Sketch and Reflection Journal for Artists Creatives know inspiration can strike at any time. This portable journal is perfect to take with you while traveling or for everyday adventures so you will be ready to write down your ideas whenever inspiration hits. Take it with you to museums, galleries, or out in nature to sketch and reflect. Makes a perfect gift for artists, writers, painters, sculptors, art students and teachers and creative people. Quick details: Size: 6 x 9 110 pages Left side blank for sketching and doodling Right side dot grid for note taking, mind mapping, or brainstorming ideas Matte softcover with off white pages Makes for great gift under 10 dollars Includes front page for personalization

Sketch and Reflection Journal for Artists Creatives know inspiration can strike at any time. This portable journal is perfect to take with you while traveling or for everyday adventures so you will be ready to write down your ideas whenever inspiration hits. Take it with you to museums, galleries, or out in nature to sketch and reflect. Makes a perfect gift for artists, writers, painters, sculptors, art students and teachers and creative people. Quick details: Size: 6 x 9 110 pages Left side blank for sketching and doodling Right side dot grid for note taking, mind mapping, or brainstorming ideas Matte softcover with off white pages Makes for great gift under 10 dollars Includes front page for personalization

Peace Love Painting journal gift for an artist. A beautiful painter notebook featuring a peace sign, heart, and colorful rainbow paint palette for someone who paints. 100 page blank lined book.

Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry's pioneering, life-changing workshop The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called Writing the Unthinkable, which was featured in The New York Times Magazine. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor is the first book to make her innovative lesson plans and writing exercises available to the public for home or classroom use. Barry teaches a method of writing that focuses on the relationship between the hand, the brain, and spontaneous images, both written and visual. It has been embraced by people across North America—prison inmates, postal workers, university students, high-school teachers, and hairdressers—for opening pathways to creativity. Syllabus takes the course plan for Barry’s workshop and runs wild with it in her densely detailed signature style. Collaged texts, ballpoint-pen doodles, and watercolor washes adorn Syllabus’s yellow lined pages, which offer advice on finding a creative voice and using memories to inspire the writing process. Throughout it all, Barry’s voice (as an author and as a teacher-mentor) rings clear, inspiring, and honest.

"Psychological trauma can be a life-changing experience that affects multiple facets of health and well-being. The nature of trauma is to impact the mind and body in unpredictable and multidimensional ways. It can be a highly subjective that is difficult or even impossible to explain with words. It also can impact the body in highly individualized ways and result in complex symptoms that affect memory, social engagement, and quality of life. While many people overcome trauma with resilience and without long term effects, many do not. Trauma's impact often requires approaches that address the sensory-based experiences many survivors report. The expressive arts therapy-the purposeful application of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing and imaginative play-are largely non-verbal ways of self-expression of feelings and perceptions. More importantly, they are action-oriented and tap implicit, embodied experiences of trauma that can defy expression through verbal therapy or logic. Based on current evidence-based and emerging brain-body practices, there are eight key reasons for including expressive arts in trauma intervention, covered in this book: (1) letting the senses tell the story; (2) self-soothing mind and body; (3) engaging the body; (4) enhancing nonverbal communication; (5) recovering self-efficacy; (6) rescripting the trauma story; (7) making meaning; and (8) restoring aliveness"--

Bring out your inner artist with 30 vibrantly detailed art activities in this whimsical coloring book dedicated to peace, love, and all things groovy!