Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568984456 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Jennifer New takes readers on a spirited tour into the private worlds of journal keepers an architect, a traveler, a film director, an archeologist, a cancer patient, a songwriter, a quiltmaker, a gardener, an artist, a cyclist, and a scientist, to name just a few illustrating a broad range of journaling styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives. Excerpts from journals by such artists as Maira Kalman, Steven Holl, David Byrne, and Mike Figgis give us a peek at how creative souls observe, reflect, and explore. For those who have always wanted to or tried and failed it might just be the motivation needed to get past tha
. She teaches at the University of Iowa School of Education and lives with her husband and children in Iowa City. Jennifer New is author of the best selling Dan Eldon: The Art of Life
-- Metro New York, July 2005"Painters, photographers, a psychiatrist, a gardener, a songwriter and assorted travelers chart their journeys. The book breaks down the 31 journal keepers based on how they work: observation, reflection, exploration, and creation." -- Linda Brazill --Capital Times, December 10, 2005"Journals kept by 31 creative types, from cartoonist Lynda Barry and cognitve scientist/engineer Erwin Boer to painter Julie Baugnet, who teaches graphic design at Minnesotas St. Included are personal, imaginative sketches, photographs, full-color illustrations and prose examples of their work." -- Fred Klien --Santa Barbra News Press, January 1, 2008"Visual diaries, as New notes in her preface, are more pragmatic, less confessional, and better fit for public viewing than written diaries.Pouring over the books vivid and arresting pages, it seemed to me visual diaries might also be more useful to the diarist. The faithful scribes and artists
Quality production, quality content C. Ebeling To the world outside of practicing or incidental artists, the word "journal" connotes text and writing, so much penmanship. Jennifer New's DRAWING FROM LIFE effectively illustrates that the impulse engines for journaling--observation, reflection, exploration and creation--can operate through visual imagery, either collected scraps or original work, as well as text. Her book looks at artistic journals kept by a variety of people, some of them whose careers would suggest left-brain strengths but whose extemporaneous work is highly creative. Some of the journal-keepers she profiles are recognizable from the media, su. Di West said Great Reference Book. A very nice and informative book on creating journals with lots of diagrams and pictures to help along the way. I am a professional artist but am always looking for new techniques and this book certainly provides many interesting and easy methods.. It'll have you reaching for some art supplies Bron Mitchell As an avid journaler, I'm always intrigued to see what other people write about, draw about or observe in their own journals. There's nothing quite so personal as seeing what someone else has created at their most free - there's a certain kind of vulnerability and exposure on display that you don't get to see in a piece of artwork that has been created with the hope that it will have an audience.Jennifer New has assembled an interesting and inspired collection of journals by people from all walks of life. Only a few of them are artists by profession, but this book demonstrates how many people keep an art journal,