Animal Friends (Filippo Cardu Coloring Collection)

Join visionary artist Filippo Cardu on a colorful journey through the animal kingdom!

• 32 intricate designs, 24 full-size and 8 medium-size, of animal pals to decorate with your favorite colors
• 11 finished examples from Filippo to provide inspiration and help spark your creativity
• Helpful tips for layering, blending, picking color palettes, and more
• Thick, toothy paper is acid-free to last 200 years and resists bleed-through
• One-side-only designs so you don't have to decide which to color and which to sacrifice
• Perforated pages detach easily to hang up and showcase your creation, or give it as a gift

A friendship is one of the most valuable things we humans can possess. But the animal world can contain some amazing friendships, too!

Have you ever seen a charming video of a mama cat taking care of baby chicks or a feature on natural symbiotic relationships like those between sea anemones and clownfish? Connection is everywhere! In this book, celebrate what binds us together as you color familiar and unexpected animal pairings.

Inside this uplifting adult coloring book, you'll find companionable creatures reveling in the joys of friendship. Relax, de-stress, and feel your heart expand as you color dozens of adorable animal pairs with any or all of your favorite art implements.

On the back of each intricately patterned animal design, you'll find a related quotation and space to write a note or reflection. An included full-color artist's guide is packed with coloring advice from the author, with suggestions for choosing coloring tools, color palette ideas, layering, blending, and a selection of bonus tips.

These 32 inspiring animal friend designs include pairs of frogs, parrots, wolves, koi, seahorses, penguins, and more, as well as odd pairs like a deer and duckling, wolf and owl, cat and dog, and an alligator and butterflies! 8 "Show Me" starter pages make coloring easy with fully colored examples and suggested color choices, while 24 full-size patterns let your imagination go wild!

Perfect for decorating with any of your favorite coloring implements—markers, colored pencils, watercolors, brush pens, glitter pens, crayons, gel pens, and more—each highly-detailed nature design is printed on one side only of high-quality, archival-grade, acid-free paper that's rated to last 200 years. The perforated pages detach easily, either before you start if you wish to color on a different surface or after your art is complete for gifting, framing, or display.

This spectacular coloring book for grown-ups raises the art standard for coloring book line art to its highest level yet. Author Filippo Cardu is a completely self-taught visual artist/illustrator based in Italy. His creative work mainly consists of heavily detailed, highly decorative pen and ink illustrations, with nature as his subject of choice. A huge variety of patterns, shapes, lines, and dots are all mixed together to create intricate compositions with a high visual variation. His work has elements of multiple art styles, like dotwork, black and white linework, Zentangle (R) art, medieval ornament, and more. Filippo's all-time favorite art subject is animals!

Celebrate friendship and color dozens of intricate designs into life, with Animal Friends Coloring Collection!

"Cardu has an ornate signature style that is all his own. His work is a modern take on etching, with its intricate, crisp, and precise line work. There's a playfulness to his images that draws the viewer in."
—Ben Kwok, author of the TangleEasy series

Filippo Cardu is a freelance illustrator/artist. At 21 years of age, he is also a graphic design & art direction student at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), one of the world s 30 top graduate schools of design. His work consists of heavy detailed ink illustrations full of patterns, characters and natural elements, that all blend together to give life to intricate compositions and provide visual impact and variation. He draws in a beautifully stylized visual language influenced by medieval ornament, Chinese traditional illustration and calligraphy.