Artists Journals and Sketchbooks
by Lynne Perrella
Description: Creative souls want and need a special place for recording and decoding their interior world a place to download all their creative ideas, a place to remember the events of the day, or a place to doodle, to draw, and to dream. This book is an engaging and intimate glimpse into the personal pages of a wide variety of select artists and journal keepers whose works not only provide visual delight and inspiration but evidence the intensity and devotion that such personal journals invite.
The Journey Is the Destination
by Dan Eldon, Kathy Eldon (Editor)
Description:By the time he was 22, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan and the U.S.; founded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a photojournalist for Reuters new agency, covering the famine and civil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of violence while on assignment. This book offers a selection of pages from Dan's 17 extraordinary journals, at once the vision of an artist in his prime and the unrestrained outpourings of a young man just beginning to live. Full-color throughout.
Moonlight Chronicles
by Dan Price
Description: Inspiring journal of Dan Price's life and adventures, as documented by his drawing pen. Ever prolific, he creates new issues of this unique zine on a regular basis.
Brave the Rocks
by Sabrina Ward Harrison
Description: Picking up where Spilling Open left off, Sabrina Ward Harrison tells us about the surprising reaction to her first book. Via her readers' letters and e-mails, she realized that through her journal she had become an identifying voice for women around the world. However, along with recognition came a certain pressure to uphold her new image. Overwhelmed by her attempt to live up to what she thought she had to become, Sabrina decided to head out on her own. She chose as her destination Italy, a place she had always dreamed and written about, a place she felt she could go to "recolor" herself. In her journey she discovered a universal identity with other travelers and a particular kinship with the women she met. But back home she struggled to keep her newfound confidence intact as she navigated her life.
Celebrate Your Creative Self
by Mary Todd Beam
Description: Artists and creatives of all kinds who are looking for new ways to liberate their artistic imagination will love this book. 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 including: * Capturing whites with crayon and wax resist * Glazing and floating colors * Portraying the patterns of nature with sedimentation and precipitation * Loosening up with gesso painting and printing with plastic * Constructing a new piece of art from old work * Experimenting with three-dimensional assemblage * Creating a street map In addition, artists are prompted to challenge their imaginations by building new painting surfaces, creating their own personal symbols and more. Further inspiration can be found in a gallery of work by more than 30 contributing artists. Celebrate Your Creative Self is a fun, no-fail guide every artist should have.
Living Out Load
by Keri Smith
Description: Remember those childhood days spent running in your bare feet, playing make-believe, and most of all, living life with wonderment? That youthful enthusiasm and playfulness are key to discovering who you are and what you love to do. Living Out Loud is the perfect prescription for a creative jump start to your life. Included are games, projects, activities, crafts, postcards, and playful ideas that will send you off on an exciting adventure, where you'll discover inspiration around and within you.
Create Your Own Artists Journal
by Erin O'Toole
Description: In Create Your Own Artist's Journal, Erin O'Toole helps artists capture those fleeting moments of inspiration and beauty that compel them to create. She begins by showing them how to observe and record what they see; composing images that come alive with color and movement.
Sketchbook Kit: With Charcoal, Pencils, & Eraser
by Angela Gair (Editor), Anthony Colbert (Illustrator)
Description: The Sketchbook Kit is just the thing for aspiring artists who wish they could capture that perfect image on paper, but lack the confidence to put pencil to paper and draw. Enclosed in a handy, portable case, this innovative kit contains everything you'll need to get started. The informative instruction book explains techniques in detail and simplifies the art of sketching, tackling problems ranging from the casting of light and shade, to creating correct proportions, to representing objects in three dimensions. At the same time, the illustrations dotting each page provide subject ideas, while the blank sketchbook gives you the inspiration to get started. Grab the Sketchbook Kit, choose a subject, free your imagination, and you'll be on your way to creating masterpieces in no time!
