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Portrait Revolution: Inspiration from Around the World For Creating Art in Multiple Mediums and Styles

Based on the popular international collaborative art project, Julia Kay’s Portrait Party, this book features hundreds of portraits in multiple mediums and styles teamed with tips and insights on the artistic process.

The human face is one of the most important subjects for artists, no matter their chosen medium. Pulling from 50,000 works of portraiture created by the artists of the international online collaborative project Julia Kay’s Portrait Party, Portrait Revolution presents a new look at this topic—one that doesn’t limit itself to one medium, one style, one technique, or one artist. By presenting portraits in pencil, pen, charcoal, oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, digital media, collage, and more, Julia Kay and co. demonstrate the limitless possibilities available to aspiring artists or even to professional artists who are looking to expand creatively.

Along with works in almost every conceivable medium, Portrait Revolution shines a spotlight on different portrait-making techniques and styles (featuring everything from realism to abstraction). With tips, insights, and recommendations from accomplished portrait artists from around the globe, this all-in-one inspiration resource provides everything you’ll need to kick-start your own portrait-making adventure.

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Inspiration For Your Soul

This book is about my life convictions and the pain and sorrows that I encountered while going through the storms in my life. This book is meant to encourage and uplift your spirit and is designed to make you think about how good God is and what he’s done and is doing in your life. It is not intended to take away from the Holy Bible or to replace the Holy Bible. May you read this book with love and an understanding mind. When you are going through the storms of life or just needing encouragement, this book will lead you to the Lord. I hope that it will be as enjoyable to you as it was for me writing it. May God bless each and every one that reads this inspirational book. In Jesus’s Name.

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Inspirations 2018 Wall Calendar

Find serenity and joy in these twelve striking photographs of our natural world themed with inspiring quotes and passages from the world’s greatest authors and philosophers. This calendar provides a visual reminder that your value to family, friends and yourself rests first with your own wellbeing. The large format features daily grids with ample room for jotting your notes, birthdays and personal reminders. Also includes six bonus months of July through December 2017; moon phases, and U.S. and international holidays.

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Art Theory: On Painting, Architecture, and Other Visual Media: Including Creative Inspiration for Artists

Writings on Art and Architecture (1999-2016). This paperback version is meant to be a workbook of sorts. There is plenty of room to add content, draw ideas, and expand upon these thoughts. So, if you get a hard copy, it is meant to be studied, with things written in it. I intend to get a copy myself, and add more to it, too. Then I will issue an updated version years from now. Anyways, it is chocked full of ideas and good information. I think you will find the creative inspiration for artists section quite intruiging. So, get a hard copy and write your own ideas all over it. Expand, create, manifest… Thanks.

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Artful Log Cabin Quilts: From Inspiration to Art Quilt – Color, Composition & Visual Pathways

Take the first steps to becoming an art quilter with popular teacher and best-selling author Katie Pasquini Masopust. Starting with an inspiration image, choose fabrics to create your own artistic log cabin quilts. Learn to navigate visual pathways and composition, applying easy techniques and experimenting with color. Student work is showcased to prove that anyone can create an art quilt! Design and make your masterpiece with freeform log cabin blocks using this versatile method.

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The Long Road to Me

This book takes the reader through many seasons of Carol A. Smith’s remarkable life. Without a doubt she hung in there from times of being lost and confused. She was broken and weary in spirit, but God’s grace kept her. She found it was those little things that keep her in perfect peace. Readers can learn by watching Carol’s example that opportunities can be made available to each of us in spite of the brokenness life can bring. Her story will show readers good fortune and blessing can be reality if you remain faithful and stay on the path God has for you through it all!

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Photograph Like a Thief: Using Imitation and Inspiration to Create Great Images

No photographer works in a vacuum. Photographers, like all artists, stand on the shoulders of those who came before them, and they are informed and influenced by those working around them. If you are striving to find your own style, one of the most powerful exercises you can practice is to find influence and inspiration in the work of those around you, and then emulate that work in an effort to define, shape, and grow your own photographic voice. By collecting, imitating, and eventually reshaping and combining the work of those around you, your unique voice can be found and the quality of your work can soar.

In Photograph Like a Thief, photographer, author, and retoucher Glyn Dewis embraces the idea of “stealing” and recreating others’ work in order to improve as an artist. By stepping inside others’ images, you can learn to reverse engineer their creation, then build an image that simultaneously pays homage to that work and is also an original creation itself.

Glyn begins by covering the process of “stealing ideas” and finding inspiration. He shares the gear he uses as well as his retouching and post-processing workflow. In a chapter on how to reverse engineer a photograph, Glyn discusses how to read an image by looking at the catch lights, shadow and highlight positions, and the hardness or softness of the shadows. This is a crucial skill to acquire if you want to recreate a specific look.

Glyn then works through a series of images―inspired by movies, books, history, and a few legendary photographers―from the initial concept and influence to the final result. For each image, he reverse engineers the shot to describe how it was created, then works through the gear he used, the lighting for the image, and the post-processing of the image in Photoshop―from the RAW out-of-camera shot to the finished piece. While Glyn’s work primarily focuses on portraiture, he finds inspiration and influence from a wide variety of work.

By working alongside Glyn (he makes all the files available for download), you too can learn to find inspiration all around you, discover how others’ work can influence you, improve your photographic and post-processing skill set, and begin your own journey to defining your unique style.

Who knows? Soon, others may be stealing from you.

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Instant Inspiration: We did it, so can you!

This book is a valuable resource for inspiring yourself and your family. In this book you will get instant inspiration from real-life motivational stories and interviews. Every creative inspirational story will inspire you to take aspirational steps towards a happier life. This book is for everyone and especially for children with special needs as well as their parents, teachers, therapists, or caregivers. It makes a great addition to any classroom, home, library, or child’s bedside.