Hello everyone. Thank you for stopping by today. This is Sandy from Color Creative Late. And I have a flip through of one of my newer books. I just received this. I have this on preorder. Butterflies, color by number, by creative haven, and the artist is Jan Solbach. Now for those of you that did not like George II Fexis books, the spaces and numbers were so tiny, these are a little larger. Well first let's look at the book and I'll explain the difference. Of course you have this beautiful picture on the front and then they give you one on the back. And there's 45 delicate butterflies to color in here. So they're gorgeous. And you can see what you're going to be having that you can color. Because you've got your color key here and all these pictures are what these are going to look like colored in in the front of the book and then the back of the book. So all of these pictures, these 48 pictures will be covered here to show you what they look like. And the names of the butterflies are also listed there. Okay, as you know, creative haven has very nice paper. It's perforated and single sided. Let's go through it. So get that glare off of there. 46, I'm sorry, not 48. 46 it says there. Let's see what that's set on the back. 45. Hmm, says 46 here and 45 there. As you can see her spaces are larger. Her numbers are still faint and small. So this lens itself like the George to Texas books color by number where when you color it in, it looks pretty enough to put in my portfolio. Unlike some other books where the spaces are large, but the numbers are also large and that's all you see. So it's easy to walk probably just on the light colors you might, but you know what, that's not really a big deal for me. So let's go through and just take a look at some of these drawings. So you can see that if you have trouble with reading or seeing some small spaces, this one would, would probably fit really good for you and be easier to color. So I am going to be coloring in this. The different about this book too is it has 42 colors on the color key here. Most of them have about 20 or 25 somewhere in that range. But so this has a lot of colors to do. I'm going to use pencil and maybe markers on this. Maybe for some of the very large backgrounds, I might use my soft pastels or my oil pastels. I'm not sure yet what I will do, but I'm going to pull out some pencils all 42 of those colors and set them aside to work in this book. It's just going to be gorgeous, gorgeous butterflies and flowers. Like I said, look how large the spaces are and this is going to be beautiful. And those numbers are going to be that noticeable when you get this color down. So I am very happy that I ordered this. I always get George to fix this because I do love the detail and I do love all of that fine work. But then I didn't realize I thought they were all going to be that way, but they're not. This artist is a little different. So now if you don't want to color by number, you don't have to. If you like the drawings, but you don't want to color by number, you can just take your own colors and color these in. There's no reason you can't. And you could make them any way you would any colors, any mediums you would like to use on this book. So it's very versatile. But I'm eager to start this. I just have so many projects going on right now. So I will be getting into it though. This one has a little bit more flowers, so smaller flowers. But if you're just beginning color by number, this might be a good place to start. And use alcohol markers on it. Okay. And in the spine here, I didn't open this up enough, but right in here is the name of the butterflies. So you could go on to Google and search for an image of that butterfly and color it, the original color that it is, that they are in real life. Oh, let me open this up. Well, that's tight. Okay. I like that when you're coloring an insect or an animal that you get the name so you can do it or research on Google to see the original animal or insect. But these will be fun. I can already tell by looking at them. And they're not too detailed, but they're detailed enough to be pretty. And this is my first color by number by Jan Sobeck. So I might look at some of her other books that come out. This is a beautiful caterpillar with that. I just like these pictures. They're gorgeous. And I'll show you the colored ones one more time. Small for the camera, but you get an idea of all the colors. 42 colors. You won't use all 42 in each picture, but you will be putting that many in if you color very many of these pictures. So. I think we're getting to the end now. Just going to be. It's a little glaring here. So let me hold my book up. Look how beautiful these pictures are. And these butterflies and flowers. Oh, they're just gorgeous. And here to some more again. 42 beautiful colors. Okay. That's my flip through in my review of this book. I'm going to get from Amazon.com. It was on preorder. I am not an affiliate of Amazon. I do not get paid by anyone. This channel is strictly supported by myself. And I just want to do come by and let you know that anything I show you is my opinion and my opinion only. So I just want to say until we meet again. Happy coloring.