Evidence
by Candy Jernigan, John Bigelow Taylor (Photographer), Stokes Howell (Introduction), Laurie Dolphin (Editor)
Description: For eight years after her untimely death in 1991, the evidence of artist Candy Jernigan's life was stored in a quiet Manhattan basement. Drawers and shelves were crammed with paintings, collages, drawings, journals, and eclectic installation pieces like Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall-composed of, well, ninety-nine small laboratory bottles of beer on a wall. Little known until now outside a circle of New York's artistic avant-garde, Jernigan's one-of-a-kind talent is finally brought to light in Evidence. The works collected here reveal a fierce and funny creative spirit, an artist whose commitment to documenting life as she really found it led her not only to record sample swipes of the food she consumed, but also to stuff a roadkill rat and lovingly arrange it in a diorama. Jernigan's method-using the precision of a scientist to reveal the souls of discarded objects-makes her advocacy of the overlooked at once surprisingly charming and thought-provoking. Including four gatefolds, Evidence is an art book that gives readers a witty, transformative vision of the stuff that composes our lives-and bears witness to the genius of a truly original thinker.
Collage for the Soul
by Holly Harrison, Paula Grasdal
Description: For many people, art is at once a form of self-expression and discovery. Perhaps that’s why collage, which is based on the idea of spontaneously layering images and symbols, is a favorite medium for crafters of all kinds.
This book approaches the topic by theme: 5 chapters present 20 projects that deal with expressing personal creativity, exploring and recording relationships, dreaming and wishing, finding inspiration in nature, and creating visual memoirs.
The instructions tell how to create a personalized project, sharing necessary techniques while suggesting ideas for substituting personal themes and materials. The directions are a starting point to encourage the reader’s own artistic journey, guiding the reader to contemplate, explore, and express thoughts and feelings through the medium of collage.
An inspirational gallery concludes the book, with another 26 projects by leading artists in the field. Whether a person’s passion is stamping, decoupage, painting or paper art, this book shows how various collage techniques can combine to help any crafter or artist improve their craft and enrich their soul.
How to Make a Journal of Your Life
by Dan Price
Description: In HOW TO MAKE A JOURNAL, Dan answers the call, teaching readers how to tap into those pent-up creative juices and collect their life experiences on paper.
Lenore Tawney
by Lenore Tawney, Holland Cotter, George Erml (Photographer)
Description: Lenore Tawney (b.1907) is recognized as one of the leading fiber artists of the twentieth century, who helped transform weaving into a new form of visual art. From the 1960s on, she also created whimsical and ingenious postcard collages. Tawney's dynamic cards were sent through the mail to friends and family members and arrived in excellent condition, testimonial to the postal workers' appreciation of the artist's gifts. The postcards subtly develop a range of themes, including childhood, femininity, and spirituality. Every collage is embedded with personal references; each card displays a weave of communicative patterns: ornamented words, postmarks, stamps, inscriptions, addresses, printed texts, in turn amusing, satirical, beautiful, and metaphorical.
Visual Journaling
by Barbara Ganim, Susan Fox
Description: Beautifully illustrated with black and white and color drawings from the journals of students in their acclaimed workshops, Visual Journaling makes this enjoyable tool for personal exploration accessible for everyone.
Paris Out of Hand
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson (Contributor), Nick Bantock (Contributor)
Description: From the author of The Transitive Vampire comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book guides readers through the Paris that is, that might be, and that never was. Over 100 color and b&w illustrations.
The Decorated Page
by Gwen Diehn (Author)
Description: “Diehn opens up a new dimension—the artist’s vision of visual memories. Consider this a superscript above all other entries.”—Booklist. “Encourages those who hesitate to start in on the pristine pages of a nicely bound blank book.... Lively and interesting illustrations make this a good selection for public library collections.”—Library Journal.
The Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron
Description: With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains
Explore Yourself Through Art
by Vicky Barber
Description: Written by an experienced art therapist, Explore Yourself Through Art is the first pracatical guide to self-directed art therapy. This accessible and informative handbook offers a wide range of exercises and fascinating activities for the mind and body. Discover the benefits of:
* Automatic drawing-how scribbling can loosen your inhibitions
* Clay modeling-and it's effects on suppressed emotions and anxieties
* Masks-a powerful communication tool
* Understanding your dreams-the key to self-knowledge and self-esteem
Including guidelines to interpretation, how to tailor activities to your special needs, and coping with loss, depression, trauma, and addiction through art, this is a vital resource for anyone in search of inventive ways to resolve issues, foster change, and make informed life choices.
Soul Catcher
by Kathy Eldon, Amy Eldon, Michelle Barnes (Illustrator)
Description:A journal and a guide to exploring dreams, aspirations, and emotions, Soul Catcher invites you to ask questions, seek answers, and listen to your own guiding spirit as you make the choices that shape your life. It allows you to envision the future as you create it through your actions in the present. Beautifully illustrated, this journal has a spiral, lay-flat binding that makes it easy to write in whenever and wherever you feel inspired.
