Lost Ocean is a colouring book that the reader/artist can really immerse themselves in and get lost within its gorgeous pages. To give an idea of how fine some lines are here's my attempt at the opening page: One to work up to, a few look very intimidating! Wont be for everyone because of the intricate detail, some pages are very challenging. Pages are thick enough there's rarely bleed-through. The pages are smoother than with EF making it easier to colour with pencils however there's a lot of very fine detail and narrow lines to colour - pencils will need to be kept very sharp and fineliner pens are the best bet for most pictures. Sea-life being so splendidly varied there's plenty of scope for imagination to make demands on your arsenal of colours, with treasure to be hunted along the way. Illustrations have the same whimsy and selection of mandalas, double-page scenes and decorative animals. Two page sea-life scene (Would like to add some blue background but ability verses ideas.yeah, nope!)įinding Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest & Coloring Book totally absorbing and now been gifted (lovely hubby) with this book. Three of my efforts under spoiler-cut, finishing these feels like quite an accomplishment ): There's a few pics I'm not bothered about colouring googling shows great versions, but I'm not an artist so not looking for too complex. I like this book but there's a lot of repetitive geometric designs with very fine lines. I was experimenting with Yellow and BrownĮDIT: Having attempted some more of these I'm going to say EF is still my favourite. This ended up looking a little more 70s than I wanted, but I like it anyway.

My daughter thinks it is incomplete and urges me to 'finish' it Just to see what it would look like, I did a picture by only outlining stuff. Since I'm such a rebel, I actually rubbed in some black as well to make one of my blues darker. The Nefarious One challenged me on behalf of the Coloring Cult to use only Blues Silvers or Gold to make a picture. I imagine this as the view through the window of a white and gold submarine Mostly when she colors we make copies of the pages, but not always. I mentioned earlier/elsewhere that my 4yr old daughter colors with me and gives me coloring advice. The starfeesh and C-Harse are the first two that I colored after getting my new set of colored pencils. Probably my least favorite that I have done so far. I was trying to make good use of whitespace with these JamFish This is actually the first one that I colored I'm trying to avoid 'rainbows' but I really liked this one I've done maybe 6 or so, but here are 2 that I have finished (I'll post the others later) Mostly she helps me pick colors and bumps me from time to time.

I've been coloring in it with my 4yr old daughter. My wife gave me this book for Christmas 2015.

Johanna basford ocean