I wasn’t familiar with Eric Dowdle’s art, but I like colorful folk art and I love to color, so I was delighted to receive an electronic review copy of this coloring book. This book features iconic imagery of famous beaches and coastal towns (think tourist destinations, not peaceful nature imagery). I counted 52 line art pages to color, many with the full-color reference art on the facing page so you can see how the artist originally colored the image. I love the artist’s style and learning a little bit about the various locations. Some of the images brought back fond memories of places I have visited, and some made me long to travel to new places.

I recommend this book for adults or older teens who enjoy coloring, like folk art, and have an interest in travel. The coloring pages are fairly complex and will be challenging if you don’t already have some experience with adult coloring books.

Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group and Walter Foster Publishing for providing me with an eARC through NetGalley. I volunteered to provide an honest review.

SO PRETTY!!! Really gorgeous and original art style. Not seen anything like it in adult coloring. Just enough detail to really shut my brain off and relax. Definitely not for Bold & Easy coloring fans, but not a tremendous challenge either.

Another great colouring book from Eric Dowdle. I always appreciate the inclusion of a beautiful inspiration image of the location and think it really conveys the atmosphere of each particular location. The colouring images are intricately detailed and I really like the inclusion of key facts about each place.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and Netgalley for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

What a beautiful colouring book with exceptional artwork that anyone who likes colouring would thoroughly enjoy. As other reviewers have said this is definitely aimed at the adult market due to the intricacies of the patterns displayed.
As someone who enjoys colouring, but prefers a tablet screen, I would also suggest an online/pdf version (I would pay to download this!) People could then either print patterns at home or use technology to colour!

Excellent colouring book, will definitely be looking for once published!

Perfect for those who love travel and coloring! Eric Dowdle is famous for his folk-art style and now, many of those beautiful pictures are available as a coloring page. These are ideal for those who appreciate a lot of detail. There are 40 pictures from various beaches around the world. The original picture is provided in color, for those who enjoy a reference. I do love that he captures people enjoying everyday moments in these watery scenes. A few of the locations provide an extra page or two for coloring, but most are a singular picture.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley and all opinions expressed are solely my own, freely given.

The Eric Dowdle Coloring Book: Beautiful Beaches is such a vibrant and intricate coloring book--perfect for coloring enthusiasts!

Colorists aged 13 and up will be captivated by the full-page, colored works of art depicting the various locations featured in the collection. Each scene is full of life and intricately detailed. The bright, vivid colors also serve as perfect inspiration for your own works of art. You'll want to keep a pencil sharpener handy as you color each page! It's all about the details in this beach-inspired collection.

This collection also provides colorists with the opportunity to learn more about each of the locations the artist drew inspiration from. Each location's art is accompanied with a brief description that entices readers to want to travel and experience the beaches in real life. With over 20 locations to explore, you'll truly travel the world in this beautifully illustrated coloring book collection!

Thank you to NetGalley, Walter Foster Publishing, and Eric Dowdle for providing me with an advanced copy to review. I look forward to seeing this coloring book in its printed form.

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Beautiful and intricate. I loved the colored examples of each location and the informative blurbs. Some of the line work is a little heavy but adds to the charm of the art. This is a welcome addition for any colorists. Adding to wishlist.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this book for free in exchange for my review! All opinions are my own.

I absolutely loved looking through this coloring book! I love how it offers a colored version of the picture along with some facts about the destination.

I would like to thank NetGalley for the opportunity to review this coloring book. I love the amount of detail and thought that went into this coloring book. It was full of detail and some facts about the area being able to only look at this and not sink a coloring pencil was a little disappointing, but I definitely be buying the hard copy of this book.

Thank you again for the opportunity.

Eric Dowdle Coloring Book: Beautiful Beaches is a beautiful collection of beaches. I cannot wait to buy the coloring book and color the pictures.

Thanks to Netgalley for an ARC.
The drawings are absolutely beautiful, but they were a bit complicated for my tastes. Personally, when I want a beach drawing to colour, I'd prefer it without people, (which this had), but other than that, the drawings were gorgeous!

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC!

This a beautifully drawn coloring book by Eric Dowdle. Each picture has you touring the beaches and towns of beautiful places like Aruba, Key West, and St. Maarten to name a few. I enjoyed seeing and learning about each place featured in this book. It's a wonderful book for adults and young teens.

This coloring book is very cute. The original paintings are gorgeous and very detailed. Next to them is the blank version to color. Because the designs are so intricate this is definitely a coloring book for an older audience. Accompaning each picture and chosen Beautiful Beach are a few sentences of information about the location. This book will be a delight to anyone who likes to color, whether they are familiar with the artist or not.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

What a beautiful, yet really refreshing colouring book. The designs are original, detailed and truly charming. There are some lovely scenes, and a variety of interesting characters to colour. Would have preferred a hard copy to read and review properly, as the illustrations are stunning! I like that you can follow the guide, and copy their colouring suggestions, or completely do your own thing.

Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster and Netgalley for an eARC of this book to read and review.

This was so pretty to use on my phone and it would make an amazing physical gift. Lots of beautiful beaches.

Similar to the National Parks book, I found this was an interesting colouring book concept, and that the illustrations that go with each beach presented were amazing and so detailed. There are so many things to see and find in each one. The text was well balanced, but I did find myself wondering how all of these beaches were chosen. There were many from Mexico, one from Canada, and then the majority from the US. And that's fine, but I felt like it maybe should be more focused or clear that this is across North America and maybe be chosen based on Dowdle's own experiences. The chosen beaches were more of a mish mash to me than the parks because of it.

I still think that, as a colouring book, the pages that represent the actual art are harder or less engaging as colouring pages per se. But they do have complete lines to separate out parts of the illustration which does make for clear colour delineations. There is nothing worse than the colouring books that just forget to end lines so that things flow into one another and you have to either pen in a line or flow the colours into one another in a messy way.

Definitely a good colouring book and I certainly enjoy the originals. It would be one of those colouring books that you colour and keep.

Thank you to NetGalley for this beautiful and intricately detailed ebook - Beautiful Beaches by Eric Dowdle in exchange for a honest review. The pictures in this book are outstanding with minute details. I loved that some of these beaches are the present and some are from the past. The beaches are all colored in and then there is an identical page- whereyou can use the same colors or different ones to illustrate your blank page.. Some beaches have additional blank pages to color also . I highly recommend this beautiful book with many of the beaches I have visited throughout the world.

We have another winner from Eric Dowdle in the form of the Beautiful Beaches colouring book.

The book is filled with beautiful beach scenes containing trivia regarding the area. You get your very own intricate blank version of the scenes to colour in.

This will provide you with hours of entertainment and will let your creativity flow.

I loved the variety of the beaches included in this book and thought the inspiration illustrations were absolutely beautiful. You would definitely get your moneys worth from this book as each design would take hours to colour in. I love that the original artwork is provided as inspiration which takes the stress out of deciding which colours to use.

My only complaint is that the designs are too intricate for me personally so I could definitely see myself getting bored before finishing a page however this is purely personal preference.

I wondered how this book was going to show differences between different beaches and I wasn't disappointed. Every detailed picture has a short description, along with drawings that include plants, animals, buildings, and people having fun in various ways. This was so much fun!
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me preview this coloring book