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"Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic. This beautiful and useful small-format hardcover-teeming with full-color art, sidebars, and contributions from art-world legends and everyday creatives-How to Be an Artist is a book for anyone who's ever yearned to make the arts a part of their life"--

Creating stylish sketches by hand is easy and fun with this inspiring guide. Freehand breaks down basic drawing techniques into bite-sized chunks, and reveals their practical application in dazzling examples by today's coolest artists. Over 200 innovative works of art demonstrate all the fundamentals—line, tone, composition, texture, and more—and are presented alongside friendly text explaining the simple techniques used to achieve

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Cultivating Your Creative Life: How to Find Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You'll delve right into the creative process and find practical and inspiring suggestions on making a living as a working artist. This book holds reverence and respect for the natural world in high esteem, using a central...

Presents forty-nine exercises in perception that encourage creative mental mischief, and explains how to let go of expectations when creating art.

Let There Be Light combines the extraordinary talents of Nancy Tillman, the New York Times bestselling author of On the Night You Were Born, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu in this retelling of the biblical story of creation. The pairing of Archbishop Tutu's lyrical text from The Children of God Storybook Bible and Tillman's wondrous illustrations bring the pages of this book to life for readers young and old.

Challenges readers to reclaim their creative essence and use their God-given talents to improve the world.

The Shack shattered our limited perceptions about God. Eve will destroy harmful misconceptions about ourselves. From the author of the 25-million copy bestseller The Shack comes a captivating new novel destined to be one of the most important and talked-about books of the decade. When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside--broken, frozen, and barely alive. With...

The heated debate between Bible-believing Christians and advocates of Darwinism about Creation and Evolution has been a long and inconclusive one. Neither side can seem to “win the day” because both sides ignore aspects of the truth that God has revealed to us in nature and in Scripture. This book brings together Evangelical and Catholic scientists, philosophers and theologians with a common vision: to propel Christians to begin to think “out-of-the-box”...

A tale shared by the different native peoples of California tells how Coyote and other animals created the world and the people who came to live in it.