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The New Creative Artist

A Guide to Developing Your Creative Spirit

By: Nita Leland

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The New Creative Artist

A Guide to Developing Your Creative Spirit

By: Nita Leland

Overcome your artist's block and explore what drives you artistically! Artist and teacher Nita Leland shows how to be creative in daily life to develop and strengthen your natural curiosity, flexibility, independence and playfulness--all with the end-goal of creating more inspired, unique personal artwork. Enjoy a variety of fun activities designed to exercise your creative muscle, including how to make an autobiographical collage, creating an idea jar for when you need a random jumpstart, and how to make "dull" subjects more interesting. Learn to push your creative boundaries by trying new methods in dozens of types of media including paper crafts, Japanese brush painting, creative quilting, inventive photography, grown-up finger painting, monotype and more. • 110+ activities that inspire creativity • Artists of all skill levels and mediums can tap into their creativity through exciting techniques and exercises • Inspirational tips and advice for taking creative risks to make more meaningful artistic statements • Inspiring art from 100 contributing fine artists and crafters in every medium coaching readers to creative success

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1440353999

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9781440353994

New Creative Collage Techniques

How to Make Original Art Using Paper, Color and Texture

By: Nita Leland

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New Creative Collage Techniques

How to Make Original Art Using Paper, Color and Texture

By: Nita Leland

Get ready to make great art! New Creative Collage Techniques is filled with the guidance you need to make striking collages with a range of materials and mediums. It's fun and easy to jump right in, whether you're an experienced artist looking for something new or a new artist looking to make something unique. From basic methods to the latest innovations, this guide illustrates more than 60 exciting collage projects complete with detailed instruction, quick tips, charts and glossaries. In addition, seven start-to-finish demonstrations show you how to use these techniques to create your own stunning work. You'll create: • Fantastic found-paper collages formed from items right within your reach • Compelling collage designs using decorative and ready-made papers • Mixed-media collages combining acrylics, watercolor, rice paper and more • Compositions featuring textured backgrounds made from paper, paint, natural materials and other collage materials • Original paper (hand made by you) artfully arranged to form collages that are uniquely yours • Collage that stands the test of time through the use of archival materials and techniques You'll also be inspired to push the potential of this limitless art form by studying the diverse work of 60 featured artists. As author Nita Leland says, "Experiment. Be Creative. Have fun. You're a collage artist!" With this guide, you've got what you need to get started today.

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1440320616

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9781440320613

Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

With New Exercises, Lessons and Demonstrations

By: Nita Leland

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Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

With New Exercises, Lessons and Demonstrations

By: Nita Leland

Unlock the secrets to gorgeous, expressive, unforgettable color! Finding color combinations that not only work but excite the eye is one of the greatest challenges artists face. This updated and expanded 30th anniversary edition of the North Light classic Exploring Color teaches artists of all mediums and skill levels how to use and control color in their artwork and shows how exhilarating and enjoyable the ride can be. Popular art instructor and best-selling author Nita Leland will help you take any artwork you make to new color heights. Memorable paintings from more than 30 contributing artists are inside towill inspire you, along with 75+ hands-on exercises, 8 step-by-step demonstrations and countless nuggets of color knowledge--all in your own private workshop! Learn how to master color mixing, assemble the perfect palette for your artistic goals, select just the right color scheme, and communicate color in a way that elevates your designs way beyond the ordinary. Start a handy journal to keep track of your discoveries, with customized mixtures, color wheels, reference charts and other tools designed to uncover your color personality and help you work with color more efficiently. Nita knows that the quest for perfect color can be fun, and it can be yours. So stop guessing, and start exploring! "Beautiful color is no happy accident. Color can be learned." --Nita Leland

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1440345155

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The New Creative Artist

A Guide to Developing Your Creative Spirit

By: Nita Leland

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A Guide to Developing Your Creative Spirit

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Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

With New Exercises, Lessons and Demonstrations

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Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

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New Creative Collage Techniques

How to Make Original Art Using Paper, Color and Texture

By: Nita Leland

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How to Make Original Art Using Paper, Color and Texture

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The House of Rose

By: Nita Welch Owenby

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The House of Rose

By: Nita Welch Owenby

“The House of Rose” is about the life of a young girl, Valee Rose, who is abused at age 14 and finds herself without a family. As readers follow her life and the many struggles she faces, they will identify with her as she dreams for a better time and place for those in her care.

