Inspired by the authors’ popular online course, Fresh Paint is a collection of lessons, prompts, and exercises that offer a deep dive into the practice of “finding your style” in the process of making 100 small mixed-media paintings.

Fresh Paint will inspire you to add some splashes of new color to your life! ? Open your mind and your soul to cultivate your authentic self. ? Discover the hues of inner peace, tranquility, and serenity in the everyday things that surround you. ? Ask yourself tough questions and listen to the answers that are already within you. ? Allow time to paint over your voice of self-doubt and self-sabotage. ? Clear the clutter that clogs your mind, your body, and your spirit. ? Create a home environment that is in alignment with your energy and desires. ? Prepare yourself to receive the gifts that await you. Take charge and become your life's own general contractor! This job was designed for you. No resume is needed, because nobody is better at being you than you!

Over 400 eye-popping photos provide a decade-long tour of graffiti in New York City. Walls, trucks, and subway cars are featured with graffiti by the crews X-Men, KD, TNB, 156, RIS, AOK, TC-5, FAME CITY, COD, XTC, TFP, MCI, IF, DYM, 718, TD4, SMART, TATS CRU, FLY-ID, GFR, AKB, and many more. Because New York City has made a concerted effort to remove graffiti from the city, the images captured here will never be seen again. Walls were repainted and some buildings were demolished, keeping graffiti crews working fast to keep ahead of the trend. The author worked even faster to capture their ephemeral efforts. If you have a fascination with urban life and colorful expression, this book is definitely for you.

Adams chronicles each stage of her incredible journey to become a mother through adoption. She and her husband have 11 children: two biological and nine adopted from four different Russian orphanages. (Social Issues)

Forty-five poems on subjects ranging from the squat mushroom to the new moon.

Adopt a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery—one that results in lush and colorful finished works that will beg to be displayed. This inspiring and encouraging book for both novice and experienced painters teaches how to create colorful, exciting, expressive paintings through a variety of techniques, combining basic, practical painting principles with innovative personal self-expression. Flora S. Bowley's fun and forgiving approach to painting is based on the notion that “You don't begin with a preconceived painting in mind; you allow the painting to unfold.” Illustrating how to work in layers, Flora gives you the freedom to cover up, re-start, wipe away, and change courses many times along the way. Unexpected and unique compositions, color combinations, and subject matter appear as you allow your paintings to emerge in an organic, unplanned way while working from a place of curiosity and letting go of fear. —Learn techniques for working with vibrant color and avoiding mud. —Make rich and varied marks with a variety of unexpected tools. —Break compositional rules. —Embrace nonattachment as a way to keep exploring. —Keep momentum by moving your body and staying positive. —Work with what's working to let go of struggle. —Connect more deeply to the world around you to stay inspired. —Embrace layers to create rich complex paintings. —Find rhythm by spiraling between chaos and order.