Architecture coloring pages and something else

The drawing to color and paint architecture of book

An idea, color, drawing , a symbol and identity is what the examples of projects that we report in this article based on books by coloring pages where architecture plays a fundamental role… The painting is one of the oldest activities of humanity but rarely we remember all its benefits.

Beyond the simple fun of remembering moments of childhood, for children or not so children, it has been shown that the coloring and the activity that goes with it can be very de-stressing and beneficial. When we color activate multiple parts of the brain , we focus the attention to specific points, lines, curves that we have in the notebook, in addition to promoting the imagination and creativity that many of us both we need in daily work.

The video is part of the artist Matteo Muci who deals with color and architecture in a splendid way in his illustrations . We remember that color is a practical function linked to the architecture that derives in a series of factors that we should know and that we already talked about in the article psychology of color and architecture to understand the its importance in space and buildings.

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Drawings for paint

Leaving aside coloring online or through electronic elements, animal drawings, disney and princesses, Christmas and their etc. creativity in the world of illustrations and drawings for adults encourages a number of new ideas, painting games , initiatives and books coloring pages that are surprising not only the most little ones in the house, but are also reaching out to the adults who seek to rescue sensations and quality entertainment with portraits and images for coloring .

Idea and concept, buildings to paint!… A guide to coloring the emblematic buildings of a city . A different way of knowing the urban framework and its architectural icons from a unknown perspective.

Graphic designer and street artist Jeremy Smith, who also locks the graffiti mural on walls, proposes two guides; Cleveland Architecture and Robert Maschke Architects, book examples for coloring and painting that attract, without detaching from that magic touch that represents a good project that goes further of “a map and a point” to recognize and learn about the architecture of a city like Cleveland in the State of Ohio, in the United States and that In addition, the whole family can participate in "painting cities". (More information from HERE or if you want, to purchase it from cartoonist's page HERE)

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house to paint

Fantastic Cities is another book coloring that captivates, this time definitely for adults… The traditional mandala is turns into city coloring pages with real urban scenes from a bird's eye view with a really detailed perspective in his sketches, architectural mandalas in white and black of the most famous cities in the world.

Work of the Canadian author Steve McDonald , the book portrays and traces on its pages from Jodhpur to Rio de de Janeiro to a splendid San Francisco with complex views (almost 60) of pictures of buildings to color. A I play with a lot of art!…

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Following the trail of the line, the illustrated and cartoonist Zoe de las Cases proposes a trilogy of books for painting and shading that represent the framework of three cities and their objects most popular daily newspapers, Secret New York, Paris and Tokyo.

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An example of a nicely colored drawing one of the reference books is…

how to color a drawing well Convert photo to drawing

One of the qualities that the Internet can offer us is convert a photo into a drawing to paint or shade. Free applications and banks of images in coloring drawings online there are many, as well as editing programs of images that pass a photograph to drawing and then we can print it but, really from our perspective, few tools they are deserving of this ability.

We have searched and searched until we found the one that we think is one of the best tools for conversion and retouching of photographs in free format and without having to register and very easy to use .

We are talking about befunky.com , although part is English, due to its simplicity it deserves a appointment. Capabilities, many and among them the power turn an image into an illustration to paint and color to our liking in just three "clicks" with the possibility to download it without any watermark, totally free and able to print a drawing quickly.

Step by step example to convert photos to drawings

1.- First we must enter HERE and upload the photograph that we want to transform into a drawing from the tab "Upload" as prompted when you log in.

2.- We go to the left panel and where is the "Star" we can distinguish "Black and White", when clicking we choose the tone.

photo retouching to paint 3.- We go to the tab below the star and choose the "Sketcher" option, inside you will choose "Sketcher-2" (Options that have a yellow star are payment) as in the following image:

transform photo to drawing And that's it we have our drawing with the possibility of coloring it in a very simple way . Now we save with “save”, print and get to work!... now we can paint drawings (A piece of advice, is that when you click in "Sketcher-2" let's touch the color tone settings and lines in the same window, you will see that it is very easy.)

Obviously this online application allows a wide range of possibilities that we can use for our Projects. Remembering that we already investigated different banks of images from article image portals with quality to be able to use them in our day to day.

There are also tools to improve photo quality that work quickly to optimize them and improve their aspect.

Why paint or scribble

Although traditionally the act of painting drawings or do those scribbles at leisure is associated with childhood, in reality there are multiple benefits and advantages for those people assiduous to scribbling, sketches, drawings quick sketches, impromptu diagrams or capture a idea .

An example is the study HERE where agrees that helps us to remember, to find creative solutions and to process information in a better and more comfortable.

Consultant and writer Sunni Brown is an advocate very attached to scribbling . From TED he shows us the benefits of scribbling .

TED talk benefits of coloring and scribble

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Even though we no longer buy sketchbooks , or we cannot dedicate the time that we would like, this is not means that we have to abandon the drawing for complete.

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