Me Artsy

Me Artsy
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-04-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1771620714

There are a few questions that professional artists get asked regularly: Where do you get your ideas? How did you get started? And be honest—are you really in it for the money? Following the highly successful Me Funny and Me Sexy anthologies, Me Artsy answers these eternal questions and more. With essays from fourteen First Nations artists from a variety of disciplines, the collection provides insight into the paths that led each artist to pursue and develop his or her craft. The essays explore many common themes around the role of art in First Nations communities, including the importance of art for creating social change, the role of art in representing Native culture and the fusion of traditional and contemporary techniques. On a more personal level, the essays describe the significance of art in the lives of the contributors, along with their sometimes unlikely journeys to success, stories which are often touched with humour and humility. Chef David Wolfman describes gruelling years of prep work in the kitchens of the exclusive National Club; filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk discusses leaping into his first feature film without knowing how to finance it; fashion designer Kim Picard describes making a dress inspired by coffee beans; and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor tells the story of putting a bullet through his first play and burying it in his yard. Other contributors include actor/playwright Monique Mojica, painter Marianne Nicolson, painter Maxine Noel, blues pianist Murray Porter, scholar Karyn Recollet, dancer/choreographer Santee Smith, director/actor Rose Stella, drummer Steve Teekens, writer Richard Van Camp and manga artist Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas.

Color Me Creative

Color Me Creative
Author: Kristina Webb
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0062415476

An artist shares the story of finding her passion and shares fifty art-inspired creative challenges to boost your creativity and set your imagination free. For the first time, artist and Instagram sensation Kristina Webb shares her story about growing up on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific, adjusting to life on the mainland, and traveling to the United States, where she had a life-changing experience. By taking a chance and following her passion, she has started an amazing life journey that she never dreamed possible. She hopes her story will inspire you to find your own true passion, whether it is art or something else entirely. This book is about your journey just as much as it is about hers, and it includes fifty art-inspired creative challenges for you to complete. The challenges are about having fun, letting go, and expressing yourself in any way you want. You don’t need to be an artist to pick up this book—just challenge yourself and give it a try. Your artistic adventure awaits! Color Me Creative also offers you the chance to download the free Unbound app to access interactive features and bonus videos by scanning the customized icon that appears throughout the book, including never-before-seen home videos and videos of Kristina drawing.

Mom and Me: An Art Journal to Share

Mom and Me: An Art Journal to Share
Author: Lacy Mucklow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1631063340

Mom and Me: An Art Journal to Share is a new kind of art journal designed to bring mom and child together as they make art side-by-side.

I Am An Artist

I Am An Artist
Author: Marta Altés
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-12-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1447269942

Meet the boy who can't stop creating art! He loves colours, shapes, textures and EVERYTHING inspires him: his socks, the contents of the fridge, even his cat gets a new coat (of paint!). But there's just one problem: his mum isn't quite so enthusiastic. In fact, she seems a little cross! But this boy has a plan to make his mum smile. He's about to create his finest piece yet and on a very grand scale . . . Funny, irreverent and perfect for creative children and adults, I Am An Artist by Marta Altés is a sharp, silly, fabulous book which shows that art is EVERYWHERE!

Me Funny

Me Funny
Author:
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-01-06
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1926685725

Humor has always been an essential part of North American aboriginal culture. This fact remained unnoticed by most settlers, however, since non-aboriginals just didn’t get the joke. For most of written history, a stern, unyielding profile of “the Indian” dominated the popular mainstream imagination. Indians, it was believed, never laughed. But Indians themselves always knew better. As an award-winning playwright, columnist, and comedy-sketch creator, Drew Hayden Taylor has spent 15 years writing and researching aboriginal humor. For Me Funny, he asked a noted cast of writers from a variety of fields — including such celebrated wordsmiths as Thomas King, Allan J. Ryan, Mirjam Hirch, and Tomson Highway — to take a look at what makes aboriginal humor tick. Their hilarious, enlightening contributions playfully examine the use of humor in areas as diverse as stand-up comedy, fiction, visual art, drama, performance, poetry, traditional storytelling, and education.

The Artist's Way

The Artist's Way
Author: Julia Cameron
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2002-03-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1101156880

"With its gentle affirmations, inspirational quotes, fill-in-the-blank lists and tasks — write yourself a thank-you letter, describe yourself at 80, for example — The Artist’s Way proposes an egalitarian view of creativity: Everyone’s got it."—The New York Times "Morning Pages have become a household name, a shorthand for unlocking your creative potential"—Vogue Over four million copies sold! Since its first publication, The Artist's Way phenomena has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron's novel approach guides readers in uncovering problems areas and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to free up any areas where they might be stuck, opening up opportunities for self-growth and self-discovery. The program begins with Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – The Morning Pages, a daily writing ritual of three pages of stream-of-conscious, and The Artist Date, a dedicated block of time to nurture your inner artist. From there, she shares hundreds of exercises, activities, and prompts to help readers thoroughly explore each chapter. She also offers guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors. A revolutionary program for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.

