Drawing is for everyone : simple lessons to make your creative practice a daily habit

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With Drawing Is for Everyone, you can learn how to build a daily drawing practice and how to set intentions and create, even if you have just 10 minutes a day. The projects draw inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, and invite experimentation with a variety of sources. You'll pursue your personal passions through accessible projects as you build your drawing skills, confidence, and creativity.

General Note:

Includes index.

"Explore infinite creative possibilities in graphite, colored pencil, and ink" -- Cover.

Contents:

Introduction. A creative drawing practice for everyone; The four guiding principles of a creative drawing practice -- The lessons. Graphite: materials and projects ; Colored pencil: materials and projects ; Ink: materials and projects -- Final thoughts.

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Subject Term:

Drawing -- Technique.

Publisher:

Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9780760370667

Publication Information:

Beverly, MA : Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2021.

Call Number:

741.2 EWING

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Discover your unique inner artist through 21 intuitive, process-based lessons in drawing with graphite pencil, colored pencil, and ink--then joyfully share your works of beauty with the world.

In Drawing Is for Everyone , artist Kateri Ewing--author of Look Closer, Draw Better and Watercolor Is for Everyone-- guides you through a series of simple creative drawing projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether you're drawing for the first time or are an experienced artist, you'll discover and deepen your creative potential through these exercises, because everyone can make art . Each lesson includes two art pieces, one to keep, and then a smaller one, such as a postcard or mini painting, to share or send out into the world, to spread their color, creativity, and joy in new places.

With Drawing Is for Everyone , you can learn how to build a daily drawing practice and how to set intentions and create , even if you have just 10 minutes a day . The projects draw inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, and invite experimentation with a variety of sources. You'll pursue your personal passions through accessible projects as you build your drawing skills, confidence, and creativity .

Author Notes

The author of Look Closer, Draw Better and Watercolor Is for Everyone , Kateri Ewing is an artist in residence and teacher at the Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, New York. For her artistic and writing endeavors, she was honored with the 2012 Mary and Gil Stott Award at Roycroft. Her artwork has also won numerous awards in both local and national exhibitions. She uses her Patreon virtual classroom to interact with her students, worldwide, daily. She lives in Western New York. Her website is kateriewing.com.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Ewing (Watercolor Is for Everyone; Look Closer, Draw Better) presents 21 lessons on drawing, with the same gentle and encouraging manner that permeated her first two books. Designed to be time-conscious, and to keep frustration at bay, each lesson can be completed fully, or at least partially, in 15-minute segments. The lessons are heavily inspired by nature and geometry, and use three basic media: graphite, colored pencil, and ink. Ewing is herself a self-taught artist, so she is particularly mindful of beginners, and of budding artists' tendency to give up when they can't quite copy what they see. In each section, Ewing thoroughly explores the medium, materials, and methods at hand, in order to give readers confidence. This book is not meant to be a step-by-step guide, but Ewing gives enough direction for even the most doubtful beginners; she also allows ample room for artists to explore and make each piece their own. The projects are varied enough that readers will find at least a few that bring them joy. VERDICT Ewing delivers a solid introduction to drawing that will capture the interest of hesitant beginners, as well as more experienced artists looking for new and different projects.--Holly Hebert, Middle Tennessee State Univ., Murfreesboro