THE ARTFUL MANDALA COLORING BOOK

The explosive success of coloring books for adults has been sensation, generating substantial booksales and news stories around the world. Coloring, we are learning, brings out the artist in everyone – it’s so easy and welcoming. It’s also very good for the mind.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” --Pablo Picasso Meditation drawing teacher Cher Kaufmann has seen the effects of coloring at work in her sold-out classes. She provides students with patterns of mandalas and other designs, some colored pencils, and watches everyone relax. With each stroke of color, body and thoughts drift into a calm place. Recent studies attest to the power of drawing as well. Readers will be mesmerized by the beautiful pen-and-ink patterns in this collection. Cher Kaufmann is an inspirational author, artist, and teacher. Her extensive studies of photography and art, combined with her training in massage therapy and Reiki, have helped her discover unique patterns in the world. She lives with her family outside Dallas, Texas. Countryman will publish, in July 2015 at 208 pages with 100 unique, hand-drawn patterns designed to relax the mind, as an 8 x 8 inch paperback original.