Discover the Joy in Your Art!"
Nothing will get you going like the much-awaited follow-up Nita's 1990 best-seller, Creative Artist, which sold over 65,000 copies! The New Creative Artist (and we do mean 'new''over 50% new material in a great updated package) is a hands-on book of activities for stimulating creative thinking and doing. Every page is packed with inventive lessons and imaginative prompts designed to wake up and shake up your creativity.

Like a Swiss army knife for the artistic soul, this book is your tool to performing all kinds of creative feats. Loosen up and shake off self-imposed boundaries. Shock your system into seeing favorite subjects in new ways. Discover personal 'themes' to explore via your art. Find painting inspiration in sliced fruits, magazine ads and shadows. This book will help you inch around (or bound right over!) roadblocks...develop your unique voice...and take great, creative leaps of faith.

Most importantly, it will free you to worry less about the destination and discover joy in the journey itself!

113 Ways to Get Creative
At the heart of this book, 113 'prompts' encourage you to get creative without the pressures of 'making art.' (Although it's inevitable that you'll discover some mighty fine ideas and starts for your art along the way.)

Considering the big lessons they teach, some of these creative challenges are surprisingly simple. (Paint with a gigantic brush or draw with your non-dominant hand.). Some you can easily fit into your spare moments. (Like creating a portable 'creativity kit' for making small sketches or torn-paper collages while you're sitting in traffic or in your dentist's waiting room.) Most are solo pursuits, but some prompt you to get creative with friends and other artists. Here are just a few of the creative exercises you'll find:

* Try two-handed drawing for spontaneous line quality.
* Reconnect with the free-thinking kid in you by using materials you've long since abandoned or by drawing while lying on the floor.
* Look for images or designs in unexpected places.
* Turn on some favorite music and draw the rhythms of the music.
* Arrange a still life. Change your position two or three times as you draw the objects--ambiguous perspective creates tension and energy in your design.

With over 100 creative activities and a handy 'Activity Guide' in the front of the book, you can enter into The New Creative Artist wherever you like, as many times as you like, and always have a new experience that will energize your paintings!

Enjoy the Ride!
Based on the original Creative Artist published in 1990, this revised edition features 15 more years of lessons gathered from Nita's workshops along with 50% new material: new activities, updated art, plus an added chapter that explores the different means of expression in art and craft, and a great new spiral-bound format!

Dip in as a warm-up for your painting sessions, or as a fun way to learn art-changing lessons on composition, color, contrast, working from photos and much more. Best of all, embrace it for the pure joy of making creativity a beautiful, highly-anticipated part of your everyday.

Visually tantalizing, filled with fabulous examples of expression at its best, The New Creative Artist will tempt you--again and again--to stray from the beaten path into rich and tantalizing creative territory. Happy exploring!

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