CONTENTS
Eight Ingredients for Finding Your Style
3 Gathering Inspiration from Your Internal Landscape
Sourcing Imagery from Your Meditation
Exploring Your Ancestral and Cultural History through Mixed Media Ephemera
4 Gathering Inspiration from Your External Landscape
Drawing Exercises: Nondominant Hand, Blind Contour, and Shadow Drawings
Three Scavenger Hunts: Drawing, Photo, and Object
Writing Inquiry: Your Inspiring Life
5 Expansion with New Materials
Writing Inquiry: Your New Materials
Transferring Images with Carbon or Graphite Paper
Incorporating Beads, Fabric, and Thread
Creating a Relationship with Color
Writing Inquiry: Your World of Colors
Color Mixing and Recipe Naming
7 Incorporating Inspiration from Other Artists
Interpreting Inspiration Honorably
Writing Inquiry: What You Love and Why
Painting Challenge: Using Art as Inspiration without Copying
Seeking Inspiration in Other Art Forms
Some of Our Personal Inspirations
The End is Just Another Beginning
