Slinky Tart: the NAUGHTY coloring book for adults...and men (Slinky Tarts) (Volume 1) Paperback – August 1, 2015

I love this coloring book. I want to color every single picture and that is rare. The coloring book has 24 single sided, frisky, adult images. I hate not being able to see the what the coloring book looks like before I purchase. I got really lucky with this one. I've included a snapshot of all the pictures available in this book (if my images will load).

This artist is amazing and I am a huge fan - I only wish the printer would have done a far better job with the book itself because the paper is very thin and color seeps through to ruin the pictures behind it. This is only designed to be used with crayons or pencils - forget markers. The other issue is they printed used both sides. Most of your Adult coloring books will print one side in case you wanted to frame it - also these are NOT tear out pages.Getting back to the artist - a great talent and I really look forward to seeing more but I encourage her to find professional printers in the future because this book really ruined it for me. Now the one perk I did get out of this book was her artwork was enough for me to search her out and purchase her downloadable pages. So that was a win for me.Overall rating: 4 star only because of the poor paper quality and that my book was wrinkled up when I got it. This was more like a child's coloring book instead of one designed to appeal to adults with nice crisp pages, tear out paper and wrinkle free.Artwork: AMAZING!!!!

This is a great book. I have over 75 adult coloring books. Coloring the the way I control my bi-polar extremes and general anxiety disorder. I have become something of an expert on types and styles of coloring books, though I rarely do reviews. I just got this book today and I am glad I did. I have chosen to review because I bought this book against my better judgement based on the reviews that were already published and wanted to let people know what you are seeing with this book..Mostly I wanted to address some of the things mentioned in previous reviews that made me hesitant to purchase. The paper is thin. If you use markers or gel pens you will want to either use an exacto blade to remove the page or put an extra sheet in between. However the paper is exceptionally white and very smooth. The downside of the thicker paper is the rough feel that develops, this book doesn't have that. The pages are printed on one side only. This seems to have changed somewhere around October when reading the reviews and I was comfortable with that when I purchased. The drawing are risque. If you are purchasing a book called "slinky tart" please expect that the girls are going to be showing some skin. That was the point for me, I want to get practice coloring skin tones and highlights and I specifically searched for Pin up art coloring books. These girls are cartoonish and cute. Nothing is pornographic about this book, but they are naughty. Every drawing on the cover is in the book and it gives you are realistic expectation of the rest of the artwork. Two pages went further than I feel tasteful, but that just means I won't color those two pages.I completely understand the negative feedback about pages being printed front and back and I am glad that the publisher or author resolved that concern. I can also understand that for marker users the lack of perforated pages and the thin paper can combine into an unpleasant experience; however I feel the smoothness of the paper and ease of removing with an Exacto blade or box cutter overcomes those concerns. The negative concerns on the artwork however, seem petty and silly. The two complaints I saw the most were the cartoonish nature of the drawing and the naughtiness of the drawings, both of which should have been expected at the time of purchase based off the cover.I can't wait to purchase any other Slinky Tart books that are out there!

I didn't end up enjoying the artwork in this as much as I hoped I would have, even based on the preview images and the pictures other reviewers showed. There ended up really only being two or three of the pages that I will probably end up coloring, while the rest of them just didn't really appeal to me. I also want to point out that, while some of the older reviews mention that they had pictures printed on both sides of the paper in their copy, that no longer appears to be the case as all of the ones in my copy were single-sided.There isn't really as much variation in the pictures as I would have hoped for, either... the face and eyes of each image are almost the exact same, with just variations in the body pose, clothes/theme, and hair. All of the pictures are just of a single character (and maybe a prop or two) with no scenery or background to them, either, which I think would have made many of them a lot more interesting and fun to color. There are also a few pictures where the character almost seems to be inexplicably cross-eyed, as well, which I thought was a bit odd (maybe that was just how it appeared to me, though).The book's paper also isn't really anything spectacular and perhaps a bit on the thin side... any of the pictures I end up deciding to color will definitely be reprinted onto a much better paper.All in all, I'm just a bit disappointed. Even putting aside my apathy towards the particular style of art in this book, it still comes up quite short compared to coloring books from Selina Fenech (e.g.,  Night Magic - Gothic and Halloween Coloring Book (Fantasy Coloring by Selina) (Volume 10) ) and Jade Summer (e.g.,  Vampires: A Vampire Coloring Book with Mythical Fantasy Women, Sexy Gothic Fashion, and Victorian Romance Scenes (Coloring Books for Adults) ), which offer a similar number of unique pages but also have two copies of each image (in case you make a mistake or try it in a different medium/color palette), use a higher quality paper, have full scenes and backgrounds with much more detail, and they are comparable prices to this.So, would I recommend this? Only if you were a particularly big fan of this artwork style or you're only looking for relatively simple art without a lot of detail or background to color. If not, there are plenty of other really great books out there with sexy/suggestive characters (e.g.,  Grimm Fairy Tales Adult Coloring Book ) that are a better value.Honestly, I almost gave this 1 stars instead of 2, but I don't want to be unfair to this book and the artist just because I am not personally a fan of the style of the artwork... so, putting personal preference regarding the artwork style aside, my rating is ultimately -1.0 star for mediocre paper, -3/4 star for value per coloring pages, -1/2 star for no backgrounds/sceneries, and -3/4 star for the limited variety in the artwork.That being said, I think that this artist has a lot of potential and is clearly talented, but I think she should work on expanding and developing her drawings and artwork a bit more than just having each page just being a single character. Adding in scenery, other people/characters, animals, etc., and basically just adding more general context to each page would go a LONG ways towards making the artwork far more enjoyable to color even if you aren't particularly fond of the character artwork style. So I will definitely watch for future releases from this artist, though, in hopes that she does this.

Dont see why this is aimed at just for men...yes the drawings are lots of skimpy outfits, but nothing too risqué. This is a fantastic book to practice your colouring of skin tones and hair. And unlike a lot of other books, these are single sided designs, so you can use your pens (Copics, promarkers, etc), without worrying about bleed through and ruining the other side.

I love the style of these books and own two from Tamara, amongst my large colouring book collection.The quality of the books are good for the price, clean lines and nice paper. I do use a few sheets of plain paper in between to prevent bleed through from my markers.I wouldn't let under 14 colour these in.That said, I don't believe there is enough detail in the images. I would love to see her do some backgrounds, as the pages even coloured, seem bare. I wish Tamara would add more detail rather than moving on to another book so quickly.I do recommend these books though for beginners to skin and hair colouring, as they are simple and fun.

I don't get why everyone loves this colouring book so much.I can agree that it's not "just for men". I think that the pictures are cute and inoffensive to the point where they are almost a bit too cartoonish.However, it's all too simplistic. No backgrounds, "samey" faces, and the sort of thing you colour when you want something quick to do rather than creative. I cannot imagine working my way straight through this book because I would be quickly bored. The upside to that is that if I did decide to work straight through, it wouldn't take long at all.

This is an excellent colouring book with beautiful drawings. Can not praise Tamara enough, the art is beautiful and I love this style. I received on Saturday and I'm still happy to be colouring 6 days later.Pages are singe sided so great if you like to colour with fine liners as you just pop a few sheets of paper in between the pages.A must have book for your collection of adult colouring books .

Not many pics in this book, could have been more for the price. Nice fine outlines and good paper for ink, no bleed through.