Expressive Sketchbooks: Developing Creative Skills, Courage, and Confidence
English
By (author): Helen Wells
An expressive sketchbook is a place for you to explore, express, and enjoy your own innate creativity on your own terms. It is a safe playground for the imaginationa place to mess about, play, and experimentand to gain confidence in your abilities as you develop your skills.
Expressive Sketchbooks offers techniques and creative exercises that incorporate mark making, watercolor, mixed media, collage, words and text, and more. It unpacks some of the obstacles and barriers that you may face along the way and offers wisdom and encouragement to help you decide why and how to start your sketchbook and how to develop and expand your artistic practice.
This book is packed with ideas and exercises, including:
- Exploratory drawing exercises
- How to utilize color in your sketchbook
- How to create dynamic and varied sketchbook pages
- How to find inspiration in nature and in your everyday life
- Ways to mix media and art supplies
- Ways to kickstart your creativity
- How to find and develop a process that feels personal to you