REVISED, UPDATED, RENEWED, and ADDED ILLUSTRATIONS to this newer version, in a DOUBLE-SIDED page version of the single-page book. Book description:
* Double-Sided Pages for dry media - crayons, pastels, and coloring pencils* 60# weight paper (standard paperback book paper weight)* Non-perforated pages (users can use razor to cut pages out of glue-bound book)* Most illustrations take up the entire page at circa 9" high x 7.5" wide* Freehand doodles (zen-doodles) in addition to patterns and kaleidoscopic patterns and drawings* Bonus pages to color from the authors other books
Beautiful illustrations in a full-page rectangular, kaleidoscopic image for 50 illustrations that will keep you busy for weeks or months!
The artist, Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D., has produced a compilation of delightful Zendala or Mandalas (zen doodles formatted into mandala kaleidoscopes) in this coloring book which allows the colorist to use their imagination in multiple ways with their choice of media. In this book you will find dozens of illustrations with complicated to simple zen mandalas. All of the artist's designs were created from the artist's hand-drawn original inspired sketches which were manipulated into kaleidoscopic mandalas surrounding a quotes of wisdom resulting in graphically complimentary illustrations with loads of potential for adding color. You will find more complicated images in this coloring book, including heavy lined drawings with simple shapes and designs and more fine-art styles with varied line weights (thin to medium).
What can you do with the book once you have finished? Once the designs in this book are colored - give the books as gifts, use pages as scrapbook background art, create greeting cards, or use the designs and use in multi-media art. Frame them and hang them in the office, classroom, or at home where the designs can continue to inspire friends, family, and co-workers. The possibilities are endless!
The artist has been sketching, coloring, drawing in sketchbooks since age five. After completing 14 coloring books over the last two years, she was looking for another topic to draw lovely images for her next effort. These 50+ images coloring book were drawn just for BIG KIDS at heart. These designs were created from the artist's hand-drawn original inspired sketches resulting in graphically complimentary black and white spaces with loads of potential for adding color.
This coloring book has the intensity of design in the mandalas, but also the simplicity of simple doodles or complicated illustrations and inspired art that allow the reader (and budding artist) to pick and chose their favorite design, and then use colored pencils, markers, acrylics, or even crayons to add their own brilliant color combinations.
How can BIG KIDS (regardless of chronological age) use this coloring book? Whether the co-artist uses crayon, marker, or colored pencil, or paints - or a combination - the beautiful results can be used to pass the time, keep your mind still, go into a personal Zen moment, use your hands in a creative way, or use for a craft project. Once the designs are colored - give the books as gifts, as scrapbook background art, or cut out designs for multi-media art. Possibilities are endless!

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About the Author: Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D. has been drawing since she was five years old, and would color her father's office stationery with crayons to create colored paper for art projects. She received her first acrylic paint set in 1973 and promptly drove her art teacher crazy finishing class projects in hours versus days.
She attended Virginia Commonwealth University's, Bachelor of Fine Art Program, and then re-engaged later at Radford University (Radford, VA), earning her BFA in Graphic Design and Illustration. She returned to Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) to earn her Masters Degree in Adult Education (Adult Education and Training in Human Resources), and then attended Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) for her Doctorate of Philosophy in Education (STEMPS/OTS/T&D/HR).
Over the years she has developed a distinctive style for her pen and ink illustrations of old barns and houses, as well as Colonial Williamsburg architectural portraiture. She currently works in mixed-media using recycled magazines to create 3-D images of stylistic animals and mandalas, using childhood craft processes (bubble-gum chains, paper footballs, and quilling techniques) to create sophisticated paper baskets 'crocheted' woven together in a non-traditional way. Her drawing talent gives her an advantage in creating imaginative illustrations of the delightful fairy houses and fairy doors.
Dr. Boyer is the author of 100+ books (March 2016), of which 80+ are available on Amazon. Topics cover business, career search practices, mandala books for hypnotherapy and meditation, coloring books for adults, women and gender studies, and quotes for self-improvement ("2,000+" & "3,000+" series), as well as genealogy and family lineage. She assists other authors publish their manuscripts in the print-on-demand market and also has a series of books entitled: Interview with an Artist. The artist interview books compile artists' interviews with photos of the artist's work to assist in marketing / branding their work to an international marketplace.
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