FLOWERS TO COLOR: Ways to Cultivate, Connect, and Protect ~ Coloring Book
FLOWERS TO COLOR: Ways to Cultivate, Connect, and Protect ~ Coloring Book
Illustrator Stephanie Sipp & writer Banta Whitner invite you to sharpen your pencils, and expand your enthusiasm for nature with this plant and pollinator filled coloring book! Detailed, accurately rendered illustrations of flowers, butterflies and bees allows you to bring garden and wilderness habitats to life in vivid color. As a bonus each plant is accompanied by a page of fun, awareness expanding facts for you to explore.
Each flower includes a full page illustration for coloring, history of the plant, ways to use it, and a second smaller image for coloring.
FEATURED PLANTS: Dandelion, Plantain, Daisy, Coneflower, Sunflower, Day Lily, Bee Balm, Basil, Lavender, Elderberry, Holly.
Guide to using, layering and creating texture with colored pencils is provided.
Learn about color wheels with easy-to-understand tutorial.
A list of Resources for further eco-friendly plant exploration, gardening, foraging and crafting is provided.
Enjoyable for all ages!
Flowers and plants are a beautiful and critical to maintaining the biodiversity that keeps our ecosystem healthy. It is our hope that you will connect with each of the flowers in this book as you add color to the them, learn more about them and discover their impact on pollinators and wildlife. This coloring book will deepen your connection with the plants around you and serve as a guide to becoming a better steward of the environment.
Soft Cover, 34 pages. Printed in the USA on acid free paper. Mixam, 2022
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THE AUTHORS
STEPHANIE SIPP, MS, is a naturalist, illustrator and educator. Author of Exploring Perspective Hand Drawing, Fundamentals for Interior Design (SDS Publications, 2012), Stephanie shares here her love and enthusiasm for native flowers. A former professor of Interior Design, Stephanie now teaches art and drawing to a broad audience in the U.S. and abroad, and brings an appreciation of biodiversity to each of her students. She lives and hikes in Western North Carolina.
BANTA WHITNER, MSW is an organic gardener, animist, and Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner. Author of This Congruent Life: A Spiritual Ecology Practice (Outskirts Press, 2009), Banta has grown vegetables, culinary and medicinal herbs in every possible environment over more than six decades. Retired from her psychotherapy practice, Banta now helps clients navigate both ancestral healing and reconnection with the land beneath their feet. She lives and gardens in Western North Carolina.
