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Unlock Your Creativity: A Playful Approach to Drawing
Discover the joy of drawing with 16 imaginative and accessible activities designed to spark creativity, boost confidence, and unleash your artistic potential—no experience required!
Forget rigid rules, unreachable skill levels, and intimidating techniques. A Creative Exploration of Drawing invites you to draw freely, experiment boldly, and express yourself without limits. Designed for readers of all ages, from young adults onward, this book offers a hands-on, playful approach to art. You’ll explore techniques such as non-dominant and blind contour drawing, mandalas and patterns, figure drawing, stamping, monoprints, shading, and even doodling over magazine pages.
Forgo reference photos and discover a more organic and joyful way of painting! With its friendly step-by-step format, Painting Imaginary Flowers features a simple, three-stage approach to creating flowers only you can make…
- Drop in color (ink, watercolor or fluid acrylics) to create abstract backgrounds full of beautiful textures and “blooms.”
- Just like spotting shapes in the clouds, search for shapes in your background that suggest blossoms and leaves. Paint around them and watch the flowers emerge!
- Add patterns in pen to create a lovely, faux collage effect.
With plenty of mixed-media techniques throughout for building up luscious texture and color, even beginners can achieve happy results. Ten demonstrations show the versatility of this approach–from large-format pieces, to work in a series, and even Zen doodle landscapes.
Never again will you be stuck for ideas or dependent on a photo. Every flower you paint will be unique, personal, and fresh from your imagination!
Finally! Artful watercolor painting for beginners!
Yes, YOU can do it. YOU can create beautiful watercolor paintings–everything from florals to portraits to landscapes–even if you’ve never before worked with this exuberant, exciting medium.
Fearless Watercolor for Beginners offers a unique, one-on-one workshop–with step-by-step demonstrations and exercises that teaches you all the basics you need to get started (and then some)–and then promptly encourages you to break them!
Inside you’ll find:
- 22 step-by-step demonstrations for basic techniques, techniques for adding texture, and mixed-media techniques for truly one-of-a-kind work
- Dozens of easy-to-understand concepts, practical, meaningful tips and fun ideas you’ll be eager to try
Be bold! Be daring! Be FEARLESS!