Expressive Sketchbooks

Name: Expressive Sketchbooks
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781631598357
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Developing Creative Skills, Courage, and Confidence

By Helen Wells

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Summary

Expressive Sketchbooks by Helen Wells offers a wealth of creative ideas, techniques, and exercises to help you explore and develop your sketchbooking practice. It encourages using sketchbooks as a space to experiment freely with mark making, watercolour, mixed media, collage, text, and more. The book provides guidance on overcoming creative blocks, finding inspiration in nature and everyday life, and creating dynamic, personalised pages. Designed as a supportive tool, it helps artists of all levels discover and expand their own creative processes.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Expressive Sketchbooks

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This book is ideal for artists, art students, and creative individuals interested in growing their sketchbooking skills and finding new ways to express their creativity through mixed media and imaginative exploration.

Focuses on techniques and methods for using a sketchbook to improve your artistic practice.

Description

Expressive Sketchbooks shares a host of creative ideas and prompts, tools and techniques, methods for working around obstacles and barriers, and tons of visual inspiration to help you grow in your sketchbooking practice. An expressive sketchbook is a place for you to explore, express, and enjoy your own innate creativity on your own terms. It is a safe playground for the imagination—a place to mess about, play, and experiment—and to gain confidence in your abilities as you develop your skills.

Expressive Sketchbooks offers techniques and creative exercises that incorporate mark making, watercolour, mixed media, collage, words and text, and more. It unpacks some of the obstacles and barriers that you may face along the way and offers wisdom and encouragement to help you decide why and how to start your sketchbook and how to develop and expand your artistic practice. This book is packed with ideas and exercises, including:

Exploratory drawing exercises
How to utilise colour in your sketchbook
How to create dynamic and varied sketchbook pages
How to find inspiration in nature and in your everyday life
Ways to mix media and art supplies
Ways to kickstart your creativity
How to find and develop a process that feels personal to you

Through this book, you'll find out what lights you up, what makes you curious and fascinated, and what makes you expansive. Discover how to magnify your creativity and enliven your art skills by using an expressive sketchbook as your daily companion.

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Midwest Book Review praises this book as "an especially useful, thoroughly art student friendly, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, art school, community libraries."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631598357

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 April 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 250 color illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Helen Wells Non-Fiction

About the Author

Helen Wells is an artist from the South Coast of England. Her art works are intricate and organic and depict illusionary surfaces or landscapes. With multiple layers, fragments, colors, and obsessive decorative details, her ethereal patterned works bring to mind elements of the natural world or magical other-worlds. Her artworks are in private collections all over the world and have featured on numerous products, from book covers to wine bottles. In 2014, she co-won Winsor & Newton's Watercolor Revolution competition which resulted in her painting being displayed in the Saatchi Gallery in London. She has also been featured in magazines and exhibited her work at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants in London. She became an artist later in life after working in an office job for many years. She credits her use of sketchbooks with her finding her artistic style and the courage to develop her art outside of their pages. She is passionate about sketchbooks as a tool for self-discovery, play, and creativity and keen to share everything she has learned along the way. For more information, visit Helen online: helenwellsartist.com instagram.com/helenwellsart pinterest.co.uk/helenwellsartist