The Art of Creating Beautiful Faces

The rage for mixed media art 'girls' has a list of rock stars and Jane Davenport is one who makes fans where ever she goes.  In her book, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces - and on her Youtube channel - she explains how her background as a fashion illustrator helped her hone the style and techniques that she discovered and teaches in mixed media workshops and online classes.  The book is gorgeous, thorough, and brilliant!  A 5-star art book if there ever was one!  The step-by-step demonstrations give tips and insights that only a pro can give.

Want to see more about this book?  Watch the video review of the book's step-by-step demonstration, Making Clouds, with book review, here!

Get the book! Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop

Or, take one of the author/artist's online workshops: Jane Davenport's Youtube Channel

Brave Intuitive Process for Finding Your Own Art Style

This book hits my 5-star list, here, on this blog.  It not only helps you let go, be bold, and unfold - as the subtitle suggests, but it gives tips on creating a life and art that you love.  The intuitive mind holds many secrets - or, we can open up to our intuition and live according to what our inner-voice is telling us.  I guess that it the gist that I got from reading this book.  I also did a step-by-step painting exercise according to the *prompts* which the artist lists in the book to paint by.  I chose one, as my format for the review and came out with a painting I don't hate.  And, truly, it was through a process that could easily be loved.  Painting by letting go of fear - fear of failure, fear of the competition, and also letting go of the mind and lines from photographs, she sort of teaches you that your hand is creating the line as your mind does, not according to a photograph you feel you must represent, or anything else, at all.  If you haven't tried it, you should.  The best way is either take a workshop or class from an intuitive painter - but the second best, I think, is this book.  It really didn't skip a thing, and I'm not sure any art class goes into helping you find a creative life as much as your creative style.

Watch a video review of Brave Intuitive Painting, here!

Or, just get yourself these books:
Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!: Techniques for Uncovering Your Own Unique Painting Style

Brave Intuitive Painting: An Art Journal For Living Creatively