Keeping a Creative Sketchbook: Build Your Artistic Practice for a Joyfully Inspired Life

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An inspiring creativity guide for keeping a sketchbook as an artistic practice, with techniques and sources of inspiration for experimenting, drawing, painting, and seeing the world through a colorful lens, from watercolor artist and author of The Joy of Watercolor Emma Block

Keeping a sketchbook is a wonderfully rewarding pursuit for artists and hobbyists alike. Your sketchbook is a safe place to explore, experiment, try new things, record your progress, and sometimes mess up, and working in a sketchbook, particularly on location, is an innately mindful practice. You become completely focused on the things you are sketching or painting and completely immersed in the atmosphere of the place.

In Keeping a Creative Sketchbook, Emma Block shares her own sketchbook practice and offers inspiring artist interviews and numerous techniques and practices for beginning or transforming your own. Packed with ideas and prompts to get started, this book helps overcome overwhelm and open a world of joyful creativity. With your sketchbook by your side, you can slow down, be present, notice the little things, enjoy the process, let go of perfectionism, and embrace the blank page, discovering rich new depths to your creativity and finding your artist mindset for inner peace.
 

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Start thinking of your sketchbook as a safe place

Explore, experiment, try new things, record your progress, and sometimes mess up – immerse yourself in the process.

Packed with ideas and prompts

Overcome overwhelm and open a world of joyful creativity! Embrace the blank page and find your inner artist mindset.

Guide your creativity with the help of the author behind The Joy of Watercolor

Emma Block shares her own sketchbook practice to help begin – or transform – your own!

Excerpt: Using Mixed Media

A great way to further explore your materials is to combine them! Working with mixed media gives an air of freedom and experimentation to your work. Changing the materials you are using can be a great way to rescue a piece that isn’t going the way you want it to. I think we all know that feeling. When a painting is starting to get away from us, a change of materials can get it back on course and under our control. Mixed media also creates a rich, layered feel to your work and immediately creates depth and interest. A mixed-media approach can help you tackle subjects that might be difficult to capture in a single medium and can help conquer any fear of the blank page.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Running Press Adult (April 9, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0762483571
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0762483570
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.68 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 0.93 x 9.1 inches