The Creative Artist: A Fine Artist's Guide to Expanding Your Creativity and Achieving Your Artistic Potential

by Nita Leland and Nina Leland

Book Overview

A fun and practical guide -- loaded with exercises and projects -- to help artists unleash their creativity. Activities include contour, tonal and gesture drawing, self-portraits, point-and-shoot... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891343253
• ISBN13: 9780891343257
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Best of the Best

I have been painting in watercolor & teaching watercolor for over 15 years and find this to be the most inspiring, motivational, & instructional book on the market.

A journey through knowledge, experience and spirit

Nita Leland's book not only gives ideas to develop your understanding and appreciation of art, but quotes artists' thoughts about their art and even their difficulties in achieving what they were looking for. She gives"tips" to release the creator in you, encourages hard and constant work as a way to loosen up and discover your skills beyond shape and color. She explains how after an accidental stain or assemblage of papers, fabrics and objects, you can get to artistic creation by emphasizing and developing the "accident" by means of color knowledge, tehnique and sensitive approach.

Highly recommend this book!

I haven't been able to put this one down. This book has given me the courage to begin making my art again. Every time I pick it up, I get ideas for paintings, drawings. I like how it is written like an art class, and has activities to get you unstuck. The activities are just vague enough to get you thinking of possibilities. This is far and away the best book to get you going!

This book with discepline will rejuvinate your mind.

This book has been a great inspiration to me in revisiting my talents in art and many other things such as graphic design & music. The Creative Artist has opened my mind and helped me to reach farther goals through its guidence and activities. There is also some very inspirational quotes. I highly recomend this book to beginners and those who have gotten caught up in daily life and need to refind themselves.