The New Creative Artist

by Leland, Nita

• ISBN13: 9781581807561
• ISBN10: 1581807562
• Edition: SPI REV EX
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-17
• Publisher: North Light Books

Summary

Choose to be creative! Artist and teacher Nita Leland believes that creativity lives in everyone, from the novice artist to the professional. Develop and strengthen your natural curiosity, flexibility, independence and playfulness, and become the artist you want to be. Inside this updated and expanded edition of Nita's bestselling The Creative Artist are over 110 fun activities to exercise your creative muscle: Explore what drives you by creating an autobiographical college, Jot down ideas for projects and techniques and place them in a jar for random retrieval when you need a jumpstart, Target "dull" subjects and find ways to make them interesting, Push your creative boundaries by trying new methods and media: paper crafts, Japanese brush painting, creative quilting, inventive photography, grown-up finger painting, monotype and more.

Table of Contents

Activity Guide	p. 8
Introduction: Choose to Be Creative	p. 10
Creativity: A Joyride	p. 16
Art and Craft: Highways and Byways	p. 38
Drawing: Don't Leave Home Without It	p. 52
Design: Mapping Your Route	p. 78
Realism: Taking the Scenic Route	p. 102
Abstraction: Off the Beaten Path	p. 120
Experimentation: Exploring New Territory	p. 138
Adventure: Developing Your Creative Spirit	p. 156
Selected Bibliography	p. 170
Contributing Artists	p. 172
Index	p. 174
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