Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
10 best books like Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing (Natalie Goldberg): A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning & Life, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory, The Daily Writer: 366 Meditations To Cultivate A Productive And Meaningful Writing Life, Georgia O'Keeffe, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer, Romancing the Ordinary: A Year of Simple Splendor, The Treehorn Trilogy: The Shrinking of Treehorn, Treehorn's Treasure, and Treehorn's Wish, A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anaïs Nin, The Imaginary World of...
| Author | Nancy Peacock |
| ISBN | 0061357871 |
For the twice-published novelist, reading an article about herself in the National Enquirer—under the headline "Here's One for the Books: Cleaning Lady Is an Acclaimed Author"—was more than a shock. It was an inspiration.
In A Broom of One's Own, Nancy Peacock, whose first novel was...
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
| Author | Stephen Nachmanovitch |
| ISBN | 0874776317 |
This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. Free Play is directed toward people in...
Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory
| Author | Stephen Quiller |
| ISBN | 0823006972 |
Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles.
With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special...
| Author | Fred White |
| ISBN | 1582975299 |
Make Writing a Part of Your Daily Routine
It isn't always easy to carve out time to devote meaningful thought and energy to your writing. Hectic schedules, distractions, and creative blocks all too often interrupt the dream - postpone it for another day.
But with 366 provocative entries...
| Author | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| ISBN | 0140046771 |
I recommend reading this book after Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, which I gave five stars. The first is a biography of her whole life. With that as a background you easily recognize the people and the places she speaks of. Here, the artist speaks only of her art. This is a large format...
Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0764959476 |
Edward Gorey and Peter Neumeyer met in the summer of 1968. Gorey had been contracted by Addison-Wesley to illustrate "Donald and the...," a childrens story written by Neumeyer. On their first encounter, Neumeyer managed to dislocate Goreys shoulder when he grabbed his arm to keep him from falling...
| Author | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| ISBN | 0743218779 |
In her first major book since "Something More," #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Sarah Ban Breathnach takes readers to a new level of personal fulfillment and spiritual awareness as they learn to rediscover and savor the sensual experience of daily life. Organized as a saunter through the year,...
| Author | Florence Parry Heide |
| ISBN | 0810959941 |
Long ago I was a young reader growing up in the middle of nowhere (eleven miles from each of the three nearest towns, in fact). I didn't often get to the library, but I had a number of magazines and books thoughtfully delivered by the USPS. One of those magazines, a little digest-sized thing, included The...
| Author | Anaïs Nin |
| ISBN | 0804006946 |
A very thoughtful book indeed! What I liked most about the book is the voice that is so much hers. The thoughts expressed on a broad range of issues are heartfelt and lived. It is not like one theory is talking to another; it is more a zen-like person speaking to us a friend, and sharing what seems worth sharing....
| Author | Keri Smith |
| ISBN | 0399165258 |
What kind of world would you like to inhabit?
To imagine something different, better, or more interesting is to push the existing world into a state of change. Some of the greatest revolutionary acts of our time came to be because someone had the courage to imagine something new.
In...
| Author | Louise DeSalvo |
| ISBN | 0807072435 |
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most...
| Author | Susan Cheever |
| ISBN | 0671028502 |
In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father. While producing some of the most beloved and celebrated American literature...
| Author | Pat B. Allen |
| ISBN | 1570620784 |
Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus...
Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice
In this distinctive guide to the craft of writing, author Laraine Herring shows us how to tune into our bodies and connect with our emotions so that our writing becomes an expression of our full beings, rather than just an intellectual exercise. With warmth and wisdom, Herring offers a path to discovering...
On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
| Author | Ellen J. Langer |
| ISBN | 0345456300 |
“All it takes to become an artist is to start doing art.”
–from On Becoming an Artist
On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that...
| Author | Wendy Beckett |
| ISBN | 0751307173 |
This handsome tome is packed to the gills with paintings, and while readers might disagree with any of Sister Wendy Beckett's choices (that's half the fun, perhaps), there are still hundreds of unforgettable works of art that nearly any reader can appreciate. Most of the pictures, even those that seem...
Learning by Heart: Teachings To Free The Creative Spirit
| Author | Corita Kent |
| ISBN | 0553344455 |
In the tradition of Wild Mind, a guide to unleashing the artist in us all, by an icon in the women's creativity movement. Kent's work appeared in ads for IBM, on a U.S. stamp, on embassy walls, and in national museums worldwide, but it was as a master teacher that her work had the most influence. Now her teachings...
Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr
| Author | Emily Carr |
| ISBN | 1553650832 |
This autobiography by Emily has been called "probably the finest... in a literary sense, ever written in Canada."
Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an...
Coaching the Artist Within: Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians from America's Foremost Creativity Coach
| Author | Eric Maisel |
| ISBN | 1577314646 |
Creativity Coaching Essentials shows people how to become more effective creators by guiding them through 12 self-coaching lessons. Eric Maisel, a leading creativity coach, writes each lesson with a novelist's flair, as a narrative complete with examples, exercises, and questions to help readers...
| Author | Julia Cameron |
| ISBN | 1585422886 |
In this landmark book on the creative process, the bestselling author of The Artist's Way reveals the intricate soul work artists must undertake in order to find inspiration.
In The Sound of Paper, Julia Cameron delves deep into the heart of the personal struggles that all artists face. What...
Making Color Sing: Practical Lessons in Color and Design
| Author | Jeanne Dobie |
| ISBN | 0823029921 |
Through clear, illuminating exercises, this best-selling book stimulates new ways to think about color, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allow artists to express themselves with paint as never before. Readers are shown how the interplay of complementary hues can trigger...
Complete Guide to Watercolor Painting
| Author | Edgar A. Whitney |
| ISBN | 0486417425 |
The author of this superb guide was not only a renowned watercolor painter but also a brilliant teacher with an unmatched talent for conveying to his students the techniques and aesthetic philosophy underlying great paintings. Years after becoming award-winning painters themselves, his students...
Live Writing: Breathing Life into Your Words
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0380797011 |
A practical guide for how to make your writing come alive, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding.
What is “live writing”? It’s the kind of writing that has a current running through it—energy, electricity, juice. This book is a young...
The Human Figure in Motion
| Author | Eadweard Muybridge |
| ISBN | 0486202046 |
This is the largest selection ever made from the famous Muybridge sequence high-speed photographs of human motion. Containing 4,789 photographs, it illustrates some 163 different types of action: elderly man lifting log, woman sweeping, woman climbing ladder, men boxing and wrestling, child...
