Creativity and Gratitude

Creativity and Gratitude
Author: Amy Oestreicher
Publisher: Apollo Publishers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1948062690

Embrace your journey. Share your story. Unlock the power of creativity with a year’s worth of artistic prompts. Sometimes life takes a detour. No matter how much we plan, we encounter bumps in the road that can be frustrating, confusing, and unpredictable. Whether it’s our health, stress at work or home, or current events, we all contend with challenging moments and the occasional curveball. When Amy Oestreicher faced her own detours—including twenty-seven surgeries over ten years and PTSD—she harnessed the power of art to make sense of her shifting roadmap and learned that even when we face the unexpected, we can create something more beautiful than ever imagined. In this hands-on activity book, flush with examples of Amy’s original artwork, encouraging tips, and fifty-two prompts—one for every week of the year—she gives you the tools you need to release your creative energy, and unleash the artist within. Through sections on hope, gratitude, creativity, and storytelling, you will: Embrace creativity as a mindset and learn to look at the world through a creative lens Challenge old ways of thinking and redirect negativity into creative growth Draw, sing, write, collage, paint, and dance your feelings Hone the life-changing art of gratitude lists Find magic in everyday objects Encounter your surroundings with a renewed sense of wonder Learn the four keys to resilience Whether you are a seasoned artist or novice doodler, working to overcome tragedies or reshape the way you manage everyday stress, this workbook will inspire you to engage a creative mindset that allows you to embrace your journey, share your story, and harness the power of positivity.

Happy Journal, Happy Life

Happy Journal, Happy Life
Author: Jennie Moraitis
Publisher: Jennie Moraitis
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9780999510018

Want to ignite your creativity, boost your gratitude, and skyrocket your happiness in ten minutes a day?This creative and motivational book invites you along as I discovered the Happy Journal method. And it doubles as a guide so you can start your own happy journal.A happy journal's premise is you drawing images to describe what brings you joy, so you end up illustrating your life. And I can guarantee when you look back on those sketches a year or ten years from now, you will feel happiness fill your heart.Learn how to:- Notice the little things that make up your beautiful life- Combat negative mindsets that will kill your happy journal before it starts- Start your own happy journal with a couple of supplies- Pass on the gift of a happy journal to your children and friendsGet motivated by this guide, and you will see your happiness, joy, and gratitude multiply.

Doodle Diary

Doodle Diary
Author: Dawn Sokol
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1423619722

Turn your doodles into a personal journal and into art, to boot! In the tradition of Keri Smith (Wreck This Journal, This Is Not a Book), Dawn DeVries Sokol has created a fun, easy artist's journal to get kids started with the basics. Doodle about your day; makes lists of your favorite things; write goals and daydream; try different mediums like pens, watercolors, and found art; add in family photos or ticket stubs; use Xerox transfers; and much, much more to create a casual, playful, and often thoughtful journal of your life.

Choose Joy

Choose Joy
Author: Ink & Willow
Publisher: Ink & Willow
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0593232208

Relax and enjoy a creative approach to gratitude with this beautiful coloring book for adults filled with breathtaking illustrations and inspirational quotes from writers, hymns, and Scripture. In today's hectic, stress-filled world, taking stock of our blessings and truly experiencing gratefulness isn't always easy, but this coloring book offers a beautiful and unique way to find moments of peace and quiet to meditate on gratitude. Each beautifully illustrated page features an original design from one of seven talented artists that illustrates a corresponding quote. Features include: Large format 9.75" x 9.75" (25x25cm) pages 45 single-sided coloring pages High quality, bright white paper stock--heavy enough to use pencils, pens, or markers Quotes from the Bible, hymns, and variety of inspirational writers, such as Charles Stanley, Henry Ward Beecher, Maya Angelou, Louisa May Alcott, Martin Luther King Jr., Shauna Niequist, Bob Goff, G.K. Chesterton, Mr. Rogers, and more A link to the "Gratefulness" playlist to help set the mood for worship, contemplation, creative expression, and a spirit of gratitude Illustrations by Holly Camp, Jennifer Tucker, Ann-Margret Hovsepian, Katie Howe, Laura Marshall, Bridget Hurley, and Radha Carlson--all artists previously featured in the bestselling Whatever Is Lovely and Everything Beautiful This coloring book will take you on a journey towards deeper gratitude. Whether you are embarking on this journey by yourself or in a group, pick up your favorite art supplies and color your way to a new understanding of what it means to be truly grateful.

Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!

Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!
Author: Flora Bowley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1592537685

Adopt a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery—one that results in lush and colorful finished works that will beg to be displayed. This inspiring and encouraging book for both novice and experienced painters teaches how to create colorful, exciting, expressive paintings through a variety of techniques, combining basic, practical painting principles with innovative personal self-expression. Flora S. Bowley's fun and forgiving approach to painting is based on the notion that “You don't begin with a preconceived painting in mind; you allow the painting to unfold.” Illustrating how to work in layers, Flora gives you the freedom to cover up, re-start, wipe away, and change courses many times along the way. Unexpected and unique compositions, color combinations, and subject matter appear as you allow your paintings to emerge in an organic, unplanned way while working from a place of curiosity and letting go of fear. —Learn techniques for working with vibrant color and avoiding mud. —Make rich and varied marks with a variety of unexpected tools. —Break compositional rules. —Embrace nonattachment as a way to keep exploring. —Keep momentum by moving your body and staying positive. —Work with what's working to let go of struggle. —Connect more deeply to the world around you to stay inspired. —Embrace layers to create rich complex paintings. —Find rhythm by spiraling between chaos and order.

The Mindful Doodle Book

The Mindful Doodle Book
Author: Patricia Isis
Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781683730118

Reduce Anxiety. Express Emotions. Be More Present. The Mindful Doodle Book: 75 Creative Exercises to Help You Live In the Moment combines the benefits of mindfulness and the intuitive expression of doodling to help you relax, find focus, and creatively express emotions through spontaneous artmaking. Mindful doodling is fun, calming and deeply moving. Grab a pen or pencil and explore the 75 doodle exercises that draw on emotions, thoughts, hopes and sensory awareness. The Mindful Doodle Book is a therapeutic tool that mental health clinicians can use directly with their clients, but anyone can find this doodle book meaningful and useful to navigate a hectic world.

Craft a Life You Love

Craft a Life You Love
Author: Amy Tangerine
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1683352971

Learn how to focus your creative energy to make things—and make things happen. In this blend of memoir and hardworking handbook, creativity and craft maven Amy Tangerine shows how to find your flow, maintain a positive mindset, and cultivate a rich and fulfilling life by focusing on what truly matters and implementing small yet powerful changes. Chapters explore how to craft the soul, craft the right mindset, craft the right environment, craft good habits, rediscover your creative mojo, and maintain momentum, with each section offering exercises for taking your creative practice to the next level. For anyone who has felt disconnected from their creativity or has had trouble saving a space for their passions, Craft a Life You Love will teach you how to make time for creativity each and every day.

Creative Doodling & Beyond

Creative Doodling & Beyond
Author: Stephanie Corfee
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600582479

Creative Doodling & Beyond features a fun variety of projects, prompts, exercises, and ideas to get your doodling juices flowing—and you can practice directly in the book! Who among us doesn’t simply love to doodle—or, at the very least, doodle to pass the time during long meetings or classes? Now you can learn the fine art of doodling while exercising your creativity at the same time. Creative Doodling & Beyond features a fun variety of projects, prompts, exercises, and ideas to get your doodling juices flowing, while also providing inspiration for how to use your doodles creatively. After learning about some of the basic tools and materials you’ll want to have readily available, learn some fun and easy ways to ignite your doodling spark. Then try your hand and replicating a variety of patterns and borders, and other elements directly in the pages of this colorful workbook. And from there, the real fun begins! Using the approachable step-by-step projects, you can create: Doodled gift tags Doodle-stamped gift wrap A family heirloom handprint doodle A family seek & find game An embroidered wishing star stuffie A doodled hobo bag And more! The book culminates with an idea gallery that shows even more creative ways you can incorporate doodles into everyday art and décor. Creative Doodling & Beyond is meant to inspire you to abandon your preconceived ideas about what art is and isn’t; show you how easy it is to doodle; teach you how to create beautiful art using doodles; and help you connect to your inner artist! By the time you finish the exercises and projects in this book, you will not only find inspiration everywhere, but you will also habitually tote doodle notebooks with you wherever you go, filling them with happy little pen marks and drawings on every page. The Creative…and Beyond series takes art to a new level by combining art exploration with practical application and interactivity related to on-trend subjects, including doodling, mixed media, papercrafts, hand lettering, and more. Each title features prompts, creative exercises, and step-by-step projects that invite artists to draw, doodle, and craft their way through a variety of creative ideas, from whimsical artwork and wall art to stationery, clever gift ideas, personalized artwork, home décor items, and more.

Gratitude Journal

Gratitude Journal
Author: Shantiniuma
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2022-11-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1543772048

Shantiniuma sets out to take readers to experience the possibility to continue to be nice. Whilst you are on your journey doing work that transacts with money so that you can pay your bills (and practically everything else in life), you won’t want your health knocking on the door demanding to be improved. At the same time, you want to go on that the purposeful journey that gives meaning to your existence. To achieve that, Shantiniuma’s first book focuses on Gratitude, a quality that lessens lower vibrational feelings and instill higher vibrational feelings such as joy and to some extent peace. Shantiniuma believes that everything that shows up, shows up for you