Celebrate Your Creative Self

Celebrate Your Creative Self
By Mary Todd Beam

Product Description

Artists and creatives of all kinds who are looking for new ways to liberate their artistic imagination will love this book. Readers are invited to playfully explore various aspects of visual art, such as light, color, texture and design through a series of imaginative art projects. Artists will experiment hands-on with dozens of techniques and mediums in new and unconventional ways including: * Capturing whites with crayon and wax resist * Glazing and floating colors * Portraying the patterns of nature with sedimentation and precipitation * Loosening up with gesso painting and printing with plastic * Constructing a new piece of art from old work * Experimenting with three-dimensional assemblage * Creating a street map In addition, artists are prompted to challenge their imaginations by building new painting surfaces, creating their own personal symbols and more. Further inspiration can be found in a gallery of work by more than 30 contributing artists. Celebrate Your Creative Self is a fun, no-fail guide every artist should have.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60473 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 128 pages

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Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Mary Todd Beam is one of the best-known workshop instructors in the realm of artistic creativity. She has been giving workshops all over the country for a number of years and is an award-winning artist. She divides her time between Cambridge, Ohio and Cosby, Tennessee.

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Customer Reviews

Celebrate your Creative Self: over 25 Dxercises to Unleash the Artist Within
Celebrate Your Creative Self: Over 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist Within
Have not had time to use a lot of the activities, but there seems to be some really creative acitivies that interest me.

Idea Starter
I really like this book. I own it and have given it as a gift to many of my artist friends and students. It has great idea starters that are open ended enough to allow for creative license. I also really like the spiral binding that allows the book to lay flat while refering to some of the techniques.

great book!
It was a very inspiring book. Lot’s of great photos of artist work. I am an oil painter and still found it helpful and inspiring.

The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal

The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal
By Julia Cameron

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37978 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12-29
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The idea behind Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way is that by writing three pages, longhand and stream-of consciousness, first thing in the morning, you can overcome the obstacles that stop you from becoming your most creative self. This works partly because it forces you to create something (even if it is just a long list of gripes) every single day. It doesn’t take much time. You’re not even supposed to think. But the act itself gets you past all that self-defeating fretting about why you think you aren’t a creative person. Cameron sees her morning pages as “a form of meditation,” as “spiritual windshield wipers.”

While Cameron touts the morning pages as a way of life, she suggests you start out doing them as part of a “twelve-week program to recover your creativity.” If you would like to keep your first twelve weeks of morning pages together in one tidy place, The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal is a fine tool for doing so. Each nearly blank page features an inspiring quotation from The Artist’s Way: “Leap, and the net will appear,” says one; “Creativity lies not in the done but in doing,” reminds another. We should mention that many of these little inspirations include references to God, which may be troublesome even for spiritual atheists. –Jane Steinberg

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Customer Reviews

Exactly what it’s supposed to be
Unlike other reviewers who felt the Morning Pages Journal should offer more than just bound blank pages, I think that it serves that purpose admirably well, and has the added benefit of the quotes from The Artist’s Way.
The only drawback (the reason I give a 3 rather than a 5) is that it ought to be spiral-bound: if you are writing pages as you are supposed to be (early AM, in bed) then you have to struggle to hold the pages down to write.
This is an easy fix that I hope that the publishers will finally clue in to and remedy.

Julia’s Gift Continues
A necessary part in the first faze of your continuing journey of The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Each page is filled with reminders, insights and beauty , supporting the very nature of your being.

The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal

The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal
My twenty-third and twenty-fourth copies. The first twenty-two are full and lined up in my book case. A magnificent tool for starting the day.

The Artist’s Way Workbook

The Artist’s Way Workbook
By Julia Cameron

For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through the Artist’s Way program-a workbook and companion to the international bestseller.

Alife-changing twelve-week program, The Artist’s Way has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Now, for the first time, fans will have this elegantly designed and user-friendly volume for use in tandem with the book. The Artist’s Way Workbook includes:

– more than 110 Artist’s Way tasks;
– more than 50 Artist’s Way check-ins;
– a fascinating introduction to the workbook in which Cameron shares new insights into the creative process that she has culled in the decade since The Artist’s Way was originally published;
– new and original writings on Morning Page Journaling and the Artist’s Date-two of the most vital tools set forth by Cameron in The Artist’s Way.

The Artist’s Way Workbook is an indispensable book for anyone following the spiritual path to higher creativity laid out in The Artist’s Way.