CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life

Authors: Donaldson, Danielle
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: ART017000, ART020000, CRA054000
ISBN: 9781440340185, Related ISBNs: 1440340129, 1440340188, 9781440340123, 9781440340185
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 128,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Find your artistic creativity with delicate doodles, big colors and lavish layers!

CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies. Danielle Donaldson shows you how to draw the pretty pictures from your imagination, infuse your art with delightful color combinations and work through creative frustration with simple fixes. You'll learn how to paint with watercolor, tell visual stories with and without words and add depth with layers using mixed-media techniques and little details--all while finding inspiration and gaining confidence in your own artistic style.

Draw, paint, layer and create!

   • More than 30 techniques and projects including drawing, painting and adding layers for artists and aspiring artists of all levels.
   • Learn how do draw and paint figures such as creativeGIRL, busyGIRL and tutuGIRL. Then create your own girl to channel your story.
   • Find even more inspiration in a gallery filled with extraLOVE from the artist.
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