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Top 10 Stress Relieving Coloring Books for Adults

August 30, 2020 By Addicted Colorist Leave a Comment

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Coloring Books Relieve Stress!

There are articles everywhere to support the premise that coloring books for adults help with not only stress relief but people with chronic pain, depression, and mental illness. The act of concentrating on the piece of paper in front of you, deciding the color scheme, whether or not to use markers, colored pencils or gel pens, choosing the picture you want to color all get your mind off of whatever is stressing you out, your pain, your sadness and helps calm your mind.

To figure out which types of books relieve stress for you is something you will find out on your journey through your first several pages or books. Choose a few free coloring book pages to print and try or browse through the Amazon, or the Book Depository websites to see which ones appeal to you right away. DO read through the reviews on each if you are buying directly from the websites. We do that work for you when we suggest any on the ColoringBookAddict.com

For some, sacred mandalas will be the best for them, for others random doodles or Zentangle inspired designs will be the ticket or perhaps something that connects to a time when you were happy as a child or connects you with another passion or hobby. Our list of Coloring Books for Men is a good example of those with books about cars, planes, and insects, guys might find one that brings them joy. Are you a cat or dog lover? We have pre-screened Cat Lovers Coloring Books & Dog Lovers Coloring Books here. Super complicated books might be just the ticket for someone with a bit of an art background and need a bit more of a challenge to turn off their worrying brain and get into their artistic side so Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden, Enchanted Forest or Lost Ocean and Steve McDonalds Fantastic Cities Coloring Book is exactly what you need.
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The top 10 Selling Anti-Stress Coloring Books for Adults on Amazon:

  1. Color Me Calm – Illustrated by Angela Porter and written by Art Therapist Lacy Mucklow. This book is just so beautiful as a book on your shelf with it’s unique spine that lets you open the book all the way flat. The “Color Me” series all have 5 sections with introductions written about each by Lacy Mucklow with calming illustrations and mandalas following. There are 100 illustrations and each page is one-sided so no stress about markers or gel pens leaking through and the facing page even has a calming mandala pattern that I like to use to play with color combinations and test pens. Also in the series are Color Me Happy, Color Me Stress-Free, Color Me Fearless and a new portable Color Me Happy & Color Me Calm.
  2. Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Patterns Volume 2 – There is a wonderful review for this one where the book was bought for her mother who was undergoing brain surgery and she wanted something for her to do after the surgery. She says this book was life-changing for her mother. WOW. 
  3. Creative Haven Entangled Book by Angela Porter – This has 30 original hand-drawn patterns was inspired by Zentangle, a method of creating repetitive patterns that promote relaxation as well as creative expression. Angela’s designs incorporate flowers, stars, and geometric shapes. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists and a fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress. This was the first book I purchased and particularly love the price tag right now.
  4. Creative Coloring Inspirations: Art Activity Pages to Relax and Enjoy! – illustrated by Valentina Harper. Each page is one-sided and perforated but we always recommend putting a piece of blank paper behind if you want to use markers. Ms. Harper’s style is obvious but this book includes inspirational sayings on each page to help you relax.  “My office team literally took a double-take at these adult coloring books. Beautifully illustrated to keep anyone s attention, making the coloring process fun as each page is decorated with one’s unique colors and style. They’re also a great tool for aligning one’s thoughts with empowering truths and unleashing creativity. —Mike Dooley, NY Times Bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities”
  5. Zenspirations Coloring Book Inspirations Designs to Feed Your Spirit: Create, Color, Pattern, Play! illustrated by Joanne Fink This is the book that started it all for me. I was going on a retreat and someone had said something about adult coloring books but the stores at that time didn’t really have much but I did stumble upon this one and I liked that it let me do a little creating on my own if i wanted to and had some instructions on patterning. Joanne is a wonderful illustrator and a very kind person who will reach out to say a kind word if you reach out to her on social media. She has several books and they are all lovely. 

  6. The Mindfulness Coloring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People – illustrated by Emma Farrarons #1 National Bestseller • NPR Books Bestseller • #1 Boston Globe Bestseller • #1 San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller

    A fun and unique pocket-size coloring book designed to channel stress into relaxing, creative accomplishments. Reinforced binding with strong glue allows you to open and lay this book flat to color with intricate detail without breaking the spine.

