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

by Carla Sonheim

Overview

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 Artists offers 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592536139
Publisher:	Quarry Books
Publication date:	07/01/2010
Series:	Lab Series
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	225,784
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Carla Sonheim is 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.

Editorial Reviews

Sonheim, Carla. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises To Make Drawing Fun. Quarry: Quayside. 2010. 144p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 9781592536139. pap. $22.99. ART INSTRUCTION
Sonheim, a painter, illustrator, and workshop instructor, uses skills learned by drawing—e.g., learning to “see” and focus, developing your “hand”—to instill the confidence to get wildly creative in mixed media. In 52 weekly projects, she finds inspiration in famous artists, childhood, and nature. One week focuses on “Your Inner Dr. ­Seuss,” another on drawing 100 experimental portraits. Sonheim hopes to return adults to the creative innocence of childhood. A good choice for artists of any level. - Library Journal, November, 15, 2010

Book Review, “Running with Scissors” by Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood, www.craftgossip.com, July 7, 2010

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 grade because we decided we weren’t talented enough to stick with it. From doodle sketches to paper dolls, this book will renew your confidence and make you want a new sketch book and box of Crayolas.

Book review, Cecil Whig, “5 Things to Do This Week”, Elton, Maryland, July 26, 2010 “This book might be just what you are looking for when escaping this summer’s inexorable hear. The projects and techniques are designed to help adults recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Find a ton of projects, ideas and techniques that will increase confidence and improve skills.

From the Publisher

Sonheim, a painter, illustrator, and workshop instructor, uses skills learned by drawing—e.g., learning to "see" and focus, developing your "hand"—to instill the confidence to get wildly creative in mixed media. In 52 weekly projects, she finds inspiration in famous artists, childhood, and nature. One week focuses on "Your Inner Dr. Seuss," another on drawing 100 experimental portraits. Sonheim hopes to return adults to the creative innocence of childhood. A good choice for artists of any level.

Library Journal