"Cultivating Your Creative Life: How to Find Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You'll delve right into the creative process and find practical and inspiring suggestions on making a living as a working artist. This book holds reverence and respect for the natural world in high esteem, using a central visual metaphor of the growth and blossoming of a tree. Alena Hennessy's illustration style combines nature, whimsey, delicacy, and a modern sensibility; vibrant pen and ink illustrations accompany relevant quotes of inspiration, tips, and creative journal exercises. Cultivating Your Creative Life is not only an interactive creativity guide; it is a work of art, in itself--a beautiful, collectible volume--to save and to savor, or to give as a gift to the special creative person in your life"--
Record details
ISBN:1592537863 (pbk.)
ISBN:9781592537860 (pbk.)
Physical Description:128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm print
Publisher:Beverly, MA : Quarry Books, 2012.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Planting seeds -- Into the woods -- Courting inspiration -- Enriching patterns -- Herbal lore -- Breathing deep -- Roots & branches -- Tools to manifest.