Abstract Symmetry is packed with 175 stress-relieving geometric designs to color. There's a great variety to the designs: some pages have one design per page, some have multiple designs per page; some designs are intricate, some simple. This book features: 175 designs, printed on one side only Mix of single and multiple designs per page Introduction to art therapy, written by an art therapist Large format 8.5 x 8.5 inches (square) Bright white paper (60 pound / 90 gsm) Perfect bound matte cover on 10 pt stock Ten percent of book sales go towards enabling youth in developing countries to access better educational opportunities. This money is being donated to Build to Learn, an initiative started by The Mindful Word.
Have fun, release stress and express your creativity with this unique easy patterns colouring book! Easy Geometric Patterns Colouring Book (Volume 2) features 50 original repeating pattern colouring pages with large spaces. This book is for everyone who loves to colour fun abstract patterns, including beginners, kids, teens, and adults who enjoy drawings that aren't too detailed. If you're an experienced colourist, you can apply your skills and stretch your creative imagination by using the larger spaces for blending, shading and patterning. Whatever your level, you can create a beautiful and unique work of art from each pattern. What Will You Get? 50 stress relieving pattern colouring pages Easy difficulty level Single-sided printing High resolution images with sharp lines High quality, original hand-designed patterns by artist L.J. Knight Page size is 8.5 x 11 inches (approx. 22 x 28cm) You can preview all 50 designs in this book on the author's website - for the URL, see the 'More about the author' section further down the page. The pages aren't perforated, but you can easily remove them using a craft knife. The drawings are printed on one side of the paper only, so bleed-through isn't an issue if you're using markers or gel pens. You can also protect the image underneath with a sheet of scrap paper. Easy Geometric Patterns (Volume 2) is the 19th title in the LJK Colouring Books series. Check out the whole series for a range of unique colouring pages for adults and children, with new books on the way. Do you have friends or family who love to colour? These books make great gift ideas for women, men, girls, boys, seniors, teens, tweens and kids! A colouring book is a perfect present for Christmas, holidays, birthdays, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, Easter, and other special occasions. Get ready for hours of screen-free relaxation and enjoyment as you bring these patterns to life. Have fun and happy colouring!
A coloring book that invites readers to explore symmetry and the beauty of math visually. Beautiful Symmetry is a coloring book about math, inviting us to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and visual puzzles. We can explore symmetry and the beauty of mathematics playfully, coloring through ideas usually reserved for advanced courses. The book is for children and adults, for math nerds and math avoiders, for educators, students, and coloring enthusiasts. Through illustration, language that is visual, and words that are jargon-free, the book introduces group theory as the mathematical foundation for discussions of symmetry, covering symmetry groups that include the cyclic groups, frieze groups, and wallpaper groups. The illustrations are drawn by algorithms, following the symmetry rules for each given group. The coloring challenges can be completed and fully realized only on the page; solutions are provided. Online, in a complementary digital edition, the illustrations come to life with animated interactions that show the symmetries that generated them. Traditional math curricula focus on arithmetic and the manipulation of numbers, and may make some learners feel that math is not for them. By offering a more visual and tactile approach, this book shows how math can be for everyone. Combining the playful and the pedagogical, Beautiful Symmetry offers both relaxing entertainment for recreational colorers and a resource for math-curious readers, students, and educators.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
An immensely fascinating look at the origins and evolutionary purpose of human pleasure From our enjoyment of music to our cravings for chocolate, from our love for children and family to our attraction to things of beauty, this book embarks on an intriguing and accessible exploration of the purpose of pleasure in our lives and in human history. How did pleasure evolve and why? How does it develop in children? How does the pursuit of pleasure play a critical role in brain development? The Pleasure Instinct explores everything we need to know about our urge to feel good.
A large range of symmetries in art is presented through clear and aesthetically outstanding examples of historical ornaments. Compendious comments illustrate the selected photographic material by addressing the interested and specialist reader alike. Contents: Introduction Fundamental categories The convenient start: Plane groups of symmetry Intertwined patterns: Layer groups of symmetry Two-colored periodic ornamentation Polychromatic patterns Beyond 2D groups: Hypersymmetry, superstructures, two symmetries in one pattern, the "order-disorder" patterns, homothety and similarity, inversion and nonlinear patterns Quasiperiodic patterns Fractals and fractal character Style and symmetry – symmetry and style References Index
Be Stress-Free and Color is the perfect book for stressed-out adults who want to reconnect, simply and easily, with their inner creativity. In this guided coloring book for adults looking for some me-time, art therapist Lacy Mucklow and artist Angela Porter offer up over 50 coloring pages, all designed to help you unplug and unwind. With so much chaos in the world and stress in our daily lives, we need a way to relieve the tension and avoid burnout, illness, or worse. A simple and inexpensive way to relieve stress is by coloring images, which is soothing and could ultimately aid in reversing the effects of anxiety. Refocusing your attention on something completely different engages a mental, physical, and emotional shift that can help break the pattern of consistent stress and allow you to rejuvenate. Be Stress-Free and Color features designs that tackle seven of the most common stressors experienced by people worldwide: disorganization and chaos, relationships of all kinds, financial difficulties, employment, health concerns, time management, and traveling and commuting. You can explore the benefits of putting pencil (or crayon ) to paper and channel your day-to-day stresses into a satisfying, creative environment. Be Stress-Free and Color will have you enjoying the day and relaxing before you know it Also available: Be Calm and Color; Be Grateful and Color Experience waves of calm as you color your way through the books of the Creative Coloring series. These coloring books include something for everyone, regardless of age or artistic experience, from adorable kitties and cute kawaii characters to hilarious memes and calming mandalas. Let go of your stress and find peace in all the beautiful patterns or adorable characters. Whether you are looking for an easy, relaxing past time or to get those creative juices flowing, this series has it covered. Creative Coloring books are the perfect gift for friends or loved ones (including yourself ).
