 illustrations in all, happily each one is printed on one side only.

Bought this for my daughter as a suprise and she loved it! Beautiful and fun she said! The artwork is very detailed and lovely, great for pencil, paint or crayons! Would make a nice gift for the fairy lovers you know!

My students love these high quality, one-sided drawings! They can use markers or paint without the picture on the other side bleeding through. And the pages are good white paper with a grey lined sketch, instead of black. Dover offers 13 different books like this and with the 4-for-3 offer and Super Saver shipping the price is excellent.

My only negative comment is the perforations are a pain. After tearing and ruining the first picture I tried different methods to remove them intact. Finally I just cut them out with an X-Acto knife cutting beyond the perforation and then trimming them with scissors.

Finally, a coloring book by Dover that doesn't have the images printed back-to-back! In this one each image is on a page entirely its own and they are on perforated paper for ease of removal from the book. Also, the outlining on the images is printed with a faint ink, so when you use paints or markers you can either make the outlines disappear by covering them completely with color or trace them with whatever color you want to make them 'pop'. Nice job, Dover!

The artwork itself is very, very good, with page after pages filled with beautiful fairy images in various poses and whatnot. I'm really enjoying this one because it's the only coloring book in my Dover collection that I don't have to photocopy any of the images in order to use markers or paints on. So much easier!

Another reviewer mentioned that the fairies have big feet. I hadn't noticed that so I took another look at mine. I don't think the feet are out of proportion to the rest of their bodies by comparing them to their hand size. To me, the fairies are slim and graceful looking.

Pick this one up, it won't disappoint!

I wasn't too wild about this one as the fairies have funny looking ears and it just takes away from the whole picture.