Overview
Discover Your Artistic Individuality
When you listen to your visual voice and follow your intuitive artistic truth, you feel energized, stimulated and connected. Your creative juices are flowing and you receive the energy needed to create what you feel. At the same time, you experience a sense of peace and calm, the satisfaction of doing what you are meant to do."
—Dakota Mitchell
Express your creative vision by discovering your distinctive visual voice. Many art instruction books show you ways to paint, but this guide prompts you to explore how and why you paint. What do you respond to visually? Emotionally? This book helps you answer those questions and more to give your artistic self a voice.
Finding Your Visual Voice is the only book that offers step-by-step painting demonstrations, visual examples and engaging exercises to help you build a customized creative process. You'll paint with expression and confidence, so that you can act on your truest creative impulses, and create the artwork you've always dreamed of painting.
Garner encouragement and advice from more than 30 successful artists whose insights are featured throughout the book. In their own words, these artists describe their work, revealing their personal struggles, discoveries, processes and achievements. Their compositions span a diverse range of subjects and mediums, but all offer an illuminating perspective on the elusive nature of artmaking.
Dare to find your own voice and push your artistry well beyond the boundaries of your previous work. With this guide and your own imagination, you have everything you need to achieve a richer, more rewarding artistic life.
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Synopsis
Offers a unique approach centered on helping painters realize their own style
Features the wisdom of over 30 different artists from a variety of mediums, including watercolor, oil and acrylic
Guides readers through the self-discovery process with a three-step plan
No two artists are alike and this book helps artists discover their own individual style. Finding Your Visual Voice allows artists to tap their potential with insights from accomplished painters, demonstrations, and a visual index at the end of each chapter designed to direct the reader to the style of art they want to create.
Artists will be guided through three phases of self-discovery where they will learn information about the painting process, determine exactly what they want to express through their art, and finally identify the specific skills needed to accomplish their artistic goals.