The Coloring Book for Big Girls, by Sudie Rakusin, is a delightful adult book filled with 25 detailed pen and ink drawings. Each drawing has a descriptive caption.
The messages in the drawings and captions suggest a love of nature and animals. All creatures are instilled with a deeply spiritual sense of purpose and value. The women, depicted in every size, shape and color, are beautiful, strong and joyful. The absence of any sort of species hierarchy inspires awareness and understanding. Learn the lessons of surrender and magic from the wind or fire, from a poppy or willow. Learn the teachings of the leopard, wolf, swan and dog. Savor the importance of dance and music to the soul.
These drawings can be used as a guided meditation. The experience of coloring in this book takes you away from the chaos of the outer world into a place of centered calm.
The Coloring Book for Big Girls makes a wonderful gift for yourself and for others to celebrate all rites of passage.
Sudie Rakusin is an artist and an ecofeminist. Her love and concern for the Earth and Her creatures influences all her choices and permeates her work. Her art has been widely reproduced in newspapers, magazines and calendars, and can be found in such books as The Once and Future Goddess by Elinor Gadon, Seasons of the Witch by Patricia Monaghan, and the Wickedary by Mary Daly. She has self-published color notecards of her paintings, and two blank journals containing her pen-and-ink drawings.
Sudie Rakusin works in oils, pen-and-ink, pencil and she is now sculpting in papier-mache. She lives in the woods outside Hillsborough, North Caolina, with her dog companions and her ever expanding gardens.
To order send $9.95 plus $2.00 postage and handling for each book.
Make check payable to Winged Willow Press, P.O. Box 92, Carrboro, NC 27510.
