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Fantastic Machines

A Coloring Book of Amazing Devices Real and Imagined (Coloring Book for Everyone, Books for Mechanics, Engineering Coloring Book)

illustrated by Steve McDonald

Publisher
Chronicle Books
Initial publish date
Aug 2017
Category
Coloring Books, Machinery
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781452155982
    Publish Date
    Aug 2017
    List Price
    $21.95

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Description

Bestselling author Steve McDonald employs his unique photo-based illustration style to celebrate the physical beauty of the vintage and modern machines and devices that shape our world. Here are inspiring, fun-to-color images of jumbo jets, pinball machines, weaving looms, tractors, space stations, motorbikes, steampunk creations, circuit boards, locomotives, and much more. A selection of imaginative mechanical mandala illustrations rounds out this gorgeous, high-quality coloring book.

About the author

Contributor Notes

A lifelong traveler since his family moved to the Middle East in 1979, Steve McDonald has lived in Saudi Arabia, Italy, India, and Indonesia, visited dozens of other countries, and spent the better part of two decades traveling his native Canada from coast to coast via car, bus, helicopter, canoe, ship, and on foot. Everywhere he goes he soaks up the local color, the beauty of his surroundings, and, most of all, the lines-of the landscape, the architecture, the objects and machines he finds along the way.

A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Steve's work has been showcased in many gallery exhibitions, television documentaries, and various publications, and can be found in many private homes and corporate collections worldwide. You can also find it online at www.artbysteve.squarespace.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Satisfy your inner geek (and steampunk enthusiast) with these renderings of machines, steam locomotives, and distilleries. McDonald has even designed mandalas of some of the pieces for those who seek more of a traditional adult-coloring experience."
-Entertainment Weekly

"Satisfy your inner geek (and steampunk enthusiast) with these renderings of machines, steam locomotives, and distilleries. McDonald has even designed mandalas of some of the pieces for those who seek more of a traditional adult-coloring experience."
-Entertainment Weekly