Crafting Creativity : 52 Brilliant Ideas for Awakening the Artistic Genius Within

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dosani, Sabina.

Series:

52 Brilliant Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative activities and seat work.

Handicraft--Juvenile literature.

Handicraft.

Local Subjects:

Creative activities and seat work.

Handicraft--Juvenile literature.

Handicraft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Infinite Ideas, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Remember when you were a kid, and would happily spend hours creating a collage to present to your mum and dad? Children are often happiest when left alone with creative materials - they let their imagination take over and come up with some wonderful ideas. But as we grow up we often lose touch with our creative side as 'real' life takes over and we find we have no time to do the washing up, let alone sit down and create something beautiful just for its own sake. Creativity doesn't just fade away though, and increasingly people are turning back to their favourite childhood arts and crafts skill

Contents:

Front cover; Copyright; Table of contents; Brilliant features; Introduction; 1. So that's why they call it a craft ...; 2. Go forth and multiply; 3. Start a new arts and crafts movement; 4. The scrapbook of your mind; 5. Playing with your food; 6. A promise, a commitment, a dream; 7. Cartoon character in a carton; 8. Confused by colour? Get in a spin!; 9. Creator as curator; 10. Take yourself out of the picture; 11. Brave new (tabletop) worlds; 12. Taking the rough with the smooth; 13. Different dimensions, strange new worlds; 14. The joiner at his workbench, the potter at her wheel

15. Go nuts for dough16. No man is an island; 17. Putting a brave face on it; 18. When words fail you, what's a picture worth?; 19. Solo exhibition; 20. Concentration - capturing the essence; 21. Works like a charm; 22. Painting with daylight; 23. Spelling it out - the J-O-Y of colourful language; 24. Take a tip from the top; 25. Take a leaf out of nature's book; 26. Just close your eyes and you'll see; 27. Pulling the strings, hand in glove; 28. Same bird, different feathers; 29. Target practice; 30. A room with a view; 31. Devise a deck and deal in design; 32. Mixing and matching

33. Lines are fine: escape into shape34. Sharing it with the group; 35. Patterns to set your pulses racing; 36. If life is a journey, am I on the right train?; 37. Judging a book by its cover; 38. Breaking the sound barrier; 39. 'I had a brilliant idea, but I lost it.'; 40. Telling a triptych tale; 41. Fabric softener; 42. Chocolate teacups and plasticine chairs; 43. One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock; 44. Making an exhibition of yourself; 45. Textile treasure trove; 46. One craftsperson, many crafts; 47. Manageable makeovers; 48. Get pixelated; 49. Help yourself to some history

50. Space, the final frontier51. The most important thing you'll ever make; 52. All dressed up and somewhere to go; The end...; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-74520-0

9786611745202

1-907518-85-1

OCLC:

642661040