Art for Mental Health & Wellness

Relax, create and connect with mandala art. Do you want to learn how to draw and color your own mandalas? In The Mandala Guidebook, Kathryn Costa shows you how with easy instructions perfect for the beginner. You'll find a wide range of projects, each with beautifully illustrated step-by-step instructions covering more design styles and artistic mediums than any other book out there. Simply put, a mandala is a circle with a design in the center, but psychologists and spiritual leaders have used mandalas as a tool for self-reflection and self-exploration through the ages. Mandalas have intrigued cultures around the world, from Celtic spirals and Indian mehndi to medieval church labyrinths. And now it's your turn! If you can write the alphabet, you can create beautiful and expressive mandalas. Journey with Kathryn to create spontaneous and spirited mandala art. Enjoy prompts and questions to practice self-discovery, gratitude, relaxation, meditation and explore your unique talents and artistic path as you create. Discover 24 demonstrations with clear and colorful step-by-step instructions to master the mechanics of making mandalas -- both freehand and geometrically symmetrical designs. Explore mixed media and textural painting techniques within the boundaries of a circle using everything from a simple pen and paper to watercolor, collage, acrylic and stamped Gelli plate. Get pattern inspiration and discover how to play with color using common palettes from the world around you. Set your intention and learn how to use mandalas to solve problems, let go of fear, lean into love and gain clarity and insight as you create!

Two hot trends -- paper quilling and mandala-themed crafting -- come together in 30 new projects from the co-owner of the popular company, Quilled Creations. Alli Bartkowski explains the basic tools and techniques of quilling, from curling and crimping the paper to forming scrolls, strips, and rolls. Detailed step-by-step photos show all the shapes needed for the projects, which come in an assortment of 4", 6", and 8" designs with projects for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced quiller. Feel the calm and serenity created by the repetitive motions as you quill a Crimson Flower, Sunset, Snowflake, Peacock, and other vivid, beautiful mandalas.

12 large and 12 small beautiful, meditative mandalas to embroider -- and only 10 stitches to learn. Slip into serenity through your stitches with this collection of 24 exquisite, meditative mandalas by Polka & Bloom's Carina Envoldsen-Harris. With Carina's gentle guidance, learn to embroider 12 large and 12 small mandalas, using just 10 stitches. By following the delicate, repeating patterns in these stunning motifs, you can soothe your mind, slow down and treat yourself to much-needed me-time and tranquility. Each beautiful mandala is accompanied by simple stitch diagrams and keys, and a corresponding transfer sheet at the back for easy stitching. Smaller mandalas fit in the gorgeous mini Dandelyne(TM) hoops, and can be transformed into gorgeous necklaces, badges and brooches. The book includes an inspiring gallery of items you can embellish with your mandalas

Go beyond the coloring book with this stunning mandala embroidery kit . . . complete with reusable iron-on transfers! Why should coloring book fans have all the fun? These embroidery-ready transfers make it super-simple to stitch beautiful, meditative mandalas for any craft. Usually, transferring the pattern to fabric is the hardest part, but here you just iron them on and go! Use the transfers to create embroidery-hoop pieces, or embellish favorite bags, shirts, or pillows. Once the pattern is transferred, just take your needle and floss and stitch along the lines to "color" the designs any way you'd like. The process is easy and relaxing, and the results are gorgeous. Includes 25 iron-on mandalas and 16 pages of basic embroidery instruction for crafters of all levels.

It takes just 15 minutes out of a busy day to contemplate the symbolic artworks in this beautiful, spiritually enriching book -- and to begin a journey toward wholeness. Each of these 30 strikingly designed all-in-color mandalas focuses on the emotional and spiritual healing of the self, and comes with an inspiring step-by-step meditation designed to address key issues, ease anxieties and insecurities, bring about change, and help you regain personal balance. Their imagery draws upon the best of the world's healing iconography: the clear pool of water that evokes the calm we all desire; the olive branch symbolizing peace; the Eastern goddess of compassion; and the balanced yin-yang symbol. All the exercises are accessible to first-time meditators, but will also appeal to those with more experience.