Dreamscapes: Creating Magical Angel, Faery & Mermaid Worlds in Watercolor
10 best books like Dreamscapes: Creating Magical Angel, Faery & Mermaid Worlds in Watercolor (Stephanie Pui-Mun Law): The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are, Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book, Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams, 1000 Journals Project, Where Women Create: Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women, Taking Flight: Inspiration and Techniques to Give Your Creative Spirit Wings, Water Paper Paint: Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media, Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures, A Life In Hand, Unfurling, A Mixed-Media Workshop with Misty Mawn: Inspiration and Techniques for Self-Expression through Art
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
| Author | Danny Gregory |
| ISBN | 1401307922 |
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This book is full of pointers on drawing, on creating something on paper with ink. There are a lot of ideas on what to draw ,when (now) to draw but not how to draw. Every page feels like a call to put pen to paper.
The text is typeset in a handwriting...
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0684859300 |
Recently I went home to visit my parents, and I found – in the basement – this little book about napping. At my parents’ house, every object and book that cannot be classified is taken down to an old “wreck-room,” full of miscellaneous bits and pieces.
“Change Your Life Without Getting...
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
| Author | Diane Waldman |
| ISBN | 0810912279 |
"Out of the fantasies that enriched a private, often reclusive life, Joseph Cornell created a "poetic theater of memory." His box constructions and collages feature such characters as a Medici princess, birds, ballerinas, and movie stars. Using the seemingly commonplace materials that he collected...
| Author | Someguy |
| ISBN | 0811858561 |
Voyeuristic. Inspirational. Entertaining. One thousand blank journals are currently circulating throughout the world, beckoning contributors who find the journals by chance on trains, in cafés, and anonymously left on doorsteps. Artist Someguy shares more than 250 of the best entries: a collage...
| 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...
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 | Heather Smith Jones |
| ISBN | 1592536557 |
This book is not only for "painters" but for all types of creative individuals who want to experience and play with watercolor, whether their background is mixed-media, textile art, journaling, or paper craft. Unlike the typical watercolor textbooks, this unique, beautiful volume is a field book...
| Author | Cathy Johnson |
| ISBN | 1440308683 |
Discover the Joy of Art Journaling
An artist's journal is a powerful creative tool, offering you a safe place to experiment, explore, consider and improve. Artist's Journal Workshop provides all the guidance, structure and inspiration you need to create a meaningful art-journaling practice....
I remember the day I found this book. It was in a slipcased edition, with the book and a blank book, both paperback, at a Waldenbooks in Little Rock that no longer exists. It was a sunny afternoon and the light was coming in the front of the store. I bought it with a birthday gift certificate from my father....
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...
The True and the Questions: A Journal
| Author | Sabrina Ward Harrison |
| ISBN | 0811848620 |
In her books Spilling Open, Brave on the Rocks, and Messy Thrilling Life, Sabrina Ward Harrison shared her thoughts, fears, hopes, and joys through vibrantly illustrated journal entries. Her new work, The True and the Questions, invites readers to allow themselves to "spill open" and create their...
The Decorated Page: Journals, Scrapbooks Albums Made Simply Beautiful
| Author | Gwen Diehn |
| ISBN | 1579905129 |
I have been keeping a journal since I was a teenager. In addition to writing in my journal, I enjoy reading books about journaling techniques as well as published diaries and journals. I was delighted to find The Decorated Page: Journals, Scrapbooks & Albums Made Simply Beautiful by Gwen Diehn on...
The journey is the destination : the journals of Dan Eldon
| Author | Dan Eldon |
| ISBN | 1861540868 |
The real story:
My son, Dan Eldon, a Reuters photographer, was stoned to death in Somalia in July 1993 by a mob reacting to the United Nations bombing raid on the suspected headquarters of General Mohammed Farah Aidid. Only twenty-two when he died, Dan had already achieved prominence for his work...
Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun
| Author | Carla Sonheim |
| ISBN | 1592536131 |
Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla...
Figure: How to Draw and Paint the Figure with Impact
| Author | Sharon Pinsker |
| ISBN | 0715325973 |
Learn to draw and paint figures that have effortless style for beauty with impact
Discover a simple approach to rendering the figure with minimal marks for maximum effect
Convey the unique essence of your subjects through detail, character, and body language
Achieve flowing movement...
Sketching People: Life Drawing Basics
| Author | Jeff Mellem |
| ISBN | 1600611508 |
Life Lessons: Learn How to Capture a World Constantly in MotionFluid, fast and expressive life drawing starts here. Step by step, you'll learn to render fleeting gestures from memory, capture expressions simply and more quickly, give your drawing a life of its own with body language, and more. Along...
The Black Widow's Guide to Killer Pool: Become the Player to Beat
| Author | Jeanette Lee |
| ISBN | 0609805061 |
Pool-playing legend Jeanette Lee--"the Black Widow," who wears only black during tournaments and devours her opponents--explains every aspect of playing to win, from holding the cue to performing combination, kiss, and trick shots. Lee shows wannabe winners of every level how to compete intelligently,...
Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
| Author | Jeffrey M. Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0060987111 |
I talked to my therapist recently about a troubling thought that had been in my head since junior high school. It was an irrational worry, but one that was extremely disturbing to me, and one that I'd never before been able to talk about or dismiss. "Oh, that's an obsessive thought," my shrink told me. "It's...
