Natural Impressions: Taking an Artistic Path Through Nature

By Carolyn A. Dahl

Book Overview

In this innovative book, author and crafter Carolyn Dahl demonstrates how printing with a natural material--covering it with a medium and pressing it to a surface--allows artists to see and appreciate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823031497
• ISBN13: 9780823031498
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Variety

The great variety of projects shown makes this a good book to add to my library.

My Review

I love the book. It contains a lot of very interesting and new to me information. I have enjoyed trying the ideas and information given in the book.

Wonderful

I loved this book. My kids and I have already made fish print tee-shirts, but a serious artist would also find a lot of useful stuff in here. I can't wait to try the moonlit leaves project.

Let Nature Be Your Teacher

This has become one of my favorite books; I have shared it with artists and non-artists alike, who all were rejuvenated by the author's poetic, spiritual,and inspirational approach to nature. Unlike another reviewer, I was glad that the author's direct, visceral, and lyrical interaction with her subject avoided direct references to God or an "intelligent designer"--this simply is not germane to her purpose in this gem of a book. Ironically, her meditations on her forays into the natural world teach us, nonetheless, that nature herself can inspire the highest spiritual and moral behaviors if we only choose to slow down, observe, respect, and listen to her wisdom.

This book is for nature lovers and artists who love nature

I love nature, and I am an artist. This book is underrated and undermarketed. I just read it at a time when we are all acutely aware of the color in nature. The book speaks poetically of nature and brings it to the reader as a real experience through the use of words. The projects, some of which I intend to try, affirm our need for harmony with the earth on which we live. I didn't read any pantheism in it, but I was lonely for the attribution of nature and our experience in it to God.