Coloring books have been around for ages. However, the idea of adults doing them to relieve stress is fairly new. These days, it’s more or less apropos to kids and adults alike to crack open a ...

This piece was updated on Sept. 2, 2018. Crayons, of course. Scented markers. Colored pencils, pre-sharpened. And coloring books by the jillions. Why do people like coloring so much? For grownups, I ...

Source: © 2016 From the Daily Doodle Journal of Cathy Malchiodi, PhD There are still many areas in the field of art therapy that are in need of investigation ...

Yes, it's a colouring book. And yes, it has raised more than A$400,000 ($310,750) so far on Kickstarter. To be fair to its illustrator, however, it's certainly a little more stunning than, say, Ikea's ...

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Coloring books geared for grown-ups have been gaining a lot of traction over the last few years. But this is really old-news-reborn. Some of the earliest findings regarding expressive art therapy and ...

View of a young girl, filling in sketches in a coloring book, with crayon in hand, New York, 1948. View of a young girl, filling in sketches in a coloring book, with crayon in hand, New York, 1948.Rae ...

Are we really a nation vibrating with anxiety? The booming sales of colouring books that help calm us down would suggest so The Michael O’Mara publishing empire is housed exactly as you would expect ...

When Canadian artist Steve McDonald decided to move his family to the island paradise of Bali, Indonesia, two years ago, he never fully considered the implications of leaving a traditional art gallery ...

Colouring books for adults are outselling cookery books in France, and now they appear to be taking over bookshelves in the UK, too. But why? While drawing between the lines was once reserved for ...