the street is our gallery

A Romanian website asked artist friends to contribute with a sketch so readers can do the colouring of feeder.ro, which could become a book in better times.

On the website you can download and colour works from AEUL, AITO KITAZAKI (JP), ALINA ANCA (AURAL EYE), ANDREEA TOMA, ANDREI ARGAETIC, COON ONE, ERPS, GRAFO, HARCEA PACEA, ILUC, IONUȚ POPESCU, IRINA MOCANU (GRAFFETE), iZZY iZVNE, JOHN DOT S, JULI JAH (PT/LT), KAPS CREW, KITRA, LIVIA FĂLCARU, LORETA ISAC, MARIA BĂLAN, MĂDĂLINA ANDRONIC, MSER, MURA, OBIE PLATON, OH BOY (RSH), PANDELE, PAULA RUSU, RAID, RECIS, SADDO, SCORE 21, SEREBE, SMILE (AU), TOYBOX, UBIC, VVANDER VIAȚĂ and WHYX.

Let the pencil or the brush guide you through concentration and you may feel that the anxiety of the last period will be reduced, at least a little. Art is increasingly used in psychological therapy, and in a study entitled “Can Coloring Mandalas Reduce Anxiety?” published in 2005 by the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, you may see that colouring mandala or other forms have been associated with a reduction in anxiety compared to free-hand drawing and colouring.

Check out the full article on FEEDER.RO

After you download the printable .pdf files, you can take a look through the artist portfolios to see what works can beautify your interior. Read more about How to support your favourite artists during physical distancing through social solidarity.

We invite you to combine the colours and enjoy yourself as when we were children, from the illustrations below. We can’t wait to see your results posted on Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag

#colourathome or @feeder.ro

Words by Alexandra Bujeniță, Cristina Popa (random) and Andrei Racovițan (ubic)

Images: AEUL, AITO KITAZAKI (JP), ALINA ANCA (AURAL EYE), ANDREEA TOMA, ANDREI ARGAETIC, COON ONE, ERPS, GRAFO, HARCEA PACEA, ILUC, IONUȚ POPESCU, IRINA MOCANU (GRAFFETE), iZZY iZVNE, JOHN DOT S, JULI JAH (PT/LT), KAPS CREW, KITRA, LIVIA FĂLCARU, LORETA ISAC, MARIA BĂLAN, MĂDĂLINA ANDRONIC, MSER, MURA, OBIE PLATON, OH BOY (RSH), PANDELE, PAULA RUSU, RAID, RECIS, SADDO, SCORE 21, SEREBE, SMILE (AU), TOYBOX, UBIC, VVANDER VIAȚĂ and WHYX.