Beautiful Birds and Treetop Treasures (A Millie Marotta Adult Coloring Book) Paperback – September 5, 2017

The media could not be loaded. I own all of Millie Marotta's previous animal theme coloring books and some of her postcard books as well. In “Beautiful Birds” Ms. Marotta has focusing first and foremost on various Birds but does include an interesting number of other animals which favor living in trees. At the end of the book, there is a listing of the birds and animals (in page order) with both their common name and their Latin name.As with all of her coloring books, the designs are detailed without being intricate. The illustrations are beautifully done. There are a number of designs that cross over the binding and, in my copy, they line up well but it is difficult to get into the binding area to color. Some of the designs are done twice – on the left side with lots of detail and then again on the right side (facing each other) with limited detail. That way, you can do a lot more blending and shading work, making the design your own.The book is in the larger square format at 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 x .5 inches as are the other books in Ms. Marotta's series. The book cover is very pretty. It has touches of color and gold foil on the front of the cover. You could certainly color the remainder of the design if you so choose. The inside of the covers are plain white and very slick to the touch.This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing it with my coloring medium:Designs are printed on both sides of the pageSome designs merge into the binding and some spread across the binding for a two-page design.Paper is white, heavyweight, slight rough and non-perforated.Sewn BindingAlcohol-based markers bleed through the paper easily.Water-based markers, India ink pens and gel pens leave extremely light shadows on the back of the page, especially dark and very bright colors.My coloring pencils did the best of the various medium, with the exception of Pablo and Irojiten pencils. Most pencils went on well and blended well. I tested both oil and wax based pencils and could layer and blend easily using a blender stick. The Pablo and the Irojiten did well with everything but blending with a stick. I found that wet blending medium worked better for those two brands.

I own several of Millie's books and I love all of them, but this one is really my favorite. The paper is great, not too thick and not too thin, I recently got into coloring and has become an obsession, lol. I really enjoy coloring these books.

Nice and beautiful pictures.

This fifth book of Millie's is exactly what you would expect from her. It is formatted like her previous books and the paper seems to be comparable or the same. She includes a list of which creature is on each page. The pictures include mostly birds, but also other creatures that live in trees such as insects, bats and a snake. Like all of Millie's previous new releases of her art, the pages are double-sided. I expect she'll release this in a delux edition eventually for those who want to use markers or prefer pages printed on just one side. I was thrilled to receive this book a month ahead of when I expected! Another great Millie book!

Bonus! It keeps out of an orange jumpsuit 💃

The artwork is fine, but I wish the paper was better quality with some tooth. Each page has a drawing on one side and the back side is black. They claim this prevents bleeding thru the page. I use these to cut up the drawings and create greeting cards and bookmarks to give away, so it does not remain a book, thus black back is immaterial.

I bought this with a gift certificate for my birthday and I love it! I have all her books and love them all--she is in my top two favorite coloring book artists! And I particularly love birds so you can imagine how thrilled I was to see her publish a bird coloring book! It's a "must have" in my opinion. BONUS: all the beautiful birds and treetop treasures are listed in the back for those of us who like to color as close to the real thing as possible.

Much variety in type pictures , intricate detail. It’s a relatively slow process to color these because the pictures are so detailed which I find relaxing to color.