New Releases by Shala Kerrigan

This booklet was written as part of a series of supplemental material for a book that is currently being written about reconnecting to Indigenous culture as an urban Indigenous woman. The author wanted to write a book for people learning to make salves that had everything she wished she knew when she was starting. It's not a recipe book, it's a guide with explanations and instructions to get people started on their own salve making journeys.

These unique arrangements of everyday items form mandala designs that capture the imagination. Thirty-one fun-to-color illustrations feature items related to sewing and cooking as well as traveling, shopping, painting, and other pursuits.

Combining the allure of mandalas with the appeal of paisley prints, these patterns promise hours of imaginative coloring. Outlines in a rainbow of hues add a kaleidoscopic effect to the finished images.

Don't Eat the Paste is a popular place for mandalas because of the wide range of styles drawn by artist Shala Kerrigan. Pictorial, geometric, knotwork, inspired by history, super intricate and nice big spaces- there is something for nearly every skill level and interest. For the first time ever, 50 mandalas from the popular blog are available in a book. Each mandala is printed on it's own page, with the facing page having a quote, a note from the author or a joke to go with the mandala. That way there are no blank pages in the book, but it's also not just placeholder text. It's something added to think about and enjoy. So it's a collection of quotes as well as being a collection of mandalas to color. The mandalas include bats, hearts, dolphins, geometric designs, bunnies, flowers and more.

Mandalas can be among the most challenging designs to color. This helpful book offers numbers that correspond to a color key: use them for guidance or strike out on your own! Pages are perforated and printed on one side only. 46 illustrations.

More than 30 full-page illustrations feature mandalas that evoke the freewheeling spirit of the 1960s as well as the current craze for peace signs and other groovy symbols.