Life under the lens: A Scientific Colouring Book

by Jennifer Delaney

This unique colouring book explores the beauty of Life Under The Lens. This book is both a field guide to the microscopic world and a therapeutic colouring book which aims to illuminate some of the findings of modern science and technology.It consists of 50 intricate pen and ink illustrations accompanied by written descriptions of the each organism. Colouring artists and students are invited to colour the filamentous strands of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, overlapping plates of marine coccolithophores and shade the armoured exoskeleton of crustacean larvae. The illustrations are stylised and highly decorated for the colourist while visually communicating the structure and biological functions of the organisms. It takes the colourist to the unobservable, a world beyond the limits of our own vision.

Genres: Science

106 pages, Paperback

Published June 3, 2017

Reviews

[Kaethe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't consider most coloring books readable, but this one has a fair amount of text explaining what the various microscopic images are, and what the parts do. Thus I discovered that my son knows considerably more biology than I.

Beyond the STEM info, it is also my very favorite coloring book: while representational, the organelles and cells don't suggest any particular palettes, and they have a fine mix of tiny and spacious areas to color. A perfect coloring book would have gray rather than black outlines, but these are so fine as to be acceptable.

There was a possibility that I would post a picture, but that whim passed.

#lifeunderthelens

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