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“The Art of Silliness” Blog Tour

02 Friday Nov 2012

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art of silliness, art worksheets, blog tour, craft foxes, craftfoxes, craftfoxes.com, creativity book, doodle and play, drawing book, drawing for adults, drawing worksheets, perigee, worksheets drawing

Ta-Da!!!

My third book “The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for Everyone” hits the shelves on Tuesday, November 6th (yes, Election Day), and the hard-working folks at Perigee have set up a BLOG TOUR over the next 9 days, starting today!

But first I want to introduce you to the story behind the book. The Art of Silliness: Drawing Worksheets for Adults began in April 2010 as an online class designed to help adult students to begin (and enjoy!) drawing again.

The class consisted of daily worksheets with “real” drawing exercises and “silly” prompts. Students (both beginning and accomplished) would then complete the worksheets, with wonderful, incredible results.

The new book contains many of the exercises found in the original class series, and is presented in a “workbook” format so readers can draw and create right in the book. I hope this book will be a helpful tool for parents and grandparents, educators and homeschoolers, and artists and beginners… ALL!

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The Art of Silliness BLOG TOUR will include interviews, guest posts, and giveaway opportunities at 10 different blogs. I’ll keep you posted!

Today I did this Q&A over at craftfoxes.com:

Thanks for being here!

Day #3 • Book Release Blog Celebration • Book Giveaway!

25 Tuesday Sep 2012

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Animals, book, Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals, drawing book, drawing elephants, elephants, painting book, The Sketchbook Challenge

If you head on over to The Sketchbook Challenge Blog today, you’ll see the Oaxacan Dotted Elephant tutorial that makes up Chapter 4 of Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals.

And HERE you can leave a comment to WIN both a copy of the book and a mini elephant original drawing:

Just leave a comment telling me why you would like to win the book. I will pick two winners on Sunday, September 30th: one “randomly,” and one based on your comment (I’ll pick the one that “speaks” to me the most).

I look forward to reading your comments!

P.S. There’s another book giveaway and book review over at Quinn Creative today. Click HERE for another chance to win. Thanks, Quinn, for the very nice review!

P.S.S. Thank you so much for all the blog love! I had meant to have you say “why” you would like the book so I could better understand where YOU are coming from… and not to ask for compliments. (But THANK YOU so much for all the nice comments!)

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AND THE WINNERS ARE…

— Random winner of book and artwork: #44, Valerie Brown. She wrote

I would like to win this book because I have taken tentative steps in my sketchbook with drawing imaginary animals. I think your book would help me get over my need to have them look realistic and my subsequent disappointment when they don’t look that way! Plus, what’s not to love about imaginary animals!! 

— “Comment” winner of a book: Trudi Inglis. She wrote:

As much as I would love this book to be all for me, I think my 10-year old daughter is the perfect recipient for the book! She has always been artistic, and this past year she has really been exploring her creative ideas. In fact, this past summer she won the Jim Pittman Award in Lunenburg Nova Scotia … a contest open to kids grade 4 – 12, and she won first over all! Meanwhile she has friends and teachers trying to tell how to make art … How things “should look”. There is nobody but me and my artist sister encouraging her to let herself go. She loves looking at your work, and I really think having your book would help her learn that real people agree … Not just her totally uncool mum … That making art doesn’t mean following set rules!

AND… this was amazing…

— Former Silly student “Savannah Silly-Dawn O’Brien” asked if she could GIFT some of you copies of the book (I know, so generous!). She chose four recipients: Abigail, Jeannievh, Serena Mira Asta, and Birthe Lindhardt! I’ll be emailing the winners separately (and Savannah’s contact info is: savvangogh@earthlink.net). THANK YOU, Savannah!

And thank you to everyone who commented… I was really touched by ALL of the comments… thank you.

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This post is part of a Two-Week Book Release Celebration for my new book, “Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sonheim.” For the schedule, which includes book and art giveaways, contributing artists features, tutorials, and assignments, click here.

