It's Only Painting: Essays On Creativity From A Veteran Artist

It's Only Painting: Essays On Creativity From A Veteran Artist

It's Only Painting: Essays On Creativity From A Veteran Artist

It's Only Painting: Essays On Creativity From A Veteran Artist

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Overview

Everyone has an artist inside them. At least that's what veteran artist, Tesia Blackburn, believes. In her newest book she encourages everyone to ignore what people think and get started making art - dig into creativity like the big chocolate cake that it is.

Full of humor and inspiration, It's Only Painting is a manifesto of sorts. In the vein of "Steal Like An Artist" by Austin Kleon, "Big Magic" by Elizabeth Gilbert and "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield, Blackburn breaks down inspiration into mangeable chunks and kicks the fear of creating right in the butt.

Compiled from her lectures to students over 25 years of teaching painters, Tesia Blackburn's essays on creativity are meant to get you thinking and working.

You think you need special training? You don't.

You think you need a big studio? You don't.

You just need the willingness to do the work.

You can make art. Right here, right now.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780692176634
Publisher: Team Soxx Publications
Publication date: 10/01/2018
Pages: 118
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Tesia has been a working artist and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. In 2000 she was hired by Golden Artist Colors, as the Golden Certified Working Artist in San Francisco. In 2014 her first book "Acrylic Painting with Passion" was published by Northlight Books. Her work hangs in homes, offices, hotels and hospitals all over the world. A beloved teacher, Tesia's classes and workshops are often sold out. Whether she's teaching a painting retreat in Santa Fe or a weekly class in San Francisco, her approach is the same; help the student find their own personal voice - and express it. She received her BFA from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, studied lithography at the San Francisco Art Institute and received her Master's of Art from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California.

Patrice Drago is an East Coast abstract artist and arts writer, and is an Artist in Residence at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. During her professional career in the hospitality industry, she used her creative writing, investigative and artistic skills to create in-depth training programs and brand materials, write video scripts, simulations, and user-friendly training, editing the writing of numerous developers. She is an arts columnist for the Annapolis Capital Gazette in Maryland, an arts blogger for the area's destination marketing organization, Visit Annapolis, and is the Board VP of Public Relations as well as Communications Chair for Maryland Federation of Art, a nation-wide non-profit art organization of 700+ members.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Welcome

Chapter 1. It’s Only Painting

Chapter 2. The Myth Of Tthe Artist or How Hollywood Kills Creativity

Chapter 3. But I Don’t Wanna or The Procrastination Station

Chapter 4. Goats and Sacred Gold

Chapter 5. Hang With Your Gang

Chapter 6. The School of Life or Why Shopping At Macy’s Means You’re Already An Artist

Chapter 7. You’re Not Going To Solve Global Warming So You Might As Well Make Art

Chapter 8. Einstein and Artist Time

Chapter 9. Don’t Quit Your Day Job

Chapter 10. Size Doesn’t Matter

Chapter 11. You Should Make Art Like Barry Bonds Played Baseball

Final Thoughts

Contributors

Photo Credits

Resources

Index

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