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Finding Your Visual Voice: A Painter's Guide to Developing an Artistic Style [Spiral-bound]

Dakota Mitchell (Author), Lee Haroun (Author)
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February 23, 2007
Discover Your Artistic Individuality

"When you listen to your visual voice and follow your intuitive artistic truth, you feel energized, stimulated and connected. Your creative juices are flowing and you receive the energy needed to create what you feel. At the same time, you experience a sense of peace and calm, the satisfaction of doing what you are meant to do."—Dakota Mitchell

Express your creative vision by discovering your distinctive visual voice. Many art instruction books show you ways to paint, but this guide prompts you to explore how and why you paint. What do you respond to visually? Emotionally? This book helps you answer those questions and more to give your artistic self a voice.

Finding Your Visual Voice is the only book that offers step-by-step painting demonstrations, visual examples and engaging exercises to help you build a customized creative process. You'll paint with expression and confidence, so that you can act on your truest creative impulses, and create the artwork you've always dreamed of painting.

Garner encouragement and advice from more than 30 successful artists whose insights are featured throughout the book. In their own words, these artists describe their work, revealing their personal struggles, discoveries, processes and achievements. Their compositions span a diverse range of subjects and mediums, but all offer an illuminating perspective on the elusive nature of artmaking.

Dare to find your own voice and push your artistry well beyond the boundaries of your previous work. With this guide and your own imagination, you have everything you need to achieve a richer, more rewarding artistic life.


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About the Author

Joyce Mitchell and Lee Haroun are expert educators who co-authored the college-level textbook Introduction to Health Care. Joyce is also a practicing painter and earned her BFA from Northern Arizona University. Lee has a doctorate in educational leadership; her research interests include the nature of adult learning.

Product Details

  • Spiral-bound: 128 pages
  • Publisher: North Light Books (February 23, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1581808070
  • ISBN-13: 978-1581808070
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 9.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide for all types of artists, May 8, 2007
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This book has been an inspiration to myself and several of my artist friends. It really helps you focus on your individual style and helps you find techniques that are best suited you personally. The layout is exceptional, and I loved the workbook style which allows you to experiment and use the various information provided by the guest artists.
I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in painting, no matter what level they are. What artist, or person for that matter, wouldn't benefit from learning to find and listen to their "inner voice"?
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational How-To Book, May 18, 2007
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This book is an easy-to-follow guide to sort out your own style of creative expression. I'm not a painter, but I have started dabbling in mosaic. I'm convinced that this book can help anyone interested in forming and developing their unique style in any visual art medium.

The book is spiral-bound which means it can lay flat on the table while you refer to it. I love this feature. The chapters flow logically from recognizing your inspiration and suitable subject matter, to more technical topics like lines, composition, and process. The information is presented simply, with many examples to illustrate each point. Contemporary painters offer their advice through carefully guided interviews throughout the book. The most clever aspect of the book is the chance to review and reflect on each topic through end-of-the-chapter questions. Finally, exercises help you to apply what you have discovered about yourself and your art. Finding Your Visual Voice is a process of developing self awareness and you are gently guided through that process with this excellent book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a Visual Delight, May 9, 2007
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At first glance this book gave me the impression that it really was going to be a visual delight. The format of the pictures and interviews were a creative way to feel as if I were there with each artist Ms Mitchell interviewed. I am just beginning to experiment with the idea of artistic painting. This book has a variety of methods and formats to chose from if I want to experiment in various areas. As a teacher, I like the exercises at the end of each chapter. This book could be used for art classes as well as just for information about painting.
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