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    CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life
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    CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life

    By Danielle Donaldson

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    About this ebook

    Find your artistic creativity with delicate doodles, big colors and lavish layers!

    CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies. Danielle Donaldson shows you how to draw the pretty pictures from your imagination, infuse your art with delightful color combinations and work through creative frustration with simple fixes. You'll learn how to paint with watercolor, tell visual stories with and without words and add depth with layers using mixed-media techniques and little details--all while finding inspiration and gaining confidence in your own artistic style.

    Draw, paint, layer and create!

    • More than 30 techniques and projects including drawing, painting and adding layers for artists and aspiring artists of all levels.
    • Learn how do draw and paint figures such as creativeGIRL, busyGIRL and tutuGIRL. Then create your own girl to channel your story.
    • Find even more inspiration in a gallery filled with extraLOVE from the artist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorth Light Books
    Release dateJun 18, 2015
    ISBN9781440340185
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    CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life
    Author

    Danielle Donaldson

    Danielle Donaldson writes from Southern California where she lives with her husband and sons. She is busy writing YA and Contemporary Romance novels as well as poetry and short stories. Her novels are stories of hope. The smallest candle is still fighting the shadows. Every person has their struggles, their darkness but the cycle of life continues and the light might be around the next bend. Catch her online on WriterDanielleDonaldson.com Sign up for her newsletter to learn about upcoming releases!

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