Sketchbook Joy: How to embrace your creativity and fill your sketchbooks with colour

by Katie Moody

Overview

'A love letter to creativity. Full of inspiration, clear instructions and mindset shifts we all need for a joyful art practice.' - Marta Głowacka
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Creativity exists in everyone!

Find joy in this inspiring, beautiful and uplifting art instruction book from sketchbook lover, tutor and artist Katie Moody.

Art can be accessible, so much fun and positive for your mental health, mindfulness, and memory. Kickstart your creative journey with this exciting guide to developing your art skills every day through your sketchbook.

Even if you are brand new to art, Sketchbook Joy’s aspirational prompts will encourage you to unlock your creativity and fill your very own gorgeous sketchbook to cherish.

Learn how to paint through the accessible medium of fun gouache and explore the expressive joy of mixed media by drawing in pastels and pencils.

Be excited by unique examples and ideas from artist Katie Moody’s stunning illustrations, and explore:

• Essential sketchbook supplies and how to use them
• Basic painting and drawing techniques
• Colour theory
• Sketching things around you
• Projects that include botanicals, birds, rural landscapes, urban scenes, and painting from your window (or phone)
• Ideas and way of filling your sketchbook
  Tips for building a creative practice and making time for it – and you

Discover your inner creative, enjoy the process, and sketchbook your way to joyful wellbeing.

If you like this book, you will be interested in Painting Happiness and Painting Calm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781836000679
Publisher:	Leaping Hare Press
Publication date:	03/04/2025
Series:	Painting Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Katie is a mixed media artist living on the south coast of England and is hugely inspired by nature! She teaches and shares her art on YouTube, Patreon and Instagram, encouraging more people to pick up their sketchbooks, find their creative joy and get painting. She has worked with Derwent, Windsor & Newton, and the Tate, and has a successful Etsy shop. Katie is an advocate that creativity is for everyone!

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katie_moody/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/katiemoody
Website: https://www.katiemoody.co.uk/

Table of Contents

Introduction
Why use a sketchbook?
Filling your sketchbook
Tools and mediums
Colour
Techniques for mixed media projects

PROJECTS
Butterflies
Travel sketchbook
Limited colour scenes
Using Google Maps
Ink floral
Visual journalling
Beach
Observational study
Cacti
Wildflowers
Chickens
Urban sketching
Fish
Sunset
Coastal landscape

Now it's your turn
Prompt list
Resources
Index
Acknowledgements

Editorial Reviews

"This book is packed full of inspiration and fun techniques. Katie Moody's passion for sketchbooks is infectious." Emma Block

"An absolute love letter to creativity. Full of inspiration, clear instructions and mindset shifts we all need for a joyful art practice." Marta Głowacka

"Whether you're a professional or just love to doodle, this book is the perfection companion to help you rediscover the joy in drawing." Nikki Miles

"Inspiring, elegant, motivating, and exceptionally 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, Sketchbook Joy is an ideal and unreservedly recommended pick."

—Midwest Book Review

"[Kate Moody's] positive encouragement, wealth of ideas, and cheerful illustrations should help beginner artists feel a little less fearful of blank sketchbook pages."

—Library Journal

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