'Art Escapes' - Daily excercises & inspirations for discovering greater creativity & artistic confidence Details Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, Art Escapes provides the ideas and encouragement you need to discover greater creativity and artistic confidence, even when you're short on time. Professional artist and instructor Doiy Kanter shows you how to: * Experience more fun and greater confidence drawing and painting * Express yourself and experiment everyday with an art journal * Reinterpret daily life with simple, beauti- jul sketches * Find painting inspiration in unexpected places * Paint freely, intuitively and passion- ately with a simple four-step approach * Create new forms of art, including watercolormosaics, paper weavings and found object collages You'll also find 1 min drawing, watercolor, mixed media, and assemblage projects, plus several "page-a-day" ideas. With Art Escapes, you'll leam how to build an art "habit," one that brings joy with every stroke of your brush. Hard cover, ringbound style 128 pages Price: $45.00   ($40.91) Contents Introduction Secrets to Successful Artistic Journaling 1 Assemble Your Supplies fpr Creativity Sketchbook Portfolio Demonstration make a Sketchbook Portfolio Drawing Tool Kit Collage Tool Kit Watercolour Tool Kit Demo: Make your own Tool Kits 2 Have Fun and Keep it Simple One Minute Drawings Open Page Format Don't Bother With Erasing Look What Just Three Colours Can Do! First Paint, Then Draw Demo: Creat a Prismatic Painting Paint Past the Photo Demo: Paint Past the Photo 3 Opportunities for Everyday Creative Moments Creative Doodling The Creative Matrix Make a Creative Matrix This Weekend Matrix Categories to Get You Started Windowpane Painting Demo: Don't Just Shop For Dinner Room with a View Demo: Capture Simplicity and Sophistication Travel Art Tips Observation Icons Demo: Create an Observation Icon 4 Putting it all in Perspective Bird's Eye View Demo: Make a Garden Piazza Perspective Demo: Paint with Perspective Leave Out a Ground Make Seven Paintings from One Landscape Panoramic Perspective Demo: Make a Panoramic Viewfinder Demo: Create a Folded Frame for your Panorama The Sensory Perspective 5 Art Assemblage, Collage & Other Inspiring Ideas Watercolour Mosaics Use Black or Coloured backgrcounds Add Texture Using Special Effects Demo: Dry Mount Glue Technique Painted Paper Cutouts Demo: Create a Colourful Background Blanket Paper Weaving Weave a Wavy Memory Weave Two Themes into One Subject Crinkled Paper Collage Demo: Rich Colour and Texture Found Object Collage 6 Let's Go Outside and Paint Inspiration: The First Step Shape Plan: the Second Step Value Plan: The Third Step Using a Red Filter to See Values Moving from Landscape to Painting Colour: The Fourth Step Capture the Mood with Colour Triads Triads Have Personality! Get to Know the Full Spectrum Triad Demo: Use the Earth Triad Get to Know the Water Triad Get to Know the Sun Triad My Colour Palette Perfect Complements Create Perfect Blacks The Palette Layout Conclusion: Be an Art Explorer Index