Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative
10 best books like Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative (Patti Digh): The Woman's Comfort Book, The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art, SoulCollage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups, Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design, Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities & Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty & Success as an Artist, Journal Revolution: Rise Up & Create! Art Journals, Personal Manifestos and Other Artistic Insurrections, Taking Flight: Inspiration and Techniques to Give Your Creative Spirit Wings, Inner Excavation: Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media, The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder
| Author | Jennifer Louden |
| ISBN | 0062505319 |
With over 200 prescriptions for giving yourself a break, this book helps the reader to sort out guilty feelings about self–nurture and to define her comfort/self–nurture needs.
In this book the author delivers a host of creative and comforting programmes like the self–care schedule,...
| Author | Gail McMeekin |
| ISBN | 1573241415 |
Sparked by her own long search for inspiration in her life and work, Gail McMeekin has worked closely with some the contemporary world's most creative women in her guide to maximizing creative energy. Over 50 of these dynamic women share their secrets to success. Through a series of interviews and conversations,...
| Author | Ricë Freeman-Zachery |
| ISBN | 1600613225 |
How do you make room for making art?
Do you long to uncover secrets to sneaking more creative time into your day, or to making your studio the perfect place to unleash your artistic potential? Have you often wondered how successful creative types seem to manage both with ease?
In her...
SoulCollage™ is a process through which you contact your intuition and create an incredible deck of cards which have deep personal meaning and which will help you with life's questions. Following the simple SoulCollage directions, your hands move fragments of cut-out magazine pictures around,...
| Author | Carrie McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0316067164 |
Style Statement is a take on the power of style and authenticity. Deemed "style psychotherapists," Carrie and Danielle are the creators of the Style Statement: a two-word compass that helps you make more confident choices in life -- from your wardrobe to your relationships, your living room to your...
| Author | Alena Hennessy |
| ISBN | 1592537863 |
Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You’ll find ideas for keeping...
| Author | Linda Woods |
| ISBN | 1581809956 |
Rise up and CREATE! No borders, no boundaries: truth, journaled wherever you find it. Grab your mess kit - we're starting a Journal Revolution.
Overthrow your inner critic's tyranny of fear and rules, and discover fresh techniques and inspiration to rant, whisper, beg, stomp or sing your...
Stretch Your Wings, Learn to Soar, Take Flight
In "Taking Flight," you'll find overflowing inspiration—complete with a kindred spirit in author and mixed-media artist Kelly Rae Roberts. Join her on a fearless journey into the heart of creativity as you test your wings and learn to find...
| Author | Liz Lamoreux |
| ISBN | 1440303096 |
Express the art within you
There are clues all around you--sounds, textures, memories, passions--just waiting for you to shine a light on them, and unearth the most intimate form of expression--the self-portrait. Inside Inner Excavation, author Liz Lamoreux will be your guide, along with...
| Author | Jill Badonsky |
| ISBN | 0762431253 |
A playfully practical guide that’s a refreshing twist on the revered Farmer’s Almanac, The Awe-Manac provides daily forecasts and directives to help readers make life more creative, amusing, gratifying, and extraordinary—every day of the year! Through 365 days, readers are encouraged...
| Author | Pam Carriker |
| ISBN | 1596682612 |
Need high-energy inspiration when your life gets crazy and your art keeps getting pushed to the back burner? Offering terrific mixed-media art projects, as well as tips for getting organized and inspired, Art at the Speed of Life is a treasure chest of ideas for the artist whose creative goals sometimes...
| Author | Diana Trout |
| ISBN | 1600613195 |
Go ahead--make a mess!There are no lines to stay inside of here. You're free to quiet your inner critic and spill color (as well as your thoughts) all over the page. Author Diana Trout offers a double-dose of encouragement for you to try out new techniques, to ask yourself new questions and to see how safe...
| Author | Sarah Ahearn Bellemare |
| ISBN | 1592536867 |
More inspirational guide than step-by-step workbook, Painted Pages is about helping you to find your own unique way, in the everyday, to be creative and make art. With specific how-to techniques and creative prompts on using an artist's sketchbook in a new way, these pages provide a gentle push to help...
| Author | Claudine Hellmuth |
| ISBN | 1581806787 |
Embark on an all-new Collage Art Adventure!
