Millie Marottas Wild Savannah

The media could not be loaded. I have enjoyed all of Millie Marotta's previous coloring books (“Animal Kingdom” and Tropical World”). Her coloring books are of the natural world around us. In “Wild Savannah”, Ms. Marotta circles the globe with animals from various grassland areas. This includes the traditional African wildlife but also animals of Northern Australian, South America, and even Asia. By taking this point of view, the coloring book is filled with diverse and interesting animals and, for me at least, it makes me stop and think about the areas that the animals inhabit.There are so many animals in the coloring book, including zebras, elephants, rhinoceros, lions, flamingos, various insects, hippopotamus, and much, much more. There are many designs which either focus on or include birds. Of the 74 designs in the book, five of them are semi-duplicates of the opposite page. As with her other coloring books, Ms. Marotta has included a few of these “duplicates” which do not contain the high level of detail of their “twin”. This allows the doodle artist or the blending artist a canvas to make those designs their own.This particular book is the UK version. The US version will be released in a few months. I will do a comparison of the two coloring books at that point and will include my comments about any differences that I find in the comments section below. I would edit the text of this review but currently there seems to be an issue with editing reviews with photos.The book is in the larger square format that is typical for many British coloring books. The book cover is very pretty. It has touches of color and gold foil on the front of the cover. You could certainly color the remainder of the design if you so choose. The inside of both the front and back of the cover have a fold out flap and artwork similar to that of the front of the cover is printed for coloring fun.The designs are printed on both sides of white heavyweight, non-perforated pages. There are also 14 designs which spread across two pages. The pages in my book were well aligned. There are 60 single page designs. Some of the single page designs and all of the two page designs merge into the binding of the book. As the binding is sewn rather than glued, you can easily remove several pages at a time by snipping a few threads. I was able to break the spine and get the book to lay flat for ease of coloring.I generally test many types of coloring medium (a list is included below) and this is what I discovered in testing this book:All alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper easily. All water-based markers either bled through (especially Stabilo) or leave distinct shadows of color on the backside of the page. India ink artist pens also leave a color shadow. My various gel pens left a slight darkening on the backside of the page – noticeable but I could not tell the color of each – just that they were there. My coloring pencils did the best of the various medium. They went on well and blended well; however the soft lead pencils were not quite as good a coverage as I have had with other books. My hard lead pencils went on true to type and did not leave an indent at the back of the page.These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:Markers: 1) alcohol-based – Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) Bic Mark-its (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based – Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, and Staedler triplus finelinersIndia Ink: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens (brush tip)Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo in the following sizes - 0.28/0.38/0.5/1.0 and TekwriterColoring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castell Polychromos

Apparently, Millie Marotta listens to her fans! The silly, juvenile activity book instructions that plagued her other books are gone in Wild Savannah (in case you're unfamiliar with her other books, there were written instructions on many of the pages to "draw some trees" or "add more butterflies" or whatever. Those instructions took away from the artwork of the book and, IMO, were really silly. I bought the book to color, not to draw!)Anyway, point is moot in Wild Savannah. Again, if you like her other books (Tropical World, Animal Kingdom), then this is right up your alley. In this book, you'll find cute birds, boorish warthogs, -- if you like coloring animals that aren't found in other books, then you'll really enjoy this. Some of the pics in here are not cute - the page with all the snakes freaks me out - but think that's great because it's nice to have a change from all of the cutesy flowers, doodles, and bunnies in all of the other adult coloring books out there.The pages are double-side, so you can't use any markers unless you're willing to give up the other page. It's a high quality coloring book and the amount of detail in the designs hits that sweet spot -- not too intricate where you need a magnifying glass to color, but definitely not simple! I can't wait to get started on it!My only criticism is that I wish there was a "key" in the back of the book that told you what animals these are, as I'm not familiar with a lot of them. Get this book - you won't be disappointed!

This coloring book is fantastic! The artwork is superb. This is my first Millie Marotta book, but definitely won't be my last. Her work is gorgeous and a delight to color. The majority of the designs are intricate shapes filled into the animal shape, so I would say this is at least intermediate coloring skill. There is art on both sides of the paper, so alcohol based markers aren't going to work in this book without giving up some designs, due to the bleeding through. Gel pens and water based markers worked fine for me with no bleed through. She's added several blank pages in the back and I use those to test my gel pens and markers before using. I would recommend doing this before coloring with anything other than pencil, if you don't want to lose some of the pages. That said, the paper is great quality. It's thick and slightly textured, and perfect for coloring on with soft colored pencils. It's my favorite kind of paper to color on. The color lays beautifully and blends really well. I use Prismacolor Premier colored pencils as my main medium for coloring and this book is perfect for them. There are a few mandalas included in there for fun. All in all I am really enjoying this book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys coloring nature pictures and mandalas because for me, this book is a blend of both.

I have become a big fan of Millie Marotta's coloring books. She and Johanna Basford are my favorites. I haven't had this book long, but I have completed one page, which I'll post below. The designs in this book are complex without being overly complicated or extremely detailed. I don't find books with extreme detailing to be relaxing - they give me a headache! These are lovely wildlife drawings that lend themselves to lifelike or fantasy color treatments. The paper is nice and thick, whitish in color. The book is put together very well, and can be pushed flat very easily for coloring near the seam. I highly recommend this as a must have for you coloring book library.

Adults only. Beautiful but very complex. Needs fine point colored pencils.

Das Geschenk kam bei dem 9-jährigen Geburtstagskind super an. Die Motive sind sehr schön und es ist anspruchsvoll zum Malen.

Precioso, misma calidad (o eso parece) que los publicados en español. No he probado con rotuladores, lo quiero para lápices, y tiene mismo tamaño, forma y calidad. Los dibujos son maravillosos. La temática evidentemente es de animales de de la sabana africana, y tiene algunos especialmente atractivos. Totalmente recomendable si te gustan los dibujos elaborados y de animales.

The stunning cover tells you all you need to know about the content of Millie's latest book. Inside Wild Savannah the animals jump off the page just begging to be coloured in!The paper quality is excellent, I like the blank pages at the back of the book for you to draw then colour your very own Wild Savannah creations.A lovely feature is the fold out cover at both the front and back of the book revealing a panoramic vista teeming with wildlife already for you to colour.I find this book exciting and absorbing, just the thing to distract you for half an hour or half a day if that's how long you have. A superb tool to help you relax when your mind is troubled.Millie Marotta just doesn't disappoint, as a great fan of hers I have all her work, postcard box sets, journals and my coveted deluxe addition of Animal Kingdom, Millie's iconic and classic first book. The creativity never falters and the quality endures across the board.So indulge yourself with Wild Savannah, alive with beautiful images of some of our most treasured animals, you will be delighted, I promise.

Dessins très jolisLe seul problème des livres de la gamme est qu'ils sont recto verso, donc il faut acheter 2 albums si on veut tous les faire

J'ai déjà fait deux coloriages j'adore l'auteur et l'éditeur. Les pages sont super, les dessins magnifique et ont peux les transformer 😊