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Tangle Magic: A spellbinding colouring book with hidden charms
Illustrator and papercutter, Jessica Palmer, has created 75 designs of enchanting hand-drawn pictures for you to color and lose yourself in. The images all have a magical theme, and each one includes hidden charms intricately worked into the design for readers to discover and color in. The book will include designs that fit on a single page as well as those that extend across a double-page spread. Some of the designs will fill the entire page and others will sit within it. Others will have space left for the reader to extend the design themselves. High quality paper means that there will be no show-through.
80 pages, Paperback
Published July 30, 2016
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August 29, 2016
This is Jessica Palmer's third Tangle book and it's both different, and similar, to her previous books. The title is Tangle Magic but it's less about magic as such and more about the magical and enchanting aspect of fantasy.
Like her previous books, animals feature a lot in Tangle Magic. That was a pleasant surprise as I was expecting more darkness and black magic in this book.
To me, this book feels similar to Hanna Karlzon's drawings so if you like Hanna's books, you will probably like Tangle Magic too.
There is a multitude of animals and birds in this book, sporting hats and crowns and gorgeous attire. Of course there are owls too, and I love Jessica's owls. There are a few beautiful landscape images on double page spreads and there are several images with black backgrounds. There is a mix of detailed images and pages with less happening. There are also images that give you scope for adding backgrounds and your own details.
Line width is medium and you shouldn't need the magnifying glass!
Within each image is a hidden gem or trinket to find - practise for you at colouring jewels!
You can read the full review with video flip through and colourings on the blog - http://goo.gl/9629Hp
Like her previous books, animals feature a lot in Tangle Magic. That was a pleasant surprise as I was expecting more darkness and black magic in this book.
To me, this book feels similar to Hanna Karlzon's drawings so if you like Hanna's books, you will probably like Tangle Magic too.
There is a multitude of animals and birds in this book, sporting hats and crowns and gorgeous attire. Of course there are owls too, and I love Jessica's owls. There are a few beautiful landscape images on double page spreads and there are several images with black backgrounds. There is a mix of detailed images and pages with less happening. There are also images that give you scope for adding backgrounds and your own details.
Line width is medium and you shouldn't need the magnifying glass!
Within each image is a hidden gem or trinket to find - practise for you at colouring jewels!
You can read the full review with video flip through and colourings on the blog - http://goo.gl/9629Hp
October 1, 2016
The below review is from my blog, full entry with flip through video can be seen here - https://thecoloringaddict.com/2016/10...
Jessica Palmer is an illustrator, paper cutter and a paper sculpter. She has done two other coloring books before as well, Tangle Wood and Tangle Bay. Check out her webpage as well to see more of her work.
Tangle Magic is her newest book and it is all about magic, strange creatures and objects. The imagery is very whimsical and creative. There are references to different fairytales found here and there as well, like the shoe page or the princess and the pea reference. You can find a dragon and a phoenix and countless other fun magical items and creatures within this book, all the content being cohesive and well put together in my opinion.
Some of the pages are very intricate to the point that you’ll probably want to use pens instead of pencils. Most are fine for pencils though. Some pages have a printed black background, most are white.
In the beginning there is also a page on how to color gemstones which is very cool, I like these how-to pages in books, it’s always a bonus.
The paper is very nice, it has a tiny bit of a texture to it which makes layering a dream, it’s not an annoying texture but of the good sort.
The binding is a bit tough at first but it eases up quite well and seems pretty stable, I don’t think it will fall apart quickly.
One of my favorite pages is the crystal ball which you can color as is or draw something in it as well and I love that the book doesn’t tell you what to do with it. I’m really not a fan of those “doodle here” type of comments in books.
I chose mushrooms for my test page and went with a really simple light french grey background but the mushrooms have a multitude of layers at places and the paper held up like a champ. I just love coloring mushrooms, there’s something really fun about them.
Overall, it’s a great book with awesome paper, definitely recommend if you like these whimsical images.
Jessica Palmer is an illustrator, paper cutter and a paper sculpter. She has done two other coloring books before as well, Tangle Wood and Tangle Bay. Check out her webpage as well to see more of her work.
Tangle Magic is her newest book and it is all about magic, strange creatures and objects. The imagery is very whimsical and creative. There are references to different fairytales found here and there as well, like the shoe page or the princess and the pea reference. You can find a dragon and a phoenix and countless other fun magical items and creatures within this book, all the content being cohesive and well put together in my opinion.
Some of the pages are very intricate to the point that you’ll probably want to use pens instead of pencils. Most are fine for pencils though. Some pages have a printed black background, most are white.
In the beginning there is also a page on how to color gemstones which is very cool, I like these how-to pages in books, it’s always a bonus.
The paper is very nice, it has a tiny bit of a texture to it which makes layering a dream, it’s not an annoying texture but of the good sort.
The binding is a bit tough at first but it eases up quite well and seems pretty stable, I don’t think it will fall apart quickly.
One of my favorite pages is the crystal ball which you can color as is or draw something in it as well and I love that the book doesn’t tell you what to do with it. I’m really not a fan of those “doodle here” type of comments in books.
I chose mushrooms for my test page and went with a really simple light french grey background but the mushrooms have a multitude of layers at places and the paper held up like a champ. I just love coloring mushrooms, there’s something really fun about them.
Overall, it’s a great book with awesome paper, definitely recommend if you like these whimsical images.
January 29, 2018
This is Jessica's new book and it is amazing! I also own her other books Tangle Wood and Tangle Bay. All are wonderful coloring books. In this book all of the same wonderful features are here: hard cover that is also bendable and can be laid out flat, sewed binding, and wonderful paper that holds up well to watercolor, markers, pencils, gel pens and whatever you want to use. The drawings are very detailed and playful. As I was coloring in this book all kinds of stories ran through my mind. There are also some pages with black background which I love. Also included is helpful idea on how to add special effects to your drawing. I am loving coloring in this book! Jessica really did an amazing job on this book. It is a colourist dream. A must have. Five stars are not enough I give it ten stars. :)
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