Art Escapes

Authors: Kanter, Dory
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: SEL009000, ART028000, CRA054000
ISBN: 9781440317156, Related ISBNs: 1440317151, 1581803079, 9781440317156, 9781581803075
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 128,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Inspire your creative spirit--everyday!

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, Art Escapes provides the ideas and encouragement you need to discover greater creativity and artistic confidence, even when you're short on time. Professional artist and instructor Dory Kanter shows you how to:

   • Experience more fun and greater confidence drawing and painting.
   • Express yourself and experiment everyday with an art journal.
   • Reinterpret daily life with simple, beautiful sketches.
   • Find painting inspiration in unexpected places.
   • Paint freely, intuitively and passionately with a simple four-step approach.
   • Create new forms of art, including watercolor mosaics, paper weavings and found object collages.


You'll also find 13 drawing, watercolor, mixed media, and assemblage projects, plus several "page-a-day" ideas.

With Art Escapes, you'll learn how to build an art "habit," one that brings joy with every stroke of your brush.
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