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Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.77 — 102,771 ratings — published 1994
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,070 ratings — published 2003
Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,281 ratings — published 2018
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.65 — 20,954 ratings — published 2013
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,684 ratings — published 2012
Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,777 ratings — published 2005
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.97 — 116,457 ratings — published 2002
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.87 — 377,123 ratings — published 1979
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.96 — 118,542 ratings — published 2002
How to Be an Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,816 ratings — published 2020
Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.24 — 495 ratings — published 2015
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,134 ratings — published 2014
Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.90 — 860 ratings — published 1998
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.24 — 109,839 ratings — published 1994
Art Is a Way of Knowing: A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Fulfillment through Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.13 — 451 ratings — published 1995
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.94 — 428,724 ratings — published 1972
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[Creative Lettering and Beyond: Inspiring tips, techniques, and ideas for hand lettering your way to beautiful works of art (Creative...and Beyond)] [By: Kirkendall, Gabri Joy] [November, 2014]
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.92 — 780 ratings — published 2014
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,889 ratings — published 1972
Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.15 — 497 ratings — published
Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,691 ratings — published 2016
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,841 ratings — published 2016
If You Can Cut, You Can Collage: From Paper Scraps to Works of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.00 — 102 ratings — published
Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects (Lab Series)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.00 — 849 ratings — published 2010
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,173 ratings — published 1979
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,084 ratings — published 2018
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,868 ratings — published 1991
Design Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.84 — 385 ratings — published 1941
One Hundred Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,829 ratings — published 2002
What It Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.18 — 24,280 ratings — published 2008
Everyday Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,454 ratings — published 2003
Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,413 ratings — published 2014
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.96 — 231,915 ratings — published 2015
How to Keep a Sketchbook Journal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.22 — 132 ratings — published 2001
Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Mokuhanga (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.56 — 89 ratings — published 2015
Everything Leads to You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.83 — 35,227 ratings — published 2014
Mix It Up! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,589 ratings — published 2014
The Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.27 — 214 ratings — published 2011
Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun (Lab Series)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,028 ratings — published 2010
A Director Prepares (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,280 ratings — published 2001
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.02 — 28,586 ratings — published 2005
The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery : Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,481 ratings — published 2005
Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design for Fabric (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.46 — 92 ratings — published 2010
The Dot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.26 — 34,809 ratings — published 2003
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,883 ratings — published 1969
It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.03 — 165 ratings — published 2000
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,911 ratings — published 1990
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,407 ratings — published 2003
Learning by Heart: Teachings To Free The Creative Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-making)
avg rating 4.29 — 313 ratings — published 1992
Seasonal Slow Knitting: Thoughtful Projects for a Handmade Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-making)
avg rating 3.99 — 194 ratings — published
“Remember that although technique is important, there are other issues in art making that should take precedence. When the strongest thing in an artwork is technique, the subject is vanity. Art must have a higher subject. Something else must rise to the top. A work of art is born in the desire for something—to explore something, be it formal (understanding light, color, or objects in space), political, or emotional. The creative act takes in everything about you—the images and creative means of who you are and where you come from, added to the world you see and hope for. The technique you learn should always be in the service of this.”
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“Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of things, fall apart and nakedly come back together again - looking through conjured windows deep into someone else’s snow-bound solitude, feeling utterly alone yet being all-connected: this is not writing. It’s world-creating.
It’s raw, exposed dreaming. It’s humbling. At first too personal and intimate to share, it evolves like a child into a life of its own until I have no say in what comes next.
It’s what I wake at 4am to say Yes to, the spinning possibility of a new story relentlessly commanding me to write it down so it can whirl in your experience.”
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It’s raw, exposed dreaming. It’s humbling. At first too personal and intimate to share, it evolves like a child into a life of its own until I have no say in what comes next.
It’s what I wake at 4am to say Yes to, the spinning possibility of a new story relentlessly commanding me to write it down so it can whirl in your experience.”
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