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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2016, 06:37:41 PM »
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"Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "Serenity" Coloring Books to Debut in October
 
Dark Horse proudly announces a brand-new adult coloring book program hitting bookshelves and coffee tables this fall. Kicking off the coloring books line are Avatar: The Last Airbender and the fan-favorite Serenity series. Each adult coloring book features forty-five pages of original artwork created specifically to be colored on thick, heavyweight 10 x 10?inch pages at a $14.99 value price point! Relive your favorite scenes from Avatar: The Last Airbender with this beautifully detailed coloring book. Filled with original black-and-white illustrations by artist Jed Henry and produced in collaboration with creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, this book is sure to be a hit with the Avatar fanatic in your life. The Serenity Adult Coloring Book is a must-have for fans of the ?verse. Join the crew of the Serenity on an adventure through the ?verse where you can relive your favorite moments from the Firefly series?and more. This stunning adult coloring book is filled with detailed and completely original black-and-white illustrations for you to color however you desire.

More adult coloring books will be announced in the months ahead, so stay tuned for your chance to color your favorite comic creations. Avatar: The Last Airbender Coloring Book (978-1-50670-236-0) and Serenity Adult Coloring Book (978-1-50670-254-4) are in stores on October 5. Preorder your copy today at your local comic shop or through these fine retailers:
Amazon
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Bestselling Author Chuck Palahniuk To Publish His First Ever Coloring Book For Adults This Fall

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2016, 09:26:30 AM »
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Lisa Frank adult coloring book is '90s dream come true

We all knew that one kid in school who was a Lisa Frank sticker hustler, or the one whose locker was an homage to all that is the glory of Lisa Frank. Let's be honest, we never outgrew the wonderful rainbows and unicorns and colors that made every day a good one, and now we get to relive the animal awesomeness. A Lisa Frank adult coloring book has recently been confirmed via Instagram. Adult coloring books have become all the rage, and Lisa Frank was not one to get left behind.

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2016, 06:53:57 PM »
Not just for children: ‘Wynwood Coloring Book’ a hit with adults

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2016, 06:57:49 PM »
I'm seeing more and more of these at the comic stores.  They're pretty cool even if you don't color them as they are essentially an inks only version.

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #19 on: July 13, 2016, 10:10:59 AM »
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"As you wish" @ComicVine unveils The Princess Bride coloring book to celebrate the movie's 30th anniversary

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #20 on: July 13, 2016, 10:27:05 AM »
Hey Comic Con has got us covered:

Sunday, July 24 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Room 8
The Cult of Adult Coloring Books

Add some "color" to your Comic-Con! Coloring books are all the rage right now, but why? The talented creators of some of the best new adult coloring and activity books discuss the popularity of the form, their pop culture influences, and how to color in and outside the lines. Panelists include Camilla d'Errico (Pop Manga Coloring Book), Brandon Bird (Brandon Bird's Astonishing World of Art), Jamie Loftus (Adult Coloring Book of Adulthood), and Kenny Keil (Stay at Home Scarface, MAD Magazine). Moderated by Amanda Meadows (The Devastator). Everyone who attends gets free coloring pages!

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2016, 06:38:50 AM »
The Official “Star Trek” Adult Coloring Books Will Debut in October

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2016, 11:40:12 AM »
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A coloring book for gleefully ghoulish boys, girls and grownups You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login  via @WSJspeakeasy @arobert

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2016, 12:04:52 PM »
I've bought my other half the Supernatural colouring book. It arrived today. It's actually really good.

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2017, 07:21:21 AM »
Disney launches its own adult coloring book app

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #25 on: January 29, 2017, 06:59:31 AM »
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Mary E Weber and Vicki L Vermeer are two sisters who have created their first ever “adult coloring book” and the sales have been great.

The coloring book features their mother’s actual fashion drawings from the 1930’s.

Their mother, Lolita (Lola) Edith Mayer, lived in Oakland, CA. Lola began expressing her love for art the first moment she held a pencil. Lola and her two younger sisters, Irene and Ruth, sat for hours after school and on weekends drawing. Lola loved designing and sewing clothing. She won a scholarship to Madame Lucille’s School of Design where she refined her dress designing talent. Lola learned the practical and whimsical sides of fashion. Not only were the dress lines important but also incorporating the practical side of zippers and buttons. Lola’s world was influenced by Art Deco. Her designs reflect that influence with fashions of soft flowing lines and those of a sculptured tailored look. Lola’s love of art continued throughout her life.

