Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media
10 best books like Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media (Sarah Ahearn Bellemare): Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative, Art Journals and Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression, Taking Flight: Inspiration and Techniques to Give Your Creative Spirit Wings, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery: Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More, Inner Excavation: Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media, Journal Bliss: Creative Prompts to Unleash Your Inner Eccentric, Art at the Speed of Life: motivation + inspiration for making mixed-media art every day, Journal Spilling: Mixed-Media Techniques for Free Expression, Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic
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...
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 | Sharon Soneff |
ISBN | 1592533647 |
A beautiful, artistic offering that offers projects on challenging, but universal subjects.In follow up to Faith Books & Spiritual Journaling, author Sharon Soneff will continue to show that there is a richer, deeper reward to artistic, creative journals beyond the beauty they supply. In this...
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 | Karen Michel |
ISBN | 1592531776 |
A wide range of techniques borrowed from both traditional and digital art has recently begun to blend into one art form, known as altered art. The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery is the only book currently on the market that provides fascinating tips and creative ideas solely focused on this new form...
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 | Violette |
ISBN | 1600611893 |
Follow Your Bliss
Whether you're looking to express yourself creatively for the first time or have found yourself in a creative rut, you'll soon be following your inspired voice with the help of Journal Bliss.
With the guidance of author, Violette, you'll learn to express your thoughts...
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 | Ann Baldwin |
ISBN | 1592534562 |
It's rare to find a mixed media art book in the library. The one other one I've found doesn't have a style I like--too loud and eclectic. However, Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists fits my interests just right. I love the more mute style, often with nature subjects. I went to a local art exhibition...
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 | Jennie Hinchcliff |
ISBN | 1592535372 |
“What is a good mail day?” A good mail day is a day when, instead of just bills, catalogs, and advertisements, your postal carrier delivers artful, beautiful, personal mail from friends and acquaintances all over the world. Mail art is a collaborative art form with a long and fascinating history...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Surface Treatment Workshop: Explore 45 Mixed-Media Techniques
Author | Darlene Olivia McElroy |
ISBN | 1440308241 |
Breaking the Surface
Pondering how to begin a new piece of art? Surface Treatment Workshop has the answer! The authors of Image Transfer Workshop are back to show you 45 stepped-out mixed-media techniques that will add depth and texture to your artwork. These techniques are the perfect jump-off...
Image Transfer Workshop: Mixed-media Techniques for Successful Transfers
Author | Sandra Duran-Wilson |
ISBN | 1600611605 |
No Fear Transfers
If you have never tried image transfers or have experienced image transfer mishaps, then Image Transfer Workshop is for you. This book presents step-by-step techniques for 35 image transfer processes, extensive tips for fixing mishaps and examples of how to combine transfers...
Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking
Explore your Creative Self with Mixed-media Maps
You don't have to be a world traveler or a professional cartographer to embark on a grand journey of self-discovery through mapmaking. Personal Geographies gives you the tools and techniques you'll need to create artful maps of your self,...
The Sketchbook Challenge: Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Achieving Your Creative Goals
Author | Sue Bleiweiss |
ISBN | 0307796558 |
Have you ever bought a new sketchbook, opened to the first page, and thought, "Now what do I do?" Sue Bleiweiss and the talented minds behind The Sketchbook Challenge are here to help.
Imagine a supportive community of artists sharing the innermost pages of their sketchbooks and offering you...