Fairy Art - Grayscale Coloring Edition (Grayscale Coloring by Selina Fenech) Paperback – April 12, 2016

This one is a true joy with beautiful artwork. I would suggest colored pencil or crayon mediums. I love supporting a real artist over the abundance of AI any day. I also believe these may be the first babies I have ever colored.

I have all her coloring books - they are the best! I love that there are two of each picture, It's great to be able to change color schemes, or even start over if you mess up! The fairies are beautiful, every one of them! The pictures aren't too intricate, but far from simple. I have both the grayscale version and the standard one, I like coloring in the standard one and seeing how she does the shading on the grayscale ones. I've now started using the pencils just on the regular books, and then markers seem to work better on the grayscale ones. I like the alcohol markers the best, they work awesome on her grayscale books!She is an amazing artist, when is she coming out with more coloring books! I'm hooked!

Love the pictures and the paper quality is top notch

I discovered Selena Fenech on Facebook when she popped up in my news feed to "like" because I liked similar artists. I liked her page and enjoyed looking at her artwork and posts for the last few months. I knew she had coloring books available here on Amazon; I planned on buying them soon, perhaps for my birthday. A few weeks ago she offered 10 free printables of her images from her latest coloring book; I apologize but I don't remember the actual name of it, but it's the one with fairies. I was so excited to get the 10 free printables, and I had so much fun coloring them! I shared some of the pictures I colored with my mother; who also enjoys coloring; and she enjoyed the images as well. She wanted to buy one the coloring books and she bought one for me too! She bought the Enchanted - Magical Forest one and I got the Fairy Art - Grayscale coloring book. I was ecstatic to see the images in this book!!! Stunning and beautiful! They all exceeded my expectations. I've never worked with grayscale pictures before so this is exciting. I have a good sized collection of coloring books that have a variety of images, this one is definitely my new favorite!

The media could not be loaded. I really enjoy Selina Fenech's artwork and have a number of her coloring books, so when I saw her newly released grayscale coloring book “Fairy Art”, I purchased it immediately. The artwork is everything I could hope for and more. It is simply beautiful and I hope to see more books in grayscale by Ms. Fenech.However, the printing in the book is simply too dark for me to work with. I admit it could be because I am new to grayscale coloring (I only have three other books in this style) so it may be due to my inexperience.I did do a comparison of print against my other books and this one is much darker. The problem is that adding coloring can never make the print lighter (unless you are using a solid opaque medium and simply painting over the existing artwork to cover it up.) The images show much lighter in the digital images in the “Look Inside” feature than they are in print.I tried three different sets of coloring pencils (Prismacolor Premier Softcore, Caran D'Ache Pablo Colored Pencils and Faber-Castell Polychromos) just in case it made a difference. I used similar style designs and similar colors. While I preferred the Pablo pencils for coverage, I had the same problems. For flesh tones, I had to use creams and the lightest pink I could find in each set and the tones still came out really dark.I am hoping that my book is an aberration and that others get much lighter printing in their books. If not, I hope this is something that Ms. Fenech can get corrected immediately. If that happens, I hope that someone will let me know and I will re-purchase this book in a heartbeat. I am still coloring in this book and am liking it due to the artwork but I simply can't say I love it.The book contains 25 different but two copies of each for a total of 50 coloring designs. The book is glue-bound but has plenty of room to remove each design from the book. The designs do not merge into the binding area. I only use coloring pencils with my grayscale so I didn't check for other mediums. As the designs are printed on one side, you can always put a blotter page behind the page you are working on and it will keep ink from seeping through. My pencils worked well but differently. The Blue fairy is Pablo, the Purple fairy is Polychromos and the Pink fairy and Bee fairy are both Prismacolor Softcore.

Selina Fenech is truly in a class of her own! These images will awe and inspire you to create your own works of art. The Fairy renderings are each stories in their own right and Selina even has a blog, website and Facebook page to get you started and help you design these coloring pages into your own masterpieces. Each will give you hours of fun and relaxation. And honestly, you will be amazed and the end result! I love the fact that she puts 2 of each image in her books so you can share or try different color schemes. Basically you get 2 coloring books for the price of one! Relaxation, 2 for 1, incredible art...need I say more?! Get this book and you too will be hooked!

Bought for my kid she loved it very detailed and awesome greyscale

I now have every Selena Fenech book, (just waiting for Festive Magic) These books are absolutely beautiful. They are detailed enough for an experienced colorist, but not too hard that they would frighten a beginner away. Providing 2 of every picture is brilliant, it gives you the chance to try the picture in a totally different way. The level of grayscale is perfect and the pictures themselves are stunning. I'm already waiting for the next book to be released to add to my collection. I can't recommend them highly enough, please hurry and give us more!!!