Drawing the traditional circular designs known as mandalas is a meditative practice, a healing exercise in times of crisis, and a pleasurable act of creativity. As a symbol of the Self, the mandala provides a connection to our innermost being. The forty-eight drawings presented here for coloring include designs inspired by forms of nature, Native American and Tibetan sand paintings, Hindu yantras, Turkish mosaics, and more.
The circular designs known as mandalas are symbols of deep inner truth, and when creating your own mandalas, you can discover things about yourself that can surprise you. Susanne Fincher introduces here the history and ritual use of mandalas in cultures all over the world. She then shows you how to make your own, offering guidance on choosing art materials and techniques.
Thirty ready-to-color floral designs combine many accurately drawn flowers --- tulip, iris, peony, rose, lily, daisy, zinnia and many others --- into beautiful bouquets arranged in vases, pitchers and baskets, or in sprays tied with ribbons.
Relax and explore your creative side with the best-sellingFLOWER DESIGNS COLORING BOOK for adults. Illustrator Jenean Morrison has created 50 original designs, printed on one side of the pages only (so you can use markers if you like). These highly detailed images feature a lovely balance of both stylized and hand-drawn flowers. The page layouts vary nicely with floral-infused mandalas, blooming bouquets, repeat patterns and singular, frame-worthy works of art.
Perfectly sized to fit into a pocket or handbag, and printed on high-quality paper that will ensure hours of bliss, THE MINDFULNESS COLORING BOOK is ready to help you de-stress wherever you go. So take a few minutes out of your hectic schedule to reset and refresh with mindful coloring --- and relive the days when your biggest concern was staying within the lines!
This adult coloring book features over 45 lovingly detailed patterns with designs ranging in complexity from beginner to expert-level. It provides hours and hours of stress relief, mindful calm, and fun, creative expression.
Coloring time is calming time! Best selling coloring book artist Angie Grace invites you to relax and explore the intricate and exquisite world of stress mending circular whimsical art. Stroke by stroke, shade by shade, tension and worries fade away as you transform Angie's beautiful black and white lines into your own unique, personal and beautiful keepsake art piece.
With each development in technology, our lives become more complicated. Art therapist Lacy Mucklow and artist Angela Porter offer a simple and satisfying solution to this disconnect from reality. Featuring over 100 joyful coloring templates, COLOR ME HAPPY is a guided coloring book designed for busy adults.
Our lives become busier with each passing day, and as technology escalates, so does our access to work, obligations, and stress. COLOR ME CALM is a guided coloring book designed for harried adults. Art therapist Lacy Mucklow and artist Angela Porter offer up 100 coloring templates all designed to help you get coloring and get relaxed.
Get your pens out, open this book, and discover a New York like you've never seen before. Gaze up in awe at the towering buildings and make your way through the bustling streets as you travel from Manhattan to Brooklyn and beyond.
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August's Books on Screen roundup includes the films The Thursday Murder Club, My Oxford Year and Night Always Comes on Netflix, the Providence Falls trilogy on Hallmark, The Map That Leads to You on Prime Video, and She Rides Shotgun in theaters; the conclusion of "And Just Like That..." on HBO Max and "The Institute" on MGM+; the series premieres of "Outlander: Blood of My Blood" on STARZ and "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf" on Prime Video; the season premieres of "The Marlow Murder Club" on PBS "Masterpiece" and "My Life with the Walter Boys" on Netflix; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of The King of Kings and How to Train Your Dragon.