Spirit Animals (Filippo Cardu Coloring Collection)

Join visionary artist Filippo Cardu on a colorful journey of self-discovery!

• 32 intricate designs, 22 full-size and 10 medium-size, of beautiful animals to decorate with your favorite colors
• 9 finished examples from Filippo to provide inspiration and help spark your creativity
• Spirit animal quiz to help you find your own spirit animal
• 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

Discover the metaphysical world of spirit animals, those mysterious creatures that inspire our dreams and reflect our souls.

Inside this inspiring adult coloring book, you'll start off by taking a fun quiz to discover your own spirit animal! Are you a watchful owl, a confident bear, a graceful butterfly, or... something else? Relax, de-stress, and feel your spirit grow as you color dozens of powerful animal totems with any or all of your favorite art implements.

On the back of each stunning design, Filippo offers fascinating insights on the unique personality and purpose of each intricately patterned animal. An included full-color artist's guide is packed with coloring advice from the author, with advice for choosing coloring tools, color palette ideas, layering, blending, and a selection of bonus tips.

These 32 intriguing spirit animal designs include a sloth, owl, fox, butterfly, crow, cat, giraffe, dragonfly, chameleon, dolphin, bat, hummingbird, bear, horse, elephant, eagle, spider, and many more. 10 "Show Me" starter pages make coloring easy with fully colored examples and suggested color choices, while 22 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 animal 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!

Find your spirit animal and color dozens of intricate designs into life, with Spirit Animals 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 an Italian artist based in Milan. 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.