Bring laughter and a sense of play to your collage creations with Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected. Using incredibly easy-to-create textures and a kaleidoscope of colorful imagery, you'll learn to create one-of-a-kind collages...
| Author | Susannah Conway |
| ISBN | 0762770082 |
Part memoir, part creative journal, This I Know chronicles Susannah’s journey through bereavement and healing, taking the reader on a ride into the possibilities of unravelling — and healing — her own life too. It’s a guidebook of sorts, a collection of thoughts and theories, with creative...
| Author | Traci Bunkers |
| ISBN | 1592536840 |
"Step by step, the reader is brought to art journaling in a method that makes even a novice want to pick up a paint brush and begin making art that expresses your soul." - Diana Gonzalez, Brooklyn Crafting Examiner
"Back when I was the managing editor of Art Journaling, I remember when Traci Bunkers'...
| Author | Eric M. Scott |
| ISBN | 1600614566 |
YOUR MISSION:
Discover the tactical secret of self expression–the art journalHarness the artistic explosion ticking in your head, just looking for a creative way to detonate. Prepare to be bombarded with ideas, techniques and suggestions as you allow your creativity to take hold. "The Journal...
SARK's Journal and Play! Book
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0890877025 |
I love this journal.
The size is great, 8 1/2 x 11, big, easy to write in (although not so great for portability).
It is full of SARK's drawings and writing suggestions, really helps motivate me to write when I can't think of anything to write about.
I mostly use it as my "therapy"...
Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters' Guide to Shooting from the Heart
| Author | Tracey Clark |
| ISBN | 0240813472 |
When a photograph captivates you and stirs your soul, you know it instinctively. You not only see the image, you feel it. But how do you capture shots like that with your own camera? How do you make your photographs worth the proverbial thousand words? From portraits to landscapes, still-lifes to documentary...
Unfurling, A Mixed-Media Workshop with Misty Mawn: Inspiration and Techniques for Self-Expression through Art
| Author | Misty Mawn |
| ISBN | 1592536883 |
Unfurling is a creative workshop in book form, offering a unique mix of motivation and technique exercises to get your creative juices flowing. Written by Misty Mawn, these pages will inspire anyone who wishes to open up more to the process of making art. The book begins with art exercises in drawing...
Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects
| Author | Bee Shay |
| ISBN | 1592535658 |
Collage Lab offers artists and crafters a fun and experimental approach to making art. The book is organized into 52 different labs which may, but don't need to be, explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired...
Making an Impression: Designing Creating Artful Stamps
| Author | Geninne Zlatkis |
| ISBN | 1454701250 |
Popular illustrator and stamper Geninne Zlatkis has a passion for nature and color that distinguishes her work. These 20 beautiful projects--including cards, an embellished journal and tote, and decorative wall pieces--provide the keys to Geninne's creative process and image-making process....
Creative Illustration Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Seeing, Sketching, Storytelling, and Using Found Materials
| Author | Katherine Dunn |
| ISBN | 1592536360 |
Whether you have experience drawing or are completely new to it, this exciting workshop-style book provides practical, inspiring, and creative exercises which will expand your drawing skills and provide a framework for integrating illustration with other mixed-media techniques, With a focus...
True Vision: Authentic Art Journaling
| Author | L.K. Ludwig |
| ISBN | 1592534260 |
Featuring the artwork of over 25 leading artists with name recognitionAs art journaling grows in popularity (even attracting a new breed of scrapbookers who call themselves "life artists"), there is a movement afoot toward creating more authentic, personal, what some people call "raw" journals....
