You can see many adults with crossword puzzles but how many do you catch with a coloring book.
Maybe it is just due to the fact that not many are created and I don't mean the kinky type.
Our friends at PingMag (Tokyo) give us a detailed overview of what Japan offers in Colouring Books with Adults in Mind (by Ryoko).
Theses titles cover subjects such as "drawing anatomy, colouring your favourite manga, folding coloured origami or even filling in the colours on a Nintendo DS!"
One of them is World Mandalas: 100 New Designs for Coloring and Meditation for the spiritually inclined and keen on patient work...
The Song Colouring Book by Mimiko Akiyama (Japanese only, my illustration below, from PingMag piece) combines an illustration of each song with the lyrics to it on the opposite page so you can combine singing and coloring.
In a completely different sphere is the Coloring Guide to Human Anatomy by Alan Twietmeyer and Thomas McCracken which could double as a teaching tool.
National Geographic offers Free online Print and Go Coloring Books of Animals which could please both kids and parents.
Please share any other titles or sites worth checking!
A picturesque Tokyo Thursdays #43
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