From Library Journal
Nice has published more than a dozen fine books, including the very successful Painting Weathered Buildings in Pen, Ink & Watercolor (LJ 3/15/00). The present volume is a delightful concept for encouraging beginning artists or for inspiring professionals. Nice explores a variety of journal styles (travel, reference, fantasy, life journals), using basic art supplies like colored pencils, pen and ink, and watercolor. In her hands, a blank book can become a visual diary, a safe place to try out ideas, or a work of spontaneous art in itself. Highly recommended. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
Everyone, even those who claim they can't draw, can keep an illustrated sketchbook journal. Learning how to creatively illustrate their thoughts, ideas and feelings, readers will delight in recording the world around them as well as the events and details of their lives. Claudia Nice, one of North Light's best-selling artists, begins by introducing readers to the wide variety of journals available and the materials they will need, then shows them how to make a sketch using basic art supplies like a pencil, colored pencils and pen & ink. She continues with instruction for using a basic watercolor palette and applying watercolor washes to a journal. The remainder of the book deals with each type of journal individually, giving ideas and techniques to make every effort successful. Types include theme journals, discovery and exploration journals, travel journals, reference journals, in-depth study journals, fantasy journals, garden journals and life journals. * Appropriate for all artistic levels * Covers a range of journals for every style and taste * Popular well-known author * Friendly instruction and gorgeous art throughout

About the Author
Claudia Nice is a self-taught artist who has developed her realistic style by sketching from nature. Throughout her career, she has won numerous awards for her work and has shared her masterful techniques through her workshops and best-selling books. They include Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor, Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor, Sketching Your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink and Painting Weathered Buildings in Pen, Ink & Watercolor with Claudia Nicee. She lives in Sandy, Oregon

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Everyone, even those who claim they can't draw, can keep an illustrated sketchbook journal. Learning how to creatively illustrate their thoughts, ideas and feelings, readers will delight in recording the world around them as well as the events and details of their lives. Claudia Nice, one of North Light's best-selling artists, begins by introducing readers to the wide variety of journals available and the materials they will need, then shows them how to make a sketch using basic art supplies like a pencil, colored pencils and pen & ink. She continues with instruction for using a basic watercolor palette and applying watercolor washes to a journal. The remainder of the book deals with each type of journal individually, giving ideas and techniques to make every effort successful. Types include theme journals, discovery and exploration journals, travel journals, reference journals, in-depth study journals, fantasy journals, garden journals and life journals. Claudia Nice is a self-taught artist who has developed her realistic style by sketching from nature. Throughout her career, she has won numerous awards for her work and has shared her masterful techniques through her workshops and best-selling books. They include Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor, Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor, Sketching Your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink and Painting Weathered Buildings in Pen, Ink & Watercolor with Claudia Nice. She lives in Sandy, Oregon.
* Appropriate for all artistic levels
* Covers a range of journals for every style and taste
* Popular well-known author
* Friendly instruction and gorgeous art throughout "Although this book contains manyillustrations and "how to" information on basic drawing, it is much more than a drawing book. It is intended to encourage and instruct a variety of persons...in how to take the sights, sounds and emotions of life and capture them into a visual diary. It will appeal to both the student and accomplished artist and goes beyond to include the hobbyist, naturalist and scientist in its audience." --Claudia Nice

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