Be inspired by Marjolein Bastin's passion for the natural world in this lovely coloring book. "I see every day as a new gift full of new discoveries, which I want to share with everyone through my artwork." --Marjolein Bastin Now you can share the beauty of Marjolein Bastin's nature-inspired art by coloring images based on her artwork. In this unique coloring book, sixty-three paintings featuring an array of nature vignettes that include birds, flowers, deer, butterflies, and more from Marjolien Bastin are presented in color across from the line art of the same image. Take inspiration from Marjolein's beautiful watercolor pallets or create your own colorful interpretation.
A beautifully intricate coloring book with a bit of color on each page to get you started, Inspired Coloring: Nature includes gorgeous nature designs to help you de-stress and boost creativity.
The creative alternative to counting sheep, Posh Adult Coloring Book: Soothing Designs for Fun & Relaxation is filled with more than 100 pages of beautiful, peaceful design patterns to help you de-stress and feel ready for rest. Take your mind off any woes or worries and allow yourself to relax and unwind. Soothe away your insomnia with some wonderfully relaxing coloring. Long acknowledged to be a truly relaxing activity, coloring can help with all sorts of stress-related problems--including sleeplessness. These beautiful designs will help you to free your mind from your worries and refocus it on relaxation. So next time you find yourself feeling restless in bed, turn to Soothing Designs, create some beautiful art, and feel your cares drifting away.
Assembled here is a collection of Art Nouveau inspired illustrations - that you will enjoy to personalize and create into your own. Endorsed by an art therapist, See and Seen: Adult Coloring Book inspired by the Beauty and Charm of Art Nouveau captures the essence of shapes and forms found throughout Art Nouveau art, architecture and interior design. Use the templates in this book to produce your own creative Art Nouveau artwork with colored pencils, markers or crayons, to name a few, while improving your artistic skills. Specially designed for people of all ages, See and Seen: Adult Coloring Book inspired by the Beauty and Charm of Art Nouveau offers a journey through art and nature, with page after page of unique and highly intricate designs.
Nature is healing. As explained in the National Geographic article "This is Your Brain on Nature" (January 2016), spending time in nature is like ""cleaning the windshield of your brain."" It allows you to reenergize your brain cells and focus better. Other reports have documented that spending time in nature relieves stress, lowers your blood pressure, and helps to fight depression. It also gives you a boost to your self-esteem and your spirits. Several recent studies have also touted the stress-relieving benefits of coloring books Just the act of coloring calms the nerves and focuses the brain. Tuleyome's "Nature and You" coloring book for adults combines art and nature, allowing folks to actively participate in their own stress relief while at the same time learning a little bit more about the natural subjects they're coloring. It is hoped that this process will help to forge a positive mental association between colorists and the great outdoors.
Create a world of beauty with Pretty Nature Girls. Harness the strength of girl power and positive vibes. Take your coloring to the next level and try the grayscale technique featuring with beautiful, done-for-you pre-shading. Just color over the existing shading and give your art instant depth and sophisticated three-dimensional effects. With faces so pretty you can even use them directly as your wall art. This volume contains 32 sketch-style grayscale images with a focus on beautifully expressive young female faces. Featuring a mix of portrait and upper body illustrations against neutral backgrounds and landscapes (forest, castle, sky). Several figures appear with animals (owl, raven, wolf, fox) and objects (book, flower, boat). WHAT YOU GET + 32 different greyscale illustrations (graytone sketch-style images) + Focus on portraits and some upper body illustrations + Single page for each picture with dark backing (detach, hang, frame your artwork) + Big pictures that fill the entire page + A good mix of gray shading and white areas (no super dark pages) + Hours of relaxation, escape and connection with yourself or a coloring partner WHO ́S THIS BOOK FOR + A treat to yourself. Try a new hobby, coloring technique or series + All ages (tween, teenager, adult or skilled child colorists) + Beginner or advanced coloring fans. + You want amazing artistic effects and impressive shading results every time + Give a unique gift. A birthday, holiday or any occasion present for special people in your life YOU`LL LIKE THIS BOOK IF... + You love coloring books / grayscale coloring books featuring beautiful faces, magical settings and positive themes + You want pictures that aren`t too dark + You prefer natural G-rated female figures (no excessive cleavage or suggestive poses) + You prefer human-like figures, not mermaids, fantasy animals, childlike cartoon images + You want portable relaxation or art therapy (waiting room, lunchtime, hospital, airport, train, during your commute, on holiday, device-free me-time) NOTE: + Use the `Look Inside` feature and back cover photo for examples to help you decide + The `Tips` page inside the book contains additional suggestions + Use a blotting sheet to prevent ink transfer to the next page Discover the new grayscale coloring collections from Nougu Art. Because creativity connects our hearts.
