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Specifically designed for colorists looking for artistic fulfillment and a therapeutic refuge to escape the stress of daily life, we released our first Creative Haven title in 2012
- Since then, we’ve published over 500 titles and sold over 20 million copies!
- Printed on premium-quality paper
- Intricate designs to color
- Pages are printed on one side only
- Perforated for easy removal and display of your finished pieces
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Stunning illustrations!
We're excited to continue offering beautiful and inspiring designs, plus new editions to this wonderful coloring book series.
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Numbers easily covered by color pencils so they don't show through |
Color Guide in the back of the book |
Suggested colors example for each page |
Creative Haven Sea Life Color by Number Coloring Book
Colorists can achieve realistic effects and perfect shading with the help of lightly printed numbers that correspond to a simple color key.
- Includes intricate designs to color printed on one side only
- Pages are perforated for easy removal and display of your finished pieces
- Printed on premium-quality paper
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I am happy with this purchase. The pages in this book have some fun sea life images. There is a color guide that will work with markers, crayons, watercolors, acrylics, or pencils, on the inside front cover (pictured). The paper is thin for watercolor, but will work for most mediums. I am using the Steadtler triplus fine dry safe markers. The caps match the color boxes on the inside cover nearly exact, however, I find that the inks in this line of pen do not match the caps very well. So, it can be frustrating depending on what you choose to use - personally, I don't care because I am coloring to feel better, not to make a fantastic piece of art. Face it, if I could do that, I wouldn't need a color by number to do it.The pages are scored so that they can be cleanly removed from the book, and colored on a clip board or other tool you may have. If you want to have a water color copy for yourself (No breaking laws and cheating the author! Copy for yourself only or it is not nice.), you can remove the page and copy onto a watercolor paper without having to bend the book and get shadows on the copy. I like that the pages come out cleanly since they ARE one sided, and this can eliminate possible bleed through that could ruin the picture under it.What is frustrating for an adult who has not colored in a while is that there are spots that have no number. I thought these spots should possibly be left white for that light effect on the fish or coral. But when I referenced the small colored pbotos inside the two covers, there are some spots that SHOULD be left white for hilighting, and the other spots were clearly just not numbered but needed to be colored. For this I have taken away a star. I felt that if I had given this to a younger child, they may have more experience coloring than I, and be fine with it, but for someone that hasn't colored in iver 35 years, I was not sure what to do, so left the unnumbered areas uncolored. I have included two closeups where you can see some small and large areas not numbered. Some are sulosed to remain uncolored, and some I colored in later. So just know that the small reference pictures are helpful for more than just "oh - that is what it looks like finished" ...or "what if I don't have the exact color; will it ruin the design?" - you will need to reference these pictures for, "do I color or leave white?".I think this is a great way to empty your mind because you are not perseverating of color choices in your mandala, you just match the color and find all of those numbers. I catch myself repeating, "15, 15, 15,...." as I look around the picture to be sure I got them all with the same marker.Give the book or ine of the others a try. It is really a nice experience, and an inexpensive gift. Because the pages are detachable, it can be a rainy/snowy - or no electricity time passer for the family to each get a page and color together.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2016
I am happy with this purchase. The pages in this book have some fun sea life images. There is a color guide that will work with markers, crayons, watercolors, acrylics, or pencils, on the inside front cover (pictured). The paper is thin for watercolor, but will work for most mediums. I am using the Steadtler triplus fine dry safe markers. The caps match the color boxes on the inside cover nearly exact, however, I find that the inks in this line of pen do not match the caps very well. So, it can be frustrating depending on what you choose to use - personally, I don't care because I am coloring to feel better, not to make a fantastic piece of art. Face it, if I could do that, I wouldn't need a color by number to do it.
The pages are scored so that they can be cleanly removed from the book, and colored on a clip board or other tool you may have. If you want to have a water color copy for yourself (No breaking laws and cheating the author! Copy for yourself only or it is not nice.), you can remove the page and copy onto a watercolor paper without having to bend the book and get shadows on the copy. I like that the pages come out cleanly since they ARE one sided, and this can eliminate possible bleed through that could ruin the picture under it.
What is frustrating for an adult who has not colored in a while is that there are spots that have no number. I thought these spots should possibly be left white for that light effect on the fish or coral. But when I referenced the small colored pbotos inside the two covers, there are some spots that SHOULD be left white for hilighting, and the other spots were clearly just not numbered but needed to be colored. For this I have taken away a star. I felt that if I had given this to a younger child, they may have more experience coloring than I, and be fine with it, but for someone that hasn't colored in iver 35 years, I was not sure what to do, so left the unnumbered areas uncolored. I have included two closeups where you can see some small and large areas not numbered. Some are sulosed to remain uncolored, and some I colored in later. So just know that the small reference pictures are helpful for more than just "oh - that is what it looks like finished" ...or "what if I don't have the exact color; will it ruin the design?" - you will need to reference these pictures for, "do I color or leave white?".
