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Ideas & Inspirations for Art Journals & Sketchbooks

Author : Suzanne McNeill

Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 31,3 MB

Release : 2013-12-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1607650932

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Book Description

If you have been thinking of creating an art journal --or if you've already started one--you'll find valuable inspiration here. Packed with creative ideas and encouraging words, this book will get you going with inspiring examples, helpful information, and meaningful techniques. Artist and author Suzanne McNeill reveals everything you need to know to become an accomplished sketch journalist. She shares insightful tips on choosing a subject, sketching from life, layouts, lettering, covers and much more.





Draw Your Day

Author : Samantha Dion Baker

Publisher : Watson-Guptill

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 44,92 MB

Release : 2018-08-28

Category : Art

ISBN : 0399581308

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Book Description

An instructive guide to creating an illustrated journal based on artist and Instagram sensation Samantha Dion Baker's unique creative process, featuring information on materials, creative inspiration and instruction, prompts, and helpful tips and tricks. Samantha Dion Baker is a widely admired and followed artist on Instagram, where she shares her "sketch journal," an illustrated daily record of her life, drawn in a fresh, modern style. In Draw Your Day, Baker guides you through her inspirational practice and provides guidance for starting your own. Part instructional guide and part encouraging manifesto about how making art--even art that's not museum-worthy--can make your life more mindful and meaningful, Draw Your Day is ideal for both seasoned artists looking for fresh inspiration, as well as aspiring artists who need a friendly nudge to get started.



1,000 Artist Journal Pages

Author : Dawn DeVries Sokol

Publisher : Quarry Books

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 18,14 MB

Release : 2008-07-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1616735201

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Book Description

Over 1,000 journal pages presented in one beautiful full-color book Journals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life. This would be the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal pages in one eye-catching, visual format, and would attract a wide swathe of artists who fully embrace or experiment with this medium. Journaling has seeped into popular culture in a big way and this collection provides a wide array of ideas, techniques and themes to inspire and inform mixed media and journaling enthusiasts.



An Illustrated Journey

Author : Danny Gregory

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 21,27 MB

Release : 2013-02-28

Category : Art

ISBN : 144032025X

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Book Description

Collects excerpts from the personal travel journal sketchbooks of forty-three artists, illustrators, and designers.



Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces

Author : Jane Davenport

Publisher :

Page : 139 pages

File Size : 40,91 MB

Release : 2015-01-15

Category : Art

ISBN : 1592539866

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Perfect for aspiring designers, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed-media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration–style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist and international workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy, and encouraging style. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces, Davenport guides you, step by step, through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting, and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed-media portraits. With this elegantly designed guidebook, you will quickly master a variety of techniques in a variety ofmediums, including: Pencil Marker Pen Watercolor Acrylic paint Ink Pastel Ephemera Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces will have you dancing your way through the exercises. In no time at all, you will have a selection of beautifully faced portraits ready to view, display, or even sell to a fashion designer.



Raw Art Journaling

Author : Quinn McDonald

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 44,72 MB

Release : 2011-06-24

Category : Art

ISBN : 1440319014

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Book Description

Meaning in life is made, not found. In a raw-art journal, you don't need to know how to draw; you don't need to know how to write well. You don't need worry about messing up techniques you've never attempted before inside your raw-art journal. You just need to be you because raw art is you and it thrives on creative play, on experimentation and even on making mistakes. Raw Art Journaling will teach you how to embrace your art, confront negative self-talk (a.k.a., your gremlin) and make meaning with your words and with your art. Inside Raw Art Journaling you'll discover how to: • Write meaningful thoughts with a single sentence • Create thought-provoking poems through found poetry • Uncover images hidden in your photos • Make personal meaning with the simplest of lines • Finally feel free to make mistakes • Use clever techniques to keep your secrets secret Quiet your gremlin, grab your permission slip (it's on page 19) and start making meaning in your own raw-art journal today!



A World of Artist Journal Pages

Author : Dawn DeVries Sokol

Publisher : Abrams

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 27,15 MB

Release : 2019-10-15

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1683355423

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Book Description

By nature, art journaling is a private activity. But when Dawn Sokol’s first book, 1000 Artist Journal Pages, broke the fourth wall and shared the work of artists all over North America and parts of Europe, it created a ripple of inspiration throughout the art journaling community. In this much-anticipated follow-up, Sokol features more than 1,000 new, captivating pages, this time—by popular demand—from artists across the globe. Lists of techniques and materials used for each page, plus behind-the-scenes interviews, give readers a glimpse inside the minds of new and established artists, making this a stimulating compilation sure to inspire beginners and seasoned art journalers alike.



Drawn In

Author : Julia Rothman

Publisher : Quarry Books

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 10,33 MB

Release : 2011-06-01

Category : Art

ISBN : 1610580230

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Book Description

This book shares large full-color images and profiles each of the high-profile, amazingly talented artists that discuss their sketchbooks and how they use them. People are fascinated by artist's sketchbooks. They offer a glimpse into private pages where artists brainstorm, doodle, develop and work on ideas, and keep track of their musings. Artists use these journals to document their daily lives, produce their initial ideas for bigger projects, and practice their skills. Using a variety of media from paint to pencil to collage, these pages can become works of art themselves. They often feel fresh and alive because they are first thoughts and often not reworked. These pages capture the artist's personalities along with glimpses of their process of working and inspirations.



Whimsical Girls

Author : Jane Davenport

Publisher : Get Creative 6

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 49,6 MB

Release : 2018-04-17

Category : Art

ISBN : 9781640210141

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Book Description

This is not your typical coloring book! Created by celebrated artist Jane Davenport, and featuring only images of women, Whimsical Girls is bursting with Jane's signature-style figures, faces, and fanciful drawings to color and customize. Three types of high-quality paper--coloring, marker, watercolor, and kraft paper--encourage users to experiment with a variety of mediums and techniques, while bonus stickers and brilliantly hued collage paper provide added fuel for creativity.