Pre-Owned Painting from the Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit (Hardcover) 158180122X 9781581801224

Artists can sometimes feel as though they're in a creative rut. with Painting From the Inside Out, readers will use fun and inspiring exercises to break out of that rut and create exciting, innovative new paintings every time they pick up a brush! Each chapter highlights demonstrations and inspirations that will enable readers to push past boundaries and explore new ideas, including exercises for loosening up, improvisational painting, combining mediums and more. These lessons will help readers think about art in new and imaginative ways, then render such imaginings with a variety of useful techniques. Betsy Dillard Stroud has had 19 one-woman exhibitions. Her artwork has been displayed in over 140 state, regional and national shows. It hangs in over 200 corporate and private collections worldwide. Betsy has written for American Artist, Southwest Art, Watercolor and Watercolor Magic magazines, and is the Associate Editor of North America for International Artist magazine. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.