It has been a looooong time since I had been coloring. Especially with colored pencils. But last weekend I finally managed to finish a coloring page that was lying in my studio for literally MONTHS! It was a page from one of Masja van den Berg’s coloring books, titled ‘Masja’s Mandala’s’. I think I started somewhere in July last year, ...

Color by number It’s been over a month ago since I’ve colored two drawings from the color by number coloring book Colourtronic, so it’s about time to write a review. The Dutch version of the book was published by BBNC Publishers (the English version by Michael O’Mara Books Ltd.) and they’ve sent it to me. I’d like to thank them ...

Nice mandala coloring agenda From BBNC I received the super nice One and Only Mandala Coloring Agenda 2017, for which I thank them! Now it’s quite clear that I must write a review about it haha, so that’s what I’m about to do. The size is 18 x 17,6 cm large and 2,4 cm thick. Not very small, but neither ...

New colored pencils When I recently received my 100 pieces Marco Renoir tin I was super happy. I had never before experienced pencils sent from China that were this well packaged. To me it felt like there were thirty layers of bubble wrap around the tin! Coloring with Marco Renoir Full of confidence I started my first coloring sheet with ...

Miss Doodled Blooms It’s been months ago now that I first met Michelle Johnson on Instagram. She drew me to her own first coloring book, Doodled Blooms. That made Michelle the first illustrator outside the Netherlands for whom I colored and wrote a review. And it didn’t stop there. Because of our common interest in coloring and coloring materials we’ve ...

Added on Feb. 16th 2019: This coloring book review was previously only published on my Dutch website. Since my Dutch website has stopped, I don’t want to lose the reviews that weren’t published on my English website. So here it is, in Dutch. I haven’t translated it to English, since it’s a typical Dutch book and I figured there wouldn’t ...

From Victoria Slater I received a review copy of her coloring book Untangle, for which I kindly thank her. The subtitle is ‘Incredibly detailed colouring book for stress relief’. My first impression is that this book has been well taken care of. It’s a little bit smaller than A4-size (21,5 x 28 cm). It contains 40 unique and very detailed ...

BBNC Publishers sent me a box with 20 The One And Only Big Girls Coloring Christmas Cards by Julia Woning, for which I  kindly thank them. The box has a beautiful design with a luxurious gold foil on which the title is printed and of course there’s a big girl and Santa. Information from the internet: The 20 unique Big ...