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Making Pearls: Living the Creative Life [Paperback]

Jeanne Carbonetti (Author)
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For artists and painters who wish to create not only projects of beauty, but ones that also reflect inner spirituality, Making Pearls is the ultimate primer for expanding creativity and spirituality in every area of art and life.



Filled with dozens of lush, reflective paintings, Making Pearls takes the reader, step by step, through the seven stages of the creative cycle: Waiting, Opening, Closing, Holding, Releasing, Emptying, and Sitting. Within each chapter are several evocative essays and inspirational exercises that demonstrate how each of these creative stages affects the mind, body, and spirit. Chapters also include meditative exercises, as well as an evolving painting project for the readers that serves as a microcosm of the full creative process.



This reflective, inspirational guide demonstrates the essential process and purpose of creativity: to make pearls of meaning and beauty of our selves and our lives. For the new-age artist on the path to spiritual awareness, Making Pearls is the ultimate resource for living a totally creative life, body and soul.

About the Author

Jeanne Carbonetti is a teacher who specializes in helping students get in touch with the power of their own creative process. She is the author of the Path of Painting series. She lives in Chester, Vermont.

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4.0 out of 5 stars More of Carbonetti's gorgeous work--advice for creativity, Nov 21 2001
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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This is not a painting how-to book. Making Pearls is Vermont artist Jeanne Carbonetti's attempt to verbalize her creative exercises she uses and teaches for her free style of watercolor.

If you are a fan of Carbonetti's paintings, there are many photos of her work in this book to drool and marvel over. There is one useful exercise--making a "creation cycle" using the seven colors based on the India Chakras. Her theory is that we are always within the cycle of creation and need to recognize where we are in the cycle to be in rhythm with the flow. If you can't take one of her workshops, using this book can lead you through the exercise.

Why "Making Pearls" as a title? This is a metaphor for taking irritations of daily life and making something beautiful from them, just as the oyster takes a grain of sand and creates a pearl.

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4.0 out of 5 stars More of Carbonetti's gorgeous work--advice for creativity, Nov 21 2001
By Joanna Daneman - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Making Pearls: Living the Creative Life (Paperback)
This is not a painting how-to book. Making Pearls is Vermont artist Jeanne Carbonetti's attempt to verbalize her creative exercises she uses and teaches for her free style of watercolor.

If you are a fan of Carbonetti's paintings, there are many photos of her work in this book to drool and marvel over. There is one useful exercise--making a "creation cycle" using the seven colors based on the India Chakras. Her theory is that we are always within the cycle of creation and need to recognize where we are in the cycle to be in rhythm with the flow. If you can't take one of her workshops, using this book can lead you through the exercise.

Why "Making Pearls" as a title? This is a metaphor for taking irritations of daily life and making something beautiful from them, just as the oyster takes a grain of sand and creates a pearl.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, May 26 2007
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This review is from: Making Pearls: Living the Creative Life (Paperback)
This is not a how to book, but rather an exploration of the creative process. Well written, insightful and inspiring!

5.0 out of 5 stars I really like this book, Jan 29 2012
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This book has provided many pearls of wisdom. I have not yet done any of the painting exercises but still find great value in its content.
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