Expressive Sketchbooks : Developing Creative Skills, Courage, and Confidence (eBook)

Developing Creative Skills, Courage, and Confidence

Helen Wells (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
144 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-1-63159-836-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Expressive Sketchbooks shares a host of creative ideas and prompts, tools and techniques, methods for working around obstacles and barriers, and tons of visual inspiration to help you grow in your sketchbooking practice. An expressive sketchbook is a place for you to explore, express, and enjoy your own innate creativity on your own terms. It is a safe playground for the imagination—a place to mess about, play, and experiment—and to gain confidence in your abilities as you develop your skills. Expressive Sketchbooks offers techniques and creative exercises that incorporate mark making, watercolor, mixed media, collage, words and text, and more. It unpacks some of the obstacles and barriers that you may face along the way and offers wisdom and encouragement to help you decide why and how to start your sketchbook and how to develop and expand your artistic practice. This book is packed with ideas and exercises, including:Exploratory drawing exercisesHow to utilize color in your sketchbookHow to create dynamic and varied sketchbook pagesHow to find inspiration in nature and in your everyday lifeWays to mix media and art suppliesWays to kickstart your creativityHow to find and develop a process that feels personal to youThrough this book, you'll find out what lights you up, what makes you curious and fascinated, and what makes you expansive. Discover how to magnify your creativity and enliven your art skills by using an expressive sketchbook as your daily companion.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 250 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
• Schlagworte: ART • Art Journal • art practice • Body • body mind integration • brave • bullet journal • collaborative painting • collecting color • color craving • contrast is crucial • Create • creating a dynamic color wheel • creating a personal affirmation deck • creating art • Creative • creative diary • creative revolution • Creative Space • Creativity • drawing with your non-dominant hand • embracing the mystery • expanding your visual language • Experiment • experimentation • eyes closed finger painting • gather seeds of inspiration • getting quiet • Imagination • inspiration archiving • Inspire • integrated creativity • Intuitive Painting • intuitive wandering • Journal • layering with contrast • mandala meditation • Mind • mini movement breaks • movement of creativity • Personal Growth • personal practice • Personal Transformation • setting intentions • Sketchbook • Sketcher • Sketchpad • spirit in motion • Supplies • the eight percent exercise • the ninety degree exercise • three part breath • trust and let go • Way • whole body floor painting
• ISBN-10: 1-63159-836-8 / 1631598368
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63159-836-4 / 9781631598364