There is something to be said for a coloring book that trusts you to make your own decisions. This Pepin Press title holds twelve butterfly designs printed in pale grey line on heavy drawing paper, detailed enough to reward slow work but open enough that no two finished sheets will look alike. The plates come from antique natural history illustration, swallowtails and sunset moths and small banded species drawn wing by wing, and the light printing means your colour sits on top rather than fighting the outline. At 180 g/m² the paper is acid free and heavy enough for colored pencil, crayon, liquid ink, watercolor, and gouache without buckling, and sheets can be pulled out and framed when they are done.

• 12 sheets
• 180 g/m² acid free drawing paper
• 9.5" x 13.375"
• Ages 12+