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The Menagerie: Animal Portraits to Color
This lavishly illustrated, intricately designed collection of animal portraits offers hours of relaxing, absorbing fun to coloring book fans and animal lovers alike. It features sophisticated, custom-made artwork from two acclaimed illustrators whose work has captured the attention of keen colorists from around the world. From mighty bears to awe-inspiring tigers, and beyond, each page allows coloring fans to take their time, relax, and get lost in their own world, where color combinations and beauty are theirs to create and choose. Each exquisite headshot is printed on perforated paper, so it is easily pulled out and readily available for display once you've completed your coloring sessions. Long-time coloring book fans and beginners will be equally engaged and entertained, and will find their stress levels declining even as their creativity levels soar.
- GenresColouring BooksAnimals
64 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2016
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April 24, 2017
I don't color as much as I used to because for one, it gives me google eye and two, I see pictures of the same things on the web that other people have colored and theirs are amazing and mine are stupid. But, at least I'm having fun. =)
The first one I colored was the wolf, of course.
I decided to start coloring in my tons of books I have while listening to audio books. I don't much like listening to audio books because I forget everything, lol. I like listening to them while coloring though, it's such fun.
The second one I colored was the lion.
I have only colored three more pictures in the book. I might do more in this one later on but these are all for now. I really love this coloring book =)
It was a lot of fun coloring these pages. Now, if I can just get up the patience to color each little piece then I could make them even crazier looking than they are =)
MY BLOG: Melissa Martin's Reading List
The first one I colored was the wolf, of course.
I decided to start coloring in my tons of books I have while listening to audio books. I don't much like listening to audio books because I forget everything, lol. I like listening to them while coloring though, it's such fun.
The second one I colored was the lion.
I have only colored three more pictures in the book. I might do more in this one later on but these are all for now. I really love this coloring book =)
It was a lot of fun coloring these pages. Now, if I can just get up the patience to color each little piece then I could make them even crazier looking than they are =)
MY BLOG: Melissa Martin's Reading List
March 3, 2020
This book is so lovely and so amazing I had to buy it right away! It’s become one of my favourite colouring books. The Menagerie is about the same size as Fantastic Cities, for those that have that book, it’s about A4ish in height and the same across, so a lovely big square book :). The thickness is really good, about the thickness of other books I buy like Millie Marotta books, or a touch less, so lots of pages to colour in.
Each page of The Menagerie has a different portrait of an animal. This is usually its head and perhaps up to its shoulders. All of the pages are printed on one side of each page and each page is nice crisp white and all have a good thickness so it’s great for using both pens or pencils :)! The animals are all in black and white, no pre-coloured bits, except for the few bits of foliage on some pages. All of the pictures are so detailed it’s really amazing. One of the artists, Richard Merritt, actually does a lot of illustrations for the books, Art Therapy, Colour Therapy, etc. which I have owned and have enjoyed colouring in for years. And I’m now recognising which pieces of colouring in those books are his (I think!). Both artists work in this book is amazing!
There really is a lot of colouring to do and all of the animal pictures are just amazing. They are all pretty realistic and some are so, so cute that I want to hug the page I’m looking at (does that sound weird?), lol. Each page as I said is printed on one side and they are also perforated at the side near the spine too, so you can carefully tear out your picture when you’re done colouring it and hang it up! There are so many different animals to colour in and so much colouring in to do with each animal that this book is definitely worth getting if you love colouring in animals and I’d really recommend this book to anyone of any age!
This is a list of all the animals that are available to colour (although my favourites at the moment are the moose, highland cow and the panda 🙂 ) – Bengal Tiger, Eastern Gorilla, Badger, Impala, British Bulldog, black rhino, fox, bighorn sheep, panda, ring-tail lemur, llama, hippo, rabbit, elephant, Arabian horse, koala, brown bear, highland cow, kangaroo, red panda, red deer, Norwegian forest cat, giraffe leopard, otter, mandrill, zebra, wolf, herdwick sheep, moose lion.
Each page of The Menagerie has a different portrait of an animal. This is usually its head and perhaps up to its shoulders. All of the pages are printed on one side of each page and each page is nice crisp white and all have a good thickness so it’s great for using both pens or pencils :)! The animals are all in black and white, no pre-coloured bits, except for the few bits of foliage on some pages. All of the pictures are so detailed it’s really amazing. One of the artists, Richard Merritt, actually does a lot of illustrations for the books, Art Therapy, Colour Therapy, etc. which I have owned and have enjoyed colouring in for years. And I’m now recognising which pieces of colouring in those books are his (I think!). Both artists work in this book is amazing!
There really is a lot of colouring to do and all of the animal pictures are just amazing. They are all pretty realistic and some are so, so cute that I want to hug the page I’m looking at (does that sound weird?), lol. Each page as I said is printed on one side and they are also perforated at the side near the spine too, so you can carefully tear out your picture when you’re done colouring it and hang it up! There are so many different animals to colour in and so much colouring in to do with each animal that this book is definitely worth getting if you love colouring in animals and I’d really recommend this book to anyone of any age!
This is a list of all the animals that are available to colour (although my favourites at the moment are the moose, highland cow and the panda 🙂 ) – Bengal Tiger, Eastern Gorilla, Badger, Impala, British Bulldog, black rhino, fox, bighorn sheep, panda, ring-tail lemur, llama, hippo, rabbit, elephant, Arabian horse, koala, brown bear, highland cow, kangaroo, red panda, red deer, Norwegian forest cat, giraffe leopard, otter, mandrill, zebra, wolf, herdwick sheep, moose lion.
July 29, 2017
Amazing animal designs on high-quality paper with perforated edges for easy removal.
These designs are such high-quality you'll want to color them and give them away as gifts.
Designs are just about square about 10" x 10.5".
These designs are such high-quality you'll want to color them and give them away as gifts.
Designs are just about square about 10" x 10.5".
July 9, 2016
The Menagerie is a larger coloring book that most, which provides a great opportunity for adding color easily to these animal portraits.The full review is posted on Coloring Queen
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