- Hardcover: 143 pages
- Publisher: North Light Books; illustrated edition edition (April 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 158180122X
- ISBN-13: 978-1581801224
- Product Dimensions: 28.7 x 22.4 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 871 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #402,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Stroud brings years of one-woman shows, awards, and published articles to this inspiring book on pushing boundaries and exploring creative expression. She provides 19 projects and exercises for loosening up, improvising paintings, and combining media. The exercises explore texture, floral design, self-portrait, and still life in a semi-abstract, semi-representational style. Stroud references philosophical traditions like Zen, but the emphasis is on freeing up one's art. Williams's Creative Utopia, on the other hand, takes the designer or illustrator much further into the realm of the creative subconscious. Williams uses yoga, aromatherapy, feng shui, meditation, and the Tibetan mandala to achieve mental clarity and creative energy. Whether these methods can work for everyone, as the author contends, is up for debate. They have certainly worked for Williams, whose art design group has won hundreds of awards. Stroud's book is highly recommended for general collections as the next logical step after Nick and Diane Meglin's Drawing from Within: Unleashing Your Creative Potential, a humorous yet meaty book for neophytes. Williams's book may be a little too mystical for those suspicious of promises of "utopia" and "total creativity." Jeanne Carbonetti's The Zen of Creative Painting: An Elegant Design for Revealing Your Muse approaches the same territory in a more earthbound fashion.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Artists can sometimes feel as though they're in a creative rut. With Painting From the Inside Out, readers will use fun and inspiring exercises to break out of that rut and create exciting, innovative new paintings every time they pick up a brush!
Each chapter highlights demonstrations and inspirations that will enable readers to push past boundaries and explore new ideas, including exercises for loosening up, improvisational painting, combining mediums and more. These lessons will help readers think about art in new and imaginative ways, then render such imaginings with a variety of useful techniques.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Grab Your Brushes!,
By Mary Beam (Cosby, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Painting from the Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit (Hardcover)
Painting From The Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit. by Betsy Dillard Stroud.Run! Grab your paint brushes and get ready for an adventure in creating. Stroud takes you up and down, in and out on an eye-boggling excursion into a realm of discovery. From zen and ignota to swashbuckling freestyle with Picasso she guides the willing participant through various channels to your inner being. While there she nutures and instructs you through her knowledge of art history and years of practice in art to find a painterly mode of expression for your thoughts and feelings. This book teaches, illustrates and inspires you to let go and enjoy the wonder and esthetics of the painting experience. It employs techniques in layering, stamping, pouring, resists, lifting etc. to free you for your creative endeavors. Stroud has found herself in her love of dramatic color, energetic design and daring freedom of imagination.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I sleep with this book.,
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This review is from: Painting from the Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit (Hardcover)
This is a great book for the fearful artist wanting to break out of old habits or one who wants a workshop in a book. Stroud's plain language demonstrations are fun and refreshing for me to try, freeing my brush and mind to find new techniques. She works with acrylics and watercolors, so if this is your medium, it's worth reading. The oil painter may be able to employ some theory, but won't be able to apply most of the techniques.I found her tips on art supplies and usage to be really helpful, for anyone in a small town (with crappy art stores)who wants specifics on weights of papers etc, this may be for you too. Stroud is not afraid to make muddy puddles on her working surface and I needed this to lighten up with my painting process. I highly recommend the book, especially to younger artists who are interested in the creative process and having fun. I have been walking around the house and garden cradling it for days now.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Engagingly personal,
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This review is from: Painting from the Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit (Hardcover)
A wonderful book, written with the freshness and exuberance that characterize the author's paintings, many of which appear here in all their splendor. The illustrations are themselves worth the price of the book, but they are perfectly complemented by an eminently readable text that is concise and to the point, yet engagingly personal in tone. The author's remarks are keyed to the paintings and provide practical directions and inspiring observations on everything from materials to techniques to subtleties of composition, form and color. Very highly recommended.
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