  7. Balance (Angie’s Extreme Stress Menders Volume 1)

    “Many thanks to Angie Grace for creating these intricate designs for adults to color. It’s a terrific way to tap into one’s creativity with gel pens and a willingness to let the subconscious mind take over. The non-verbal, right side of my brain must be filling these in because I feel surprised by the finished product every time! Hours go by as I completely relax into Angie’s “stress menders.” I recommend using Fiskars 48 Gel Pens with these because they flow smoothly and don’t bleed through the pages. What a great alternative to watching TV or playing with my iPhone! My husband jokes that he’s become a “coloring widower.” Maybe he’ll eventually join the fun.” Marilyn – Amazon

  8. Flower Designs Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book for Stress-Relief, Relaxation, Meditation and Creativity (Volume 1) Relax and explore your creative side with the best-selling Flower Designs Coloring Book for adults. With a focus on beauty and variety, this book will delight and entertain beginners to advanced colorists. Illustrator Jenean Morrison has created 50 original designs, printed on one side of the pages only (so you can use markers if you like). These highly detailed images feature a lovely balance of both stylized and hand-drawn flowers. The page layouts vary nicely with floral-infused mandalas, blooming bouquets, repeat patterns and singular, frame-worthy works of art.
  9. Dover Creative Haven Art Nouveau Animal Designs Coloring Book – Illustrated by Marty Noble who has known about adults coloring for years and year. This artist has more books and illustrations on the market than anyone else as she has been creating for Dover for years.  This book combines mandalas with flowers and animals, a bit of something for everyone and at a great price point.
  10. Whatever book makes you happy and brings a smile to your face! I can’t stress this enough but if you are looking to relieve stress in your life through coloring, find a book whose pictures make you smile, that works better than anyone else telling you their favorite books to color in. Yours will be different than your BFF or your Mom. Most importantly have fun and remember there are NO RULES in adult coloring books! Pink tree’s and purple cats are just fine.

Check out our favorite Mandala and Mindfulness Coloring Books here.

Not sure where to start? Here are our tips for getting started and our 13 tips for new colorists.

Confused about coloring supplies? Not a problem, check out our advice on Colored Pencils, Markers, and Gel Pens.

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Filed Under: Adult Coloring Books, Advanced Coloring Books, Topical Tagged With: Creative Haven, Dover Publishing, Mandalas, Marty Noble, Patterned Drawing

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Best Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation

November 14, 2019 By Addicted Colorist 2 Comments

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Mandala Coloring Books were one of the first to come to the adult coloring book world because of the relaxation and mindfulness qualities that are part of the Mandala mystique. 

My first exposure to Mandalas was in “Color Me Calm” A Zen Coloring book written by Lucy Mucklow, a licensed art therapist and illustrated by Angela Porter. I loved the simple swirling lines that Angela uses in her drawings and my next book was another by Angela called “Entangled” which combined mandalas and Zentangle which I also like to do.

For the unfamiliar, a mandala is a sacred symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, made from a nest of squares and circles, that represents the cosmos. As the Asian Art Museum put it: “mandalas are not just images to view, but worlds to enter — after recreating the image in their mind’s eye, meditators imaginatively enter its realm.” Huffington Post

For me, mandala’s are just pretty designs that are repeated in a circular fashion that let me stop thinking about which colors to use and how to do shading and just sit down and fill up the spaces with whatever color appeals to me at that time. That is what art therapists suggest, choosing colors that appeal to you in that moment is filling a need you have to evoke the emotion that the color brings you. It can be the traditional meaning of yellow for happiness, blue for calm or a more personal connection, pink reminds you of your mother and you miss her today, green reminds you of a beautiful mountain setting where your husband proposed. That’s for you to decide. I’ve bought and received review copies of several mandala coloring books and I’ll list them below for you to explore.

If you’d like to learn a little more about Mandala’s I recommend Kathy Rausch’s Book Activate Divine Creativity  where she talks about the Life-Changing Magic of the Mandala.

