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If You Can Doodle, You Can Paint: Transforming Simple Drawings into Works of Art

The advice and exercises in If You Can Doodle, You Can Paint helps you dig into your creative life to find a style that is authentically yours.â??

If You Can Doodle, You Can Paint was named one of Library Journal’s Best Crafts & DIY Books of 2017! 

If You Can Doodle, Your Can Paint looks at the small, impromtu doodles we make on a daily basis as resources; treasures from which we can create full-sized paintings. Even if you don’t consider yourself a doodler, the exercises and techniques in this book will give you a fun way to tap into your personal style.

The invitation starts with a pencil as you work through doodle assignments. Eventually, you will learn how to size up and combine these doodles into larger compositions. Then, you will begin mixing it up with watercolor paints and, finally, with acrylic paints.

In If You Can Doodle, You Can Paint we will:

Dig for treasure/doodleObserve, arrange, and studyMake folded books for doodle-ready surfacesCopy your images with hand/eye coordinationScan and enlarge your doodlesAdd color combinations with colored pencil and acrylic paintCreate compositional grid paintings, andCreate a large complete painting!So what are you waiting for? Grab some pens and paints and get creative!

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The EMDR Coloring Book: A Calming Resource for Adults – Featuring 200 Works of Fine Art Paired with 200 Positive Affirmations

Along with standard resources like the safe/calm place and container, this innovative coloring book seamlessly complements the EMDR therapy process. It includes 200 positive affirmations paired with 200 works of fine art by famed printmaker, Alphonse Legros. Used for both coloring and journaling, each page provides an elegant and creative opportunity for clients to practice emotional regulation in and between EMDR therapy sessions.

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I Love You to The Moon and Back, Quote Inspiration Notebook, Dream Journal Diary: Inspiring your ideas and tips for hand lettering your own way to beautiful works and life (Blank Notebook Journal)

Journal to write in with mix internal of Dot Grid Journal, Blank Notebook No lined, Graph Paper. It can be your to-do list, sketchbook, notebook, and diary, but most likely, it will be all of the above. All purpose in ONE. Journal is good for – People who have a million little to-do lists floating around – People who like pen and paper to-do lists – People who are into goal-setting and habit tracking – People who like stationery, journaling, scrapbooking, beautiful pens, etc. – People who really love planners – People who want to really love planners, or who want to be more organized – People who would really like to keep a journal/diary but are having trouble sticking with the habit.

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Inspirations II: Works by Studio Art Quilt Associates N. CA/N. NV Region

What inspires artists? Is it their environment, the people in their lives, minute observation, grand passions, perhaps the act of artistic creation itself? The exhibition Inspirations II is the result of twenty textile artists taking personal inspiration and, using a wide and inventive array of materials and techniques, turning it into a work of art that expresses their unique voice. The works in the exhibition, shown in this catalog, were created by members of the Northern California/Northern Nevada Region of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) and first shown May 5 through July 3, 2016 at FiberSpace in the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. The exhibition was juried by Terry Jarrard-Dimond.

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Ross’s Novel Discoveries: Quotes from Great Works on Men, Women, Romantic Relationships, Love, Sex, and Marriage

In this elegant but pocketable edition, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated 106 favorite literary quotes from the collection of over 1,500 well-read books on his shelves—but this isn’t your typical rehashing of Bartlett’s quotations. Michael Ross brings together men, women, love, sex, money, and marriage from such a new perspective even the authors themselves will probably find this book useful and insightful.

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The Complete Works of Florence Scovel Shinn (Dover Empower Your Life)

Florence Scovel Shinn taught generations of readers how to live richer, fuller lives with her four empowering classics: The Game of Life and How to Play It; Your Word Is Your Wand; The Secret Door to Success; and The Power of the Spoken Word. This volume collects all four of those works, offering a wealth of affirmations and real-life success stories. Self-improvement expert Norman Vincent Peale praised Shinn’s works as essential guides, helping readers to “find prosperity, solve problems, and have better health.”

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Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works

How does motivation work? The classic answer is that people are motivated to approach pleasure and avoid pain, that they are motivated by “carrots and sticks.” But to understand human motivation, it is necessary to go beyond pleasure and pain. What people want is to be effective in their life pursuits, and there are three distinct ways that people want to be effective. They want to be effective in having desired results (value), which includes having pleasure but is not limited to pleasure. They want to be effective in managing what happens (control) and in establishing what’s real (truth), even if the process of managing what happens or establishing what’s real is painful. These three distinct ways of wanting to be effective go beyond just wanting pleasure, but there is even more to the story of how motivation works. These ways of wanting to be effective do not function in isolation. Rather, they work together. Indeed, the ways that value, truth, and control work together is the central story of motivation. By understanding how motivation works as an organization of value, truth, and control motives, we can re-think basic motivational issues, such as the nature of personality and culture, how the motives of others can be managed effectively, and what is “the good life.”

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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal’s wildly popular course “The Science of Willpower,” The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.

Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn:
Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health. Temptation and stress hijack the brain’s systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control. Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control. Willpower failures are contagious—you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends­­—but you can also catch self-control from the right role models. In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.

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An Inspiration to All Who Enter: Fifty Works from Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke Library, one of the world’s great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library’s most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library’s curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce’s proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle, a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others.