Synopsis
If you love to color colonial architecture from the nation’s revolutionary city capital in the Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area and the Historic Restoration district, this book is definitely a must buy! The book is filled with 50+ hand-drawn illustrations of some of the historic and restored buildings, as well as alleys and back gardens you will find if you visit the area. There are three different ways you can use the illustrations in this book:
1)As a Coloring Book – pull the pages out, get out your crayons and colored pencils, and ‘go to town’ in adding your interpretation of what colors the colonists used when they followed the founding fathers and the news from England as they lived through the revolutionary war.
2)As a Scavenger Game – look through the book and see if you can identify the location of all the illustrations throughout the book. Mark the location page with the longitude and latitude coordinates. Buy more books for your friends and family and see who can identify all the locations of the structures in the book first!
3)As Fine Art – pull the pages out (or cut them out carefully with an craft knife), mat, and frame them as fine art in your home. These hand-drawn illustrations are also available via Fine Art America as Canvas Prints, Framed Prints, Acrylic Prints, Metal Prints, Prints, Posters, Greeting Cards, iPhone Cases, Galaxy Cases, Tote Bags, Throw Pillows, Duvet Covers, and Shower Curtains. See copyright page for link to the gallery.
Details about the book: ** Non-perforated pages (you can use an craft knife or razor to remove them) ** Glue-bound spine ** Pages are 8.5” x 11” with a quarter-inch margin; paper weight is the thickness of standard paper-back books; some media may bleed through (test first, back with cardboard or plastic!) ** Two pages of pre-views of drawings in the book should be available on Amazon’s “Look Between the Covers” function to see the types of illustrations in the book, as well as on the front and back covers** Single-Pages – all the illustrations have blank pages on the back side so you don't have to worry about your 'wetter' media ruining any images on the other side
What can you do with the book once you have finished? Once the illustrations 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. 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. Frame them and hang them in the office, classroom, or at home where the designs can continue to inspire friends, family, and co-workers. Once the designs are colored – give the books as gifts, as scrapbook background art, or cut out designs for multi-media art. The 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 attended Virginia Commonwealth University's, Bachelor of Art Program, and then re-engaged later at Radford University, earning her BFA in Graphic Design and Illustration. She returned to Virginia Commonwealth University to earn her Masters Degree in Adult Education, and then attended Old Dominion University 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 from 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. This is used to her advantage in creating imaginative illustrations of the delightful fairy houses and fairy doors.
She is the author of 100+ books on the topics of business, career search practices, mandala books for hypnotherapy and meditation, 14+ coloring books for adults, women and gender studies, 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 interview books compile artists’ interviews with photos of the artist’s work to assist the artists in marketing and branding their work to an international marketplace.
She completed her doctor of philosophy studies May 2013 at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA in Education (Occupational & Technical Studies, with a concentration in Training & Development in Human Resources).
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