The trickster's hat
Subtitle: a mischievous apprenticeship in creativity
By: Nick Bantock
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Penguin Group; TarcherPerigee
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780399165023
Subjects: Collage; Creative thinking; Problems, exercises
Description: "In The Trickster's Hat, bestselling author of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy Nick Bantock invites you to lose yourself in order to become a better creator.  Inspired by Nick's popular and mischievous workshops, the book's fourty-nine perceptive exercises will encourage you to forget your destination while you meander through the wonderous world that awaits you in the periphery of your mind's eye.."--back cover.
Notes: "A Perigee book."
Table of contents: title: If you want a shortcut; title: The exercises. Climbing in through a small window; title: Loosening the brain; title: Stamp collage; title: Pictorial autobiography; title: Directed collage; title: Finishing lines; title: Building a country; title: Composition; title: Transposing nouns; title: Portrait of the artist as a young man; title: Traveling with archetypes; title: Limerick; title: First kiss; title: A rant; title: Inventing words; title: Dice game; title: Porky pies or passionate lies; title: Board game; title: The unusual suspects; title: Ice and fire; title: Four-square collage; title: Lost in the forest; title: Poetry of silence; title: Altered models; title: Face collage; title: Chiaroscuro; title: Form and content; title: Mundane vs. romantic; title: Graphic quotes; title: A marriage of opposites; title: Learning from others; title: Magical object; title: The unexpected; title: Envelope; title: Drawing empty; title: Sage; title: Dreams; title: Top fives; title: Blue; title: Expanding the Jabberwocky; title: Climbing the steps; title: Big pastel; title: Reverse time capsules; title: Childmind; title: Lopsided lighthouse; title: Painting without brushes; title: Risk and happy accidents; title: Delivered by accident in twilight; title: Seduction optional. And then; title: Index of the familiars.