Best Relaxing Mandala Coloring Books for Meditation and Mindfulness

The Art of Mandala by Jason Hamilton

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Color Me Calm: 100 Coloring Templates for Meditation and Relaxation

Best Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation and Mindfulness color me calm

The Color Me series of books are completely unique in the way they are bound. Each book has 100 unique designs with sections of the book following a theme that Lucy Mucklow spells out for you in the short introduction to each chapter. The book is bound in such a way that the pages open fully flat and they are 1 sided images so you really don’t need to worry about bleed-through unless you use sharpies or that sort of marker, just slip a piece of blank paper behind it if you do. The facing page is a repeated flower mandala that I use to test color combinations on. I particularly liked the houses in this book.  While these books are not strictly mandala books, the swirling nature of the illustrations along with the mandala’s will give the same mindful escape.  This book also comes in the smaller portable version with 70 illustrations in a 6″x 7″ format.
Color Me Calm – Portable 
Color Me Happy – Portable
Color Me Stress-Free – Portable
Color Me Fearless – Portable
Color Me To Sleep
Color Me Grateful

Other Mindful Coloring Books illustrated by Angela Porter

Entangled (A Creative Haven Book)

Entangle Best Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation and Mindfulness

Entangled Dragonflies

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Tranquil Ocean Mandalas – Just Add Color

Fantastic, quality coloring book from Barrons with 120 large perforated pages of ocean-themed mandalas and illustrations to color. This book also features and accompanying QR code that leads to special relaxing music to play on your device while coloring.

Barron’s has a few books in this same series including:

  • Meditative Mandalas – Just Add Color
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  • Just Add Color Kaleidoscopes

Angie Grace Mandala Coloring Books For Adults

Best-selling coloring book artist Angie Grace invites you to relax and explore the intricate and exquisite world of stress mending circular whimsical art. Stroke by stroke, shade by shade, tension and worries fade away as you transform Angie’s beautiful black and white lines into your own unique, personal and beautiful keepsake art piece.

Balance by Angie Grace

Centered – Volume II

Breath Volume III by Angie Grace

Transcend Volume 4 by Angie Grace

Angie Grace also has mandala coloring books for those that have vision issues or prefer larger spaces to shade in with pencils or pens. These books with larger spaces may be better for seniors or younger children that find Angie’s patterns too complex and intricate.

Centered – for Crayons and Wide Markers

Transcend – For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders 

Balance – For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders – Volume 1 

Breathe – For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders – Volume 3

100 Magnificent Mandalas Coloring Book

100 magnificent mandalas Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness

100+ Unique Mandala Designs and Stress Relieving Patterns for Adult Relaxation, Meditation, and Happiness
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Stress Less Coloring Mandalas

Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness stress less coloring mandalas

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Mandala Coloring Book

According to the reviews, this coloring book allows you to use markers without it bleeding through the paper. Markers seem to be the preferred medium for Mandala Coloring.

Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness

Stress Less Mandalas US  UK   Canada   Book Depository

Mandalas For Beginners

An Adult Coloring Book with Simple and Easy Designs for Meditation, Mi

mandalas for beginners Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness

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Creative Haven Mandala Low-Cost Coloring Books

Creative Haven Books are favorites for price-point, single-sided perforated pages, and decent paper quality.

Snowflake Mandala Coloring Book by Marty Noble

snowflake mandalas Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness

I don’t know anyone who isn’t fascinated by snowflakes, their imperfect perfection and uniqueness just speaks to our soul don’t you think? This book really stands out for me.

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Christmas Mandalas by Marty Noble

christmas mandalas Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness

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Magical Mandalas by Alberta Hutchinson

Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness

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Square Mandalas

Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness

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Paisley Mandalas

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Nature Mandalas

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More Creative Haven Mandalas

  • Kaleidoscope Designs
  • Mandala Tessellations
  • Celestial Mandalas
  • Flower Mandalas on Black Paper
  • Celtic Mandalas
  • Butterfly Mandalas
  • Nature Mandalas
  • Groovy Mandalas
  • Sea Life Mandalas
  • Steampunk Mandalas

Mindfulness Coloring Books

The Mindfulness Coloring Book

Mindfulness Coloring Books for Relaxation and stress relief

Mindfulness Art Therapy Coloring Book Volume II

Mindfulness Coloring Books for Relaxation and stress relief

Colour Me Calm – REALLY Relaxing Colouring Book

Mindfulness Coloring Books for Relaxation and stress relief

Mindful Mandalas

Mindfulness Coloring Books for Relaxation and stress relief

Zen Art Therapy for Adults

Activate Divine Creativity Mandala Doodles Coloring Book

This book by Kerry McQuaide is based on Japanese prints and patterns. This is a smaller format book with one-sided, non-perforated pages on better than average paper. No designs go into the margin.

Interestingly, many of this year’s top books were also in the top 10 for Amazon sales in 2015, you can see that list here. We hope you will find one of these coloring books can help your stress levels and create Zen in your life. If you have a favorite we have missed, please let us know on one of our social media accounts.

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