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Book Hub Inc

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0989216934

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9780989216937

7 Keys to Freedom

The Ultimate Guide to Developing the Mind

By: Dawn R. Nocera,Selwa Hamati,Gwen Boudreau,Victoria Lazarova,Nita Mathews-Morgan Ph.D

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7 Keys to Freedom

The Ultimate Guide to Developing the Mind

By: Dawn R. Nocera,Selwa Hamati,Gwen Boudreau,Victoria Lazarova,Nita Mathews-Morgan Ph.D

If you feel stuck financially, find yourself procrastinating on your dreams, or just want to live more freely and abundantly in every area of your life, then you may need to give your mental muscles a workout. Just as your body is equipped with physical muscles, your mind is equipped with mental muscles. However, most of us are not aware that our thinking determines the circumstances in our lives. You need to strengthen your mental musclesimagination, memory, reason, perception, intuition and willto create a life full of passion and abundance. The authors, an international team of coaches share anecdotes from their lives, the latest discoveries in neuroscience, and practical action steps. In 7 Keys to Freedom youll discover: How to turn your imagination into your greatest ally How to access the power of success hidden in your memory When to trust and follow your intuition The number one secret to success used by the worlds most powerful people You hold in your hands the how-to book on thinking for yourself. The ideas in it can help you enjoy an abundant and happy life. What you are about to read in this book is information that very few people understand. Its information that, up to this time, has been exposed to only a very select few. The entirety of this book is dedicated to a subject that, when properly understood, can change your life, for the better, forever. It deals with the uniqueness of you! The authors share their individual and combined efforts you will not only read, but also be privy to the age-old wisdom that has affected their lives. This wisdom is what they now openly share with you. Bob Proctor, Best-selling author and one of the living masters and teachers of the Law of Attraction

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BalboaPress

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145257751X

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9781452577517

Microsoft Access 2000

Core and Expert Certification

By: Meredith Flynn,Nita Hewitt Rutkosky

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Microsoft Access 2000

Core and Expert Certification

By: Meredith Flynn,Nita Hewitt Rutkosky

This text covers Microsoft Access 2000 core level and teaches the core and expert skills required for Microsoft Office User Specialist certification. Flynn (Bowling Green State U.) and Rutkosky (Pierce College) present seven chapters that accelerate learning through the use of visuals, screen captur

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EMC/Paradigm Publishing

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0763802409

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9780763802400

Microsoft Access 2003 Specialist Certification

By: Nita Hewitt Rutkosky

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Microsoft Access 2003 Specialist Certification

By: Nita Hewitt Rutkosky

In this Microsoft-approved courseware, Rutkosky (Pierce College at Puyallup, Washington) covers the skills needed to test for certification at the specialist level of this application in the Office 2003 suite of programs. The CD-ROM contains requisite files for the chapter exercises. Auxiliary onlin

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0763820415

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9780763820411

Microsoft Word 2003

Specialist and Expert

By: Nita Hewitt Rutkosky

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Microsoft Word 2003

Specialist and Expert

By: Nita Hewitt Rutkosky

Appropriate for self-study or classroom use, this text reviews the features and commands for creating and editing documents with the Word 2003 word processing program in preparation for taking a Microsoft Office certification exam at the specialist or expert skill level. The 2003 edition adds a chap

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0763820660

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9780763820664

The Creative Artist

A Fine Artist's Guide to Expanding Your Creativity and Achieving Your Artistic Potential

By: Nita Leland

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The Creative Artist

A Fine Artist's Guide to Expanding Your Creativity and Achieving Your Artistic Potential

By: Nita Leland

Suggests activities designed to develop one's creative skills, and discusses drawing, design, realism, abstraction and experimentation

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Betterway Books

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0891343253

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9780891343257

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The New Creative Artist

The New Creative Artist

New Creative Collage Techniques

New Creative Collage Techniques

Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

The New Creative Artist

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Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

New Creative Collage Techniques

New Creative Collage Techniques

The House of Rose

The House of Rose

7 Keys to Freedom

7 Keys to Freedom

Microsoft Access 2000

Microsoft Access 2000

Microsoft Access 2003 Specialist Certification

Microsoft Access 2003 Specialist Certification

Microsoft Word 2003

Microsoft Word 2003

The Creative Artist

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