Colormorphia: Celebrating Kerby Rosanes's Coloring Challenges Paperback – Coloring Book, March 19, 2019

This may be one of your strangest reviews...My son has made some bad choices and is now spending about a year in jail. In there they can get a set of twelve basic color pencils. He asked if I would find a coloring book for adults as he saw another in there using one. I bought this book for him. He absolutely loves this. He has had some people ask for specific pictures when he is completed. He found he has a natural sense for blending colors and using what he has available. He asked me to order more, so far I have a couple. More men in there are now finding this to be very meditative and a creative outlet. My son has been inspired to take classes and get his GED while there and is also now drawing some beautiful images of his own. The images in this book are amazing and better yet this book is helping to bring about positive changes in how he sees his future. Who’d have thought?

This book is beyond anything I’ve seen before!! Absolute beauty on every page! There is a picture for everyone here, so many to choose from! I wish it came with a “suggested first project” page to help me decide! Regardless of which one I choose (and I went for the fairly easy to pictures so detailed completing it will take many sessions!But oh my goodness - the result of your hard work will be a picture VERY suitable for framing to hang in your home, or frame it and give it to a friend or family member! Excellent pictures and I look forward to many happy sessions together in the future!

I purchased this adult coloring book from a local store the first of this year. The cat on the cover reminds me of one of my favorite kitty-boys who passed away last summer ... sending me into a total slump with my love of watercolor. I thought the therapy of simply coloring might spark my ability to return to creating my own artwork again.I really loved many of the drawing images found in this book and have colored quite a few of them. I began with colored pencil, but then realized apparently everyone else had the same idea for enduring the COVID virus shutin and the stores that sell a better quality of colored pencil had no stock. I completed a few, but didn't want to totally wipe out my supply of pencils.One day I got to thinking... the paper quality of these images is only a marginally lesser weight than my professional watercolor paper, so I decided to give it a try. YEAH! It worked. Now I staple my projects to a gator board, size them, and paint right along. I don't use extremely wet washes, but the watercolor is so much more vivid than colored pencil, it was a no-brainer to me. With that said, these pages take a light water wash very well, but no scrubbing... the paper begins to dissolve.So, back to why I bought a second book. All of these pages are printed front and back. While no problem with colored pencil, using watercolor leaves the back side pretty munch unusable. Besides, some of the double pages have something on the back that I would really like to try. This book was much cheaper than the first one I bought and I can paint the backs of the pages I'd already painted in my original book. Aside from that, there are two pages (the dragon, and the fish over the cherry blossoms) that I colored with pencil and would love to do again with watercolor. Here's two of my last completed pages (in watercolor).

Some very cool pics to color.

Seriously, OMGGG. I cannot get enough of this book. It’s sickeningly amazing!!!! I won’t post pictures to spoil it. It’s definitely not an “easy” or “intermediate” coloring book, but it’ll blow your mind. Wayyy too cool! I’d highly recommend this book. If you know someone that reallly loves to color, this would make an excellent gift. Very detailed, absolutely bada** coloring book. If you can even put coloring into categories, this is definitely a more “advanced” and mind provoking book than an “easy” and calming one. Really great!!

Only complaint is some cross pages and are back and front

A great coloring book for adults. Lots of details to color, pages are nice and thick, so if you want to do a LIGHT watercolor, or waterbased marker you could. ( don’t use alcohol based marker on any of these types of pages as they will bleed through) . I really enjoy this book a lot and the variety of pictures in it gives anyone a chance to explore their imagination while coloring.