Day #1 • Book Release Blog Celebration • Two-Week Schedule

23 Sunday Sep 2012

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Animals, book, Carla Sonheim, Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals, drawing animals, drawing book, painting animals

Here it is, my new book!

This book features 9 “messing around” exercises and 10 “mixed-media” projects (which, together, touch on almost all of my painting and drawing tricks and techniques that I’ve used the past 20 years — whether drawing animals, people, flowers, or playing around with abstraction — so even if you’re not an animal nut like me, I hope you will find something helpful in “Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals” [Quarry Books]!)

Why did I create this book? Drawing animals has been kind of an obsession the past three or four years, and I was anxious to share the fun!

Also, about ten years ago I ran across an article highlighting animals in contemporary artwork. There were some wonderful things going on, and it served as an inspiration for me these past years to just “go for it” with regards to focusing on animals in my artwork. When I looked for books on the subject, however, I was surprised at the scarcity of books on drawing contemporary, stylized animals.

So I wrote one! (My own version.)

Here’s the Table of Contents:

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SECTION 1: Just Messing Around
1. Blobs & Sidewalk Cracks (3 exercises related to “Finding Animals Around You”)
2. Photos & Life (3 exercises for “Drawing Animals Around You”)
3. Memory and Imagination (3 exercises for “Drawing Animals Within You”)

SECTION 2: Mixed-Media Projects
4. Oaxacan Dotted Elephant: More is More
5. Imaginary Animals: Abstract Watercolor Starts
6. Junk Mail Creatures Book: Gesso and Watercolor
7. Watercolor Transfer Animals: Iron-Ons
8. Doggone It! Messy Collage
9. Animals in Tape: Instant Collage
10. Creatures on Wood, Part I: Puzzle Paintings
11. Creatures on Wood, Part II: Embracing Serendipity
12. Go Fish! Installation
13. Wrapped and Tied: 3-D Fabric Animals

Section 3: 12 Featured Artists

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Today is the first day of a two-week blog celebration, and I wanted to give you an idea of what’s ahead the next two weeks:

WEEK 1
Sunday, 9/23: Intro to Book, Schedule
Monday, 9/24: Art Tutorial
Tuesday, 9/25: Book Giveaway!
Wednesday, 9/26: Book Giveaway, Artist Karine Swenson
Thursday, 9/27: Drawing Assignment, Art Giveaway
Friday, 9/28: Book Giveaway, Artist Karen O’Brien
Saturday, 9/29: Shading Tutorial, Art Giveaway

WEEK 2
Sunday, 9/30: Book Giveaway, Artist Malathip Kriheli
…………… Also: Book Giveaways in tandem with today’s Radio Interview with Artistically Speaking Talk Show, 3:30pm PST
Monday, 10/1: Book Giveaway, Assignment, Artist Dar Hosta
Tuesday, 10/2: Book Giveaway, Artist Lisa Firke
Wednesday, 10/3: Drawing Assignment: “Go Blob Hunting”
Thursday, 10/4: Book Giveaway, Artist Petra Overbeek Bloem
Friday, 10/5: Eraser Drawing Tutorial, Art Giveaway
Saturday, 10/6: Book Giveaway, Artist Julie LaPointe
Sunday, 10/7: Wrap-Up!

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Thank you so much for checking in and we’ll see you tomorrow!

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To purchase a copy of the book directly:

from amazon.com
from Barnes & Noble
from QBookshop
from Independent Bookstores

“Imaginary Animals” Blog Celebration

17 Monday Sep 2012

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book, Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals, drawing animals, drawing book, imaginary animals, painting animals

Hello! I’ve gotten word from my publisher that my new book is being shipped out this week… yay!

I’m planning a two-week long Blog Celebration… the first day is this coming Sunday, September 23, 2012. Be sure to check here daily for chances to win a copy of the book, some original animal artwork, animal-related tutorials and assignments, and more!

I’ll be busy this week getting everything together… see you on Sunday!

P.S. Note to new readers: You can get the two weeks of blog posts directly in your inbox by subscribing to the blog at the top left column. (You can then unsubscribe after the blog celebration is over if you wish!)

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