Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun [Paperback]

Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life.Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artistsoffers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the readers gain new skills and confidence, allowing them to take their work to a new level.

Carla Sonheimis an illustrator and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more child-like play approach to creating. One student recently said, [Being in your workshop] is like being a kid again, but we get to do it as an adult. Carla is the author of three books: The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for Everyone (Perigee Books), Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop (Quarry) and the best-selling Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists (Quarry). She currently resides in Seattle, WA where she holds numerous online workshops. Visit her online at carlasonheim.com and carlasonheim.wordpress.com.

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Reclaim your inner artist

If I ever meet Carla Sonheim, I will probably not be able to suppress the urge to hug her for writing “Drawing Lab For Mixed Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun”. Loaded with a year’s worth of inspirational prompts, this book is for all of us creative types who stopped drawing right around the third l³@