There are more than 50 creative prompts for the artist (or artist at heart) to explore.
Morgan Puett, Dread Scott, Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing, and many others..
You Are an Artist brings together more than 50 Assignments gathered from some of the most innovative creators working today, including Sonya Clark, Michelle Grabner, The Guerrilla Girls, Fritz Haeg, Pablo Helguera, Nina Katchadourian, Toyin Ojih Odutola, J.
Full of insights, techniques, and inspiration from art history, this book opens up the processes and practices of artists and proves that you, too, have what it takes to call yourself one.
The only materials you\'ll need are what you already have on hand or can source for free.
This book is for anyone who wants to make art, regardless of experience level.
You don\'t have to know how to draw well, stretch a canvas, or mix a paint color that perfectly matches that of a mountain stream.
Your challenge is to filter these Assignments through the lens of your own experience and make art that reflects the world as you see it.
The result is You Are an Artist , a journey of Creation through which you\'ll invent imaginary friends, sort books, declare a cause, construct a landscape, find your band, and become someone else (or at least try). -- Fast Company More than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it Curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working.
Take the title of this book as affirmation, and get started.
There are more than 50 creative prompts for the artist (or artist at heart) to explore
