Artists can sometimes feel as though they're in a creative rut. With Painting from the Inside Out, readers will use fun and inspiring exercises to break out of that rut and create exciting, innovative paintings every time they pick up a brush. Each chapter highlights a particular aspect of creative painting such as Zen painting warm-ups, abstract landscape exercises, and projects that combine more than one medium. Each new lesson helps readers think about art in new and imaginative ways, then render such imaginings with a variety of useful techniques.