Creative Haven Ornamental Fashions Coloring Book (Creative Haven Coloring Books)

Your browser does not support HTML5 video. I own and have enjoyed coloring in a number of fashion color books by Ming-Ju Sun in the Creative Haven line. This is another great book but it is quite different from the others that I own. Those books dealt with period fashions (e.g., 1950's, Art Nouveau, etc.) while this is a book called ornamental fashions. The fashions are wildly inventive and creative with lots of detail for coloring. These girls seem almost futuristic Sci-Fy with swirls and twirls twisting around their clothing. I even had problems deciding where the dresses started and stopped. You could certainly show a little more skin that I have by choosing to color areas in flesh tones. I felt that I had more creative control over my coloring with these options and that was fun and different. According to the back of the book, the designs include: "Rosettes, medallions, and sinuous running vines are among the motifs inspired by the decorative arts for these 31 original fashions. The designs adapt ornaments from carpets, textiles, wood carvings, paintings, architecture, jewelry, and other sources."The coloring book is well made as are all of the Creative Haven books. The designs are printed on one side of their medium heavyweight paper. The pages are perforated for easy removal from the book. The binding is glued but that is not an issue as you won't need to cut pages out of this book. I was able to get the book to lay flat by slightly breaking the spine. The designs all stop well before the perforations. Each of the designs has a framing line around it which I really appreciate and always try to mention when I see it. It gives me a natural stopping place if I choose to color in the background and saves me time and ink.All of my markers (alcohol and water-based), my gel pens, and my India Ink artist pens either bled through the paper or, at best, left shadows of distinct color on the backside of the page. My coloring pencils worked on and as expected for their lead type and for the standard Creative Haven paper that is used in this book. In the four designs I have colored so far, I have used markers, gel pens and coloring pencils. When I used the markers and gel pens, I used a blotter page behind the page I was working on to keep ink from seeping through. You can use heavyweight paper or card stock the same way or you can simply remove the page from the book and not be concerned about ruining the rest of the book.These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:Markers: 1) alcohol-based – Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) Bic Mark-its (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based – Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, and Staedler triplus finelinersIndia Ink: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens (brush tip)Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo in the following sizes - 0.28/0.38/0.5/1.0 and TekwriterColoring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castell Polychromos

I wanted to color some people because I like blending skin tones and doing the variations of color and shading in the hairThis was the closest book I could find that actually had some people in itMost books are all designs or animals or places there needs to be some books showing high fashion or scenes of people through time would be great with men and women and children there could be endless opportunities for an illustrator who could do that

I purchased the Ornamental Fashions coloring book from Amazon and love it! The book is filled with artwork by Ming-Ju Sun and consists of 31 models wearing ornamental fashions that are organic, rosette & medallion inspired. Each design is highly detailed with lots of twists and turns and most have small areas that may require fine tip markers, gel pens or colored pencils. Each page is printed only on one side and is perforated for easy removal. The paper is nice and sturdy but I always place a sheet of printer paper behind the page I'm coloring, as a precautionary, because I like to use markers and gel pens which may occasionally bleed through. If you love coloring fashion designs that take time and consideration then this is the book for you. I love it!

This isn't the most astounding, fun color book I've ever had but it does what I buy them for. The 'fashions' are really just designs, some squiggly, some geometrical, made into the very basic shape of a dress and put over a body form. It's a good color book to zone out with, relaxing, no thought required type of thing. I always have multiple color books laying around and I need that with this one because it would be too boring to just go page to page on this one.

These are so much fun to color. They are designed are especially well suited for metallic colors. I've had this a week and have already finished most of the pictures. Searching for one similar. The lines are just far enough apart that if you use markers they stay in the line.

Love this coloring book. Adding my first page done with glitter gel pens.This is the second picture I have colored from this book. Love it even more than the first. Again it was done with glitter gel pens. The blue is the second one.

I love this book because the ladies are beautiful!!!...I love the dresses in this book. The only reason I gave this book 4 stars is because some of the dresses look like duplicates and they are ones that are very intricate in their designs. But all in all are love the author of these coloring books.

I enjoy coloring in "adult coloring books". These books are enjoyable and calming. I have bought quite a few of them. This is one of my favorites. I love the innovative designs, and the subject matter. The fact that each design page has only one design on it, insures you will not have to worry about ruining another design because of bleed through. Allowing you more creativity to color them using colored pencil, crayons, colored pens and even watercolor.

It's okay but not brilliant. The good stuff: the paper is nice and thick and as with all Creative Haven books they are perforated so can be removed easily. At first I had thought this book was great but on closer inspection the patterns within each dress are very similar and several of the long dresses had very strange hem-shapes. I have torn out 4 that I do want to colour in - the book will now go off to the local charity shop.

Another gorgeous Ming-Ju Sun colouring book to add to my collection. I use soft pencils and a bit of metallic gel pen for the jewellery.

Great detail,separate pages so no bled through.

Plenty detail, but dresses a bit too geeky.

En realidad es colorear mandala. De los de la colección es el que menos me ha gustado.