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Magical Horses Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Stained Glass Coloring Book)

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This particular coloring book is gorgeous and well-rendered. I've never had any complaints about Dover's coloring books, and this one is no exception. The artist, Christy Shaffer, has an amazing imagination. Her artwork is fluid and has so much movement and life. I also like the fact that the pictures aren't 'busy'. The detail is focused on the fantasy horses without adding a lot of landscape clutter. Ms. Shaffer also earns points for avoiding making every one of these into unicorns.

My personal favorites are the 'sea horses' - the drawings are so graceful and have real feeling for the way both fish and horses move through their elements.

Christy Shaffer has created an excellent array of magical creatures - easy to color, but intricate enough to be interesting. I originally bought this book for my 4 year old daughter, but after looking through it, quickly rescinded it. Since you can use these images - royalty free - for graphics and crafts applications, I decided to make a collection of ceramic plates with my favorite images. Enjoy!

I do glass painting and polymer clay and this book is a great inspration and just plain fun ,,,very good pics to use with crafts...B.W.

This book would be better named "Insane Magical Horses and Dragons and Dragon Horses and Space Horse Dinosaurs and Unicorns and Rock Star Space Demon Dragon Sea Monster Butterfly Horses and I Don't Know What" but I can see that would be hard to get on the cover. The art is crazy imaginative and detailed but the lines are clean and open enough to use medium to chunky markers on it. The artwork is consistent but there is enough variety on every page that you don't feel like you just colored the same picture 2 pages ago. The backgrounds are relatively plain but the "horses" are for the most part pretty detailed, it strikes a good balance so that the pictures are interesting not busy. I was impressed enough with the artwork that I looked this book up just to find more coloring books by the same artist. I would recommend this coloring book to the entire planet.