Malen für die Seele Mandala: Art Activity gegen Stress

by Valentina Harper

Discover the esoteric power of the mandala with 30 relaxing and creative art activities. Talented artist Valentina Harper opens up a world of sacred circles in this inspiring colouring book for grown-ups. You don't need to have the skills of an artist to personalise these rich, intricate drawings. Valentina Harper offers valuable tips on her distinctive, easy-to-learn patterning techniques. And as an added bonus, best-selling craft author Marie Browning joins the fun with insightful colouring advice. Printed on high quality extra-thick paper that won't bleed through, all pages are pre-perforated for easy removal and display. They're perfect for decorating with markers, gel pens, watercolours, or coloured pencils.

Genres: Colouring Books, Art

Paperback

First published October 1, 2014

Reviews

[The Badger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly recommended with LOLLIZ Gel Pens!

[melhara]

I received a free copy of this coloring book at a company team building workshop (I don't really know how coloring relates to team building but listening to speeches and seminars was a lot more fun while coloring). All my coworkers now have a copy at their desks and we would start coloring whenever we're on the phone or if it's a slow day at the office.

I'll be taking my time filling in these pages. Progress pictures below. Let me know which ones you like best!
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Oct 15, 2018 Update:
I finished coloring my first mandala! Yay! I'm pretty happy with the way the leaves turned out. I also used a white gel pen to trace some of the circles and I like how that turned out as well.


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Oct 29, 2018 Update:
My second mandala! I just realized that this is the pattern that's on the cover. For this one, I decided to play around with contrasting colors.


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Nov 2, 2018 Update:
Colors of the rainbow!


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Nov 9, 2018 Update:
I'm starting to understand why these coloring books are so popular. It's a very relaxing pastime.


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Nov 14, 2018 Update:
I decided not to color in some of the spaces... and I love the effect!


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Dec 10, 2018 Update:
Getting into the holiday spirit! I decided to try and limit myself to using just two pencil crayons and focus primarily on shading.


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Dec 11, 2018 Update:
Lots of free time at work lately so I managed to finish another mandala!


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Dec 12, 2018 Update:
Fifty shades of blue.
(Just realized that the color scheme is the same as the cover of this book)


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Jan 3, 2019 Update:
New year, new colored page


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Jan 28, 2019 Update:


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Feb 7, 2019 Update:
Finally using the pack of pens my coworker gave me for Christmas! I used every single pen colour for this one (I think i'll only use these felt-tip pens from here on out).



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Mar 5, 2019 Update:
Tracing instead of coloring because I'm feeling lazy.


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Mar 26, 2019 Update:
Tried another lazy way technique of coloring - hatching! Hundreds of tiny lines.


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Apr 30, 2019 Update:
Trying out different hatching patterns:


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May 8, 2019 Update:
Using only ballpoint pens:


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May 30, 2019 Update:
Fifty shades of grey 😏. Medium: ballpoint pen, felt-tip pen and a giant sharpie marker.


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June 20, 2019 Update:
A bit late, but this was colored in the spirit of pride month.


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July 26, 2019 Update:


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August 23, 2019 Update:
Using only three colours - purple, red and yellow.


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[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly an advanced beginner book. The first 19 page are show how to choose color illustrations of their idea of how they should be colored. After that there are 31 pages of line drawings on one side of nice paper with an appropriate quote and the flower the drawing was based on the left or back side of each drawing.

FYI: all the drawings consists of tiny circles within lines as shown on the cover. So be prepared to get bored coloring in all the circles.

Fave page: the Iris.

[annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cuando apenas empezaba la locura de los libros de colorear para adultos (hace casi un año) yo estaba emocionadísima y no me podía decidir entre uno de tantos que había, al final me compre éste. Me puse a colorearlo y sin mas lo dejé arrumbadillo por ahí, no se porque... yo también me lo pregunto.

Lo bueno es que lo retome y aquí les traigo mi opinión acerca de éste en particular, al momento hay montones de estos libros rondando por doquier, los he visto hasta en los supermercados. Sin duda hay muchos y más lindos como por ejemplo el de El océano perdido de Johanna Basford que deseo con todas mis ganas coloreadoras, pero eso ya es otra historia.







¿Qué me gusto?
-Definitivamente colorear sirve para relajarte.
-Son mandalas de flores y a mí me gustan ambas.
-Todos los dibujos tienen una frase y un espacio por si quieres escribir algo.
-Las páginas están pre-perforadas, osea que se desprenden fácil por si quieres enmarcarlas o regalarlas.

¿Que no me gusto?
-Todos los dibujos se me hacían iguales, se que es la técnica de la artista, pero todos estaban llenos de círculos y al ser a veces tan pequeños dificultaban un poco el coloreado. Por lo mismo acabe usando rotuladores en vez de lapices de colores.

[Meran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good patterns, rather complicated, but interesting.

However some of the spaces are very small. And the cover photo/pattern is actually a bit larger than those inside. I'd suggest all these patterns to be enlarged, maybe by 50%.

[Barb · Rating 1 out of 5]

The designs in this book are all basically the same thing as every pictures is full on little dots, which rune the pictures.

[CAROLYN G WYNN · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peaceful