Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings
- ISBN13: 9781600610820
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Stretch Your Wings * Learn to Soar * Take Flight In Taking Flight, you’ll find overflowing inspiration–complete with a kindred spirit in author and mixed-media artist Kelly Rae Roberts. Join her on a fearless journey into the heart of creativity as you test your wings and learn to find the sacred in the ordinary, honor your memories, speak your truth and wrap yourself in the arms of community. Along the way you’ll be inspired by: Step-by-step techniques–learn the most-loved mixed-media methods of the author and seven talented contributing artists, and combine them in fresh and unexpected ways. Thought-provoking prompts and quotes–along with encouraging stories, insights and gentle guidance for finding your bliss, whatever your art or craft. Plenty of eye candy–pages and pages of the author’s endearing artwork, along with the varied works of the contributors. Of course, learning to fly isn’t entirely a step-by-step process–sooner o… More >> Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings
May 25th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
This is a very nice book for someone who is just starting out or needs a big boost of “you can do it.” An art book it’s not. The style of so-called “art” herein consists of cookie cutter craft store collaged whimsy. A little bit of whimsy is fine; page after page of it is cloying. For goodness sake, if you’re going to call it art, set or print out your own type rather than plunking down something from ArtGirlz! All the portraits are naif-style, doe-eyed, head tilted to the left waifs that a reasonably skilled (not necessarily talented) 10 year old could draw. Apparently this is all the author is capable of creating and comprises her entire emotional repertoire. Rating: 2 / 5
May 25th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I was really disappointed in this book – it’s obviously a very good example of ‘craft’ type artwork, but that wasn’t what I was hoping for: I’m not really a fan of the style of art used within. It’s a very commercial, cutesy style that I’m not really a fan of – something that looks good on coffee mugs or tea towels but not terribly expressive. It’s a great book for this kind of art, just not what I expected it to be. Not inspired at all, unfortunately. Rating: 2 / 5
May 25th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
After a few lengthy discussions, one particularly tense negotiation and several attempted suicides later, my inner voice and I have come to a compromise as to the meaning of this passage. We have decided that my journey is a spiritual as well as physical path. I have obeyed my inner voice and it cost many lives, I have faced my fears in the spider-trunk of a stolen Datsun, I have created my mall-skank cult, we have worshipped Martin Short though he does not deserve it, I have burned my memories and spoken the rough truth: That mopey-faced bastard from Fargo sucks. I have obeyed everything the book has told me.
And now, the book must be telling me that all aspects of my journey should now “embrace,” coming together in perfect harmony. So I gather my nubile, doe-eyed young servants in the main hall and have them disrobe (specifically, I tell them it’s reverse laundry day. It does not make the slightest bit of sense, but they are not the brightest lamps on the street, and so my explanation is accepted with only a light spattering of muttered confusion). I have lit the ring of fire surrounding us so that none may escape, and the Macy effigy burns with it. Somewhere, a Kelly Clarkson ringtone erupts, its garish tones all but silenced by the solemnity of the moment. I slip my Martin Short lifemask on, bang the “get it on” gong and we begin the orgy. The screams of pleasure quickly turn to horror as I release the spiders from their cages in the ceiling.
This moment is purity.
This is what the book demands. Rating: 5 / 5
May 25th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
This book is full of identical long-necked, small-nosed white girls wearing big poofy skirts and fairy wings. Very cutesy and not my thing at all.
However, if it’s YOUR thing, there are detailed instructions on how to make art that looks exactly like the author’s, and many essays by the author that people who like this sort of thing probably won’t find unreadable. Rating: 2 / 5
May 25th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
I bought this book because I really liked the front cover and also because the critics were so wonderful that I thought that I really was going to LEARN something but I found that she didn’t even know what “gesso” was,an artist! I found a book made only for women who needed to be encouraged about their art abilites,needed of hearing that they could do it, that they are sacred, and blah blah blah….It is a self-help book not a real art technique one.Much better any of Claudine Hellmuth for exemple,I have much more, or any of the thousands of journaling blogs in internet made by famous mix media artists.
For me it was a really waste of money because I couldn’t read more than ten pages.If I give it 2 stars is because some step by step are O.K.
I already know I am an artist and I can do anything if I work hard and I find the right information
This opinion is just to help other people looking for other kind of help.
Rating: 2 / 5