Spilling Open
by Sabrina Ward Harrison
Description: Readers of both genders and all generations will find timeless innocence and age-old wisdom in the scrawling, sprawling words of Sabrina Ward Harrison. The format here is a personal journal in which Harrison allows readers to be privy to her colorful pages of free-flowing collages, photographs, and wildly handwritten words. Harrison explores many of the typical questions, confusions, and insights that accompany the journey from adolescence to womanhood.
True Colors
by Kathryn Bold
Description: "Sort of like Mardi Gras, where there are daytime parades, and nighttime reveleries, and pauses for banquets, and full-dress balls, and promendades - but it's ALL Mardi Gras."
Making Journals by Hand
by Jason Thompson
Description: Making Journals By Hand will get you excited about keeping a journal again, with fresh ideas on how to make and keep your own daily journal, travel journal, garden journal, art journal, recipe journal, and more. Use art studio techniques such as rubber stamping, wax resist, leaf transfer, paper cutting, and plaster paper, to enhance and really personalize the pages of your journal.
A Life in Hand
by Hanna Hinchman, Penny Powers, Chuck Hays, Anne Mitchell (Illustrator)
Description: Borrowing the best examples from her own journals, and the works of others, Hinchman leads the reader from simple jottings and scratched likenesses to fully illuminated gems of philosophy, and shows how a lasting record of experience and a road map for self-discovery can be created. 116 illustrations, 16 in color.
Crafting Beautiful Journals & Albums
by Anna Morgan
Description: Crafting Beautiful Journals and Albums shows readers how to beautify their ready-made blank books and plain photograph albums with a range of different materials, from tree bark and dried leaves to copper sheets and handmade papers. Once they've mastered these techniques, they'll move on to creating their own books from scratch using genuine bookbinding techniques.
Everyday Matters
by Danny Gregory
Description: "Two years before I started drawing, my wife was run over by a subway train. Sounds really terrible, I know. But, well, this book is about how art and New York City saved my life." When Danny Gregory's wife was severely injured, his life was changed in an instant. Searching about for meaning for what had happened to his little family, he began to create a richly illustrated journal of his life. Gregory as driven to record and comment on every aspect of his life, from dirty dishes to cathedrals, from hospital wards to life-drawing classes, from brunch with Hell's Angels to book shopping at the Strand. This unique book chronicles his discovery of drawing, his wife's rehabilitation, his son's infancy, and the life of the city he loves. Funny, bittersweet, romantic, and perverse, Everyday Matters is an inspiration, an invitation to look for the beauty and significance in the details of our daily lives.
The Nine Modern Day Muses
by Jill Baldwin Badonsky
Description: Combining the whimsical and spiritual appeal of Sark with the concrete step-by-step approach of The Artist's Way, The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard) presents a fresh approach toward accessing your creativity, and is designed specifically for our frazzled and time-sensitive era. Creativity coach Jill Badonsky takes the nine classical Greek Muses and updates them for our time. Along with a little help from their no-nonsense bodyguard, Arnold, they personify ten principles designed to overcome creative blocks and embrace the wonders of self-expression.
Keeping a Nature Journal
by Clare Walker Leslie, Charles E. Roth
Description: In any season, any weather, and any place, a nature journal offers people the opportunity to slow down, observe, reflect, and renew their connection to the living world, whether in the city, the suburbs, or the country. In Keeping a Nature Journal, readers will learn simple techniques for starting and maintaining a journal that will enhance their appreciation of the natural world.
Paris Sketchbook
by Mary Kelly (Author), Graham Byfield (Author)
Description: Paris is seen through the eyes of artist Fabrice Moireau, with sketches in watercolor and pencil perfectly matched by an introduction by Mary A. Kelly. These residents of the world's most romantic capital city are the perfect guides to its streets, monuments, gardens and delightfully hidden corners.
