Book excerpt: Scottish Garden Seasons is a colouring book by Scottish author and artist De-ann Black. De-ann has 14 colouring books to her credit. This is her latest for 2018. The book contains 30 of her original illustrations, patterns and designs, hand drawn in pen and ink. The pictures are printed on one side of each page. The Scottish garden theme is based on flowers from her garden in Scotland and the beautiful Scottish countryside and coastal flora where she lives. Spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons are represented throughout the book, along with individual pages highlighting special occasions - two hearts for Valentine's Day, Easter eggs and bunny design, Hallowe'en theme, festive holly and Christmas tree. Flowers include thistles, heather, gorse, teasels, rhododendrons, snowdrops, daffodils, fuchsia, violets, daisies, fairy lanterns, sunflowers, germander speedwell, sea holly, autumn hawkbit, winter wolf's bane and Scottish flame flowers - along with a squirrel, dragonflies, owls, birds, bees, butterflies, ladybugs and other little creatures. De-ann's artwork and illustrations are also part of her fabric collections, including her Scottish Garden and Scottish Garden Midwinter fabric collections. Further details about De-ann's books, art, illustrations and fabric designs are available from her website www.De-annBlack.com Other colouring books by De-ann: Summer Garden, Sea Dream, Flower Bee, Bee Garden, Flower Hunter, Autumn Garden, Christmas Garden, Festive Christmas, Wild Garden, Festive Christmas Colouring Book Journal, Stargazer Space, Faerie Garden Spring and Spring Garden. Her embroidery book, Floral Nature Embroidery Designs, is also available. De-ann writes fiction and non-fiction books with over 70 titles published. See her Amazon Author page for her latest books.