A colouring book cover showing a papillon butterfly dog sitting with some roses within a stained glass window
Pupper Jack’s first colouring book

Colouring Book Backsides

Yeah — backsides to it!

Susan Alison
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4 min readAug 14, 2023

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I’ve not been around Medium much recently because I have a lot of other stuff going on.

Part of the slow progress I seem to be making is constantly and aggravatingly down to the flakiness of suppliers, who you’d have thought would be only too eager to have your business.

Anyway — I’d better stop there before a rant comes along …

This was meant to be a note about Colouring Book Backsides.

Two papillon butterfly dogs on the back of a colouring book
Back of Pupper Jack’s Perfect Papillons colouring book (pic from Susan Alison)

That is — I’ve just been asked about the back of the pages on which colouring takes place, and as I’ve just had experience of this, I thought I’d note it down for whoever might find it useful.

I’m supposed to be doing a lot of writing just now, but when things get annoying (see above) I find that words escape me, so I turn to pictures, and had started to plan out some colouring books to upload to Amazon.

I’d recently seen a video of someone’s colouring book and they’d made the backs of the colouring pages, black. Just black. So I had a look around and saw other people putting colouring books together with an all black page, maybe with a little motif in the…

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Susan Alison
Anything Creative

Paints pictures & writes stories for a living. Dogs appear in the art, & the humour — a lot! (Dogs have much to say about life.) Can be found at SusanAlison.com