Celebrate Your Creative Self: More Than 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist Within

by Mary Todd Beam

Book Overview

Celebrate Your Creative Self helps you act upon your artistic inspirations and joyfully appreciate the creative process. You'll develop the skills you need to express yourself and explore your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581801025
• ISBN13: 9781581801026
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: North Light Books
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.5" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Celebrate Your Creative Self: Over 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist Within

What a wonderful book to unleash your creativity. When I began reading it I couldn't wait to get out my brushes, canvas and get started. It teaches you to just be relaxed and let your innerself come out in your creations. It is a marvalous feeling. You can't go wrong. If you have been shy with acrylic paint you won't be for long when you get into this book.

A Workshop in a Book!

This book is a must for anyone wishing to explore different methods and ideas.The book is beautifully laid out and is a pleasure to look at.The artist presents her ideas in clear concise language with many good illustrations.I liked the small 'boxes' that contained suggestions or comments.There is also a helpfull list of materials used with each project.If you are unable to be at a workshop with Mary Todd Beame this is will help create one in your studio.It is a book that you will return to often for ideas and inspiration.

Simply Inspiring!

I've been a three dimensional artists for almost ten years, but have been intrigued by many other mediums of art for a long time. Mary Todd Beam's book is the best book I've seen to help you feel comfortable trying new techniques and inspire using these methods in your own unique way. The author is quite generous with her directions, giving a list of supplies needed for each project and descriptions and pictures on each step. When I got this book I couldn't put it down... it is now in my studio and I love the results from my experimentation. I highly recommend this book to both novice and accomplished artists alike.

Simply Inspiring!

I've been a three dimensional artists for almost ten years, but have been intrigued by many other mediums of art for a long time. Mary Todd Beam's book is the best book I've seen to help you feel comfortable trying new techniques and inspire using these methods in your own unique way. When I got this book I couldn't put it down... it is now in my studio and I love the results from my experimentation. I highly recommend this book to both novice and accomplished artists.

Help for climbing out of that rut

I had a very great teacher who taught creativity from discoveries he'd made about that mysterious process. He once told me that artists break rules and then make new rules of their own. For example, look at Picasso. He broke rules about classical drawing and painting as he had done early in his career, and then created new rules for his style of Cubism.I paint, and have a very definite set of rules about what I do and what I do not do. My painting teacher years ago had a lot of rules about watercolor, such as never using black or white paint. Later in her own career, she started breaking those rules with techniques not unlike those in this book (for example, she uses crumpled plastic wrap and laundry starch to texturize.) Her paintings really took off.You may not like all the techniques presented here, but it's worth trying them out. One of them may turn out to get you out of a rut and onto new and great things. Even though "Celebrate Your Creative Self" sounds like books such as "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", "Making Pearls" or "The Artist's Way", it is not about the inner artist. Those books have a very important place in freeing up the unconscious mind and the imagination. This book is about freeing up your technique and finding new methods of expression. Personally, I love it.