Hello, my name is Caz and this is my first post... so hi!
I have been reading some of the posts in this community and I thought it might be a good place to come and seek a bit of feedback/advice etc. on a project I am beginning to work on.
I am very much into drawing and making comics, and I'm looking to co-ordinate a group of creators/arists/illustrators to make an adult colouring book for sufferers of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia (I also know from personal experience of an uncle who had a stroke that there are other areas where colouring can be employed as a helpful activity...)
The back story is... I volunteer in the Books for Amnesty bookshop in Brighton, and last year I met a customer who was looking for colouring books for his grandmother. She suffered from Alzheimer's and he said that colouring was something she really enjoyed and was quite helpful for her. Since then I have read online that this is the case for many people. The customer I spoke to in the bookshop also said that the problem was finding colouring books that aren't too childish. I've checked it out and seen that there are some adult colouring books out there to buy, but there don't seem to be too many.
The idea with this project is that the colouring book we make would be more varied as each page would be designed by a different artist, and we are looking to get the whole project funded so that the colouring books would a resource we could distribute for free, rather than people having to buy them.
The project is in the early stages, and right now I am mostly looking to get some feedback from people like yourselves! I would love to get some opinions on whether you think that this is something that you or the person in your life with Alzheimer's would benefit from?
Thanks for reading, hope you can give me some words of wisdom
I have been reading some of the posts in this community and I thought it might be a good place to come and seek a bit of feedback/advice etc. on a project I am beginning to work on.
I am very much into drawing and making comics, and I'm looking to co-ordinate a group of creators/arists/illustrators to make an adult colouring book for sufferers of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia (I also know from personal experience of an uncle who had a stroke that there are other areas where colouring can be employed as a helpful activity...)
The back story is... I volunteer in the Books for Amnesty bookshop in Brighton, and last year I met a customer who was looking for colouring books for his grandmother. She suffered from Alzheimer's and he said that colouring was something she really enjoyed and was quite helpful for her. Since then I have read online that this is the case for many people. The customer I spoke to in the bookshop also said that the problem was finding colouring books that aren't too childish. I've checked it out and seen that there are some adult colouring books out there to buy, but there don't seem to be too many.
The idea with this project is that the colouring book we make would be more varied as each page would be designed by a different artist, and we are looking to get the whole project funded so that the colouring books would a resource we could distribute for free, rather than people having to buy them.
The project is in the early stages, and right now I am mostly looking to get some feedback from people like yourselves! I would love to get some opinions on whether you think that this is something that you or the person in your life with Alzheimer's would benefit from?
Thanks for reading, hope you can give me some words of wisdom