By Teresa Brummett
Online Editor
Maybe you remember grade school or preschool, pulling out your favorite coloring book and crayons. You’d color a picture for Mom or Dad, waiting for that special moment when your work of art is hung on the door of the fridge.
Now parents are getting back to their childhoods by bringing out some coloring books. But these aren’t your every-day coloring books. These are coloring books for adults.
More sophisticated than the childhood book, they aim to do more than just occupy adults time. They are allowing for adults to take a breather and relax by doing something that is also a lot of fun.
Each page of these coloring books have a lot of detail, which allows adults to take their time and loosen up. And ideally, this leads to less stress.
When adults put their feet up to take a breather you’re able to have better focus and concentration. Of course, you could go out and buy a kid’s coloring book, but what type of challenge is that you’re adults after all.
Hundreds of thousands of adults across the country are coloring these pages and letting the woes of the day disappear with each swipe of a colored pencil or crayon. That’s the thing you can even use markers if you want to color. There’s no rules, and as you remember; adults make the rules.
Some of these coloring pages can get into very fine detail while others have wide open spaces.
And what would you do if we were to have a coloring contest? Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to do.
The Lamp has decided to have a coloring contest.
With the help of graphic art student Miguel Bohrer, The Lamp is asking students to color the front-page picture and return it to The Lamp office (either in person or via email).
Email it to [email protected] or bring it by Menard Hall 2275. If no one is there, slide it under the door. Submissions must be in hand by Friday, Feb. 19.
The Lamp staff will select winners, whose work will be published in The Lamp.
Winners will receive a coloring book and colored pencils, so that they can continue their coloring aspirations.
Teresa Brummett can be reached at [email protected]