Creative Block

Creative block presents the most crippling and unfortunately universal challenge for artists No longer This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international artists working in different mediums and mines their insights on how to conquer self doubt, stay motivated, and get new ideas to flow Each artist offers a tried and true exercise from road trips to 30 day challenges to cataloging the medicine cabinet that will kick start the creative process Abundantly visual with than 300 images showcasing these artists resulting work, Creative Block is a vital ally to students, artists, and creative professionals. Read Creative Block author Danielle Krysa – kino-fada.fr There s a sort of pretension that comes with early success It makes me kinda stabby Many of these artist don t offer much in the way of exercises because they haven t really worked out a working practice for themselves And there is something so disingenuous when offering exercises for creative blocks but hastily claiming you ve never experienced it yourself Anyway, some nice pictures of very current read not enduring illustration art There are a couple of artists in there that do seem ad There s a sort of pretensi...I fully expected to love this book I ve been reading and loving The Jealous Curator for many years and Danielle has featured a bunch of these artists on her site What I didn t expect was to read this book, cover to cover, in sequential order, in a matter of days I thought I d leave it there on the coffee table and just sort of pick it up and peruse through it occasionally, when I felt like looking at pretty pictures, being inspired, or, yes, when I needed a bit of unblocking Instead I open I fully expected to love this book I ve been reading and loving The Jealous Curator for many years and Danielle has featured a bunch of these artists on her site ...I borrowed this book from the library and held on to it far too long because I was savoring every bit of artistic advice and every gorgeous work of art contained within I will now purchase this book.Interesting Interesting to see different artists and their struggles and successes in art It would be cool if at the end the projects were listed.Fantastic to see and read how other people help themselves find their ideas when it s a struggle Beautiful to look at and easy to read A keeper for your library.I enjoyed the artist interviews, even though I wished they were longer andvaried The ideas to overcome a creative block are hugely varied and inspiringGreat ideas and motivation.There is a really wide assortment of artists featured in this book just like the website it was inspired by , so only the rare person is going to resonate with ALL the artists, but it is a really cool coffee table book that also offers a lot of inspiration, motivation and down to earth, easy to do creative unblocking exercises Be sure to have your laptop at the ready while reading, because every other page had artists, books and ideas I wanted to look up and learnabout Rarely does the There is a really wide assortment of artists featured in this book just like the website it was inspired by , so only the rare person is going to resonate with ALL the artists, but it is a really cool coffee table book that also offers a lot of inspiration, motivation and down to earth, easy to do creative unblocking exercises Be sure to have your laptop at the ready while reading, because every other page had artists, books and ideas I wanted to look up and learnabout Rarely does the book from blog genre succeed and this one really did a great job My ONLY complaint, is that the majority of artists featured in this book claimed to not be bothered by thei...I recently went through a three month creative block in which I didn t hand embroider a single thing Since I have a small business creating hand embroidery, this isn t a good thing to have happen What I gleaned from this book is that I m not alone It happens to all of us at one time or another.I will often think that I m not good enough, who am I fooling I m not an artist I can t do this, or this, or that, so I must be a fraud, and I should just give up My embroidery hero, Jenny Hart, i I recently went through a three month creative block in which I didn t hand embroider a single thing Since I have a small business creating hand embroi...Creative Block You are not alone Have you heard that people who study psychology are often trying to work through creative issues of their own It s perhaps the reason that Danielle Krysa, author of the art blog, The Jealous Curator, decided to write a book about Creative Block.Her aim was to create something beautiful a contemporary art book filled not only with stunning images, but also inspiring words, advice and tips to help amateurs and professionals alike find their way t...

• English
• 19 December 2018
Danielle Krysa
• Paperback
• 288 pages
• 1452118884
• Danielle Krysa
• Creative Block