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2017, 07:31:34 AM »
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From February 6-10, 2017, libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world are sharing free coloring sheets and books based on materials in their collections. Users are invited to download and print the coloring sheets and share their filled-in images, using the hashtag #ColorOurCollections.

All content is sourced from the collections of participating institutions. With participants from around the globe, this campaign offers an opportunity to explore the vast and varied offerings of the library world, without geographical constraints. Last year’s campaign included over 210 institutions and featured coloring sheets based on children’s classics, natural histories, botanicals, anatomical atlases, university yearbooks, patents, and more.

Institutions interested in participating can find out more here.

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2017, 12:52:42 PM »
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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2017, 02:05:09 PM »
Okay, maybe I'm just not 'artistic' enough... but one of the dresses they put in the coloring book is WHITE. See the problem here? ;)

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Re: Coloring Books for Adults
« Reply #29 on: February 15, 2017, 08:22:57 AM »
Need that [insert title] adult coloring book, you do... manage your stress, coloring will. ;)

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Among the latest fads, adult coloring books have found a place of prominence in bookstores nationwide and online sites such as Amazon. So, what’s the allure?

Ask Aris Karagiorgakis, an assistant professor of psychology at Black Hills State University, about the subject and he’ll get nearly as animated as the artwork that students have produced as the result of his research into whether coloring can truly reduce the stress of everyday living.

“Even our store on campus has a stand with adult coloring books,” Karagiorgakis said last week. “It’s a big deal. Amazon has its own section for adult coloring books. Some of the adult books are really adult, even allowing curse words, but there really is some science behind the claim that it does reduce stress. It calms people and it’s fun.”

Karagiorgakis set out nearly three years ago to determine whether the creativity involved in coloring and drawing can reduce psychological and physiological stress. To date, his study groups have involved about 200 BHSU students.

“It’s developed into a monster project that could keep me busy for the next 10 years,” he said. “It’s a type of research where the more questions you answer, the more you have to answer down the line, and the more you learn.”

Subjects involved in the experiments have not been told what researchers are seeking. Tested individually, the students complete a psychological survey, allowing them to report their levels of stress, Karagiorgakis explained. Researchers also drew blood to measure participants' stress via blood-sugar levels, he said.

Participants in the study were then subjected to six minutes of exposure to “arousing images,” including spiders and snakes, blood and crime scenes, and corpses and body parts, Karagiorgakis noted.

“We wanted to stress them out, and through subsequent testing, we found we did,” the professor said with a laugh. “Statistically, the stress levels were very high.”

Half the sample group was then directed to perform a relatively easy 15-minute copying exercise, transposing newspaper articles from the 1920s. Meanwhile, the other half of the group was given colored pencils and directed to draw anything they wanted.

“We asked them to draw whatever they felt comfortable drawing, such as figures, patterns, abstract works, anything,” Karagiorgakis said. “We really wanted them to use some creativity because we suspected that it was not just coloring or drawing, but it was the creativity factor involved.”

Following further testing, the research found that the stress levels of the sample group assigned to copying duties had returned to the same levels as when they had walked into the room. But the test group assigned to color and draw had stress levels “significantly lower than when they arrived,” the professor said.

“The ones who copied an article were brought back to baseline levels, exactly as we would have expected,” Karagiorgakis said. “The arts people, the people who drew or colored, dropped so low in their stress levels that they were even below the levels when they walked in. It was statistically significant, not a fluke. They were way more relaxed. It was really incredible stuff.”

That “incredible stuff” formed the basis of a scholarly paper Karagiorgakis presented to an international symposium on neurocognitive disorders and stress management in Barcelona, Spain, in November.

“Most people at the conference found it absolutely fascinating - that there is a science behind this,” he said.

And, while Karagiorgakis doesn’t recommend supplanting sound dietary practices and regular exercise in favor of doodling with colored pencils, he is eager to see where the next, more sophisticated studies into the impact creativity has on reducing stress take him.

“We still don’t know what’s causing it,” he said. “It’s a real effect, and it does happen when you color or draw, but why? That’s still a bit of a mystery. There is something in our brain that we find relaxing and soothing about creativity.

“When you consider how busy we all are, how stressed we are, few of us have the money to go to counseling or see a therapist. This might help reduce the acute stress we all experience, and this creative outlet makes you feel better. It’s cheap, it’s accessible and it only takes 10 or 15 minutes.”