Coloring Is NOT Just For Women!

I'm sure you are all familiar with the craze now of adult coloring books. I think it's great. It's a wonderful way to unwind after a long crazy day. But how many men do you know that are involved in adult coloring books? I'm guessing not near as many women. Part of the reason is most of the books available are geared more towards women. So.......

Life In Coloring has developed a Men's Coloring Book and Art Portfolio Set. This is a really nice set made just for men although I do know a few women who would enjoy it too.

The set comes in a nice padded black folio. It feels good in your hands and is no bigger than any other professional folio you might carry around in your briefcase or backpack. it has a magnetic flap to close it and inside is everything you need (except an eraser) to spend some time unwinding and relaxing.

The coloring book is "Empowered by Color, A male inspired coloring adventure". It's a collection of 20 images to color, most drawn on white paper, a few on black. The images are all what most of us would call manly and more things a guy would enjoy coloring that were drawn by a man. The quality of the paper is really nice, heavy enough that when you press on it while coloring you don't indent the page under it very much.

It also come with 12 colored pencils that have a very nice soft lead that is easy to blend and color with. They unfortunately do break easily when sharpening, so keep in mince not to sharpen them too much or they will break easily. The colors are really nice though and look awesome on both the white paper and black paper.

The coloring set also comes with a small pencil case that you can add more pencils to and it has a bonus sharpener included that works really well. The pencil case is attached to the folio with a large Velcro strip so you can remove it if wanted.

This is a great coloring set and honestly, I wish they would make one for women similar to it! It would make a nice gift for any guy who could use a little unwinding and relaxing!

You can purchase the Life In Coloring Men's Coloring Book and Art Portfolio Set HERE!

This reviewer received the product free or at a discounted price in order to bring you an honest review. No other form of compensation was given. All opinions are those of the reviewer.

Going Back To Some Of My Roots In Art

I love to draw and unfortunately I don't get the time to spend on it like I would want. Then again, who of us really gets to spend time on much of anything we would really like to?

Colore Art recently sent me a 26 Piece Sketch & Drawing Pencils Set that has spurred me on to spend a few more stolen moments drawing again. I'm horribly out of practice, but I am enjoying getting back into something I love.

This is a fabulous set of pencils, especially for the beginning artist or for those who just want a nice basic set of sketch pencils to work with.

A small piece I drew. You can see I am a little rusty!

Here's what comes in the set:
- 12 graphite pencils in varying grades of hardness (5H, 4H, 3H, 2H, HB, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 8B) - 3 charcoal pencils in soft, medium and hard grades
- 1 soft graphite sketching pencil
- 3 graphite and 3 charcoal sticks in soft, medium and hard grades
- 1 sharpener and 1 plastic eraser for graphites
- 1 sharpener and 1 kneaded eraser for charcoals

This is the best combination of hard and soft pencils and charcoal to be able to do a range of drawing and sketching. I was impressed with the quality of the pencils. They feel light weight while using them, yet the graphite does not break readily. The charcoal is the same. I have used a lot of charcoal that tends to fall apart easily while sketching which can be very frustrating. I really appreciate the charcoal and graphite sticks. It saves so much time when trying to cover larger areas with less wear on your pencils.

One thing I have appreciated is that the pencils sharpen easily without breaking. So many others I have used over the years break while sharpening them and there is so much waste and frustration watching the graphite break inside the wood!

I can highly recommend this set to you and will encourage anyone who loves to draw or wants to encourage someone in their life to draw, get this set! It's fantastic at a great price! I think the only thing that could make this set even better would be to include some blender sticks.

You can purchase your own Colore Art 26 Piece Sketch & Drawing Pencils Set HERE!

We received samples of the products for the purpose of review. All opinions expressed here are those of the author