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"This encouraging guide will help you incorporate art making into your everyday life. Brimming with strategies and inspiration, "Art Before breakfast" teaches you how to carve out time for painting and drawing, and shows how makign art for even just 10 minutes a day can lead to a richer, more fulfilling life. Gregory's positive approach, quick and unintimidating exercises, and practical instruction on techniques and materials will give you the tools...
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"Create the very best mixed media with 52 inspiring exercises!Strenthening your understanding and use of color will make your mixed-media art shine as you complete 52 labs that span painting, collage, drawing, assemblage and more.In Color Lab for Mixed Media Artists, color is explored through multiple lenses-nature, history, psychology, expression-as you work through 52 exciting and approachable projects that explore the infinite potential of the...
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Curator and writer Lori Zimmer investigates the rise in popularity of spray paint and the explosion of mural festivals around the world, and she provides an intimate look at the work of some of the world's leading artists, who use spray for myriad reasons and styles. Complete with DIY tricks to fine-tune your spray skills, find out why spray paint has risen to become the hot medium around the globe.--
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Splatter, stamp, scrape, repeat. A quick-start guide to beautifully layered and textured abstracts! While there are many approaches to painting abstract art, Jodi Ohl's philosophy is to simply start. In this book, the successful, self-taught artist helps you dive in with an open mind and fearless heart. A tantalizing variety of approaches and inspirations for applying and manipulating paint, crayons, pencils, ink, paper, photos and more. Quick and...
8) Art lab for kids: 52 creative adventures in drawing, painting, printmaking, paper, and mixed media
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Quarry Books
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c2012
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English
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Presents art lessons for art projects of varying styles including drawing, printmaking, and mixed media.
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Findhorn Press
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"Rather than focus on art techniques that build skills or overcome creative blocks through playful activities or writing, this guide walks the artist through exercises designed to develop the personal qualities critical to being an artist in the world, such as courage, the ability to look and see, and connection to the true creative self. This is a hands-on, experiential action book designed to get the reader creating art and exploring a variety of...
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Get Creative 6
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[2017]
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"The basics of coloring seem simple: choose colors and stay within the lines. But with Rachel Reinert's techniques, anyone can go beyond to create vivid, awe-inspiring works of art. Her accessible tutorials teach readers everything they need to know about color theory, shading, burnishing, cross-hatching, and so much more. Coloring enthusiasts will appreciate her easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions as they apply her methods to creative projects."...
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Timber Press
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2024.
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"The first part of the book will be a brief discussion of materials; the bulk of the book will consist of lessons, beginning with simple insects (such as a ladybug) and progressing to more complicated forms, such as butterflies. Each lesson will start with basic shapes and then add detail and color. There will be a total of 15 lessons. A final section will highlight artwork created by six of Zebith's students, with brief discussions of the technical...
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This fully illustrated, user-friendly drawing manual by best-selling artist Barrington Barber incorporates all the elements of his highly successful teaching style. It demonstrates that, with practice and persistence, all of us can benefit from this marvelously satisfying activity. Covering areas including the human figure, still life, the natural world, and landscapes, this book aims to encourage pupils to find their own style through experimentation....
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Penguin Books
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[2020]
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"More than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it Curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working. The result is You Are an Artist, a journey of creation through which you'll invent imaginary friends, sort books, declare a cause, construct...
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