Colouring for grown ups therapy
A few years ago I visited my son's exchange family in Paris. The mum introduced me to colouring for grown ups, it's quite the past time for busy professional women in France. I loved it and always have a colouring book on the go..colouring for grown up series mainly.
It is so therapeutic, you zone out and it gives your mind time to recharge, I always relax after I have spent time colouring.
It's a bit like yoga in a wierd way.
For christmas my son in South America arranged for Amazon to send me 'secret garden' by Johanna Basford. On a work away a French couple had it , male and female, he was impressed by their art and thought I would like it ....
I cannot sing its praises more! I have been continuing to nurse a cold this week so as soon as the LO's have disappeared I have collapsed into a corner of my sofa, not like me, I am so useless at relaxing by sitting but my bones have insisted this week. So I have been colouring, to Mozart . It's been great, I have used it to experiment with colour for ideas for my garden this year too. I have been able to switch off and just sit. ( we don't watch much TV )
So I thought I would share.
If you google 'secret garden Johanna Basford ' she has a facebook site, a website with a gallery ( yesterday and today I have been copying one I saw on there) Amazon has her book ( my friend told me book people did too but I can't see it).
I use staedtler ergo soft pencils, but the children's work too! You need a good pencil sharpener though.
If you google colouring for grown ups - france the Independent and Huffington post have a number of articles too.