The book contains more than 50 reference photos of landscapes. All pictures are licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) which means you can freely use in your paintings without asking any permission or providing any attribution. A wonderful discovery for artists!
Apart from honing ones skills, sketching allows for a freedom of expression in experimenting with shadow and form, line weight, and color to produce work that can creatively rival the finished art. Exposed and unbridled, the international cast of artists included in the second volume of Sketching Times are masters of the craft of illustration that can create a world of feeling or depth with a few simple strokes. Captivating in their simplicity, they remind us of the importance of essence in determining a works impact. Inspiration for comic artists, animators, and game designers alike, this book covers a wide range of subject matter from human characters and caricatures, to animals, fantastical creatures, robots, and more.
“I want to rip out every page of this glorious book and hang them on my wall so that I can be surrounded by these incredible women all day long.”
—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers
Across the globe, women are embracing the entrepreneurial spirit and starting creative businesses. In the Company of Women profiles over 100 of these influential and creative women from all ages, races, backgrounds, and industries. Chock-full of practical, inspirational advice for those looking to forge their own paths, these interviews detail the keys to success (for example, going with your gut; maintaining meaningful and lasting relationships), highlight the importance of everyday rituals (meditating; creating a daily to-do list), and dispense advice for the next generation of women entrepreneurs and makers (stay true to what you believe in; have patience). The book is rounded out with hundreds of lush, original photographs of the women in their work spaces.
Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world’s greatest artists – exclusively researched for this new book
Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by artists through the ages and across the globe, this exquisite keepsake is the ideal book for artists, collectors, and armchair enthusiasts. As painters, sculptors, photographers, and other visual artists see and experience the world through a unique lens, Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists shows that their life lessons, private revelations, and frank, often irreverent, opinions can guide us all.
This unique and carefully curated book, packed with totally original research, is a go-to resource for revealing thoughts and personal advice on subjects as diverse as beauty, colour, light, sex, chance, discipline, money troubles, originality, fear of failure, danger of success, the creative process, and more ? all messages transmitted from the artistic trenches.
Discover the fascinating dreams that are behind the music we know including 20+ Grammy-winning inspirations, the song with the most cover versions of all time, iTunes’ most-purchased song, major artist career breakthroughs, and many more dream-harvested successes.
You can also learn how to recall dreams better and tap them for creative inspiration (e.g. songwriting), improving skills such as live performance or musical instrument mastery, and even for practical guidance to help solve any challenge you may ever face. Understand your dreams better, transform upsetting dreams into the gifts they are meant to be, and explore techniques for invoking lucid dreams in which amazing adventures and insights are plentiful.
Over 200 artists and industry executives across all genres of music share powerful dreams and lucid dreaming experiences along with the songs and surprising success that resulted. Enjoy insight-packed dream accounts by music icons Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Billy Joel, Sting, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Drake, U2, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, The Black-Eyed Peas, Ziggy Marley, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Mozart, Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky, and many more. Many of the experiences are accompanied by the empowering dream principles that such events demonstrate so that you can understand, apply, and benefit from them in your own life.
The book also reveals surprising musical collaborations sparked by dreams, dream visions that called artists to their career path, stars who ‘see’ music or ‘hear’ images, powerful warning dreams where the lives of famous artists and others were at stake, 20+ intriguing cases where the deceased appeared in dreams of living artists to instruct them or offer important creative and career guidance, as well as ways shamans from many cultures worldwide call in music from dreamland and share it for healing, teaching, protection, and powerful rituals. You will also find out how dreams have inspired film, TV and computer game soundtracks, artist and band names, instrument inventions, business and career decisions, playing techniques, and even performances, including one of the most expensive composition performance pieces ever created which involves 4 helicopters in flight.
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“Any artist who ignores their dreams is ignoring half of their creative potential.” –Sting
“When you’re dozing, that’s when the creative ideas come.” –folk music legend Pete Seeger
“The best songs are the ones that come to you in the middle of the night.” –John Lennon
“You must learn the way to follow the dream.” –fifteen-time nominated and four-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Joseph Shabalala
“When a really great dream shows up, grab it!” –Larry Page, CEO of Google (a company sparked into being by a dream)
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Define Success On Your Own Terms. Overcome Seemingly Insurmountable Obstacles
Being successful is not just about money. It’s also about health, happiness, close relationships, doing something meaningful and enjoying life’s journey.
