Keeping a Creative Sketchbook

Build Your Artistic Practice for a Joyfully Inspired Life
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An inspiring creativity guide for keeping a sketchbook as an artistic practice, with techniques and sources of inspiration for experimenting, drawing, painting, and seeing the world through a colourful lens, from watercolour artist and author of The Joy of Watercolour Emma Block Keeping a sketchbook is... Read More
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Keeping a Creative Sketchbook

From watercolour icon Emma Block, author of Joy of Watercolor (net 53K copies) and Watercolor Life, comes a creativity guide to keeping a sketchbook as an artistic practice, with techniques and sources of inspiration for experimenting, drawing and painting, and seeing the world through a colourful lens.

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An inspiring creativity guide for keeping a sketchbook as an artistic practice, with techniques and sources of inspiration for experimenting, drawing, painting, and seeing the world through a colourful lens, from watercolour artist and author of The Joy of Watercolour Emma Block

Keeping a sketchbook is a wonderfully rewarding pursuit for artists and hobbyists alike. Your sketchbook is a safe place to explore, experiment, try new things, record your progress, and sometimes mess up. Working in a sketchbook, particularly on location, is an innately mindful practice. You become completely focused on the things you are sketching or painting and completely immersed in the atmosphere of the place.

In Keeping a Creative Sketchbook, Emma Block shares her own sketchbook practice and offers inspiring artist interviews and numerous techniques and practices for beginning or transforming your own. Packed with ideas and prompts to get started, this book helps overcome overwhelm and open a world of joyful creativity.

With your sketchbook by your side, you can slow down, be present, notice the little things, enjoy the process, let go of perfectionism, and embrace the blank page. Discover rich new depths to your creativity and find your artist mindset for inner peace.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780762483570

Publisher: Running Press,U.S.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 April 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Running Press Adult

Illustration: 175 full-colour photographs and illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 186.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 760g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Emma Block is a successful freelance illustrator who uses watercolors in a fresh and modern way and isn't afraid to break the rules. Her watercolor and gouache paintings have gained her 90,000 followers on Instagram (@emmablockillustration) and she has become a reliable source of online watercolor advice. As well as inspiring budding artists all over the world online she teaches regular sellout watercolor classes in the UK. She is also the author of The Joy of Watercolor and Watercolor Life.

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