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Drawing for joy, 15-minute daily meditations to cultivate drawing skill and unwind with color : 365 prompts for aspiring artists, Stephanie Peterson Jones

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Drawing for joy

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Stephanie Peterson Jones

15-minute daily meditations to cultivate drawing skill and unwind with color : 365 prompts for aspiring artists

Drawing for Joy gives readers an accessible series of 52 week-by-week exercises designed as a low-stress way to build a successful daily drawing practice in just 15 minutes a day

Cover; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Mindfulness Meditation; How to Use This Book; The Essentials What you'll need to get started; What Do I Draw With?; Adding Color; Your Art Palette; Your Artist's License; The Heart of Making Art Learn about the basic elements and principles of art; Good to Know: The Elements of Art; Week 1: Walk the Line Methods for making marks; Week 2: Borders Designing with line; Week 3: Value Using lights and darks for visual emphasis; Week 4: Shapes Investigating geometric and organic formsWeek 5: Creating Form Three-dimensional shapes and perspectiveWeek 6: Putting Shapes Together Exploring the basics; Good to Know: Color Wheel and Color Harmony; Week 7: Coloring Flowers Using color wheel palettes; Week 8: Let's Get Patterny Drawing and arranging shapes; Week 9: Putting Patterns Together Creating repeats, tosses, and stripes; Good to Know: Principles of Design; Week 10: Finding Balance Investigating symmetry; Week 11: Make a Move Creating movement and direction; Week 12: Flower Power Filling in Flower and leaf shapesWeek 13: Pattern Play Drawing patterns based on common objectsWeek 14: Drawing In and Around Exploring positive and negative space; Go with the Flow Practice drawing with art starts; Week 15: Leaves Basic foliage forms; Week 16: Simple Flowers Balanced blooms; Week 17: Basic Frames Enhancing simple shapes; Week 18: Feathered Fun Drawing pretty plumes; Week 19: Everyday Textures Using pattern to suggest surface quality; Week 20: Seashells Ocean inspiration; Week 21: Butter˜lies and Bugs Symmetrical insects; Week 22: Drawing on Rocks A natural canvasWeek 23: We Built a City Shape and pattern as architectural detailWeek 24: Artful Hearts Using a heart shape to draw motifs; Week 25: A Little Culture Symbols from around the world; Week 26: Folk Art Animals Dividing with shapes and embellishing with patterns; Week 27: My Drawing Meditations Letting art happen; From Flow Comes Joy Take the next step in drawing; Week 28: Easy Spirals and Paisleys Classic motifs, step-by-step; Week 29: Simple Mandalas Combining shape, pattern, and value; Week 30: Snow˜lakes Six-pointed wonders; Week 31: Kaleidoscopes Symmetrical forms made for colorWeek 32: Aviary Drawing a variety of birdsWeek 33: Coffee Mugs and Teacups Drawing and patterning drinking vessels; Week 34: Go Fish Adding Fins and more to basic shapes; Week 35: Make It Your Own Personalizing familiar objects; Week 36: Wise Owls Combining shapes and varying sizes; Week 37: Complex Objects, Basic Shapes Simplifying difficult forms; Week 38: Making Faces Placing features; Week 39: Hair and Hats Finishing heads; Week 40: Freeform Doodles Letting line and pattern flow; Joy Happens For when you're in the drawing groove