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Sketchbook Joy: How to embrace your creativity and fill your sketchbooks with colour(Painting)

Sketchbook Joy: How to embrace your creativity and fill your sketchbooks with colour(Painting)


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'A love letter to creativity. Full of inspiration, clear instructions and mindset shifts we all need for a joyful art practice.' - Marta Głowacka __________________________________________________________________________ Creativity exists in everyone!Find joy in this inspiring, beautiful and uplifting art instruction book from sketchbook lover, tutor and artist Katie Moody.Art can be accessible, so much fun and positive for your mental health, mindfulness, and memory. Kickstart your creative journey with this exciting guide to developing your art skills every day through your sketchbook. Even if you are brand new to art, Sketchbook Joy's aspirational prompts will encourage you to unlock your creativity and fill your very own gorgeous sketchbook to cherish.Learn how to paint through the accessible medium of fun gouache and explore the expressive joy of mixed media by drawing in pastels and pencils.Be excited by unique examples and ideas from artist Katie Moody's stunning illustrations, and explore:Essential sketchbook supplies and how to use themBasic painting and drawing techniquesColour theorySketching things around youProjects that include botanicals, birds, rural landscapes, urban scenes, and painting from your window (or phone)Ideas and way of filling your sketchbookTips for building a creative practice and making time for it - and youDiscover your inner creative, enjoy the process, and sketchbook your way to joyful wellbeing.If you like this book, you will be interested in Painting Happiness and Painting Calm.

Table of Contents:
SAMPLE TOCChapter ideas:IntroductionSharing what this book will help with, explaining my creative philosophy/mindset (the belief that everyone can create and we don't need all the time in the world to be creative). Share my experience of my year-long daily art challenge and how it changed me as an artist.Blockers(mindset/unlearning our beliefs of some people just being inherently not creative). The benefits (mental health, mindfulness, memory) E.g I always feel better after I've spent time in my sketchbook, and I always remember a place, or that specific time, much better if I've drawn it.Materials, ColoursSharing my most used supplies and how to use them, as well as my go-to colour palette. Focus on gouache? Finding References and Things to DrawMaking TimeTalk about the importance of making time - even if that's just 5 or 10 minutes at a time. It all adds up and is so important! Creating art in small time frames, how we can use timers to aid and kickstart our creativity.Drawing from LifeImportance of drawing from real life views and what's in front of us as well as on screenDaily HabitsRemoving PerfectionismCreation vs reality (usually we get frustrated when the thing on paper doesn't turn out how we imagined it to in our head). I want to talk about why it's ok for it to be different.ProjectsTutorials and steps for drawing/painting broader tropics: Rural landscapes Urban scenes Animals Florals/Nature (Or it could be broken down into more specific topics too, e.g. Coastal, rural, mountains / cityscape, buildings, interiors or birds, mammals, fish etc)Now it's your turnEncouragement for what's next. How to take what the reader has learnt in this book and apply it to their creative practice and beyond. This book is just the catalyst for their ongoing creative journey!PromptsA big list of ideas and ways to fill your sketchbook (100?)• • • • • •Paint the view outside your window Scroll back to the very first photo in your camera roll and draw it Head on a walk and notice all the colour around you, then document it Paint a view from Google Maps in your dream holiday destination Fill an entire spread with swatches of your art supplies Paint some blobs on the page, then make them into something by drawing lines on to.

About the Author :
Katie is a mixed media artist living on the south coast of England and is hugely inspired by nature! She teaches and shares her art on YouTube, Patreon and Instagram, encouraging more people to pick up their sketchbooks, find their creative joy and get painting. She has worked with Derwent, Windsor & Newton, and the Tate, and has a successful Etsy shop. Katie is an advocate that creativity is for everyone! -- Instagram: @instagram.com/katie_moody Patreon: www.patreon.com/katiemoody Website: www.katiemoody.co.uk

Review :
"This book is packed full of inspiration and fun techniques. Katie Moody's passion for sketchbooks is infectious." Emma Block "An absolute love letter to creativity. Full of inspiration, clear instructions and mindset shifts we all need for a joyful art practice." Marta Głowacka "Whether you're a professional or just love to doodle, this book is the perfection companion to help you rediscover the joy in drawing." Nikki Miles "Inspiring, elegant, motivating, and exceptionally 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, Sketchbook Joy is an ideal and unreservedly recommended pick." "[Kate Moody's] positive encouragement, wealth of ideas, and cheerful illustrations should help beginner artists feel a little less fearful of blank sketchbook pages."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781836000679
  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Leaping Hare Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Series Title: Painting
  • Weight: 526 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1836000677
  • Publisher Date: 06 Mar 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How to embrace your creativity and fill your sketchbooks with colour
  • Width: 170 mm


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