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 third book in the series covers flowers, plants and floral patterns and, whether you enjoy spring blooms or perennial flowers, this book will allow you to create your own pictures of beautiful flowers.
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 Reduces Stress And Anxiety
Psychiatrists have known for a long time that coloring relaxes the fear center of the brain and allows your mind to get some rest. Indeed the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, gave his patients mandalas to color more than 100 years ago. In the hectic world we inhabit today the stress reducing properties of coloring are perhaps more valuable than they have ever been.
Coloring Trains Your Brain To Focus
Keeping within the lines as you color requires focus and, while you concentrate on this stress-free and relaxing activity, you can forget about your worries. Coloring is a mental exercise that lets you set aside everything else for the time you spend coloring, and this is very important in our hectic world.
Coloring Helps To Develop Fine Motor Skills And Vision
Coloring forces the two sides of the brain to interact and involves the use of logic (necessary for coloring forms) and creativity (as we mix and match colors). In turn, this brings those areas of the brain concerned with fine motor skills and vision into play, and helps in keeping these active and in developing them further. It is this aspect of coloring that is being increasingly seen as particularly valuable for older individuals, as many believe that it can delay, or possibly even prevent, the onset of dementia.
Coloring Provides The Chance To Be Social
Although you might think that coloring would be a purely solo occupation, its growing popularity is rapidly turning it into a social one. Families, friends, colleagues and others are getting together to enjoy something to eat and drink and the opportunity to socialize, through their shared interest in coloring. Indeed, this is a wonderful excuse for a party, as coloring requires only a minimum of concentration and can easily be done in a group.
Coloring Lets You Express Yourself
There are no rules when it comes to coloring and your coloring book is just that - your coloring book. If you mistakenly make the cat's hind leg green because you thought that it was part of the grass, who is going to care? Should you decide to make the sky yellow, does it really matter? You are allowed to be as creative and experimental as you like because this is your project, and yours alone. When it comes to choosing colors don't forget that the British-based, but American-born, artist James Whistler once said, "Mauve is just pink trying to be purple."
You may of course already be a fan of adult coloring, in which case you will appreciate its value. Alternatively, this may be a new enterprise for you and one which you are thinking about for any one of a number of different reasons. If this is something new for you then I encourage you to give it a try. It is no accident that so many people are excited about the world of adult coloring, so join in and start to enjoy the benefits for yourself today.
