My Books So Far

One of the things I love is generating materials to help people to explore and enhance their creativity. I have quite a few books out and I thought I would share them here,

Creative Ministry Books

Running A.M.O.K. Kindle Version

Running A.M.O.K. Print Version

Minstering to the Creative Soul Kindle Version

Ministering to the Creative Soul Print Version

Creativity Builders

One Liners Kindle Version

One Liners Print Version

Creativity Kickers

1001: A Sketch Odyssey

Ministry Resources

Pictures of Jesus Print Book	Story: Parables of Jesus Creative Journal	Many Parts One Body: Large	Many Parts, One Body: Medium
Many Parts, One Body: Small

Adult Coloring

Kaleidoscopic Creatures 1	Kaleidoscopic Creatures 2	Kaleidoscopic Creatures 3
Kaleidoscopics 1	Kaleidoscopics 2	Kaleidoscopics 3	Kaleidoscopics 4

Drawing Books

Making Faces: Holidaze

Making Faces: Creatures and Monsters I

Making Faces: Creatures and Monsters II

My Newest Adult Coloring Book, Kaleidoscopic Creatures Book 3 Is Now Available

Okay if you’ve been following this for any length of time, you know I love to draw creatures and I really feel led to help people to find and use their creativity. As part of this I have begun creating a line of adult coloring books and I just released a new one today. I take my creatures and put them into Kaleidoscopic patterns. It’s a lot of fun to do and yields results even I did not expect. What jamming is for musicians is what doing these books is for me, unbridled creativity and self expression. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed making it. Click the cover to get yours.

Here’s a Sample page for you to try.

Here are my other titles in case you want to see more.
Kaleidoscopics Book 1
Kaleidoscopics Book 2
Kaleidoscopics Book 3
Kaleidoscopic Creatures Book 1
Kaleidoscopic Creatures Book 2
Kaleidoscopic Creatures Book 3
I’d love to hear what you think of them.

How To Art: Repeating Patterns

There’s a trend that is sweeping the nation, maybe even the world. It’s adult coloring and I for one am a huge fan. So many people feel they can’t make art, but something like coloring feels pretty non threatening, relaxing and fun. Who knows maybe adult coloring can reignite a creative talent long buried or at the very least provide hours of relaxing fun?

I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a coloring book for adults. So many of the books I see, look a little bit on the feminine side so I thought I would try one with some more masculine images. Two of the things that are very prevalent in adult coloring books are repeated patterns and mandalas. I wanted to share how one would create designs for these formats.

For today, let’s start with repeating patterns.

This one is easy. I wanted to do one tentatively call Reimagine Dragons. I started off by drawing a dragon. Note that none of the art touches the sides of the paper.


Next I cut the image exactly in half (vertically) and switched the left and right halves of the drawing, leaving an image that looks like this.


Finally I cut that image in half horizontally and switched the top and bottom half leaving an image that looks like this.


The next step can be a lot of fun. You fill in as much of the white space as you want. I figured, “What’s a dragon without some flames?”


Copy the finished piece as many times as you want, put them all together and they look like this!

(Click the image to download your coloring page.)
This is really easy to do. It’s even easier if you have image editing software like Photoshop, but this is also doable with photocopies and your original art. Have fun with it and let me know what you think of it.

Tomorrow I will show you an easy way to make Mandalas.