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

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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 child-like, 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 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 skills and confidence allowing them to take their work to a new level.

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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

Carla Sonheim Biography

CARLA SONHEIM is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques. A popular teacher for Artfest, Art & Soul, and similar workshop venues, she has been called a "gifted facilitator" and loves to help adult students recover a more child-like play approach to creating. As one student recently put it, "[Being in your workshop] is like being a kid again, but we get to do it as an adult." Carla's Girls paintings are showcased in numerous galleries nationwide, as well as in private and corporate collections around the world. She is the author of Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists and Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals. She currently resides in Seattle, WA. Visit her online at http://www.carlasonheim.etsy.com and http://www.carlasonheim.wordpress.com. ... Read full biography