The Art is Powerful Medicine Coloring Book
Therapeutic Art; Creating, Healing, Manifesting
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This book is for those who are ready to take coloring and expand it, to interact more with the media, to include reflective writing, critical thinking in additional ways, and acquiring more knowledge about some of the greatest influences in the evolution of modern art. Adolescents to adults, beginners to experienced colorists will find the book accessible and fun, and hopefully exciting. They will learn to color in new ways and rediscover the joy we all knew as children. Art Teachers can use this book as a text, a workbook; as a warm-up or an extension activity. It covers key Elements of Art, and for Art History, there are 11 modern masters. Beyond the basic art making and meditative experience, which includes the Art History section, The Art is Powerful Medicine Coloring Book moves into the realm of the psyche. In the Directives section the user will find thoughtful pages to color that are designed to open a dialogue with themselves and their therapist. In the Mind Over Matter section, meditation plus metaphysics will encourage the user to take steps to achieve their deepest desire. As the coloring takes the user to a meditative state, the conscious mind is freed by focusing on the coloring while the brain simultaneously processes, without discrimination, all it ‘sees’ including the illustrated text of the messages embedded in many of the illustrations. The messages are deeper and thought provoking, providing insight work in a therapeutic setting, and a template for manifesting desired outcomes. These ancillary benefits are absorbed without strain or awareness through the meditative coloring.
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About the Book
The Art is Powerful Medicine Coloring Book combines visualization and rhythmic drawing to achieve the meditative benefits, but it also teaches techniques and formal elements of art and art history. I believe that the scores of people who have embraced coloring may be ready to take their experiences to the next level, so I have exemplars and tutorials to guide them. I am already using my pages in my clinical and educational work and find that they provide an extremely accessible, layered experience. Beyond the tutorials, there is an art therapy section called “Directives” and a metaphysical section called “Mind Over Matter.” Create, heal, and manifest through art and coloring.
About the Author
My name is Michele G. Murelli. I am an artist and the art therapist and art teacher at the Wellspring Foundation in Bethlehem, Connecticut, a psychiatric residential treatment facility. I do group and individual art therapy with our residents and teach art to the students who attend our therapeutic day school. I hold a BA from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut, an MA in art psychotherapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and I hold a CT professional educator certification in art. I am also a certified mandala assessment research instrument (MARI) practitioner, which is an art therapy assessment that uses symbol and color to map the psyche, reveal what is unconscious, and give direction to the therapeutic work. In 2004, I attended Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Project Zero Classroom to study Howard Gardner and David Perkins’ concept of multiple intelligences and curriculum design through the arts. I live in Litchfield, Connecticut, with my husband, Donald, and I garden excessively. We have a son, Jonathan, and a daughter, Meredith. Jon and his wife, Cailin, gave us two gorgeous grandchildren.