Title Page 50 US States 5 Top National Parks
Debra Gabel, (designer, quilter, lecturer, author, fiber artist, business professional) started teaching and patterning quilts in 2000. Debra teaches and lectures internationally at quilt guilds, seminars, and fiber events. She aims to travel the world through quilting. zebrapatterns.com
Go on a virtual road trip with this fun book and color your way
across America. There are 55 different stamp shaped pictures
in here depicting 50 states and 5 top national parks. You
could even take this book away with you… Not that it is
small (11” x 8½”) but coloring is an activity that can be done
while travelling or once you arrive at your destination. The
paper is fairly standard being a smooth bright white and of
reasonable quality; the images are printed on one side only so you
can use a wide variety of media for coloring. I recommend
putting a sheet of card underneath if you want to use anything
other than pencils for best results. There is a helpful chart
at the beginning showing all 25 colors and unusually a selection of
six tints, tones and shades of the color so you can choose the
ultimate look of your work. Each stamp takes up most of a
page but allows a space at the bottom for testing colors which can
be cut off and there is a useful dotted line in the margin for
removal. The stamps depict a typical scene associated with
the state plus the words (State Name) Forever. Also featured
are the state flower or bird, sometimes both and there is a list of
these. Choose from surfboards and a wave (Hawaii), motor
racing (Indiana), Route 66 (Oklahoma) and more. Inside the
back cover is a list of all 5 thumbnails, very small to see but
visible (a magnifying glass helps) showing them colored in.
Having a foldout page showing them larger would have been better,
but overall this is a fun and imaginative book that will appeal to
both sexes and varied ages. The pictures are fairly
simplistic so would be ideal for beginner colorists or children, or
anybody who just wants to chill out rather than wrestle with more
complex images.
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