The Painted Art Journal
24 Projects for Creating Your Visual Narrative
by Jeanne Oliver
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Pub Date Jul 03 2018 | Archive Date Jun 14 2018
F+W Media | North Light Books
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Description
The Painted Art Journal opens doors to your most personal and authentic art yet. Tell your story as only you can, through a series of guided projects that culminate in a beautiful, autobiographical art journal worthy of passing along to future generations. Along the way, you will hone your own unique style of artful storytelling, filled with the images, colors and symbols that resonate most powerfully with you.
Twenty-four inventive, step-by-step prompts help you to:Set the scene for making art--from establishing rituals that unlock creativity to curating a personal storyboard.Draw inspiration from photos, typography, sketches, childhood memories, quotes and more.Shape your story with timelines, gathered-word poetry and simple approaches to portraits.Express yourself through an exciting range of mixed-media techniques, using everything from pen and ink, markers and watercolor to image transfers, printmaking with linocuts, acrylic and collage.A book unlike any other, The Painted Art Journal is all about digging deeper, honoring your life, and coming away with a truer understanding of yourself and your art.
"Each of our stories is so different, lovely and broken in its own way." --Jeanne Oliver
A Note From the Publisher
Jeanne uses art to tell her current stories and those of growing up among gravel roads, cornfields and early life surrounded by open spaces. Through mark making, layers and mixed media, she hopes to convey that we all have a story to tell. Connecting with women and sharing that each of us has been creatively made is one of her passions. Visit her website at jeanneoliver.com.
Featured Reviews
Alexis A, Reviewer
This book walks you through the steps of creating your own artistic journal, and does so pretty easily. I understood how to hand bind a journal through pictures, something I only kind of fumbled through before. The story boarding and strategies for choosing themes or pictures was clear and precise. I don't paint well, but the style of journaling can easily be applied to pictures you like, or find, or pictures of friends or family. You could even make a highly stylized family tree album (which I might try) using these methods. Any painter or digital artist can easily enjoy this book, just as well as someone like me who don't even know how to how a paintbrush. Very cool!
Reviewer 47558
Perfect! Anyone who journals is going to fall in love with this book. It's one I'll be referring to often.
Diana M, Reviewer
If you like the idea of creating an art journal where you can paint different projects, then this book is for you. In its pages you will find a series of projects and ideas that will teach you how to do an art journal from scratch and how to fill its pages with different projects. I find it nice that they give you some instructions about creating your art book and then some projects to began filling it and then some techniques from where you can learn to do your own thing once you are confident enough :)
In order to help your creative side they present you with 24 projects guided from step one to completition, from creating as I've said the art journal; to get inspirations from art or photos, quotes, etc; to use different techniques like watercolor, markers, collages, etc.
What I loved is that they show you different things, how to combine lettering with pics with splashes of color so you can see different things you can do and then decide which one will be your approach to your own journal.
I think it is a nice book from where to get inspiration to do your own art and also providing some tutorials about techniques and stuff.
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General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
