Nightfall Coloring Book: Originally Published in Sweden as "Skymningstimman" (Maria Trolle)

This collection of coloring books is so fun and beautiful and I just love the artwork!!! The paper is great quality and I’ve used pencils and markers. No bleeding unless you hold the marker down on the page for a few seconds. But I think I need one more then I’ll have the whole collection.

I love the quality of these books. I love the whimsical themes! Coloring doesn’t bleed through to the other side, even though I’m just using colored pencils. The only thing I don’t like about them is that the pages aren’t numbered. There’s a reference in the back to let you know what the flowers are, etc. but then you have to figure out what page number you’re looking at. I get why they did it, but it just doesn’t make it any easier.

I pre-ordered this book because I already had Maria Trolle’s previous coloring book, Twilight Garden and I like it so much. Nightfall doesn’t disappoint. All drawings are whimsical, some with black background and some not. There’s something for everyone. Floral motifs, little girls and fairies, the cutest animals and butterflies. Intricate, detailed drawings and others with less and bigger subjects. I would dare say I like this book better than Maria’s first one. Paper is substancial, grabs coloring pencils pigment easily and gel pens won’t bleed. I didn’t try alcohol markers yet but I’m sure it will bleed and you wouldn’t want to ruin the beautiful drawing that’s on the other side of the page. I prefer hardcover coloring books like this one. As far as having difficulty coloring the drawing on spreads when close to the binding, I can work around it and I don’t mind. The lines of the drawings are of a good thickness too and that makes coloring easier for me since thin lines sometimes get confusing or lead one to color outside the subject. In the last pages of this book you’ll find a Plant Register so you get to know the names of all the flowers and plants you’re coloring. I truly recommend this coloring book if you want to transport yourself to another dimension and dream away.

This book is beautiful!! It’s the first non Johanna Basford book I’ve bought, and I love it!! The book is very very well made, the paper is perfect for pencils, the colors lay down very smoothly, which makes blending them even easier, and gel pens don’t bleed through. The lines of each drawing are very thick making it easier to keep up with which part of the picture you’re working on. It’s a hard cover, which I love, you don’t have to worry about the binding falling apart cause it’s very sturdy. One other thing I found super helpful is that in the very back of the book there is a list of all flowers on each page, which makes it super easy to look up and get color inspiration from. I can’t say enough good things about how this book is made. The pictures themselves are beautiful, I love the drawings in them, every picture in the book is beautiful, it’s a great coloring book for anyone from beginners, to experts

This book has a lot of cute images, some on cream white paper with others on black paper. Polychromos pencils worked really well on the smooth paper. I was able to use multiple layers of colored pencils with no issues at all.

They have so many details in the pictures. What makes them different is some of the pictures have interesting things in it. Most books like this one has to many flowers upon flowers in most of the pages. I bought it for the small imagery and the small animals. I like the picture of the plant holding up the 3 houses, girls in a tree, the owls, mouse in a nest, the forest scene with tiny creatures and the black pages. Something a little different from the Hanna Karlzon books. J

This coloring book is stunningly beautiful. It is my first purchase of one of Maria Trolle’s illustrations, and I am absolutely hooked.I was skeptical about coloring in a hard-bound book, but it lays open absolutely flat. I am very picky about paper quality, and the paper is of the highest quality. The images are detailed, and with the help of the Plant Register at the end, I am having great fun looking at the plants on the internet and coloring them in realistic colors. Because there are images on both sides of the paper, I use Crayola tracing paper between each page, so that the colors do not rub off on the neighboring page. (I love how sheer it is.)This may sound nerdy, but when I’m finished coloring the whole book it will probably sit on my coffee table. It is that beautiful!

Beautiful book