Steer your organization away from burnout while boosting all-around performance The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention to all aspects of operations and culture. The expert author team walks you through the process of building a happier, healthier organization from the ground up, with a balanced approach that considers more than just quantitative results. Employee wellbeing takes a front seat next to organizational performance, with clear guidance on establishing optimal systems and processes that bring about better results while allowing a healthier work-life balance. By improving attitudes and personal habits at all levels, you'll implement a positive cultural change with sustainable impact. Nonprofits are driven to do more, more, more, often with fewer and fewer resources; there comes a breaking point where passion dwindles under the weight of pressure, and the mission suffers as a result. This book shows you how to revamp your organization to do more and do it better, by putting cultural considerations at the heart of strategy. Find and relieve cultural and behavioral pain points Achieve better results with attention to well-being Redefine your organizational culture to avoid burnout Establish systems and processes that enable sustainable change At its core, a nonprofit is driven by passion. What begins as a personal investment in the organization's mission can quickly become the driver of stress and overwork that leads to overall lackluster performance. Executing a cultural about-face can be the lifeline your organization needs to thrive. The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit provides a blueprint for sustainable change, with a holistic approach to improving organizational outlook.
A contemporary synthesis of the philosophical, theoretical and practical methodologies of illustration and its future development Illustration is contextualized visual communication; its purpose is to serve society by influencing the many aspects of its cultural infrastructure; it dispenses knowledge and education, it commentates and delivers journalistic opinion, it persuades, advertises and promotes, it entertains and provides for all forms of narrative fiction. A Companion to Illustration explores the definition of illustration through cognition and research and its impact on culture. It explores illustration’s boundaries and its archetypal distinction, the inflected forms of its parameters, its professional, contextual, educational and creative applications. This unique reference volume offers insights into the expanding global intellectual conversation on illustration through a compendium of readings by an international roster of scholars, academics and practitioners of illustration and visual communication. Encompassing a wide range of thematic dialogues, the Companion offers twenty-five chapters of original theses, examining the character and making of imagery, illustration education and research, and contemporary and post-contemporary context and practice. Topics including conceptual strategies for the contemporary illustrator, the epistemic potential of active imagination in science, developing creativity in a polymathic environment, and the presentation of new insights on the intellectual and practical methodologies of illustration. Evaluates innovative theoretical and contextual teaching and learning strategies Considers the influence of illustration through cognition, research and cultural hypotheses Discusses the illustrator as author, intellectual and multi-disciplinarian Explores state-of-the-art research and contemporary trends in illustration Examines the philosophical, theoretical and practical framework of the discipline A Companion to Illustration is a valuable resource for students, scholars and professionals in disciplines including illustration, graphic and visual arts, visual communications, cultural and media and advertising studies, and art history.
Children's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literature—when it's written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids Allowed, Michelle Ann Abate examines a constellation of books that form a paradoxical new genre: children's literature for adults. Distinguishing these books from YA and middle-grade fiction that appeals to adult readers, Abate argues that there is something unique about this phenomenon. Principally defined by its form and audience, children's literature, Abate demonstrates, engages with more than mere nostalgia when recast for grown-up readers. Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genre and challenge the assumption that adulthood and childhood are mutually exclusive.
Written for the one-term or shorter course, Essentials of Managing Stress, Fifth Edition teaches practical skills and techniques to handle the daily stressors in life. As one of the fastest growing health crises worldwide, award-winning author Brian Luke Seaward explores stress management from a holistic framework, involving all aspects of mind, body, spirit, and emotions. Using simple, down to earth concepts, the text uncovers both the theory and effective application of stress management techniques and various aspects of personal wellness. The integrated workbook includes numerous exercises in each chapter which urge students to assess their personal stressors and overall wellness. All workbook exercises are also included on the Navigate Student Companion Site as writable PDFs. The Navigate Student Companion Site also includes audio introductions by Br
