Free Spirit Coloring Book (Coloring is Fun) (Design Originals) 32 Whimsical & Quirky Art Activities from Thaneeya McArdle on High-Quality, Extra-Thick Perforated Pages that Resist Bleed-Through: 13 - Softcover

Thaneeya McArdle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574219979 ISBN 13: 9781574219975

Publisher: Design Originals, 2015

Synopsis

Free Spirit is a colouring book that contains 30 amazing art activities involving patterning, shading and colouring. Each vibrantly detailed illustration offers an easy way to de-stress, while allowing you to unleash the artist within. Thaneeya McArdle s transcendental art explores a visual language of shape, form, line and colour, and can be easily personalised with felt- tips, coloured pencils, crayons, gel pens or watercolours. Beautifully coloured finished examples are provided, along with a handy guide to basic art techniques, from patterning and combinations to shading and colour theory. This therapeutic colouring book is printed on high-quality, extra-thick paper that won t bleed through, and all of the pages are perforated for easy removal and display.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Follow Your Heart and Color Your Dreams

Welcome to the Free Spirit Coloring Book! I'd like to invite you to come inside and play with doodles, shapes, and patterns. Coloring and patterning are relaxing, meditative activities that encourage self-expression, sending you on a creative adventure. I hope that you'll use each of these pages as a launching pad to spark your creativity and unleash your inner artist.

Inside you'll find 30 whimsical art activities that step to the beat of a different drummer. From magic lamps and unicorns to dance shields and teepees, these delightful daydreams will tempt you to go your own way with carefree color. I've provided plenty of coloring suggestions, but there is no right way or wrong way to complete these adventurous visions.

Each illustration is perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, watercolors, or crayons. Free Spirit Coloring Book is printed on high-quality, extra-thick paper to eliminate bleed-through, and each page is pre-perforated for easy removal and display.

Happy art making!
Thaneeya

Praise for Thaneeya McArdle:
"The information...about color and patterning theory and techniques is presented in a particularly concise and clear way."
--HELLO HAPPY

About the Author

Thaneeya McArdle is a professional artist and the creator of the best- selling 13-title Design Originals colouring book series from Fox Chapel Publishing. She is the author and illustrator of two art manuals, Draw Groovy and The Everything Girls Ultimate Body Art Book. Based in Florida, America, she paints, draws and works with mixed media, focusing in particular on vibrantly detailed whimsical art. Thaneeya provides art instruction on the website Art-Is-Fun.com, and also operates The-Art-Colony.com, an online community for artists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1574219979
• ISBN 13: 9781574219975
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 72