Just Add Color!
In this second volume of pencil sketches, artist Marti McGinnis continues inspiring smiles through the 400 fresh ideas she brings to the drawing table. The drawings in her first series entitled "400 Mornings: Artist Dreams - Pencil Sketches" inspired people of all ages to add their own artistic vision by coloring in them and this book offers several hundred new pages for creative expression.
Children know almost naturally know what to do when they're faced with a black and white drawing - they reach for the box of crayons and have at it! Adults, too, with a little bit of encouragement find just as much satisfaction adding their own artistic voice to a line drawing with crayons, colored pencils, markers or paints. It's meditative and relaxing.
Coloring for adults is very popular in Europe; in France they call it Art-Thérapie and it is catching on in the USA too. Some call coloring books for adult "de-stress books". The practice generates wellness, quietness and also stimulates brain areas related to motor skills, the senses and creativity.
Part Journal - Part Pure Joy
The drawings throughout these four hundred pages trace the journey of a creative individual who finds herself facing some of life's biggest challenges. From an old log home in the middle of horse country U.S.A. to the outskirts of one of the most beautiful cities in all of Mexico each page joyfully depicts the progression of a life upheaval that is dealt with gently, a little introspectively, and with a definite sense of fun.
Every image in this book as well as the first are positive, hopeful or otherwise upbeat. Marti says, "I realized why I'm addicted to drawing. When I put pencil to paper ANYTHING can happen. Animals can bake cookies with smiles on them. I can be tiny and ride a dragonfly that looks like a dragon, Gravity can be less persistent.......anything can happen!"
What's Inside:
- TONS of animals!
- DREAM depictions
- A MAJOR MOVE from the states to the high plains of central America
- An UPBEAT Attitude
- An Invitation to BE CREATIVE in your OWN life
- An ever-present sense of OPTIMISM and THANKS
Like her first book of sketches this is a sequence of fairly simple pencil drawings, placed pretty much as they were created one after another. Deceptively simple in nature, but charmingly poignant, thought-provoking and inspirational as well. Who's The Artist?
Multi-faceted, Marti McGinnis blogs, paints, draws, writes and generally has a great time squeezing the gusto out of this planetary existence!
What Are People Saying?
- Megan H.. "Marti always looks on the bright side of life!"
- Anna U. "Refreshingly connects me to nature while putting a smile on my mood: )"
- Jean V. " Whatever form Marti's HappyArt takes -- books, paintings on hubcaps, paintings of her dog framed in dogwood, Christmas ornaments -- the vivid, imaginative and at times zany work puts a smile on my face and joy in my heart."
- Karen H. "I like how trippy mexico is making your art....it was trippy before of course, but i sense a tiny bit more locura...."
- Wendy C. "uplifting, upbeat, insightful, alive and inspirational!"
- Carol A. "Brings a fantastical smile to my face!"
- Connie M. "Tickles the whimsy and refreshes the spirit."
About the Author: Marti McGinnis has recently relocated from a two hundred year old log cabin in the horse country of Kentucky in the United States to a tiny farm on the outskirts of a beautiful colonial city in the high plains of central Mexico, San Miguel de Allende. She paints and sculpts; gardens and literally envisions a thoughtful, kinder, more colorful world with just about every project she tackles. Her HappyArt (www.happyart.com) is an ever-evolving exploration she makes available in variety of ways.
Though largely self-taught, her credentials as a successful creative continue to be peppered with prizes for this and that which, while she loves having her efforts getting appreciated this way, can't quite compete with the sheer fun of connecting up with others through her whimsical art.
She's an avid blogger and social networker so look her up and gain access to new drawings as they come off the pad! Check out her Facebook page (www.facebook.com/HappyArtMarti).
