Expressive Sketchbooks

"An especially useful, thoroughly art student friendly, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, art school, community libraries."

Auteur

Helen Wells is an artist from the South Coast of England. Her artworks are intricate and organic and depict illusionary surfaces or landscapes. With multiple layers, fragments, colors, and obsessive decorative details, her ethereal patterned works bring to mind elements of the natural world or magical other-worlds.

Her artworks are in private collections all over the world and have featured on numerous products, from book covers to wine bottles. In 2014, she co-won Winsor & Newton’s Watercolor Revolution competition which resulted in her painting being displayed in the Saatchi Gallery in London. She has also been featured in magazines and exhibited her work at one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants in London.

She became an artist later in life after working in an office job for many years. She credits her use of sketchbooks with her finding her artistic style and the courage to develop her art outside of their pages. She is passionate about sketchbooks as a tool for self-discovery, play, and creativity, and is keen to share everything she has learned along the way.

For more information, visit Helen online:
helenwellsartist.com
instagram.com/helenwellsart
pinterest.co.uk/helenwellsartist

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Expressive Sketchbooks presents techniques and methods for using a sketchbook to improve your artistic practice.

Résumé
Expressive Sketchbooks presents techniques and methods for using a sketchbook to improve your artistic practice.

Contenu
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: What Is an Expressive Sketchbook?
CHAPTER 1: MAGIC AND MOTIVATION
CHAPTER 2: GETTING GOING
CHAPTER 3: TECHNIQUES FOR EXPLORING AND EXPERIMENTING
CHAPTER 4: GROWING YOUR IDEAS
CHAPTER 5: PRACTICE AND PROGRESS
Acknowledgments
About the Author