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(More customer reviews)This book is a keeper, a touchstone to come back to on those awful, dark
days when I'm sure there isn't a drop of creative energy left. It will sit
in an honored place beside my worktable between Everyday Matters by Danny Gregory and Kaleidoscope by Suzanne Simanaitis. This is where I reach when
the muse sneaks off to play the horses.
Let's face it, many of the books published about collage and mixed media art are profit-driven or a surface scratching prettifying of the creative life. I've bought and been disappointed by several. This book is the real
thing-something to dive into and come up with a pearl of a kick start to
goat-butt you out of your self pitying trough of creative dispair.
Buy the book-you will not be listing it on half.com in two weeks. It will
sit in a honored place for those moments you need something special.
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This book answers questions that every crafter ponders: What is creativity, anyway? Where do ideas come from? How do successful artists get started? How do you know when a piece is finished?Creativity is different for everyone, and "Living the Creative Life" offers a wide range of insights from 15 well-known and admired full-time artists, including: Linda Woods (art journaler and co-author of "Visual Chronicles" and the forthcoming 'Journal Revolution"), Michael deMeng (mixed-media assemblage artist and author of "Secrets of Rusty Things"), Melissa Zink (New Mexican mixed-media artist and bronze sculptor), James Michael Starr (collage and assemblage artist), Scott Radke (puppet maker) and many others.Colourful and engaging artwork fills the pages alongside the chronicles of artistic awakenings, creative techniques, inspired strategies, unique ways of thinking, and high-energy brainstorms by the very artists readers admire in magazines, learn from at retreat workshops and buy work from online.Full of been-there, have-you-thought-about-trying-this stories and insights, "Living The Creative Life" will appeal to artists of all mediums and skill levels.
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