Nita Leland Bücher

Exploring the journey of creativity amid family chaos, this memoir offers insights and inspiration for those seeking to enhance their creative pursuits. Nita Leland shares personal experiences that resonate with anyone navigating the challenges of a turbulent home life, making it a valuable read for aspiring artists and individuals looking to embrace their creative potential.

Play, Experiment and Discover the Creative Artist within! Choose to be creative! Artist and teacher Nita Leland believes that creativity lives in everyone, from the novice artist to the professional. Develop and strengthen your natural curiosity, flexibility, independence and playfulness, and become the artist you want to be. Inside this updated and expanded edition of Nita's bestselling The Creative Artist are over 110 fun activities to exercise your creative muscle:

Collage is a fine art combination of paper and shape, color and texture, imagination and vision. This book can help you bring all of these together in one beautiful creation. Here you'll see magnificent collages by leading artists who show you—in step-by-step demonstrations—how to begin, how to design, how to apply collage techniques in exciting ways. Plus you'll get your chance to use those techniques with nearly fifty projects that challenge you to do your most creative work.

Learn how to use color in your own unique and expressive way!Color is what you make sensitive, explosive, dreamlike, atmospheric, somber, cheerful. Nita Leland brings logic and intuition together to create a foundation for color selections that allow you to be more inventive, break out of old habits and experiment with new colors. Her approach eliminates time-wasting trial and error while giving you the freedom to use color in personal, meaningful and exciting ways. • Artwork from more than 50 contributing artists that illustrates many personal approaches to color • 85 "Try It" activities that will help to develop your awareness of the colors and combinations that resonate with you • Step-by-step demonstrations that show how 7 different artists choose palettes and make color decisions as they paint a range of subjectsLearn to use harmonious color schemes, dynamic contrasts and compatible colors to say what you want in your art. With engaging instruction, as well as art and lessons and applicable to any medium, this book will show you how to take your work to the next level.