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book cover for Drawing Out the Muses

Drawing Out the Muses is based on the premise that inspiration can be found anywhere; in nature, with household objects, though sound, using raw visual elements, dreams, and even from being uninspired. Learn about the nature of creativity and different ways of seeing things, with over 300 fun and serious examples, step-by-step processes, exercises, ideas, explorations, things to do, and ways of interpreting the world around you, most with multiple variations from which to choose. Every last one is designed to give you something to work on, or to play with, while helping you to spark your own innate creativity in the process.

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book cover for Prcing Your Artwork with Confidence

Pricing Your Artwork with Confidence is a detailed guide dedicated to helping artists understand and calculate the actual cost of creating their artwork. This one-of-a-kind book is the path to clarity on a subject that all-too-often has been shrouded in mystery. There is no reason for guesswork anymore.

Written by an artist with a mind for math, logic, and perception, as well as a deep interest in fair-play for her fellow artists, this book lays out step-by-step means of coming to a solid pricing structure for your creative work. Cold, hard, yet simple, math is balanced with measuring the realities of the marketplace and where you find yourself at this time within the artworld. Chapters on growth, moving forward, and valuing what you do are included.

Pricing Your Artwork with Confidence is a must-have for any artist serious about their professional career.

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book cover for Songs in Search of a Tune

Songs in Search of a Tune is a collection of lyric poetry from a time of exquisite longing, a portrait of a mid-journey, misdirected and deeply felt. Written by a synesthetic visual artist, this book compliments the artistic impulse more often expressed in painting, when only words will do. 54 lyric poems, plus extensive bonus material, comprise this new, hot-off-the-press, 117-page volume.

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