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Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!

Techniques for Uncovering Your Own Unique Painting Style
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Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold! by Flora S. Bowley invites readers to explore the creative process through a unique approach to painting. The book encourages artists to embrace spontaneity and personal expression, offering guidance on how to let go of perfectionism and trust one's instincts. Through a series of inspiring techniques and exercises, it aims to unlock creativity and highlight the joy of artistic expression.
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You might enjoy this book if you're an aspiring artist looking to embrace creativity without constraints. It offers innovative techniques to unleash your artistic potential through bold, intuitive painting. Ideal for those who wish to explore a freer, more personal approach to art-making.

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Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!

Adopt a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery-one that results in lush and colorful finished works that will beg to be displayed.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Adopt a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery—one that results in lush and colourful finished works that will beg to be displayed.

This inspiring and encouraging book for both novice and experienced painters teaches how to create colourful, exciting, expressive paintings through a variety of techniques, combining basic, practical painting principles with innovative personal self-expression.

Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold! by Flora S. Bowley offers a fun and forgiving approach to painting based on the notion that you don't begin with a preconceived painting in mind; you allow the painting to unfold. Illustrating how to work in layers, Flora gives you the freedom to cover up, re-start, wipe away, and change courses many times along the way.

Unexpected and unique compositions, colour combinations, and subject matter appear as you allow your paintings to emerge in an organic, unplanned way while working from a place of curiosity and letting go of fear.

  • Learn techniques for working with vibrant colour and avoiding mud.
  • Make rich and varied marks with a variety of unexpected tools.
  • Break compositional rules.
  • Embrace nonattachment as a way to keep exploring.
  • Keep momentum by moving your body and staying positive.
  • Work with what's working to let go of struggle.
  • Connect more deeply to the world around you to stay inspired.
  • Embrace layers to create rich complex paintings.
  • Find rhythm by spiralling between chaos and order.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781592537686

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 280.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 450g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Flora S. Bowleys paintings are bold, colorful and rich, while remaining thoughtful, delicate and playful. Her work is created through a unique process of spontaneously layering free flowing color and mark-making with carefully rendered organic forms. These forms or characters, such as wings, sprouts, stars, hives, branches, petals and pods, co-mingle with vibrant color fields to tell stories of magical places born from dreams, imagination and a deep connection to all living things. Floras large work on canvas and smaller works on bamboo are easily recognized and admired by galleries and art lovers across the U.S. She lives and works full-time as a painter in Portland, Oregon, where she is inspired by magical forests, abundant gardens and a vibrant community of fellow artists. Each winter, she leaves the Northwest rain behind to find inspiration in colorful tropical locations. She is excited to blend her passion for art with her love of yoga and people into her brand new workshops, Bloom True: Intuitive Painting with Soul! Visit her online at www.florasbowley.com and www.braveintuitiveyou.com.

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