Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist

by Alena Hennessy

Overview

Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You’ll find ideas for keeping your creative well full, an illustrated guide to healing herbs and plants, basic yoga poses and breathing exercises, and tips for moving your artistic career forward. Alena Hennessy's illustration style combines nature, whimsey, delicacy, and a modern sensibility; vibrant pen and ink illustrations accompany relevant quotes ofinspiration, tips, and creative journal exercises. Cultivating Your Creative Life is not only an interactive creativity guide; it is a work of art, in itself—a beautiful, collectible volume—to save and to savor, or to give as a gift to the special creative person in your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610584180
Publisher:	Quarry Books
Publication date:	07/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	94 MB
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About the Author

Alena Hennessy is a flower essence practitioner, energy healer, Reiki Master, and noted artist. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and publications, including Spirituality & Health, Natural Health, Redbook, The Washington Post, and Good Morning America. She is the author of the Mysteries of Love Oracle Deck, Cultivating Your Creative Life, The Painting Workbook, and Intuitive Painting Workshop; a beloved teacher of the art-making process, both online and at select retreats; and a sacred space-holder for women’s creative expression. Her paintings combine spiritual inspiration and heartfelt expression with botanical detail. She has exhibited across major cities in the US, along with several museum shows.

Alena Hennessy is a flower essence practitioner, energy healer, Reiki Master, and noted artist. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and publications, including Spirituality & Health, Natural Health, Redbook, The Washington Post, and Good Morning America. She is the author of the Mysteries of Love Oracle Deck, Cultivating Your Creative Life, The Painting Workbook, and Intuitive Painting Workshop; a beloved teacher of the art-making process, both online and at select retreats; and a sacred space-holder for women's creative expression. Her paintings combine spiritual inspiration and heartfelt expression with botanical detail. She has exhibited across major cities in the US, along with several museum shows.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Planting Seeds

2. Into the Woods

3. Courting Inspiration

4. Enriching Patterns

5. Herbal Lore

6. Breathing Deep

7. Roots & Branches

8. Tools to Manifest

About the Author

Acknowledgments