Product 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 with a range 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. Celebrate Your Creative Self is a fun, no-fail guide every artist should have.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104608 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 128 pages

About the Author
Mary Todd Beam is one of the best-known workshop instructors in the realm of artistic creativity. She has been giving workshops all over the country for a number of years and is an award-winning artist. She divides her time between Cambridge, Ohio and Cosby, Tennessee.

Customer Reviews

Taking the mystery out of creative textures
A beautiful book. Well written with easy to follow instructions for creating different textures, layering, composition etc. The whole book is colourful with plenty of step by step guidance for creating your own paintings. As a novice painter I have found this book hard to put down. Work your way through the book as the author advises, experimenting with each technique and easy to follow instructions. I can't praise this book enough - it's what I've been searching for.

this book is all you need for a creativity explosion
I recomend this book for everyone who likes to explore and play with different art materials. It will surely take your creativity to a higer level. It will give you new ideas for your art expression. The photoes are beautiful and colourful, and makes you want to thouch the paintings and see if you can feel the structure.

This book gave me more than I have got from all of my other books together. It is also very handy to use when you work

An excellent book for anybody stuck in an artistic rut.
This is an excellent book for any person artistic or other that feels they have got stuck in an artistic rut. It gives lots of excellent new ideas for trying out different media, in ways perhaps you haven't thought of before. The excellent way the book is presented is sure to inspire any reader. It becomes inspiration for many ideas (without dictating what is right and what is wrong) and leaves you itching to get started.