The PERFECT Gift for the beginning colorist!! (or for yourself!)
More than 99 Christmas designs for you to Color and Enjoy. 18 original Hand Drawn illustrations and 84 mandalas and patterns created using the illustrations. Okay, that's more than 99, but I don't think you'll complain. That's less than 15 cents an image!
This special set of Christmas illustrations has its roots in my early graphics and crafts fair adventures. Several of the illustrations in the Santa Season series were originally hand drawn as cards that I sold at one of my first crafts fairs. You'll find the original 1976 copyright mark on them (elves, Santa, angel, wreath, candles). They were part of a show I participated in at California State University in Sacramento, back then known as Sacramento State University, before the shift to CSUs. I could have redrawn them, but decided to just "clean them up" using digital editing programs. I was unable to locate the original drawings, so I scanned the prints into the computer and set to work. The results are less than perfect, but they are presented here for your enjoyment and coloring fun.
There are 4 Volumes of Santa Season - this purchase includes them all, plus 4 bonus images (to make up for the Angel being used more than once).
Volume 1 - Santa and His Elves
Volume 2 - Christmas Cheer
Volume 3 - Candlelight
Volume 4 - Stuffed Stockings
Christmas Cheer includes a pair of unicorns originally part of a 2 card set I designed on request, specifically for a shop in Pacific Grove in 1981. The other drawings were done this year, in anticipation of this book.
The mandalas and patterns are all derived from these original drawings, plus a few more that didn't make it into this book.
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Please feel free to print as many of these as you'd like for your personal coloring pleasure. I ask you not to share this file with others, however, but to send folks to my shop to purchase their own.
Some of these designs will be available in a pdf download for 4-1/4x5-1/2'" card size at my etsy store, in case you'd like to use these images as your personal Christmas cards.
The mandala is a spiritual and ritualistic symbol in both Hinduism and Buddhism. In general, it is a microcosmic representation of the Universe.
The mandala is used to help focus attention on spiritual guidance, and for mindful practices such as meditation. Most mandalas, especially today, are circular in design. The circle has long been a spiritual symbol of wholeness.
But the use of mandalas isn't just spiritual. Therapists as far back as Carl Jung have often used mandalas with their patients.
For the past 30 years I have used mandalas in my watercolor and silk paintings, as well as my glass jewelry fabrication, my cloth fabric dying, and the quilts I design and construct.
Psychologists claim that coloring is the next best thing to meditation. I find mandalas are nearly as therapeutic to create as they are to color.
Pick up your coloring book today and reconnect to your own internal universe.
Printed Books in my Mandala series include:
- Heart~2~Heart
- Star Gazing
- FloraBunda
- Round & Round
- Square Roots
- Sampler Pack
These are available from Etsy, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Also available in 5.25x8" Mini - Pocket Sized Take-Along Books, and card sets for you to color and send, or gift to your favorite colorist.
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