Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing FunCarla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists offers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the readers gain new skills and confidence, allowing them to take their work to a new level. |
Contents
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UNIT 1 Inspired by Animals | 14 |
UNIT 2 Inspired by People | 34 |
UNIT 3 Inspired by Famous Artists | 52 |
UNIT 4 Inspired by Children and Childhood | 68 |
UNIT 5 Inspired by Imagination | 86 |
UNIT 6 Inspired by Nature | 106 |
UNIT 7 Inspired by Books and Culture | 124 |
Contributors | 142 |
Resources | 143 |
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Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun Carla Sonheim No preview available - 2010 |
Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun Carla Sonheim No preview available - 2010 |
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90 degrees clockwise acrylic paint animals artwork author’s birds Blake Greene blind contours charcoal pencil child choice clay creation collage colored pencils complete contour drawings Copic markers create creative doodling exercise extra-fine-point permanent marker face favorite feel finished G.K. Chesterton gesso gesture drawings giraffes glue stick hand idea images imagination ink pen inspiration Joan Miró Katherine Dunn Krista Peel Leonardo da Vinci Liesel look media on paper mediums minutes Miró mixed media mixed-media move one-liners Pablo Picasso paint tools paper 90 degrees pastel Paul Klee pen and ink photo references Picasso pick piece pose poster remember scribble Seuss shapes Sharpie sheets of white Sherrie York sketch sketchbook Sonheim spend starting story Taking It Further Teesha Moore textures things tracing paper Turn your paper vine charcoal watercolor paper white card stock