I think this is a great way to empty your mind because you are not perseverating of color choices in your mandala, you just match the color and find all of those numbers. I catch myself repeating, "15, 15, 15,...." as I look around the picture to be sure I got them all with the same marker.
Give the book or ine of the others a try. It is really a nice experience, and an inexpensive gift. Because the pages are detachable, it can be a rainy/snowy - or no electricity time passer for the family to each get a page and color together.
The pages are scored so that they can be cleanly removed from the book, and colored on a clip board or other tool you may have. If you want to have a water color copy for yourself (No breaking laws and cheating the author! Copy for yourself only or it is not nice.), you can remove the page and copy onto a watercolor paper without having to bend the book and get shadows on the copy. I like that the pages come out cleanly since they ARE one sided, and this can eliminate possible bleed through that could ruin the picture under it.
What is frustrating for an adult who has not colored in a while is that there are spots that have no number. I thought these spots should possibly be left white for that light effect on the fish or coral. But when I referenced the small colored pbotos inside the two covers, there are some spots that SHOULD be left white for hilighting, and the other spots were clearly just not numbered but needed to be colored. For this I have taken away a star. I felt that if I had given this to a younger child, they may have more experience coloring than I, and be fine with it, but for someone that hasn't colored in iver 35 years, I was not sure what to do, so left the unnumbered areas uncolored. I have included two closeups where you can see some small and large areas not numbered. Some are sulosed to remain uncolored, and some I colored in later. So just know that the small reference pictures are helpful for more than just "oh - that is what it looks like finished" ...or "what if I don't have the exact color; will it ruin the design?" - you will need to reference these pictures for, "do I color or leave white?".
I think this is a great way to empty your mind because you are not perseverating of color choices in your mandala, you just match the color and find all of those numbers. I catch myself repeating, "15, 15, 15,...." as I look around the picture to be sure I got them all with the same marker.
Give the book or ine of the others a try. It is really a nice experience, and an inexpensive gift. Because the pages are detachable, it can be a rainy/snowy - or no electricity time passer for the family to each get a page and color together.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2016
In the future I plan to copy the picture out to a picture editing software like Paint.net. There I wipe out all the numbers and print it out onto heavier cardstock paper. Then I have an image that is free of numbers but can use the picture in the book as a guide for choosing colors. If you don't mind seeing the numbers thru the ink and/or don't mind putting the extra time in to copy the images and clean the numbers away then this is a fantastic book.
Great book if you put in a bit of extra work.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2016
This is a great item and provides very colorful pictures. You can follow the numbered color chart included on the inside covers or you can choose your own colors. They provide thumbnail pictures to show you how the picture will come out if you use their color choices. You just have to match the markers, pens or pencils that you own to the color provided on the chart as close as possible. Markers are not included with the book. The only issue I had was that the numbers were printed kind of heavy. I realize this was necessary to be able to see them but that means when you color over them the number is visible thru the color. I had this issue with markers so imagine that the numbers would really glare thru if you are using colored pencils or gel pens. I had to try to artfully shade the area where the number was to try to draw attention away from it.Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2016
In the future I plan to copy the picture out to a picture editing software like Paint.net. There I wipe out all the numbers and print it out onto heavier cardstock paper. Then I have an image that is free of numbers but can use the picture in the book as a guide for choosing colors. If you don't mind seeing the numbers thru the ink and/or don't mind putting the extra time in to copy the images and clean the numbers away then this is a fantastic book.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2017
I have never done a color by number coloring book before but the numbers are very very small. So I suggest if you don't already have a light to color with that you pick up a clip on reading light. They cost under $10 here on Amazon and they are quite bright and you can clip it to your lap desk, tv tray, coloring board or whatever you color on.
The size of the numbers is the reason that I knocked off one star because it made this relaxing activity more frustrating.
I also made up a color key for myself based on their colors and numbers and wrote down the pencils that I would be using for future reference.
I colored the picture attached with Lelix, Prismacolor and Marco Renoir colored pencils.
I will admit a few times that I switched a few of the colors around but over 98% of the picture is colored by the numbers.
I really liked how three dimensional it turned out.
Fun to Watch the Illustration Come to Life
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2017
It was really sort of magical to see these illustrations come to life as you add the colors.Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2017
I have never done a color by number coloring book before but the numbers are very very small. So I suggest if you don't already have a light to color with that you pick up a clip on reading light. They cost under $10 here on Amazon and they are quite bright and you can clip it to your lap desk, tv tray, coloring board or whatever you color on.
The size of the numbers is the reason that I knocked off one star because it made this relaxing activity more frustrating.
I also made up a color key for myself based on their colors and numbers and wrote down the pencils that I would be using for future reference.
I colored the picture attached with Lelix, Prismacolor and Marco Renoir colored pencils.
I will admit a few times that I switched a few of the colors around but over 98% of the picture is colored by the numbers.
I really liked how three dimensional it turned out.
Images in this review
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2020
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