Expressive Sketchbooks: Developing Creative Skills, Courage, and Confidence
Expressive Sketchbooks shares a host of creative ideas and prompts, tools and techniques, methods for working around obstacles and barriers, and tons of visual inspiration to help you grow in your sketchbooking practice.
An expressive sketchbook is a place for you to explore, express, and enjoy your own innate creativity on your own terms. It is a safe playground for the imagination — a place to mess about, play, and experiment — and to gain confidence in your abilities as you develop your skills.
Expressive Sketchbooks offers techniques and creative exercises that incorporate mark making, watercolor and mixed media, collage, words and text, and more. Take your skills outdoors to capture the world around you, learn how to use a viewfinder, select a view, work with the rule of thirds, explore space and perspective, and much more. It also unpacks some of the obstacles and barriers that you may face along the way and help you decide why and how to start your sketchbook to meet your personal goals.
Ideas and inspiration for subject matter include:
Landscapes and nature
People and places
Emotion and imagination
Poems and books
Political and social issues
Objects and still life
Through this book, you'll find out what lights you up, what makes you curious, fascinated, and what makes you expansive. Discover how to magnify your creativity and enliven your art skills by using an expressive sketchbook as your daily companion.
- Author
- Helen Wells
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Quarry Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781631598357
- Genres
- art
- Release date
- 2020
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