Garden Flowers Coloring Book (Dover Flower Coloring Books)

I have started with this book first so I can decide which medium I want to use as I have a container that holds water color, felt tipped pins, crayons, and pensils, The wet ones were eliminated because the paper is so thin. The crayons and pastels were eliminated because the waxiness of them did not work for blending or layering. If you want to keep your book prettier, I would make some copies to practice techniques like blending from one color to the next as well as seeing what colors you like best if you are unsure. I probably messed up 4 pages before I got things figured out better. I am finding I like some of the layering and blending techniques. I'm even thinking about purchasing a better set of pencils, etc. As you can tell, I am having a lot of fun coloring...and teaching some techniques I've seen but never tried. I just need to make sure I'm going to stick with it before investing more money.

I got 7 of these books and love coloring them. You can get really creative. I don't have an artist's talent, so I enjoy creating my own color combinations, although there are colored pictures of all of them on the covers so you can follow those or come up with your own. These aren't not kids coloring books! They are more detailed, and I use colored pencils on some, fine point gel pens on others and a wide range of felt tip colors on most. I usually do these in the evening when I need to wind down and they work wonders for me. Even without artistic talent, I love my renderings.

I purchased this for something to keep me busy during the winter months here. Upon receiving this wonderful book, I was amazed at the descriptions of each flower at the bottom of the pages. You can actually see what these flowers would look like as they have a comparable likeness of them on the covers, inside and out. You can still decide for yourself the coloring scheme you prefer, but it is nice to see and get an idea of each flower and stem.This book is best used with coloring pencils to give yourself a finer color pattern. I have tried both the crayons and pencils and the pencils give a sharper, clean look to each page. I recommend this to anyone who likes to color or needs to improve and keep going their hands and fingers for their small motor skills.

Coloring book is great and not too complicated. Just right for an adult. My only issue is that it has pictures on both sides of the page, but I will just scan them and make my own book! It also has descriptions on the bottom of each page that tell you what color the flowers are supposed to be if you want to stay accurate!

Bought this for my grandma who is losing some cognitive functions. This company has a whole series of coloring books for adults. She LOVES them. They have nice little stories at the bottom and the scenes are interesting enough to keep her attention. I sent these books with some nice new colored pencils and she has really taken to them! Coloring and doodling can be quite therapeutic and meditative. She also enjoys word search puzzles but this is a nice change of pace, and especially nice when her mind isn't working as well or she isn't feeling well. The whole series of books is highly recommended. Send your grandma a package -- she'll love them! :-)

This book is great! Tells me what colors the flowers really are. Gives an example of each flower in the book as to what they look like really. Gives me a choice to be realistic or to pick my own colors. Also, this book is great becuz sometimes i dont feel like coloring small details or spending days on a single pucture. Large enough to practice blending(i need ALOT of practice).

As a stroke victim, my wife cannot visit our gardens, due to current physical limitations. By coloring flowers from the Garden Flowers coloring book, she can have her garden, and tend it, symbolically. This coloring book contains many of the flowers that she is used to growing, and she derives great pleasure from coloring these prints. Additionally, the coloring provides mental and muscular therapy toward eventually overcoming the effects of the stroke. The pleasure is more than worth the price of this book.

It's a nice book to color. However the images are on BOTH SIDES of the page. This is fine if you use pencil. However if you use pens, be careful.