Self-doubt, fear of failure, the need for approval, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, perfectionism, overwhelm, feeling unsupported, financial worries and other increasingly difficult and seemingly insurmountable obstacles can stop you from achieving success.
When you’re experiencing these things, it can feel like you’re failing and alone. But in truth, they are part of the success process, and every successful person, including Leonardo da Vinci experiences challenging setbacks too.
Master the art of success. Be inspired by success stories of extraordinary artists like Leonardo da Vinci. Find your beauty spot and harness the transformational energy zone where creativity, science and commerce intersect.
Amazon #1 bestselling author and success expert Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip Psych) provides simple but powerful and easy to implement steps to achieve authentic success. Based on survey research, personal achievements and her professional expertise and success as an award-winning artist, best selling author and holistic psychologist, Gaisford answers the question: how to create a happier life and succeed more.
In The Art of Success: How Extraordinary Artists Can Help You Succeed in Business and Life, you’ll learn: How to set and achieve exciting and audacious goals How to define success on your own terms, find your truth, gain your freedom and live an authentic life Why successful people like Leonardo work with passion and purpose How to identify your REAL priorities How to challenge and redefine the way you think about success How to overcome blocks, including fear—of failure, of success, of change, of criticism or imperfection—and shift ingrained, sabotaging beliefs by tapping into the realms where science meets spirituality How to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, including lack of finances, procrastination and low self-esteem How to broaden your mind to a holistic perspective on achievement How to super-charge the confidence needed to make an inspired change How to empower and improve your business and personal life How to follow your passion and still pay the bills How to unravel Leonardo’s secrets to success and crack the da Vinci code
BONUS: Find Your Passion Workbook
Think of The Art of Success: How Extraordinary Artists Can Help You Succeed in Business and Life as triumphing in the war of art… for yourself.
If you’re short on time but high on motivation, then this is the book that will cheerlead, support, encourage and inspire you to move you toward success.
Master the eight principles of success including the importance of:
Embracing the call for success Empowering your success Empowering your vision Empowering your spirit Empowering your mind Empowering your body Empowering your relationships Empowering your work
Quit just existing, follow your dreams and start really succeeding!
Quicken your spirit, pull back the covers of your soul and open the door to a more authentic and vital you.
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Could What Artists, World Leaders, Actors, Scholars and Writers Say About Love Inspire You and Your Life? Absolutely! In “129 Inspiring Quotes About Love,” you will find some of the most powerful words ever spoken about love. From 600 B.C. to the 21st century, these words and thoughts will provoke, challenge and inspire you like nothing else. If they don’t, you might want to check to see if you have a pulse. In it, you’ll learn: —Why Beatle John Lennon says “love” is like a plant… —Why D.H. Lawrence claims a woman “not in love” must have luxuries… —Why Mother Teresa says “love” does not have to be extraordinary… —What Dr. Seuss says the reason for not sleeping when you’re in love (it’s not what you think!) —Plus 125 more brilliant quotes that nothing but pure gems sorted from the best of the best… Check it out today. Because nothing is more sought after and revered more in life than love. And yet it seems to be in desperately short supply in today’s world. I’m hopeful these “gems” will be the catalyst for more love in your life.
How often does an aspiring artist read a book or take a class on drawing the human body, only to end up with page after page of stiff lifeless marks rather than the well-conceived figure the course promised?
Though there are many books on drawing the human figure, none teach how to draw a figure from the first few marks of the quick sketch to the last virtuosic stroke of the finished masterpiece, let alone through a convincing, easy-to-understand method.
That changes now.
In Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count, award-winning fine artist Steve Huston shows beginners and pros alike the two foundational concepts behind the greatest masterpieces in art and how to use them as the basis for their own success.
Embark on a drawing journey and discover how these twin pillars of support are behind everything from the Venus De Milo to Michelangelo’s Sibyl to George Bellow’s Stag at Sharkey’s, how they’re the fundamental tools for animation studios around the world, and how the best comic book artists from the beginnings of the art form until now use them whether they know it or not.
Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count sketches out the same two-step method taught to the artists of DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, and Disney Animation, so pick up a pencil and get drawing.
