Live an Artful Life
Live an Artful Life

Author: Thomas Neel

Publisher: Live an Artful Life Incorporated

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781732993709

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Through an appreciation for inspiration and creativity, career fine artist, Thomas Neel, using his 30 years of personal experience, passionately guides you through the lasting benefits of happiness, self improvement and stress relief found in living artfully. As a pathway to happiness, Live An Artful Live offers an enlightened perspective on the benefits of immersing one's self into the activity of, and the appreciation for the arts and creativity. Learning how and why to live carefree, helps relieve the mental burdens of adult responsibilities. This fosters happiness, and personal growth, thus relieving stress and assisting in our well being.. Modern life has become a 24/7 news cycle, designed to grab you with fear and anxiety, while seemingly selling you the latest pharmaceuticals. If the side effects of the drugs weren't enough, the stressful side effects of the constant bombardment of it all, certainly is. Live An Artful Life is the stop and smell the roses approach for everyone. The message is simple. Live - Not to just exist, not just the time between birth and death, but to live and experience life! Artful - Showing creative skill, cleverness or taste! Life - Again, not to just exist, but to possess the capacity to grow! In other words, to Live An Artful Life is to grow through experiencing the power of creativity, the freedom of imagination, and sharing your inspiration with others. It's not only knowing art exists, it's allowing artful things to live within and around you--there to inspire you and bring you joy, to be another language or voice.

Artful Lives
Artful Lives

Author: Beth Gates Warren

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1606060708

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This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los Angeles history as well as its darker side. Artful Lives exceeds any previously published account of this key period in Weston's development and reveals Mather's important contribution to it, making it an essential reference in Weston studies.

Creativity for Life
Creativity for Life

Author: Eric Maisel

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1577317238

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As a therapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has worked with thousands of creative people. He knows firsthand the struggles that writers, musicians, artists, dancers, and actors face and has helped them find balance in their lives while pursuing their artistic endeavors. His new book presents a comprehensive approach to the much-misunderstood life of the artist. Creativity for Life offers practical ideas as well as exercises and inspiration to nurture growth as an artist and as a person, exploring such subjects as: Establishing your creativity practice Obscurity and stardom Blocks The artist’s personality Moods and madness Artists in love Craft The rewards and perils of isolation Social interactions and community

John Dewey and the Artful Life
John Dewey and the Artful Life

Author: Scott R. Stroud

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-09-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0271056878

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Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey to argue that art and the aesthetic have a close connection to morality. Dewey gives us a way to reconceptualize our ideas of ends, means, and experience so as to locate the moral value of aesthetic experience in the experience of absorption itself, as well as in the experience of reflective attention evoked by an art object.

Living the Creative Life
Living the Creative Life

Author: Rice Freeman-Zachery

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-08-15

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 160061213X

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How DO they do it? If you could ask your favorite artist or crafter only one question, chances are you'd ask about creativity: Where do your ideas come from? How did you get started? What are your tricks for overcoming blocks? In Living the Creative Life, author Ricë Freeman-Zachery has compiled answers to these questions and more from 15 successful artists in a variety of mediums—from assemblage to fiber arts, beading to mixed-media collage. Creativity is different for everyone, and these artists share their insights on the muse (if you believe in her), keeping a sketchbook (or not), and prioritizing your art, whether you aspire to create solely for your own pleasure or to become a full-time artist. • Try your hand at creative jumpstarts straight from the pros. • Glimpse the artists' innermost thoughts and works in progress as you peruse pages from their journals and notebooks. • Share textile artist Sas Colby's triumph over creative block during an exotic art retreat. • Learn how internationally acclaimed artist James Michael Starr uses experience from his former "day job" to fuel his creation today. • Explore the work of Michael deMeng, Claudine Hellmuth, Melissa Zink and the other artists right alongside their insights. No crafter or artist should live the creative life without Living the Creative Life! The inspiration is contagious.

