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Aug 22, 2013 | ISBN 9781620334799 Buy
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Aug 22, 2013 | ISBN 9781620334799
In this inspirational volume, artist and author Pam Carriker offers uninhibited mixed-media play while encouraging you to look at your work with a newly evaluative eye and determine what works for you. Create your own art journal while using a variety of mixed-media techniques and explore seven important elements of art: • Color • Texture • Shape • Space • Depth • Mark making • And shading An art-making workshop in a book, Creating Art at the Speed of Life offers a 30-day syllabus, introducing and exploring each element in a series of exercises, complete with worksheets to help you evaluate your work and make it more successful and satisfying.In an “open studio” at the end of each chapter, well-known contributing artists share inspirational work focused on that chapter’s element. With Pam’s lessons and advice on how to assess your artwork, you will experiment and grow into a more confident artist.
Pam Carriker is a mixed-media artist, instructor, columnist, and the author of Art at the Speed of Life and Creating Art at the Speed of Life (Interweave). Her articles and artwork can be found in over forty publications, and she… More about Pam Carriker
“Even from the outset, this book captures the reader’s attention. Rather than ruminating on how to be inspired, it launches straight into a short tutorial on how to make a simple but effective journal of your own using watercolour paper and adhesive canvas paper. It is to the point and perfect for warding off procrastination about how to get started. I found this part of the book made such sense that I made one immediately. It took me a couple of minutes tearing, folding, sticking and I was there. You start with something so simple you can’t talk yourself out of it and then you have the perfect canvas to start looking at each lesson.” —Workshop on the Web
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