Inkblots aren't just for psychology... Just as Leonardo was inspired by the haphazard swirls in marble, and Victor Hugo dribbled coffee and wine on paper to create new imagery, noted artist, printmaker, and Broadway costume painter Margaret Peot takes inkblots to new creative heights with this stunning, hands-on celebration of their beauty and potential. She presents the many insights and techniques she has gained throughout her career from basic tips and information on paper and ink to advanced techniques for transforming inkblots into works of art.
Margaret Peot's new book Alternative Art Journals: Explore Innovative Approaches to Collecting Your Creativity is a kind of Things to Make and Do for creative people. Ten step-by-step demos, instruction on making a variety of unconventional art journals, and a gallery of ideas will provide hours of fun and inspiration.
Her book The Successful Artist's Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art (North Light Books, 2012) is an upbeat, down-to-earth guide that shows you how to live, so that the business of living doesn't halt your art-making.
Margaret's book "Inkblot: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity" (Boyds Mills Press, Spring 2011) is a Eureka! silver medalist for non-fiction children's books, an Orbis Pictus recommended book, and received a School Library Journal starred review. It is filled with fun ways for kids to access their right, or creative, intuitive brain. Whether they need to write a knockout of a paper for school, come up with characters for a play, or tackle a blank canvas, inkblots get the mind jumping and combining imagery and ideas.
Her art techniques book, "Make Your Mark: Explore Your Creativity and Discover Your Inner Artist" (Chronicle 2004) has found an audience with education and art therapy practitioners, and was voted one of Library Journal's best books of 2004, one of only four how-to books on the list.
Margaret is a painter, printmaker, and writer. She has painted costumes for Broadway theater, dance, television and the circus for the past twenty years, and has exhibited her artwork at Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latinoamericano, The Center for Book Arts, La Mama New Works Series, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, The Ocean City Arts Guild, and is looking forward to her one person exhibition in at the Galleries at Saint Peter's in New York, January 21-February 27.
