Coloring Books and Projects for Adults

Do you like to color?

Adults are enjoying coloring for therapy, hobby, or learning about colors to better their art and craft projects.

The books and papers for coloring help you to understand the value of color, how to make other tints, and blending colors for various highlights, contrasts, and shading.

If you haven’t done so, you may wish to try your coloring techniques on a new hobby called coloring for adults. Its popularity started out as an activity for occupying idle time while traveling or waiting your turn for an appointment at a doctor’s or dentist’s office.

This new craze has gone beyond its use for doodling or a form of activity for relaxation. Hobbyists are finding this to be a fun activity and are using their finished art pieces in an assortment of art and craft projects.

The first book we purchased had 39 pictures of mandala drawings. A small box of basic colored pencils started our adventure. We worked with the primary colors of red, orange, blue, green, violet. black, white, and a few other tints which were in the small box. The initial starting stage began with the techniques of our elementary school years. The instructions included the color wheel which we started paying attention to after getting bored with the basic colors.

The simple act of coloring is the beginning of gaining tinting knowledge with personal experiences from your elementary school day memories, color therapy from art class, and experimenting with trial and error. As you follow suggestions for cool and warm colors which is included in the purchased coloring book, you'll begins to understand how colors offer contrast or compliment each other. The emotional side benefits of tranquility and immediate rewards encourage learning.

The mandala drawings, which are circles filled with geometric patterns, change their appearance with selected colors. There may be three of you coloring and each of you will have a different kaleidoscopic view because of the color choices made by each individual.

If you are anything like me, I started downloading free examples offered by artists located Online. Selecting landscaping, animals, people, and objects allowed me to experiment and gain a better understanding of how to use colors.

There are different sizes of boxed colored pencils available. We started with a small box and learned how to mix colors to increase tint variety. Later we purchased larger boxes for more variety, but still found that we like mixing colors to get the hue that is just right for the project.

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Craft Ideas With Colored Pictures

This is a small list of some of the projects which can be done with these pages:

• Decoupage projects
• Book markets
• Page dividers in a personal notebook
• Wrapping paper for small gift boxes
• Laminate between plastic sleeves for various projects
• Transfer as patterns to scarves, apparel, embroidery, crewel, and quilt projects
• Ornaments for various holidays
• Decorate home projects of glass or clear plastic

This list is for personal use. Do not forget that these drawings and sketches completed by artists are copyrighted material. 

You may wish to do your own drawings or sketches to avoid infringing on these artists' works of art. 

For more information visit: https://hubpages.com/art/Colors-For-Adult-Coloring-Books-or-Pages

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