Becoming Me: A Work in Progress

Becoming Me: A Work in Progress
Author: Andrea Pippins
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0399559159

Here is a beautifully illustrated interactive journal from the creator of the empowering adult coloring book I Love My Hair—featured on BuzzFeed, Mashable, and more. A wonderful survival guide for trying times, this journal encourages self-discovery and self care, and is the perfect distraction for doodlers hoping to escape reality and nurture their creative expression. This gorgeous full-color journal and activity book will get you coloring, doodling, and writing your way to your best self. Combining quotes from inspiring women, positive affirmations, and artistic advice direct from Andrea Pippins, along with supportive prompts and exercises, this uplifting book is the perfect tool to get those creative juices flowing. And with stylish hand-lettering and full-color illustrations throughout, Becoming Me is a perfect gift and keepsake—as well as a powerful tool for self-expression. Praise for I Love My Hair by Andrea Pippins: “The girl power stress-reliever we all needed.” —Bustle Online “Pippins’s imaginative images will inspire your inner artist and fashionista.” —The Huffington Post

Me Sexy

Me Sexy
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2012-01-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1926685733

Is Cree really the sexiest of all languages? Do Native people have less or more public hair? Does Inuit sex have a dark side? These are some of the questions answered in this witty, thoughtful collection. Twelve important voices in the Native culture — including Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road, and Marissa Crazytrain, a descendant of Chief Sitting Bull — tackle a variety of previously taboo subjects with humor and insight. Noted comic writer and editor Drew Hayden Taylor wraps it up with an original contribution of his own.

One Drawing A Day

One Drawing A Day
Author: Veronica Lawlor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1592537243

DIVThrough 46 daily exercises which make up a complete 6-week course, you will keep your artistic skills sharp and your imaginations fertile by doing One Drawing A Day. Each spread in the book features a beautiful drawing by one of 8 professional illustrators, with a description and comments by the illustrator as well as a companion exercise. Each exercise includes suggestions for various mediums or mixed-media solutions, advice on how to approach and execute the drawing, as well as professional tips. The book also includes exercises designed to spark new ideas and increase creativity./div

Odyssey

Odyssey
Author: Jonathan Swart
Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing ltd
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 184991107X

DescriptionThis story is about the impracticality of the imagination, it's the story of Quentin, Art and Melody. Quentin is a well to do entrepreneur, Art is a dreamer & Melody is a really renown model. Quentin has made a wing with which he fly's over a huge expanse of South Africa. Art meets with Melody upon her arrival in East London, and comes in brief to fall for her beautiful charms. Melody is a working girl, she has the privilege of sailing by boat from Australia, to East London, where she meets Art and by a phenomenal working of chance, Quentin too. Between the lines is the tales beginning and end, the reality of my story. A strange brew of event and cerebral action. My tale of course meshed into theirs as they are of course sourced in the workings of my imagination. I am the addled Shizo-Affective one who dreams up this escape to cut myself free of the pain of this thing that has happened to me. To me, the imagination is the tool that is much underutilised, and in this tale, I have dreamt up the three fazes of recovery. Melody, someone to dream of and with, Art the creative side of endeavouring to be normal in life that is everything but normal, and Quentin, the dreamer, who takes the dream and works out of it a reality. There journeys and mine are the make up of "Odyssey." About the AuthorJonathan Swart, was born in 1975. He was born into the much evolving state of the empire, that was Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Zambia, had just taken independence from the crown, when Jonathan, was born. He was born into a family of four, and has an elder brother and sister. They came to live for some years in Rhodesia, and when in 1980, the said became Zimbabwe, they remained living there. In 1984 the death of his Mother, caused His family a terrible bereavement and the family unit consequentially became dysfunctional. A move to South Africa, happened and he finished his schooling in Bloemfontein at Brebner High School. His matriculation saw him through to study at the Academy of Learning where he discovered he had quite a flair for computers. He then went to study Electronic Engineering at Cape Town Technikon. It was never completed beyond the first year, as he came into some inheritance money and sought to find his destiny in the green and gold of England. He was rocking in a band called the Lovers, wanting fame and fortune, he thought the best place for it, would be in the great kingdom of the united! Thus he has been living in England since 1996. In 2000 he felt a little freaky, and was put on section in St Anns hospital, where the vagaries of his mind where attended to. He was housed and is much better now. Creativity, is a foolproof roadway to recovery, he speaks from experience!