Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"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." Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood, Craftgossip.com
Review
"This book might be just what you are looking for when escaping this summer's inexorable heat. 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." Cecil Whig, 5 Things to Do This Week
Synopsis
Ready to play? Whether you think of yourself as an artist, a doodler, a dreamer, or none of the above, this book will jump-start your creativity. Popular art instructor Carla Sonheim offers fun, engaging ideas on every page, from drawing upside down to imagining new worlds (down to their silly hats and strange animal species). All you need is a pencil or pen and your imagination.
About the Author
Carla Sonheim is a painter, illustrator, and popular workshop instructor at art retreats such as Artfest, and Art & Soul. She has been called a 'gifted facilitator' and loves to help adult students recover a more child-like play approach to creating. Carla's 'Girls' paintings are in showcased in numerous galleries nationwide, as well as in private and corporate collections around the world. www.carlasonheim.wordpress.com