I want to thank the Publisher, F&W Media and #Netgalley for providing me with an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Wonderful step by step book helping you create your story in mixed media. Great instruction and beautiful illustrations.

This is not a bad book I just didn't get a lot of usable information from it, definitely wouldn't be a book I would buy for the cost of the paperback buy maybe for the eBook.

I think I may have bitten more than I can chew here. It was a bit of a challenge for me read this book. While I understand what the artist has written, and I do see that she has explained and vividly shown how she creates her stories, I sadly don't share the artistic process Cathy goes through with her paintings and inspirations.

My other dilemma with this book is that there are so many materials I need to use. Some I don't have at hand so that's a struggle I have to bear (starving artist? LOL). I don't use swatches of sort the way she does, And no, I'm not blaming this on anyone, I just had to put it out there. Ha!

Activity-wise, they are easy enough to follow, it's the "finding your story" part I didn't grasp as well as I hoped. I still look forward to recreating the artworks here though because they look like a lot of fun to do. Although, I'll be improvising with the other items here.

I do like that this book enabled me to challenge myself to do mixed media art. I've been very comfortable with watercolor at the moment so I'm looking forward to learning something new.

A great handbook for beginners! It includes what you need to start dabbling with mixed media, as well as color studies, exercises, and quotes to inspire.

"Storytelling Art Studio" is an art instruction book about making mixed media art that tells a story. The author has 10 projects that cover different aspects of story telling: using color to convey emotion, creating characters and sidekicks, setting a scene, creating conflict, adding text, using symbolism, repeating a motif, selecting a title, and such. She started each project by providing a creativity prompt to get you thinking and suggesting reference material for you to gather. Then she provided a step-by-step demonstration project. She broke the project down into simple steps with useful instructional text and photographs for each step.

She used paint chips (like for wall paint) to help select a color scheme. She usually used small wood panels (6"x6" to 8"x10") and acrylic paints for the projects as well as gel pens, ink pens, photographs, card stock, etc., for the mixed media aspect. Each project used a wide variety of materials, but the finished project is relatively small (which I like). Overall, I found her take on telling stories through art to be pretty basic (as you're creating just one scene) but interesting and easy to follow.

Wow, I liked it, the sketches are easy-to-do and fun - at least playing with color and drawing and painting / collaging is a good healthy mental exercise to release creative energy.

From the size of a canvas to the color of paint, Storytelling Art Studio is an excellent resource for those interested in a different kind of crafting. I love how they show with pictures how to tell a story using just colors and then graduate to different shapes, figures and textures. Really excellent for a novice just beginning to dabble in the crafts.

Looks an amazing and gorgeous book but I am unable to download it in its current format. However thank you so much for the approval.