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Querkles
Animal Querkles
From the creator of the 1000 Dot-to-Dot series comes Animal Querkles, putting an exciting new twist on the classic colour-by-number images that we loved as children. At first, you see nothing but a baffling tangle of circles, but hidden within each puzzle is a furry face waiting to be revealed! Featuring a menagerie of adorable creatures from chomping chimps to louche giraffes, Querkles Animals provides hours of creative colouring fun for artistic minds of all ages. Choose a dramatic colour scheme to make your Querkle truly unique, discover what's hidden in each puzzle, and create a striking animal portrait that you can easily remove and display.
48 pages, Paperback
Published June 2, 2016
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March 25, 2019
march project is OVER!
i am easing back into the monthly projects with this one, which is a version of a color-by-number book (i.e. it makes all the decisions for me and i just have to follow the rules). this is exactly the kind of gentle guidance i need in my life right now. the bonus is that this one still allows me a small measure of creativity, because the colors themselves are not set; the only rule is that all the little circles that make up each picture are numbered from 1-5, and whatever palette you choose, the #1s should be the darkest color and the #5s should be the lightest.
what will happen and how many birds will there be? LET'S FIND OUT!
MARCH 1:
i am not going to bother hiding this first one under a spoiler tag, because it has already been spoiled by the book's cover! and i must have suspected as much when i began coloring it because lo! i chose roughly the same colors as mother nature did. NOW CAN I BE IN CHARGE OF INVENTING ANIMALS, MOMMY?
MARCH 2:
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Camel
MARCH 3:
i used the wrong colors ):
MARCH 4:
four days in. first bird spotted. this bird is not the worst bird, but IT IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE!
MARCH 5:
lisa frank's got nothing on me!!!
MARCH 6:
WHO WANTS A NEW TATTOO???
MARCH 7:
this bird is okay. but only because he is both cute AND delicious!
MARCH 8:
aww, you can tell that him is VERY GOOD BOY!
MARCH 9:
well, i just jinxed myself thinking HEY, THERE HAVE NOT BEEN A LOT OF BIRDS THIS TIME OUT. and here it is. a bird.
MARCH 10:
oh my god, what if the jinx lasts FOREVER??????
** i skipped a day because i had a touch of the carpal tunnel and there are more days in march than there are querkles in this book, so i get a couple of vacation days. spring break WOOOOO! the carpal tunnel situation may be unrelated to this book, but then again - TWO birds in a row has gotta be bad for my health in some way. you be the jury.**
MARCH 12:
not a bird, but a bird-enabler. a bird collaborator. is this worse? discuss.
MARCH 13:
i'm drunk - here's an elephant! happy wednesday, humpers!!!
MARCH 14:
i am bad at nature. i had no idea what this was after coloring it in and had to check the answer key. i wasn't even sure which end was up. and TONIGHT i am 100% sober!
MARCH 15:
it is a self-portrait! i am fame!
MARCH 17:
let this be a lesson to me - when i decide to take another day off of project to deal with life things - a day i am ENTITLED TO because of the days in month/querkles in book disparity - querkles gives me birds. i guess i... make birdade? is that the saying?
MARCH 19:
okay, but then REVERSE LESSON because when i decide to take ANOTHER-another day off of project to deal with life things - a day i am ENTITLED TO because of the days in month/querkles in book disparity - querkles gives me THE BEST ANIMAL OF THEM ALL!
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO THINK ABOUT THIS??? WHAT IS TRUTH???
MARCH 20:
heh. cock.
that is all.
MARCH 22:
aww, i think he's flirting with me! c'mere with those sticky little fingers, cutie!
MARCH 23:
well, hello, paul giamatti! how are you today?
MARCH 25:
okay, so i have finished this book, EXCEPT i waited for the end to do the centerfold:
for scale
i figured i would do this one last, because HUGE, and i also wanted to try the thing it suggests you do in the front of the book; an alternative method of querkling using a single color: you can make different patterns in the circles so it is AS THOUGH you are using different colors: slashies this way / slashies this way \, crosshatching with different spacing between the lines, coloring the whole thing in with a solid color, etc. so i did it.
however, i messed up, and IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING if it REALLY matters if you do your colors light-to-dark or dark-to-light, i am here to tell you that it does. and i'm not going to bother spoiler-tagging this final querkle because i did the whole thing backwards and instead of ending up with a centerfold of a noble wolf, suitable for framing,
i wound up with... this
and it is terrible. i can't even do a querkle right. no wonder my life is in shambles. maybe Querkles: Cats will go better!
also, i gotta say, this book really missed an opportunity by not saving THE MIGHTY COCK for the centerfold.
anyway, that was march project. whee!
