Product Description

This updated version of "The New Creative Artist" breathes life into a popular North Light Classic, helping artists reach greater levels of creativity, inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Perfect for fans of the original - and anyone who wants to be more creative - this book includes: a fresh, eye-catching design that showcases 50 percent new material; new instruction to address the creative challenges of today's artist; more than 60 fun, fabulous activities for achieving greater creativity; and artwork in a wide variety of styles and mediums. It includes practical advice combined with inspiring exercises and insights from other artists that make this the ultimate creativity guide!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81712 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 176 pages

About the Author
Award winning artist Nita Leland is the author of several fine art books, including The Creative Artist - a North Light bestseller since 1990. She's taught workshops for more than three decades and her paintings are in a variety of corporate and private collections. She lives in Dayton, Ohio.

Customer Reviews

Superb book
A superb book clarifying the creative process and the elements of design that add up to make formally good 2D art.

The author discusses many techniques, styles and formal elements and is packed with full colour illustrations and examples of art verging from the twee to the experimental and the beautiful to the quizzical. Starting with observation and then exploratory drawing,moving onto different techniques and processes for generating and developing ideas, the book is encourgaing and well suited for those wishing to gain insight into the creative thinking process which is normally reserved for those with a formal art education.

Colour, scale, texture, values, contrast etc etc is all discussed with elegance and effect for those wishing to remind themselves of their art education or even those new to art or wishing to supplement the more conceptual and less theoretical tuition inside many UK art colleges.

The book is PACKED with information, pherhaps a little too much on each densely illustrated page, but for those wishing to extend their creativity, then this book comes definitely recommended.

The Creative Artist
This is a fabulous book by a highly respected artist - brim full of ideas. If this doesn't trigger the creative inspiration in you, and want to make you reach for your art supplies - then nothing will!!

FANTASTIC
This is a great book!!

I love it, there are so many activities to enjoy, full of creativity, a real pleasure to go through and savour slowly enjoying all the tips and artistic feel the book gives.