Lost Ocean: An Inky Adventure & Colouring Book

This is my third book of Johanna's - the paper is excellent quality, the drawings are intricate and it is a pleasure to sit and decide on a colour scheme fo each picture!Everything is beautiful from the covers to the story to follow and animals to find.

loads of pages had for my son keep him busy for weeks

Absolutely beautiful book. Lovely gold foil on the cover and the drawings are marvellous.Easily recommended, I’m sure this will be appreciated by anyone who likes colouring.

I’ve bought a few of Johanna’s books now and find that each book has had differing quality of paper and it seems ‘pot luck’ with what you get. I use coloured pencils, mainly Polychromos, Luminance and Prismacolour in all my colouring and found that Enchanted Forest was in particular, very poor for those, as it was hard to build any vibrancy or layers as the paper was just too smooth. It made colouring a chore.However, with this book, it’s perfect again, like her recent ‘Rooms of Wonder’ and ‘Worlds of Wonder’. Brighter white and with a very slight tooth. It makes colouring with pencils far more enjoyable. Her illustrations in this book also have the hand drawn quality which one or two of the very early books didn’t have. I’m pleased with this one.

Very happy with my purchase. The book is as good as new. Not a mark in it. Always makes me happy when I can reuse items. I shall look forward to spending time colouring in.

lots of detail to colour

Beautiful colouring book that I bought as a present and for an amazing price! Mine came without the main cover as I chose it for a lower price from Amazon outlet, however the inside cover is beautiful and already great as is, so it didn't affect the quality of the present at all. A delight to look at and lots of fun, with a game you can play inside. Definitely recommend these colouring books as the person I bought this for already owns another also by Johanna Basford - they're great fun (even for adults) and take you back to your childhood! A real stress-reliever, you can concentrat on something other than whatever's on your mind for just a minute. You might be surprised at how much you enjoy this (if you're an adult). Obviously it would be wonderful for any child as a gift.

A simply gorgeous book.The paper and print quality in Johanna's books are always of a high standard and this book is no different. The paper is slightly off white and very smooth, it takes a small amount of water if using watercolour pencils although will start to crinkle if you use too much so better to stick with dry mediums if you want to colour every picture.I find that the images in this book are more detailed than those in Enchanted Forest so it is best suited to coloured pencils or fineliners. The printing is double sided so if alcohol markers are your thing you will need to choose which image you prefer. Also the images go all the way into the spine making removing the pages tricky (but there will probably be an artists edition soon for that).The range of images covers all sorts of subjects, for example fish, mermaids, jelly fish, whales and shells.