Living Artfully
Living Artfully

Author: Sandra Magsamen

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780743291057

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Brilliant, life-changing, beautiful, Living Artfully will instruct and inspire readers to liberate their creativity and transform their daily existence into the life of their dreams. To Magsamen, art is communication; and Living Artfully is connecting with each other in creative ways, through everyday things and moments. In this new book she explains how, where, and when readers can use their own creative language - the images, words, sounds, foods, or crafts through which they most easily express themselves - to connect more deeply and joyfully with the important people in their lives. With original art throughout, it also reveals Magsamen's own dynamic process of creativity. With inspiring stories of caring gestures, simple gifts, and unexpected efforts that make a difference, Living Artfully initially invites and encourages readers to begin a personal renaissance. Then, it presents a wealth of ideas that will jumpstart every imagination and unleash long-dormant - or even undiscovered - talents. Not a how-to book but a why-to - uplifting, motivational, and fun - Living Artfully is also the guide into a new cultural movement in which people live with a creative purpose - celebrating the people and moments that make life meaningful.

An Artful Life
An Artful Life

Author: John P. Weiss

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781546996903

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John P. Weiss always wanted to be an artist and writer, but his father recommended a conservative profession. So Weiss pursued a career in law enforcement, eventually becoming chief of police. Throughout his long police career, Weiss found ways to infuse creative writing and artfulness into his work. He drew editorial cartoons and wrote touching articles for the local newspapers. He became an accomplished landscape painter and popular blogger. Weiss turned his otherwise upstanding and normal life into an artful life. An Artful Life doesn't promise its readers a one-size-fits-all remedy for living their best lives. Weiss doesn't pretend to have the answers to all of life's questions. Instead, he's in the trenches with his readers, taking the journey alongside them. An Artful Life is an electrifying collection of both fiction and nonfiction works from a man who complemented his professional career with artwork and creativity. It is a poignant and sobering work of self-help literature that acts as a constructive and easy-to-access guide to being simultaneously creative and happy.

Journeyartfully
Journeyartfully

Author: Pattie Ann Hale

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781496105530

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This thought-provoking and life-shifting book by artist and teacher, Pattie Ann Hale, is an invitation to live artfully. The artful life is a deeply spiritual life which brings those who will embark upon it into a deeper understanding of creation, God's heart, community, and themselves. This book will open one to new doors of creativity, love, soulfulness and spiritual encounter through the sacredness of everyday living, seeing divine nature in the entirety of life. Is there something more to life? Does the aching of it call out to you every time you quiet yourself enough to hear the calling? Every moment from this moment on beckons you to reach into your truest nature and be the creative one you are even now designed to be - the one you are right now - today - in this moment. We are all artists made in the image of God. We all have the ability to live artfully. It is a life that brings the 'something more.' It is a life that requires you to take risks - risks to love, lead, dream, break boundaries, be outrageously yourself and forget the old ways that do not serve you anymore. You must trust your intuition. You must trust that you know the voice of God. You must trust the you who longs for the something more. Life awaits you. One never knows how beautiful the dance will be until the music begins. Listen for it.

CreativeGIRL
CreativeGIRL

Author: Danielle Donaldson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1440340188

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Find your artistic creativity with delicate doodles, big colors and lavish layers! CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies. Danielle Donaldson shows you how to draw the pretty pictures from your imagination, infuse your art with delightful color combinations and work through creative frustration with simple fixes. You'll learn how to paint with watercolor, tell visual stories with and without words and add depth with layers using mixed-media techniques and little details--all while finding inspiration and gaining confidence in your own artistic style. Draw, paint, layer and create! • More than 30 techniques and projects including drawing, painting and adding layers for artists and aspiring artists of all levels. • Learn how do draw and paint figures such as creativeGIRL, busyGIRL and tutuGIRL. Then create your own girl to channel your story. • Find even more inspiration in a gallery filled with extraLOVE from the artist.

The Artful Year
The Artful Year

Author: Jean Van't Hul

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0834840375

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Celebrating the seasons provides a wonderful opportunity to embrace creativity together as a family. It’s also a fun way to decorate for, prepare for, and learn about the holidays we celebrate. In The Artful Year, you’ll find a year’s worth of art activities, crafts, recipes, and more to help make each season special. These artful explorations are more than just craft projects—they are ways for your family to create memories and mementos and develop creatively, all while exploring nature, new ideas, and traditions. The book includes: • Arts and crafts, using the materials, colors, and themes of the season • Ideas and decorations for celebrating the holidays together • Favorite seasonal recipes that are fun for children to help make (and eat!) • Suggested reading lists of children’s picture books about the seasons and holidays The 175+ activities in this book are perfect for children ages one to eight, and for creating traditions that appeal to all ages.