Art and Soul

by Grout, Pam

• ISBN13: 9780740704826
• ISBN10: 0740704826
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub

Summary

Art and Soul takes readers on a year-long journey into their creative souls, offering a map for finding and expressing the art that dwells there. It encourages readers to recapture their authentic self that many abandoned long ago with their Crayola crayons. Even those who swear they can't paint, write, compose, or build can express creativity in everyday activities that revitalize and nourish their spiritual well-being. Art and Soul is divided into 52 weekly chapters, each containing an inspirational message, a creative assignment, and three or four suggestions for fun projects that encourage us to stretch our creative wings. Here are just few:
-- Go to a thrift store and buy the most outrageous outfit you can.
-- Learn three little-known facts about Martin Luther King Jr.
-- Make sugar cookies shaped like body parts.
-- Come up with the title of your own autobiography.

The ideas range from the practical to the ridiculous, but all are easy and fun to complete. This book will show readers that they don't need fancy art supplies or lessons to be c

Table of Contents

THE ESSAYS

Inspiring stuff to remind you who you are.

WEEKLY PROJECTS

This is where we cut and paste.

MORE FUN STUFF

And cut and paste some more.

You're in Good Company

A tiny reminder that you're no different than Tom Hanks.