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

Follow your heart and color your dreams with this inspirational coloring book for grownups!

• 32 magical art activities take you to a happy place of patterning, shading, and coloring
• A guide to basic art techniques, from patterning and combinations to shading and color theory, is included
• Beginner-friendly with beautifully colored finished examples and suggested color combinations to help spark your creativity
• Decorate with your favorite coloring implements—these pages are perfect for markers, colored pencils, gel pens, and watercolors
• High-quality, extra-thick paper resists bleed through
• Perforated pages detach easily for gifting or display

From magic lamps and unicorns to dance shields and teepees, each whimsical, vibrantly detailed image will tempt you to go your own way with carefree color, and find an easy way to de-stress. Thaneeya McArdle's transcendental art explores a visual language of shape, form, line, and color, and these designs step to the beat of a different drummer.

Free Spirit Coloring Book includes beautifully colored finished examples along with a handy guide to basic art techniques, from patterning and combinations to shading and color theory. This therapeutic coloring book is perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, or watercolors.

Each design is printed on one side only of archival-grade, acid-free, 200-year paper. On the back of each design is an inspiring quote, and space to write a little note. When your art is finished, you'll find the perforated pages detach easily for gifting or display.

Come inside Free Spirit Coloring Book and play with doodles, shapes, and patterns! Coloring and patterning are relaxing, meditative activities that encourage self-expression, sending you on a creative adventure. Use each of these pages as a launching pad to spark your creativity and unleash your inner artist.

About this title

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.

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

Edition details

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