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Kylie

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I got one last Christmas, and I coloured a few pictures but honestly colouring pencils are too light/washed out looking and markers are too heavy, so nothing I coloured ever looked good and I gave up trying. I'd swear colouring pencils were better when I was a kid :giggle:

 

I've been searching on Instagram for inspiration and there are some seriously talented colouring artists on there who seem to work wonders with shading and what not.  I somehow doubt mine are going to be anywhere near as good as them, but I'm looking forward to trying.  I don't think I'm going to try markers though, I'd be worried they would leak through to the other side.

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I've seen Mandala but always wondered what it is, and what's the difference between that and other colouring books?

Well, to quote from the Wikipedia page:

 

A mandala (Sanskrit: मण्डल, lit, circle) is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Indian religions, representing the universe.[1] In common use, "mandala" has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a microcosm of the universe.

 

The basic form of most mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the general shape of a T.[2][3] Mandalas often exhibit radial balance.[4]

I used to have a friend in primary school, her mum made mandalas (sometimes her mum made them for us and we'd colour them). I've always thought they were quite pretty. I've made a basic one myself, back when I was a child and my friend's mother taught us how to do it (of course, now I don't quite remember everything).

 

Google Images shows me some nice mandalas to colour.

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Well, I decided to give colouring a try and was surprised by how much I liked it! I printed some free mandalas off the internet, and have coloured two of them now. I only had a couple of coloured pencils, which I used to colour the first mandala. I then bought a new set of colouring pencils, to have more variety of colours. I've also pre-ordered Patterns of the Wheel, a colouring book based upon The Wheel of Time series, it's got lots of nice symbols and patterns to colour (plus, it is released on my birthday, so it seemed like a sign). I really enjoyed colouring these two mandalas so I plan to colour more of them (I've printed a few, you can find a lot of them online for free).

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I just wanted to say Johanna Basford is coming out with a new colouring book, called Ivy and the Inky Butterfly. It's going to be a combination of a story and colouring, and comes out 12 October 2017 (on Amazon UK), so in about a month and a week. I found out via the YouTube video she made about it (which was actually a FaceBook Live video first) (warning: she flips through the colouring book so if you like to be more surprised, don't watch the whole video).

 

 

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