Marty Noble's Peaceful World: New York Times Bestselling Artists' Adult Coloring Books (Dynamic Adult Coloring Books)

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  This is a coloring book of 48 designs which take the colorist on a tour of various cultures around the world. The countries include: Japan, Indonesia, Guatemala, Morocco, Italy, China, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and more. There are many motifs and artistic styles from these cultures included in the designs. I can only hope that this turns out to be volume one and that more designs of this nature will be available in the future. While 48 designs is a lot, there are many cultures in the world and I would love to color beautiful scenes from more of them.This book is published by Skyhorse Publishing. I have another Marty Noble book by this publisher (“Sugar Skulls”) and I have been enjoying it. The majority of my coloring books by Ms. Noble are by Creative Haven and Dover. These are completely different publishers though Ms. Noble's artwork is as high quality as ever.The designs in this book are even more intricate than I have come to expect from this artist. While each of the designs are fairly intricate, they are not small to the point of making coloring difficult. I appreciate the detail in these designs as it gives me a great project to think about and color. This is truly an opportunity to try out different colors and to venture into a culture's color palette.The designs are printed on one side of a good weight white perforated paper. While the paper is not top grade, it is certainly sufficient for framing purposes. I was able to get the book to lay fairly flat by breaking the spine of the book. The binding is glued rather than sewn but this is not an issue as you can remove a page at the perforations if you choose to do so. The designs all stop well before the perforations and all of the designs have a framing line around them. I try to note whenever an artist takes the trouble to include this framing line as it gives my project a more finished look and saves me time, trouble, and ink by giving me a natural stopping point while I am coloring.All of my markers, alcohol and water based, bled through the paper. The water based were a little spotty but still came through enough to ruin the next project if you don't keep a piece of chipboard, heavy weight paper, or card stock below the page you are working on. You can also simply remove the page from the book to color as well. My India ink artist pens left a shadow at the back of the page. None of my gel pens bled through and they did not require additional drying time. My coloring pencils worked well with the paper according to their brand and lead type (soft or hard.) Soft lead pencils were especially easy to blend.These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:Markers: 1) alcohol-based – Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) Bic Mark-its (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based – Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, and Staedler triplus finelinersIndia Ink: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens (brush tip)Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo in the following sizes - 0.28/0.38/0.5/1.0 and TekwriterColoring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castell Polychromos

This is a really good book. The pictures are detailed pictures on single page. The paper is good quality, if you use markers you will need to either tear page out of book or put a blotter page behind the page you are coloring.

I suppose its because its about peace and people from around the globe. Beautiful images and nice paper.

I was pleasantly surprised by the women from different cultures and ages! Beautiful art and the paper is better than I expected!

The two reviews before mine say it all...what a beautiful book! I got mine yesterday and have been anticipating all day getting the chance to work with it. Really great drawings!

Fantastic....definitely one of her best. You get so many lovely images. I love the subject matter.

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Beautiful book. I found a couple pictures of women outdoors I loved and wished there were more of them in the book

I pre-ordered this book a month ago and it arrived today. I am so excited and have looked through all the pages and each one is brilliant. I am over the moon. It is an amazing adult colouring in book.It is 27.6cm x 21.4cm x 1.5cm and all the pages are perforated and there is only printing on one side. The pages are white and the printing is in black and printed crisp and clear. All the pictures have a border around them.It is a different book to others because all 48 drawings are focusing on butterflies, birds, scenery as well as woman from around the world from Japan, Indonesia, Guatelmala, Morocco, Italy, Mexico and China. The styles are ranging from Native American and include Eastern European art to name a few.The pages all have a calm feel in the pictures and they are wonderful to colour in. Especially some of my favourites being the one with lots of parasols/umbrellas, samurai with cranes (birds), lady on the mountain and the last page is of a sugar skull.If you are using alcohol pens they will bleed through the pages but just put a piece of cardboard under the page or remove the page as they are perforated. Using normal coloured pencils or water based pens are perfect.I have added a few pictures for your convenience.The book has a very focused on world peace and it is very relaxing to colour in such lovely pictures. I highly recommend this as one of the nicest books I have bought - to date.

Lovely book with interesting pictures to colo9

I got this for a friend who LOVES the Muslim world. B/c of the front cover I was excited that she might enjoy this coloring book. There were no pictures to be able to see inside the book and when I got it, it didn't have much of the Muslim world pictures in it but rather a lot of east Asia.

Me ha encantado. Los dibujos son tan bonitos que da pena pintarlos. Muy satisfecha con la compra. Lo recomiendo.

Este libro trae imágenes de diferentes culturas, la mayoría de los diseños son buenos, el papel aunque no es muy bueno lo compensa las grandiosas imágenes así como solo vienen de una cara y se puede desprender.