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Books on
Creativity, Art-Making, Journaling, and Writing
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Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars
by Kay Turner
The statues, flowers,
pictures, photographs, drawings, amulets, pieces of
shell, and bits of earth that are collaged together and
reproduced here in color represent their makers'
histories, beliefs, and desires. Turner draws out the
personal stories that lie behind the altars and explains
their appeal and significance for everyone. ŠAmazon.com
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How to Think Like
Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
by Michael
J. Gelb
Genius is made, not born, and human beings are gifted with an almost unlimited potential for learning and creativity. Now readers can uncover their own hidden abilities, sharpen their senses, and liberate their unique intelligence by following the example of the greatest genius of all time, Leonardo da Vinci.
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Making Journals by Hand: 26 Creative Projects for Keeping Your Thoughts
by Jason Thompson
Making Journals By Hand will get you excited about keeping a journal again, with fresh ideas on how to make and keep your own daily journal, travel journal, garden journal, art journal, recipe journal, and more. Use art studio techniques such as rubber stamping, wax resist, leaf transfer, paper cutting, and plaster
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Artists Journals and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages
by Lynne Perrella
This book is an engaging and intimate glimpse into the personal pages of a wide variety of select artists and journal keepers whose works not only provide visual delight and inspiration but evidence the intensity and devotion that such personal journals invite.
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Living Out Loud
by Keri Smith
(Author/Illustrator)
Living Out Loud is the perfect prescription for a creative jump start to your life. Included are games, projects, activities, crafts, postcards, and playful ideas that will send you off on an exciting adventure, where you'll discover inspiration around and within you.
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The Art Doll Chronicles: A Collaborative Journey of Discovery
by Sharilyn Miller (Editor), Kathryn Bold
(Editor)
This celebration of nine art dolls and the artists who made them offers a colorful look at an unusual project that spanned 19 months and took the dolls on a journey all over the
United States.
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True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals
by Kathryn Bold
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The Art of Handmade Paper and Collage: Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
by Cheryl Stevenson
Learn how to recycle inexpensive materials into breathtaking handmade paper and collage art. Step-by-step instructions for a wealth of extraordinary projects will start you on your own creative journey.
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The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
by Julia Cameron
An inspirational guide and companion to The Artist's Way offers essays on the creative process designed to inspire the artist in everyone and presents tasks to involve the reader in
"inner play" that will lead to artistic growth.
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Nine Muses: A Mythological Path to Creativity
by Angeles Arrien
Arrien illustrates how we can inspire ourselves and see clearly the muses that abound in our own lives...
Full of illustrations from Greek art, mythical stories, and assignments and exercises designed to help readers in creative endeavors--whether artistic, personal, or
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Journal to the Self: 22 Paths to Personal Growth
by Kathleen Adams
A nationally known therapist provides a powerful tool for better living--a step-by-step method to personal growth, creative expression, and career enhancement through journal writing.
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Life's Companion: Journal Writing As a Spiritual Quest
by Christina Baldwin, Susan Boulet (Illustrator)
The book illuminates its text with enlightening quotations, exercises, questions, and techniques to nurture the writer and seeker within. Centered in a broad spiritual philosophy, Life's Companion shows readers how to transform writing into a tool for self-growth, heightened awareness, and personal fulfillment.
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Visual Journaling:
Going Deeper Than Words
by Barbara Ganim, Susan Fox
Beautifully illustrated with black and white and color drawings from the journals of students in their acclaimed workshops, Visual Journaling makes this enjoyable tool for personal exploration accessible for everyone.
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Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of
Poem-Making
by John Fox
Powerful and exciting, Poetic Medicines illustrates the unique role that poem-making can have in addressing the situations that lead us to renewal in our lives.
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The Autobiography Box
by Brian Bouldrey
The Autobiography Box presents innovative writing suggestions in a visually dynamic, totally inviting, hands-on portable kit. Sixty appealing cards filled with quotes, questions, directions, and exercises provide the practice, while an engaging book with journal spaces for fill-in and excerpts from such literary greats as Vladimir Nabokov, Marcel Proust, Muriel Spark, and Tobias Wolff offer the inspiration.
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The Observation Deck: A Tool Kit for Writers
by Naomi Epel
The Observation Deck is kind of like an I Ching for writers. At an impasse in your essay or novel? Looking for a new approach or even merely a warm-up exercise? Simply pluck a card from the deck, refer to the appropriate section in the accompanying book, and go with it.
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