Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities & Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty & Success as an Artist
10 best books like Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities & Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty & Success as an Artist (Alena Hennessy): SoulCollage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative, Journal Revolution: Rise Up & Create! Art Journals, Personal Manifestos and Other Artistic Insurrections, Where Women Create: Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women, Inner Excavation: Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media, Art at the Speed of Life: motivation + inspiration for making mixed-media art every day, This I Know: Notes on Unraveling the Heart, The Crafter's Guide to Taking Great Photos: The Best Techniques for Showcasing Your Handmade Creations, The Art Journal Workshop: Break Through, Explore, and Make it Your Own, Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness [Book and CD]
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 | Patti Digh |
| ISBN | 1599218836 |
This only took me 5 months to read. It is a book to read slowly and savor. Definitely a book to buy and write in the margins. My expectations were high for this book. I wanted to be inspired. The book is nicely designed. The photographs and illustrations are interesting, sometimes funny, and thought-provoking....
| 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...
| Author | Jo Packham |
| ISBN | 1402712294 |
More than twenty superstars from the world of crafting--including Anna Corba, April Cornell, Sandi Genovese, and Andrea Grossman--offer their expert advice on how to design a work space where creativity can blossom. Like the bestselling Business of Bliss, it's practical, inspirational, and beautiful...
| 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 | 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 | 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...
The Crafter's Guide to Taking Great Photos: The Best Techniques for Showcasing Your Handmade Creations
Sell more of your handmade items with better photographs
Amidst the sea of handmade jewelry, apparel, housewares, art, and other crafts that populate blogs, websites, and online marketplaces, how do you make your items stand out? The key is great photography.
Beautiful handmade...
| 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 | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590304608 |
For centuries Tibetan Buddhists have relied on a collection of fifty-nine pith teachings (called lojong in Tibetan) to help them develop wisdom and compassion amid the challenges of daily living. In this book Pema Chödrön introduces these transformative teachings and offers guidance on how to...
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...
Craft-a-Doodle: 75 Creative Exercises from 18 Artists
| Author | Jenny Doh |
| ISBN | 1454704225 |
Using a simple doodle as a starting point, 18 artists take you on an inspirational, crafty journey! Filled with inventive prompts designed to fuel the imagination, these 75 exercises motivate crafters to pick up a pencil, brush, or marker, and explore their artistic voice. From quick “try it”...
Art Journal Freedom: How to Journal Creatively with Color & Composition
| Author | Dina Wakley |
| ISBN | 1599636158 |
Art Journal Color! Art Journal Composition! Art Journal Freedom!Color is all around us and we often find ourselves drawn to particular combinations or arrangements. But how can you effectively and artistically capture those eye-catching compositions in your art journal?
It's true, art...
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...
The Collage Workbook: How to Get Started and Stay Inspired
| Author | Randel Plowman |
| ISBN | 1454701994 |
Both a popular hobby and a recognized art form, collage encompasses a wide range of creative styles and techniques—explored here by the creator of the popular A Collage a Day blog. Offering step-by-step instruction, visual inspiration, and even a library of copyright-free images, this hands-on...
| Author | Joanne Fink |
| ISBN | 1574216996 |
"Patterning is fun, easy and relaxing - and it is a great way to add interest and texture to any design." Joanne Fink presents creative monogram and pattern techniques in Zenspirations, offering intriguing ideas for filling boarders, edges and spaces with creative flourishes. The many decorative...
One Drawing a Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media
Through 46 daily exercises which make up a complete 6-week course, you will keep your artistic skills sharp and your imaginations fertile by doing "One Drawing A Day." Each spread in the book features a beautiful drawing by one of 8 professional illustrators, with a description and comments by the illustrator...
The Book of Doing: Everyday Activities to Unlock Your Creativity and Joy
| Author | Allison Arden |
| ISBN | 0399537341 |
When did you last take the time to do the things you loved as a child: crafts, games, getting your hands dirty? Or feel the same delight and wonder that you took from your favorite childhood activities?Despite the joy we gained from these pursuits, in our adult lives, we've left them behind-they're too...
Creative Doodling & Beyond: Inspiring exercises, prompts, and projects for turning simple doodles into beautiful works of art
| Author | Stephanie Corfee |
| ISBN | 1600582478 |
Who among us doesn't simply love to doodle--or, at the very least, doodle to pass the time during long meetings or classes? Now you can learn the fine art of doodling while exercising your creativity at the same time. Creative Doodling & Beyond features a fun variety of projects, prompts, exercises,...
Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum
Beloved Scandinavian designer Lotta Jansdotter shows how easy it is to print patterns on all sorts of surfaces. Using stencils, rubber stamps, homemade screens, and other easy techniques, the projects and processes range from simple prints easy for beginners to more involved projects for experienced...
Creative Thursday: Everyday Inspiration to Grow Your Creative Practice
| Author | Marisa Anne Cummings |
| ISBN | 1440320993 |
After showing up extremely early for an appointment, I found this in the waiting room, apparently left by another patron. I read it in less than 45 minutes, so that will give you an idea how fast a read it is.
I sort of feel badly for giving this two stars, especially since the author is trying so hard...
Journal Fodder 365: Daily Doses of Inspiration for the Art Addict
| Author | Eric M. Scott |
| ISBN | 1440318409 |
Art Journal Adventures!
Learn how to journal your exceptional story. Life is not always extraordinary in all its details, but it is the sum of those ordinary events that add up to extraordinary lives. The journal is no different.
With Journal Fodder 365, the Journal Fodder Junkies...
