Querkles: Animals Paperback – August 9, 2016

I love coloring books, and Querkles are my absolute favorite. I feel like a master drawer with the finished product. I can't recommend these books highly enough, and wish I could get more of these.

I just have to say that I am totally in love with Querkles! I've bought all four books, and this author is amazing! If you are a creative type who loves adult coloring books, but also enjoys using your left brain for mind bending puzzles, then this is definitely the right fit for you. It is so much fun to start out with a bunch of random circles and end up with a masterpiece. I've used markers and colored pencils, and both turned out equally good (pictures are attached). I think it strictly comes down to personal preference, and I like to alternate what I use. I will say that I enjoyed the Animals and Masterpieces books the most because the Cats and Icons books get a little repetitive (cat after cat vs. person after person). I prefer being surprised by my work in progress, and hope that the author makes more books with a greater variety in the future. The perforated pages make it easy to share with others, and everyone I've shown these to has gotten themselves hooked and went on to order their own books. Give it a shot - I promise, you won't be disappointed!HINT: If you are going to use markers, I suggest starting with the lightest color first, and gradually working to the darkest. For instance, color all the 5's, then all the 4's, and so on till you get to all the 1's. This will prevent the darker colors from bleeding and give you crisper lines. I have attached a series of pictures so that you can see the process.

Very nice Coloring book

I love coloring, and the fact that I am NOT an artist, I especially like books were much of the thought about "how can I make this look good" is decided for me.The idea behing this book is that every page can be colored in any color you choose - it really can! It reminds me of Andy Warhol and his colored photos of Marilyn Monroe. I could get three of these books and color the same dog oraange, green, purple, red, and blue. Each coloring experience is fun.What I strongly recommend is that you use your color selection based on scribbling on pracrice paper. You need 5 colors that are condidered dark to light. This can be like black, navy blue, forest green, true red, and yellow. Black would be the least transparent, and the yellow thebmost transparent. The numbers 1 - 5 are printed darker and lighter within the circle parts to show you the effect. This color combo will make an interesting animal (or for the other books, some crazy looking people). The book also recommends using shading with pencil or pen, or picking within a color group, such as the green dog pictured by a reviewer. Use a black, forest green, true green, grass green, and lime or spring green as your lightest. I ALWAYS try my pencils and markers on scrap paper first.The paper in the book is like a 65lb or 70lb paper, or thin cardstock. You can use marker, watercolor (if you do not go to wet), acrylic pain, ink, pastels, crayons...the sky is the limit with heavy paper.Each piece can be removed so that the artist can work on a clip board, or at a drafring table/easle , and not have to fight the book. I like this part since I am a reposing artist. 😊These books are great fun, and I believe the animal ones make great starter books. I am not comfortable making a purple shaded Mona Lisa, but a purple Camel is okay by me.

Fun and different. I have all the querkles books and love them all!

This book is a really fun alternative to straight forward coloring books. The pictures are oversized, though. No ability to home photocopy a pic so you can color it in an alternative color. Easy to do, color -by-number. The numbers are light enough that they only show through the lightest colors. If you decided to frame one and put it on a wall, I doubt that anyone would see the numbers unless they got to within a few inches of the picture. I used white acrylic paint on the spaces I wanted white, no number to be seen! If the spaces are small enough you could also use a white gel pen to fill them in to cover the number completely.

The book was larger than I'd planned (should have read the specs). I've gotten into the habit of scanning my coloring pages so that I can color them digitally on my tablet; these pages are too large for that, and phone-scanning doesn't come out clear. So I settled to color normally.I don't suggest crayon as a medium. Pencil, marker, or pen seem to be the better choices. I do like the results and how you can choose your own color scheme -- it only suggest to go from darkest to lightest, 1-5.I fully plan to buy others in the series.

Querkles are my favorite series of coloring books. I usually bring this with me to long chemo days and get tons of compliments and questions about the books!