Download PDF by Karen O'Brien: Imaginary Characters: Mixed-Media Painting Techniques for

Believe in magic, belief your instinct and locate your personal creative style!

In this ebook, you are the storyteller and the artist and you are on a quest to carry the soulful characters, legendary creatures and magical landscapes of your mind's eye to existence via mixed-media paintings. you will faucet into your inventive voice to fuse jointly lush dreamscapes, imaginary characters and located items to construct enthralling scenes, whimsical figures and expressive faces out of layers of acrylic, college, watercolor and extra. research the options essential to create extraordinary mixed-media masterpieces.

On your trip, you will discover:

• Five talents to discover your specified inventive voice.
• A magical drawing technique. simply locate your characters' our bodies and faces hidden in random shapes on painted backgrounds; it is like seeing animals within the clouds.
• Imaginative warm-up routines. research information for making a personality reference library, secrets and techniques for drawing strange faces, the right way to increase a colour palette and suggestion on find out how to play with percentage, mild and shading.
• More than 30 interesting mixed-media tasks utilizing watercolor, classic images, gouache, pencil, cloth, ink and masses extra to convey your imaginary characters to existence on every thing from woodblocks and work to textile collages and paper dolls.
• How to color with no plan. belief your instinct to create anything out of nothing.
• Inspirational prices approximately creativity from recognized artists and thinkers.

Embrace your interest and notice what happens!