Sketchbook Joy: How to Embrace Your Creativity and Fill Your Sketchbooks with Colour - Paperback

by Katie Moody (Author)

Creativity exists in everyone!

Find joy in this inspiring, beautiful and uplifting art instruction book from sketchbook lover, tutor and artist Katie Moody.

Art can be accessible, so much fun and positive for your mental health, mindfulness, and memory. Kickstart your creative journey with this exciting guide to developing your art skills every day through your sketchbook.

Learn how to paint through the accessible medium of fun gouache and explore the expressive joy of mixed media by drawing in pastels & pencils.

Be excited by unique examples and ideas from artist Katie Moody's stunning illustrations, and explore:

• Essential sketchbook supplies and how to use them
• Basic painting and drawing techniques
• Colour theory
• Sketching things around you
• Projects that include botanicals, birds, rural landscapes, urban scenes, and painting from your window (or phone)
• Ideas and way of filling your sketchbook
• Tips for building a creative practice and making time for it - and you

Discover your inner creative, enjoy the process, and sketchbook your way to joyful wellbeing.

Author Biography

Katie is a mixed media artist living on the south coast of England and is hugely inspired by nature! She teaches and shares her art on YouTube, Patreon and Instagram, encouraging more people to pick up their sketchbooks, find their creative joy and get painting. She has worked with Derwent, Windsor & Newton, and the Tate, and has a successful Etsy shop. Katie is an advocate that creativity is for everyone!