Mythical Mermaids - Fantasy Adult Coloring Book (Fantasy Coloring by Selina)

This coloring book you will love if you like mermaids like me. Very relaxing as you paint them, wish I was a painter so I use my imagination to paint many different ones. But in the meantime I buy coloring books to do so!

In our house coloring is an addiction. I'm one hell of an amazing artist. But I just don't compare to my mother. I can do great things but she is on a whole different scale of artists. I still have so much to learn. This book has been in my wish list for so long and I bought it for her for Christmas and she brings it to life in a way. I never knew possible. We have this thing where we make a copy of the picture and we both color it in our own view and what she does with it is just jaw-dropping and stunning. She never ceases to amaze me.

The pages are beautiful. Drawings fill up nearly the whole page and details bring life to the art. The faces , hair, and details are lovely.. Mermaids, by definition, are mythical. I think the concept is shown with the mermaids, in conjunction, with lured sailors, treasure ships, sea life, and merman. There's plenty of space for artistic additions, like shading. The paper is that if typical coloring books, at this price range. There are several other books in this series currently in print. I recommend this book for fantasy, coloring book aficianados.

“Mythical Mermaids” the latest fantasy coloring book by Selina Fenech. She is one of my favorite fantasy designers and this is my first book by her that is devoted to mermaids (though she does have an earlier coloring book with a similar subject.) The designs are of primarily mermaids though there are some mermen and a man or two who has been saved from a watery grave by a beautiful mermaid. Some of the designs include more than one mermaid but most of them focus on a single beautiful female. Once again with Ms. Fenech's books, I'm really happy that the book contains two of each design because it gives me the opportunity to explore each in different colorways. I generally go towards light and clean looking lines in my coloring but having a second copy of each design gives me an opportunity to try different techniques and darker colors and heavier shading. The mermaids are all gorgeous, of course. There is a hint of nudity but all of the female parts are well covered by hair and whatnot. The mermen are without shirts but that doesn't really matter in any case. There are no children in this book and most of the poses are highly romanticized while stressing the female form of the subject. For my first two projects, I chose to use alcohol-based markers. I have been using pencils to shade but for these two, I tried using my markers for shading as well. I will provide a more detailed description of the physical book below but here is a quick overview of what I found: 25 x 2 Mermaid Fantasy Designs Printed on one side of page Paper is white, thin, slightly rough (tooth) and non-perforated Designs do not merge into the binding and there is plenty of room to remove pages if you wish to do so. Glue Binding Alcohol and water-based markers bleed through the paper (though water-based is more spotty compared to alcohol-based) India ink pens and gel pens leave shadows on color on back of the page. Gel pens left dents on the back of the page. Coloring Pencils work well with this paper. I was able to put down good color, layer, and blend well with both wax and oil based pencils. Hard lead left dents on the back of the page. I recommend a blotter page below your working page to keep ink and dents from marring the page below. The artist has placed a “frame” around the majority of the designs in this coloring book. There are three that do not have the lines but for the most part have finished elements on the outer edges of the design. I really appreciate when an artist includes this thoughtful touch. It makes it easier for me to complete the project with a finished look and saves me time, trouble, and especially ink.

Artist - Selina Fenech Pages - 108 Publisher - Fairies and Fantasy PTY LTD Book As with Selinas previous books, Mythical Mermaids is a subtle deep blue with a partially coloured image from the interior on the cover. The soft matte card cover is 27.9cm x 21.6cm and the book is 108 pages. The spine is glue bound, and quite pliable after some use. The paper is of moderate thickness and texture. A number of layers are easily achieved on the paper, with both oil and wax based pencils. Waterbased markers shadow, any other wet media will bleed. Make sure to have a few pages of standard paper behind the image to catch any bleedthrough. Images are single sided, and surrounded by a border to prevent the image from entering the spine. The facing page has the name of the image for easy reference to the original. This book contains , 25 different images, each one repeated, for a total of 50 images. Images As the title suggests, this is a book full of mermaids. The artwork has been converted from the original artwork done by Selina Fenech. The art style is consistent throughout the images. The artwork varies quite a bit, with singular mermaids staring through the page, mermaids embracing, spunky mermaids showing attitude, others swimming around a sunken ship. The line thickness is consistently thin throughout, although the artwork is clean and consistent, so it is not difficult to see and interpret the images. Intricacy varies a little, with most images containing smaller detailed areas and some larger areas perfect for blending and shading. Health The natural colour schemes that accompany mermaid/nautical scenes is quite soothing and would be very well suited for times of anxiety or pain, or just a low day. The fantasy theme is one of my favourites when you are in need of distraction, as the imagery and theme is perfect for escapism. Line thickness and intricacy means that those who have vision or fine motor skills impairments may struggle with some of these images, but as always, please do check the images and flipthrough before deciding. Thankyou for reading and I hope you have enjoyed this review, Batgirl xx

This book was everything I dreamed. The addition of the second set of pages is amazing because I always have so many ideas for the same picture and now I have the opportunity to express that! The only thing I would like to be different, is the thickness of the pages, they are slightly too thin to really be able to use a good set of markers on. Otherwise, great designs!

Selina is seriously my favorite artist when it comes to coloring books. Just amazing! It's so hard to choose which page to start on and I'm so glad there are two pages for each! I liked how in this book she has named a lot of the pictures, I know she bases most (if not all) on finished art that she does. I haven't tried a greyscale book of hers (or anyone's) yet but I hope my shading is decent enough - I do try a little. I just love these mermaids!!!! Wonderful :) (attached is a picture I started tonight after days of not being able to decide on a page and giving up instead of just picking one)

The adult coloring book thing finally got me. I am addicted to this relaxing, and therapeutic craze. I find myself coloring almost every night before I go to bed. You can find these books everywhere now. This coloring book is of much higher quality and is different from any I have seen elsewhere. You get two of every picture that way if you mess up or just want to try two different color schemes or use pen on one and pencil on the other you have options. The pages have beautiful artwork and are a nice change from the adult coloring books I have seen at the drug store. A most impressive collection of coloring pages.

Das Buch ist wie beschrieben, auch wenn ich angst hatte das man die Tinte von den Copic Markern zu sehr Sieht ,durch das Blatt, geht das doch sehr gut. Also klar man sieht durch die Hinterseite die Farbe aber nichts geht ans nächstes Blatt, was mich sehr zufrieden macht. Die Bilder sind von guter Qualität was die Striche angeht mit schöner Strichbreite.

I LOVE all of the Selina Fenech colouring books (I currently have seven different titles) Her art is amazing and makes other colouring books pale in comparison. I like that there are two copies of each picture (which was clearly indicated in the product description before I bought it) because I like trying different colour schemes with different pictures. I highly recommend her books and even joined her mailing list to keep up to date on new works coming out.

Me encanto, la calidad y belleza de las imagenes y el que haya 2 de cada una para hacer siferentes estilos.

Adorei o livro. As ilustrações são lindas, mas gramatura do papel poderia ser melhor.

Selina Fenech is amazing at creating these books!! I bought 3 different ones and they all blow my mind. I especially love how you get doubles of each picture because if you’re anything like me you have multiple ideas of what colours you want to use.