Expressive Sketchbooks

Developing Creative Skills, Courage, and Confidence

Helen Wells

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English

Quarry Books
31 March 2020

Watercolours; Drawing & drawings; Art techniques & principles; Painting & art manuals

Expressive Sketchbooks shares a host of creative ideas and prompts, tools and techniques, methods for working around obstacles and barriers, and tons of visual inspiration to help you grow in your sketchbooking practice. An expressive sketchbook is a place for you to explore, express, and enjoy your own innate creativity on your own terms. It is a safe playground for the imagination-a place to mess about, play, and experiment-and to gain confidence in your abilities as you develop your skills.

Expressive Sketchbooks offers techniques and creative exercises that incorporate mark making, watercolor,mixed media, collage, words and text, and more. It unpacks some of the obstacles and barriers that you may face along the way and offers wisdom and encouragement to help you decide why and how to start your sketchbook and how to develop and expand your artistic practice. This book is packed with ideas and exercises, including:

Exploratory drawing exercises

How to utilize color in your sketchbook

How to create dynamic and varied sketchbook pages

How to find inspiration in nature and in your everyday life

Ways to mix media and art supplies

Ways to kickstart your creativity

How to find and develop a process that feels personal to you

Through this book, you'll find out what lights you up, what makes you curious and fascinated, and what makes you expansive. Discover how to magnify your creativity and enliven your art skills by using an expressive sketchbook as your daily companion.

By: Helen Wells
Imprint: Quarry Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781631598357
ISBN 10: 163159835X
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 31 March 2020
Recommended Age: From 0 to 99 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helen Wells is an artist from the South Coast of England. Her art works are intricate and organic and depict illusionary surfaces or landscapes. With multiple layers, fragments, colors, and obsessive decorative details, her ethereal patterned works bring to mind elements of the natural world or magical other-worlds. Her artworks are in private collections all over the world and have featured on numerous products, from book covers to wine bottles. In 2014, she co-won Winsor & Newton's Watercolor Revolution competition which resulted in her painting being displayed in the Saatchi Gallery in London. She has also been featured in magazines and exhibited her work at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants in London. She became an artist later in life after working in an office job for many years. She credits her use of sketchbooks with her finding her artistic style and the courage to develop her art outside of their pages. She is passionate about sketchbooks as a tool for self-discovery, play, and creativity and keen to share everything she has learned along the way. For more information, visit Helen online: helenwellsartist.com instagram.com/helenwellsart pinterest.co.uk/helenwellsartist

Reviews for Expressive Sketchbooks: Developing Creative Skills, Courage, and Confidence

"""An especially useful, thoroughly art student friendly, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, art school, community libraries."" * Midwest Book Review *"