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Fresh Paint : Discover Your Unique Creative Style Through 100 Small Mixed-Media Paintings.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowley, Flora.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mixed media painting--Technique.
- Mixed media painting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2021.
- Summary:
- Inspired by the authors' popular online course, Fresh Paint is a collection of lessons, prompts, and exercises that offer a deep dive into the practice of "finding your style" in the process of making 100 small mixed-media paintings.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Our Philosophy
- Eight Ingredients for Finding Your Style
- Three Areas of Practice
- How to Use This Book
- 2 Setting the Stage to Create
- Preparing Your Workspace
- Gathering Your Materials
- Tips for Cutting Your Paper
- 3 Gathering Inspiration from Your Internal Landscape
- The Wisdom Within Your Skin
- A Simple Meditation
- Sourcing Imagery from Your Meditation
- Exploring Your Ancestral and Cultural History through Mixed Media Ephemera
- Writing Inquiry: Your Truths
- Drawing Improvisation
- Light on Dark Mandala
- Integrate and Create
- Student Gallery
- 4 Gathering Inspiration from Your External Landscape
- Inspiration Gathering
- Drawing Exercises: Nondominant Hand, Blind Contour, and Shadow Drawings
- Three Scavenger Hunts: Drawing, Photo, and Object
- Sensing the World Around You
- Writing Inquiry: Your Inspiring Life
- 5 Expansion with New Materials
- Writing Inquiry: Your New Materials
- Mark Making with Brushes
- Stamping with Veggies
- Transferring Images with Carbon or Graphite Paper
- Carving Rubber Stamps
- Creating Stencils
- Incorporating Beads, Fabric, and Thread
- 6 For the Love of Color
- Creating a Relationship with Color
- Writing Inquiry: Your World of Colors
- Color Pairing
- Mini Abstract Paintings
- Color Mixing and Recipe Naming
- Color Seeking and Finding
- 7 Incorporating Inspiration from Other Artists
- Interpreting Inspiration Honorably
- Getting Specific
- Writing Inquiry: What You Love and Why
- Painting Challenge: Using Art as Inspiration without Copying
- Seeking Inspiration in Other Art Forms
- Some of Our Personal Inspirations
- Student Gallery.
- The End is Just Another Beginning
- Resources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Index
- Copyright
- Dedication.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780760370698
- 0760370699
- OCLC:
- 1293252239
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