Animal Life: Nature Mandala Coloring Book

The meditative mandalas in this colouring book celebrate the amazing biodiversity in nature: the myriad shapes and colours found in animals and the varied habitats and ecosystems in which they live. Explore real and imagined specimens that live in treetops, sweeping grasslands, lush tropical forests, shimmering waters, and colourful reefs in this riff on the natural world. White spaces in each sketch allow artists to be creative, drawing in their own unique dots, dashes, doodles, stripes, and squiggles. Using a variety of markers, watercolours, or gel pens selectively or in any combination, armchair artists are invited to focus their thoughts and unleash their creativity.
AUTHOR:
Tim Phelps loves all thing s hot rod and natural science, and finds ways to combine them in his mandala colouring books. A professor and medical illustrator, Tim has been teaching and illustrating for 30 years in the Graduate Program of Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He has received over 40 regional and national awards for his artwork published in textbooks, magazines, and professional journals. Projects have included multiple books on pathology dissection; head and neck, orthopaedic, and cardiac surgery; and illustrations for Dog World and Cat Fancy magazines. He is the author of Up in Flames: The Art of Flame Painting and author and artist of the two-volume set of books Nature Mandalas: Wonders of the Garden and Nature Mandalas: Wonders of the Earth, Wind, and Sea. He received the Max Broedel Award for Excellence in Education from Association of Medical Illustrators in 2015.

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