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September 10, 2016
I had never heard of Querkles before but I love adult colouring books so when I was offered this for review on Amazon Vine I put in my request immediately. I have to admit I was a little sceptical about a colour-by-numbers book, sure I loved paint-by-numbers pictures as a child but I was worried it would be far too boring for an adult to colour in. Rest assured this is in no way boring and I'm absolutely loving this colouring book so far!
This book contains 20 different images to colour, all printed on a single sheet of A3 paper that is thick enough to colour with sharpie pens without damaging the next picture in the book. The pages are also perforated to make it easy to tear out the designs you're finished with in case you want to frame and display them. Each image is made up of hundreds of interconnected circles of all different sizes and they're all designed to be coloured in using five different colours or five shades of a single colour. Because of the way the images are created it's actually very difficult to tell before starting what animal you're actually going to be creating but there is a page showing black & grey thumbnails of each finished design at the back if you want to take a sneaky peak. Personally I prefer to be surprised as I start colouring.
This gives you an idea of what the images look like before you get started
So before you get started you'll need to choose 5 colours for your image. They can be shades of the same colour or contrasting colours but you need to line them up from dark to light, 1 being the darkest and 5 being the lightest. I'd personally recommend using pens to colour the image since the area you'll be colouring is on the large side and pen also has the best chance of hiding the numbers once you're complete. I'm not going to lie you can still see the numbers even through my sharpies but from a slight distance they're not really noticeable and they don't detract from the finished image.
This collage shows how the picture gradually begins to take shape as you add each different colour. I absolutely loved watching the finished design come to life and I'm really pleased with the results.
And here's a larger picture of the finished giraffe just because I love how it turned out:
The second image in the book is a camel and although it's not bad I have to admit I don't love this colour scheme as much as the one I used for first picture:
I think the hardest part of this colouring book is actually selecting the colours you want to use but it's also a lot of fun. I'd recommend having some scrap paper on hand to try out different combinations before you start colouring the actual book, especially if you're planning on using bold or unusual colour combinations, so that you can get a better idea of what works and what doesn't. Half the fun of this book is going to be experimenting though so don't be afraid to take risks or try something new.
I've only completed 2 images from this book so far but I'll come back and update this review as I finish others over the next few months.
September 2016: Updated to add another three completed pictures
This book contains 20 different images to colour, all printed on a single sheet of A3 paper that is thick enough to colour with sharpie pens without damaging the next picture in the book. The pages are also perforated to make it easy to tear out the designs you're finished with in case you want to frame and display them. Each image is made up of hundreds of interconnected circles of all different sizes and they're all designed to be coloured in using five different colours or five shades of a single colour. Because of the way the images are created it's actually very difficult to tell before starting what animal you're actually going to be creating but there is a page showing black & grey thumbnails of each finished design at the back if you want to take a sneaky peak. Personally I prefer to be surprised as I start colouring.
This gives you an idea of what the images look like before you get started
So before you get started you'll need to choose 5 colours for your image. They can be shades of the same colour or contrasting colours but you need to line them up from dark to light, 1 being the darkest and 5 being the lightest. I'd personally recommend using pens to colour the image since the area you'll be colouring is on the large side and pen also has the best chance of hiding the numbers once you're complete. I'm not going to lie you can still see the numbers even through my sharpies but from a slight distance they're not really noticeable and they don't detract from the finished image.
This collage shows how the picture gradually begins to take shape as you add each different colour. I absolutely loved watching the finished design come to life and I'm really pleased with the results.
And here's a larger picture of the finished giraffe just because I love how it turned out:
The second image in the book is a camel and although it's not bad I have to admit I don't love this colour scheme as much as the one I used for first picture:
I think the hardest part of this colouring book is actually selecting the colours you want to use but it's also a lot of fun. I'd recommend having some scrap paper on hand to try out different combinations before you start colouring the actual book, especially if you're planning on using bold or unusual colour combinations, so that you can get a better idea of what works and what doesn't. Half the fun of this book is going to be experimenting though so don't be afraid to take risks or try something new.
I've only completed 2 images from this book so far but I'll come back and update this review as I finish others over the next few months.
September 2016: Updated to add another three completed pictures
July 14, 2019
Love this. It is my go to book at the moment. I think it's great that the pages can be taken out. It makes it so much easier. The designs are imaginative and well done.
Looking forward to getting some more of these
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