CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life

CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life

Danielle Donaldson
$24.99
Publication Date: July 21st, 2015
Publisher:
North Light Books
ISBN:
9781440340123
Pages:
128

Description

Find your artistic creativity with delicate doodles, big colors and lavish layers!

CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies. Danielle Donaldson shows you how to draw the pretty pictures from your imagination, infuse your art with delightful color combinations and work through creative frustration with simple fixes. You'll learn how to paint with watercolor, tell visual stories with and without words and add depth with layers using mixed-media techniques and little details--all while finding inspiration and gaining confidence in your own artistic style.

Draw, paint, layer and create!

   • More than 30 techniques and projects including drawing, painting and adding layers for artists and aspiring artists of all levels.
   • Learn how do draw and paint figures such as creativeGIRL, busyGIRL and tutuGIRL. Then create your own girl to channel your story.
   • Find even more inspiration in a gallery filled with extraLOVE from the artist.

About the Author

Danielle Donaldson is a mixed-media artist whose work focuses on watercolor and graphite drawing techniques and she is never without a mechanical pencil and a white pen or two. She has many years of experience working within the scrapbook industry designing products, teaching techniques in small and large venues and contributing to several books and magazines on a regular basis.