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MAKE ART WHERE YOU ARE (GUIDED SKETCHBOO by Courtney Cerruti

Courtney Cerruti . Unknown Year . English

Explore mindfulness and self-expression by sketching your surroundings on long weekends, vacations, or wherever you happen to be. In this guide and sketchbook set, artist Courtney cerruti provides her tool kit for capturing the essence of a place and your personal impression of everything you see. From a five-minute blind contour of a cup of coffee to an hourlong sketch of a cityscape, the guidebook is filled with ideas for finding opportunities draw, make marks, and paint while you are on the move. Each activity includes the estimated time needed to finish, a unique feature that helps you find a moment for art making in your travel itinerary and your daily life. The guidebook is packaged with an accompanying landscape bound sketchbook with heavy stock that is suitable for various mediums. Whether you are an experienced artist looking for a new perspective or an aspiring creative who needs some guidance, make art where you are empowers you to enjoy the mindful practice of observing and recording your experiences. Special features hardcover case with elastic closure contains a removable paperback guidebook and a blank sketchbook guidebook contains full-color illustrations throughout sketchbook is hardcover, landscape bound, and lays flat.

Categories: Art & Design

About the Author

Maker extraordinaire, Courtney is an artist, author, collaborator and shop owner. Her books, Playing with Image Transfers, Washi Tape 101, Playing With Surface Design and Make Art Where You Are have been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish and Chinese. Courtney teaches workshops all over the country and online at Creativebug.com where she is the Editor-In-Chief. Her work has been featured on Oh Happy Day, Design Sponge, the SF Chronicle, Instagram, The Jealous Curator and BuzzFeed among others. She makes something everyday and can be found on instagram as @ccerruti Courtney sees books as objects to be read and re-purposed, candy wrappers as paper flower petals, toilet paper tubes as a menagerie of animals. She sees the potential in the discarded, history in the mundane and art in the everyday. She saves everything, makes anything and teaches from a place of passion and authenticity. Courtney believes everyone is creative and she’d rather spend an evening drinking tea and painting than doing anything else (except maybe scavenging treasures abroad).

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