Summary
Current Price: £4.99 Number of Pages: 66 Size: 23 x 15cm Paper colour: White Paper surface: Smooth Paper thickness: Average Linework: Medium Perforated: No One sided: Yes Binding: Glue Drawings go into the spine: No Waterbased pen bleed: None
Monique Day-Wilde is a full time artist living in Cape Town, South Africa; her inspiration drawn from the beautiful & sometimes quirky landscapes around her. These books are two in the Daydream series of four, the other two titled Town Daydreams & Garden Daydreams. Monique's style has a hand-drawn quality with imperfect lines and a sketchy charm, most of them having a dark shading to them.
Country Daydreams takes us on a journey through 32 pages of both realistic and whimsical country scenes from quaint little villages to small fishing marinas. Winged Daydreams contains a plethora of stunning flying creatures from birds & butterflies to bugs & bumblebees. Here is a flip through of both books so that you can see every single page:
The books are perfectly sized to slip into a bag and take on your travels, and they are fairly thin and light so won't weigh you down. The paper is quite thin and has a very smooth surface, ideal for markers. The cover has a soft feel matte texture and half-coloured, half-monochrome design. Each illustration fills the page right up to a thin border, so there is nothing going off the page or into the spine. There is a mixture of wider spaces and really narrow areas to colour, so it should suit everyone.
Overall these books are extremely cute and charming, and the quality of the artwork is really lovely- just make sure you are comfortable with the amount of dark shading there is in some of the illustrations as this may put some people off. Here are my finished pictures from each book, coloured with Staedtler Triplus felt pens.
These books were given to me in exchange for an honest review. You can find them on Amazon here:
Country Daydreams Winged Daydreams
4 Comments
Jana Dean
12/12/2016 09:32:43 pm
These 2 books are very pretty. I want to encourage you to do more coloring tutorials. You're coloring is beautiful and I love being able to have the colors all planned out ahead of time. I appreciate all the time you put into your last tutorial. It is beautiful and I'm working on it!! Thank you 😊😊🎈
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Claire
12/12/2016 09:37:19 pm
Hi Jana, thanks for your kind comments & support, it means a lot! You are only the 2nd person to say you are doing the tutorial so it is a bit disheartening as I spent so much time on it but hopefully in the future I will do another :)
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Lucy
11/1/2017 11:18:51 am
I'm also coloring using the recent coloring tutorial. I think, if you asked, you'd probably find quite a few people are using it/referring to it. I would bet that a lot of people are like me, as I read your blog and facebook page regularly, and try to replicate the things you show in tutorials and the like, but don't often comment. Don't be disheartened! (I can understand that you might not want to be one of those people who continually asks if their readers/followers do something you've shown, but you might think about posting a question or questionshere on the site asking for people to comment if they used the coloring tutorial, maybe if they followed along with it or just referred to parts of it, and if they would like to see another tutorial. It might give you some idea of the reader response. But again, some of us might not comment even if we really enjoyed the tutorial--I guess you could call us lurkers. Lol). Do you post the color alongs and other tutorials on youtube as well? If you do, you might factor in the number of views on those as well. Thanks again, Claire, for your hard work on the reviews and the stuff you post on the site and facebook.
Leone
30/1/2017 10:44:40 am
How do I color smoothly with Staedtler Fineliners?? Tried the picture you've done in Country Daydreams but mine comes out very stripey. I suppose practice makes perfect.
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