Painting from the Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit

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Summary: Free your creative spirit to fly
Review: While this book is an excellent manual on fresh ideas, innovative techniques, and unusual and creative uses for painting materials, it is much more. With each turn of the page, Stroud beckens your artistic spirit to soar with the possibilities that lay before all of us who crave to create with freshness and vitality. The art is a visual feast and the text is evidence that the author is both an accomplished painter as well as a an author with wit, clarity and something worth saying. This is a must for everyone who is serious about their journey as an artist.

Rating:
Summary: Free your creative spirit to fly
Review: While this book is an excellent manual on fresh ideas, innovative techniques, and unusual and creative uses for painting materials, it is much more. With each turn of the page, Stroud beckens your artistic spirit to soar with the possibilities that lay before all of us who crave to create with freshness and vitality. The art is a visual feast and the text is evidence that the author is both an accomplished painter as well as a an author with wit, clarity and something worth saying. This is a must for everyone who is serious about their journey as an artist.

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Summary: Looking From the Outside Into Painting From the Inside Out
Review: You don't have to be an artist to enjoy this book on painting. Betsy Dillard Stroud's writing is as colorful as her painting. Her book is full of beautiful paintings, elegant prose, and creative ideas. Through her skill as a writer, she takes the reader on a humorous and interesting journey that combines technical skill with a masterful use of color. Even for those of use who are not artists, Painting From the Inside Out is entertaining and deserves a place on the coffee table.