Each book in the Coloring Books for Grownups series contains 50 outline drawings ready for coloring, and is designed for older children and adults of all ages who are looking to escape the stresses of modern living and simply relax.
This, the fourth book in the series covers a range of fashion clothes for women and will provide great fun as you explore your fashion design skills.
Coloring for grown-ups is very popular today and there are many explanations for this interest. Some of the reasons for its popularity include...
Coloring Relieves Stress And Anxiety
Psychiatrists have known for a long time that coloring relaxes the fear center of the brain and allows your mind to rest. In fact the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, is known to have given his patients mandalas to color over one hundred years ago. In today's hectic world the stress reducing properties of coloring are more valuable than ever.
Coloring Trains Your Mind To Focus
Staying inside the lines as you color a simple black and white line drawing needs focus and, while you are concentrating on this stress-free and relaxing activity, you can forget about your worries. Coloring is a mind exercise that allows you to set aside everything else for the time you spend doing it, and this is important in our increasingly stressful world.
Coloring Helps In The Development Of Motor Skills And Vision
Coloring forces the two hemispheres of your brain to communicate and involves the use of logic (necessary for coloring forms) and creativity (as we mix and match colors). This, in turn, brings those areas of the brain concerned with vision and fine motor skills into play, and helps to keep these active and develop them further. It is this aspect of coloring that is being seen more and more as particularly valuable for older individuals, as many in the medical profession believe that it can delay, or possibly even prevent, the onset of dementia.
Coloring Provides The Chance To Be Social
Although you may think that coloring ought to be a solo activity, its growing popularity is rapidly turning it into a social one. Families, friends, work colleagues and others are now getting together to eat, drink and enjoy the chance to socialize, through their shared interest in coloring. Undoubtedly, this is a wonderful excuse for partying, as coloring takes only a minimum of concentration and can be done easily in a group setting.
Coloring Allows You To Be Yourself
When it comes to coloring there are no rules and your coloring book is your coloring book. If you accidentally make the cat's hind leg green because you thought that it was part of the grass, who is going to care? If you decide to make the sky pink, what does it matter? You may be as creative as you like because this is your coloring book, and yours alone. When it comes to picking colors don't forget that the British-based, but American-born, artist James Whistler once famously said, "Mauve is just pink trying to be purple."
You may already be a fan of adult coloring, in which case you will appreciate its value. This may however be a new enterprise for you and one which you are thinking about for any one of several different reasons. If this is a new enterprise for you then I urge you to give it a try. There is a reason why so many people are fired up about the world of adult coloring, so jump on board and begin enjoying the benefits for yourself today.
