Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun

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Quarry Books, Jan 19, 2011 - Art - 144 pages

Carla 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

Introduction
6
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
Acknowledgments
144
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Carla Sonheim is an illustrator and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more child-like play approach to creating. One student recently said, "[Being in your workshop] is like being a kid again, but we get to do it as an adult." Carla is the author of three books: "The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for Everyone" (Perigee Books), "Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop" (Quarry) and the best-selling "Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists" (Quarry). She currently resides in Seattle, WA where she holds numerous online workshops. Visit her online at carlasonheim.com and carlasonheim.wordpress.com.

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