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Inkspirations for Recovery Reviewed By Conny Withay of Bookpleasures.com
- By Conny Withay
- Published April 8, 2016
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Reviewer Conny Withay:Operating her own business in office management since 1991, Conny is an avid reader and volunteers with the elderly playing her designed The Write Word Game. A cum laude graduate with a degree in art living in the Pacific Northwest, she is married with two sons, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren.
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Author: Rokelle Lerner
Publisher: Judy Clement
Wall
ISBN: 978-0-7573-1923-5
“No matter where you are
on your recovery journey, use this book as a tool to help you make
each day a masterpiece,” the back jacket states in Rokelle
Lerner and Judy Clement Wall’s, Inkspirations for
Recovery.
This seventy-two-page letter-sized paperback targets
women who are in any type of recovery in their lives and enjoy or
need to doodle, draw, and fill in drawn pictures as positive therapy.
With quotes from well-known individuals on the left side of the
pages, the right sides include black and white drawings to color.
After an introduction of the benefits of coloring, mandala information, a note from the illustrator, tips to coloring, how-tos with color theory, and some finished examples, there are thirty-two pages of designs to color. The designs include birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers, leaves, balloons, scenes, mandalas, and highlighted words.
The back sides of the
pages have quotes from Alcoholics Anonymous, Buddha, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Gandhi, C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Lewis
Stevenson to an African proverb and unknown authors to name a few.
The book ends with instructions on making a mandala and more
completed examples.
As an artist, I find inner solace and
tranquility whenever I design or create. I like how the hand drawn
illustrations are fanciful yet detailed enough to get lost in
artistic abandon. With each page perforated and the book able to lay
flat, its format rises above other books on the market today.
Crayons, gel pens, colored pencils, and watercolors can be
used.
Those recovering from an illness or issue who feel
restricted or overwhelmed coloring a page should try it to see how
they are in control of the outcome, with no rules to follow except
for staying within the lines. Some may not like that some coloring
tools such as paint and gel pens may bleed through to the back side.
Others may find some drawings are too detailed with small sections to
be filled in individually.
Author of three books, Lerner is a
senior clinical advisor, training counselors, psychologists,
and social workers worldwide in healing from addictions.
Wall is a freelance artist and illustrator who writes, doodles, and
creates unique cards and original artwork.
With the book not
only about recovery, its finished pages could be framed under glass,
but I wish the pages were one-sided to ensure no bleeding. I am not a
fan of some of the quoted writers, but others may be.
If you
like an adult coloring book that focuses on taking one day at a time,
this would be a thoughtful and creative gift for the person
recovering from surgery or an illness. Be sure to add some quality
colored pencils too.
Thanks to Bookpleasures and HCI Books for offering this book to review for my honest opinion.