Big Kids Coloring Book: Beautiful Buddha, Vol. Two: 50+ Illustrations of Buddha on Single-Sided Pages

Beautiful BuddhaThis book is full of delightful, hand-drawn depictions of Buddha or images and designs related to the Buddist following. You will find intermediate to complicated images in this coloring book, including heavy lined drawings with simple shapes and designs and more fine-art styles with varied line weights (thin to medium). The light and dark line illustrations with >50+ coloring pages that will keep you busy for weeks or months These images are hand-drawn, so the lines are organic and feel like artist's natural sketches versus software engineered and mechanically perfect illustrations. This book also includes bonus coloring pages from the artist's other coloring books.
The artist, Dawn D. Boyer, Ph.D., has produced a compilation of delightful illustrations in this coloring book for you to color, shade, and add your own doodles and designs in the 'eye' and the background. The artist has also completed some basic research to provide a little background about the original 'Buddha, ' information about how the Buddha has been depicted throughout history in pictures and statuary. The author/artist has also provided beautiful quotes attributed to Buddha on opposite pages of the illustrations.
Details about the book:
** Non-perforated pages (you can use a craft knife or razor to remove them from the binding)
** Glue-bound spine
** Single-Pages - all the illustrations are on the right hand side on single-sided pages so you don't have to worry about your 'wetter' media ruining any images on the other side (but do use blotter sheets or cardboard between pages when using markers or watercolors).
** Pages are 8.5" x 11" with a half-inch margin, allowing larger (approximately) 7.5"x9.0" images to color
** The first few pages of pre-views show sample drawings in the book and should be available on Amazon's "Look Between the Covers" function
** Paper weight is the thickness of standard paper-back books; some media may bleed through (test first, back with cardboard or plastic )
What can you do with the book once you have finished? Once the designs 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. Frame them and hang them in the office, classroom, or at home where the designs can continue to inspire friends, family, and co-workers. The possibilities are endless
Coloring can be cathartic for those needing something that doesn't take a lot of analysis or thought, while allowing them to pick and choose their personal colors to create an artistic masterpiece. The pages of delightful and imaginative illustrations of fairy abodes allows you to relax while you wile away the hours or the day and find peace in your own mind.
How can BIG KIDS (regardless of chronological age) use this coloring book? 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, and go into a personal Zen moment in a creative way. Once the designs are colored - give the books as gifts or as scrapbook background art. Possibilities are endless

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Author: Dawn D. Boyer Ph. D.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 08/26/2016
Pages: 158
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781537306780

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 Master's 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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