Cultivating your creative life
Subtitle: how to find balance, beauty, and success as an artist
By: Alena Hennessy
Publisher: Quarry Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Beverly
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781592537860
Subjects: CRAFTS & HOBBIES / General; Psychology; Artists; Self-actualization (Psychology); SELF-HELP / Creativity; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: "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"--