The Art Doll Chronicles: A Collaborative Journey of Discovery
by Sharilyn Miller (Editor), Kathryn Bold (Editor), Sylvia Bissonette (Photographer), Emily Tam (Photographer), Lawrence Olsen (Photographer), Catherine Moore
Description: This celebration of nine art dolls and the artists who made them offers a colorful look at an unusual project that spanned 19 months and took the dolls on a journey all over the United States. Each doll is a one-of-a-kind work of art, made by women who contributed something to each work-in-progress and offered unique perspectives on womanhood and images of dolls. Professional dollmakers as well as a quilt maker, a metalsmith, a woodcarver, and a sculptor created dolls that evolved into vivid characters as they traveled from artist to artist with handmade journals that served as a combination diary, travel log, and artist's canvas. From Joe the Wandering '60s Beatnik to a made-over Madeline sure to be kicked out of her French boarding school for her outrageous attire, each doll is accompanied by photographs, excerpts from the journals, and essays by the artists about the joys, challenges, and frustrations of working on the project.
Alexandria:In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds
by Nick Bantock
Description:Alexandria will continue to delight the 3 million readers who fell in love with the epistolary romance of Griffin & Sabine. Awash with gorgeous artwork, the mystery of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem now entwines Matthew Sedon, an archaeologist steeped in Egyptian antiquity, and Isabella de Reims, a student in Paris whose vision holds the key to a new reality. Intrigue turns to danger and romance turns to passion as Matthew and Isabella struggle to make sense of a world-and feelings-beyond experience. Only the guidance of Griffin and Sabine, expert navigators of myth and reality, can keep them safe. Author and artist Nick Bantock brings a new sensuality and romance to his vivid dreamscapes and unique visual perspective. Alexandria is a breathtaking new chapter in a saga that has captured hearts, minds, and imaginations the world over.
Souvenirs de Voyage
by Louise Kollenbaum
Description: That scallop-edged napkin from the cafe in Paris; a tiny shell from that deserted beach in the Caribbean; the ticket stub from that overnight train trip through China. The small mementos you collect on vacation can be as varied as your travels, and combined into collages, they make personal and evocative reminders of the experience. In Souvenirs de Voyage, Louise Kollenbaum offers her own travel collages along with tips on collecting, journal writing, and making art form your souvenirs. Glassine envelopes throughout will hold and protect your treasures.
Ways to Nurture Your Creativity
by Lynn Gordon, Karen Johnson (Illustrator)
Description: Feed your creative muse with these 52 little bites of inspiration. These portable cards are perfect for artists of all kinds, especially those who like to color outside of the lines.
The Autobiography Box
by Brian Bouldrey
Description: The memoir is fast gaining on the novel as the most popular literary form for readers and writers today. Gone are the days when people used to talk over the back fence, swapping stories and the day's gossip. Enter the next best thing: the autobiography, back porch conversation in book form. Contemporary and fresh, The Autobiography Box presents innovative writing suggestions in a visually dynamic, totally inviting, hands-on portable kit. Sixty appealing cards filled with quotes, questions, directions, and exercises provide the practice, while an engaging book with journal spaces for fill-in and excerpts from such literary greats as Vladimir Nabokov, Marcel Proust, Muriel Spark, and Tobias Wolff offer the inspiration. Perfect for both beginning and seasoned writers, The Autobiography Box is all any memoirist needs to get started-that and maybe a comfy porch swing and a tall glass of lemonade.
Gifts of the Goddess
by Amy Zerner (Illustrator), Monte Farber
Description: Gifts of The Goddess is the perfect tool for anyone striving to achieve a goal and find the best life possible through the power of affirmation. Whether that goal is finding a soul mate, greater financial success, or enhanced confidence, these powerful cards will point you in the right direction.
The Relax Deck: 50 Meditations
by Chronicle
Description: These days in the quest to calm the body, mind, and soul, finding the time to relax can be a real challenge. In the spirit of the popular Learn to Relax and Learn to Meditate books come these 50 beautifully illustrated cards in soothing colors designed to ease and refresh an exhausted mind. Each card features an inspirational image and mediation excercise drawn from Eastern and Western traditions. With an introduction detailing various ways to use the cards, these pocket-sized guided medtiations make it easier to find peace and fulfillment--even when time is not a luxury. By envisioning rays of dappled sunlight through the petals of a flower, the Lotus Blossom meditation teaches not to forget the spiritual side amidst the frantic pace of modern life, while the Yin and Yang card focuses on the strength found in a glimmer of hope that flickers in darkness. On a hillside, in the backyard, or even at the office, The Relax Deck can teach anyone the art of letting go.
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