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Inspiration Sandwich: Stories to Inspire Our Creative Freedom

Collection of 43 ways to awaken your creative self-including “invite someone dangerous to tea,” “take lots of naps,” and “make friends with freedom and uncertainty.” As the author puts it, “This book is food for your soul, and a bubble bath for your spirit. It is a guide to keeping your creativity alive, and I wrote it for you. In the SARK tradition, it was written while in pajamas, and in between naps. My first job was at age four as the wake-up fairy in kindergarten. I believe in waking up creative spirits.”

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This Way Up: Seven Tools for Unleashing Your Creative Self and Transforming Your Life

Women spend so much of life nurturing and giving to others that when they find themselves alone―because of an empty nest, the end of a marriage, or the death of a partner―they often struggle with feeling purposeless. This Way Up: Seven Tools for Unleashing Your Creative Self and Transforming Your Life provides a step-by-step way out of this sense of loss and into a life filled with enthusiasm, creativity, and joy.

This story of healing centers on the essential wisdom of introspection and on the importance of following one’s dreams. Join the protagonist, Katya, a widow whose two sons have recently left home, as she learns seven tools for uncovering her best self: visualization, heart-centered goal setting, positive focus, meditation on love; meditation on forgiveness, gratitude, and taking action on inspiration.
Katya’s experience highlights these insights in an easily digestible, highly relatable format that readers can systematically apply to their own circumstances as they work through This Way Up’s twelve weeks’ worth of day-by-day journaling exercises, thought-provoking questions, and reader support. For any woman who yearns to lead a fuller life but doesn’t know how to begin, this book is an ideal starting point.

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Ballpoint Art Pack: Creative Techniques and Explorations for Drawing with an Everyday Pen – A Book and Sketch Pad

Grab a pen and explore hours of masterful and intricate art anywhere!

Now in an all-new format, the creative technique exercises from The Art of Ballpoint by illustrator Matt Rota are reconfigured into this useful art pack which includes an informational book and companion sketchpad featuring prompts and drawings to get you started.

Ballpoint Art Pack includes a wide range of ballpoint techniques that demonstrate line drawing and crosshatching, shading and tone, photo-realism, drawing texture and pattern, working in layers, and mixing media with ballpoint. Glide through this inspiring book and enjoy the intricate and impressive works created from an everyday tool.

The List of Exercises Includes:

– Types of Shading

– Volume with crosshatching

– Creating an even field of marks

– Scribble

– Responding to an organic process

– Blending color

– Gradients with marks

– Line shape and pattern

– Drawing on toned paper

– Graphic color

– Contour Drawing

– Creating a light source

– Shading with watercolor

– Layering ballpoint and acrylic

– Multiple viewpoints of one object

– 360-degree view of room

– One Mark

– Drawing Texture

– Creating a landscape with texture and marks (but no outlines)

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Martin Cheek Mosaic Artist: Creative Inspiration

In recent years, the ancient art of mosaic has become increasingly popular worldwide, showing up everywhere from the studios of fine artists to the pages of interior decorating magazines. Mosaics: Design and Inspiration is perfectly poised to capture that enthusiasm.

The seventh book by internationally acclaimed mosaic artist and teacher Martin Cheek, it was written in direct response to inquiries and requests from both newly taught and long-established mosaic artists. It is simultaneously a how-to, full of expert advice about everything from initial design to the last details of a finished piece—and a sourcebook of inspiration, jammed with images, ideas, and concepts that aspiring mosaic artists can take and make their own. Many of the images of Cheek’s own work represent the first time they’ve been featured in a book, and their intricate beauty is sure to fire the imaginations of artists, decorators, and art lovers. 

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Quotes from the Garden Coloring Book: Coloring Book for Adults and All Ages (Creative Spark Adult Coloring Books) (Volume 3)

Inspired by the popularity of coloring books for adults, doodle, and letter art, Quotes from the Garden Coloring Book is an artistic, relaxing coloring book experience for adults and all ages. Twenty-five pages of original, hand-illustrated, detailed floral quote designs by Jules Baker. Escape into a world of color and spark your creativity. Unwind, relax, and feel the stress of your day wash away.

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The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine

Creativity is not a gift for a select few, but an ongoing process of growth and self-realization available to anyone who puts in the effort to pursue the spark. In this book, Chris Orwig offers a unique perspective on the creative process, showing you how to find meaning in your work, be inspired, and discover the life for which you were designed.
 
With thoughtful and engaging chapters such as “Keep the Edges Wild,” “Einstein’s Game of Connect the Dots,” and “Grit and Glory,” Chris presents each concept through personal examples—his own and others’—showing how to live a more creative and meaningful life.
 
Drawn from his 12 years as a faculty member at the prestigious Brooks Institute as well as his experience leading creative inspiration and photography workshops and speaking on global stages, Chris’s stories are designed to teach you how to discover your own creative voice. Each chapter includes exercises to help you incorporate what you’ve learned and connect the topics directly to your own experience.

Features the friendly, approachable voice of Chris Orwig, whose photography, teaching, and speaking have inspired countless aspiring amateurs and professionals alike Includes exercises in every chapter to help you put the concepts you learned into practice Offers an elegant design filled with the author’s original photographs captured to visually support the ideas discussed in the book

For resources and inspiration, check out the book’s companion site, thecreativefight.com. 

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The Five-Minute Writer: Exercise and inspiration in creative writing in five minutes a day

Suitable for writers, this title includes chapters that offers a writing-related discussion, followed by a five-minute exercise. Five minutes a day spent on an exercise is one of the most effective methods there is to expand your potential and develop self-discipline.

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Creative Coloring A Second Cup of Inspirations : More Art Activity Pages to Help You Relax

Life is a wonderful adventure, and all of our dreams can come true! Hold on to your dreams with Creative Coloring Inspirations 2, the coloring book that offers hope and encouragement on every page. Inside you will find 30 relaxing new activities designed to motivate your creativity and stimulate your spirit. Team up with talented artist Valentina Harper as you personalize her exquisite line drawings. Valentina combines exhilarating words with flowing, intricate, and highly detailed patterns. Best-selling craft author Marie Browning joins in with beautifully colored examples of finished work. Printed on high quality extra-thick paper that wont bleed through, all pages are pre-perforated for easy removal and display. They are perfect for decorating with markers, gel pens, watercolors, or colored pencils.

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Inspirations & Affirmations: Adult Coloring Book, Designs to Inspire Your Creative Genius

This adult coloring book offers some of the best designs for your creative pleasure. So take time and reward yourself by entering the magical world of coloring bliss. Coloring books for adults is great for relaxation, creativity and having fun. Inside you will discover pages and pages of stress relieving patterns and designs. Grownups from around the world are experiencing incredible peace, joy and child-like happiness as they rekindle their creative genius from within. Coloring and painting is like art therapy for your soul.