The Mindful Art Studio Book List 2020
Dearest Wonderful, Artistic You lot:
Each fall I compile a list of books that have inspired me throughout the year. I love sharing the books that have inspired my work and enriched my life. While I'm usually share books by and large about fine art and artists, I've realized nature has such a shut connection with my art process, it makes sense to including those besides.
The Lost Words, Robert McFarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris
This book is such a marriage of so many things that speak to me – a love of words, a quest to preserve nature, and gorgeous illustrations of plants and animals. You lot'll go lost in Lost Words in the best style possible.
Making Journals past Manus, Jason Thompson
I've had this book for years, but it'due south one I return to oft for inspiration when I want to enliven my journaling practise.
Impress, Pattern, Sew: Block Printing Basics, and Elementary Sewing Projects for an Inspired Wardrobe, Jen Hewitt
I took the online block press course a number of years ago with Jen Hewitt and her piece of work continues to inspire me. Her presentation of the block printing methods is straightforward and piece of cake to follow, and she appears in many photos with her little doggie – what could exist more than inspiring than that? I'one thousand not much of a seamstress, I just sometimes pretend I sew when I need to brand defunction or a tablecloth, but seeing all these beautiful projects inspires me.
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Kimmerer writes eloquently and tells engaging stories nearly "ethnic wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants." The more than I learned, the more I realized I wanted to know more. I learned and so many things in this volume, but a lot of what it gave me was validation for my honey of nature and the ways I want to weave it more intimately into my fine art. Kimmerer also helped me recollect more than deeply about means I could approach the natural globe more mindfully, with respect rather than entitlement.
The Audio of a Wild Snail Eating, Elisabeth Tova Bailey
The way that Bailey tunes into a snail in the nigh tranquility, wearisome way drew me in immediately. The infinite she made for attention to nature – that'south what inspires me. It created in me a feeling of spaciousness. This is a similar spaciousness every bit I feel when I exercise slow drawing, and quiet exploration in the woods or on the shore. This little book has a lot to say about the gifts of slowing down and tuning in. For me it applies to my time in nature, but of class also in fine art.
Daily Rituals, Bricklayer Currey
This is a lovely footling read about the daily practices of artists, scientists, and philosophers. For me information technology reinforced the importance of respecting your own rhythm in your creative life, and and then sticking to it.
An Ocean Garden, Josie Iselin
This gorgeous little volume is full of the color, pattern and detail of dozens of unlike types of seaweed. Iselin has gathered and scanned them with incredible care, such that they seem to float in white infinite. It was beautiful to study the patterns and colour shifts, but too to learn more about seaweed and how they survive and thrive.
O'Keeffe: Days in a Life: C.Southward. Merrill
This lilliputian book gave a fascinating peek into my favorite painter, her habits, and her life in New Mexico.
What books fine art and nature books are inspiring yous correct now? I'd dearest to hear about information technology!
Creatively Yours,
Amy
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