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Celebrate Your Creative Self: Over 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist Within,9781581801026
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Celebrate Your Creative Self: Over 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist Within


Author(s): Beam, Mary Todd
ISBN10:  1581801025
ISBN13:  9781581801026
Format:  Hardcover
Pub. Date:  10/1/2001
Publisher(s): F & W Pubns Inc

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SummaryTable of Contents
Readers are invited to playfully explore various aspects of visual art, such as light, color, texture and design, through a series of imaginative art projects. Artists will experiment hands-on with dozens of techniques and mediums in new and unconventional ways. Over 200 illustrations.
Foreword 8(1)
Introduction 9(1)
Materials 10(2)
Encountering the White
12(10)
Painting Around the White
Copturing the Big Light
Lifting Color to Bring Back White
Using Resists to Capture White
Creating Your Personal Surface
22(16)
Making a Chart of Surfaces
Creating a Tissue or Rice Paper Surface
Creating a Modeled Gel Surface
Building a Surface With Gesso, Gel and Sand
Creating Your Personal Palette
38(10)
Taking a Color Inventory
Learning Your Paints' Properties
Working With Staining Colors
Streamlining Your Design
48(16)
Strengthening Your Design
High Horizon Vertical
High Horizon Horizontal
Low Horizon Vertical
Low Horizon Horizontal
The ``S'' or ``Z'' Curve
The Grid
Circular
Cruciform
Strata
Triangular
Seeing With Abstract Eyes
Discovering Your Connection to Nature
64(20)
Observing Natural Patterns
Copturing Nature's Maze
Building Rocks
Portraying Precipitation
Portraying Sedimentation
Painting the Forest Floor
Creating a Mountainscape
Creating a Seascape
Discovering Your Connection to the Man-Made
84(12)
Taking a Closer Look at Man-Made Objects
Creating the Look of Metal
Making Foil Patterns
Do Buildings Talk?
Constructing a Street Map
Celebrating the Power of Play
96(12)
Playing With Figure Shapes
Loosen Up With Gesso and Negative Painting
Printing With Plastic
Tricking Your Senses
Creating Your Personal Symbols
108(12)
Keeping a Symbol Diary
Holding Hands With Nature
Exploring Ancient Cultures
Finding Your Own Symbols
Making Symbols With Flow Enhancer
Scratching Out Symbols
Walking the Creative Path
120(12)
Constructing a New Piece of Art From Old Work
Folding an Old Painting Into a New Piece of Art
Painting on Plastic
Where Else Will Your Creativity Lead?
Conclusion: Finding the Visual Poet 132(2)
Gallery 134(6)
Contributors 140(2)
Resources 142(1)
Index 143

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