Painting Your Way out of a Corner by Barbara Diane Barry

Painting Your Way out of a Corner by Barbara Diane Barry

In the tradition of The Artist's Way, an exciting program that introduces painting as a jumping-off point for realizing one's full creative potential in all areas of life.

Based on author Barbara Diane Barry's popular courseArt for Self-Discoveryand supported byresearch in psychology and the science of brain function, Painting Your Way Out of a Cornerguides readers through the process of overcoming blocks and expressing themselves freelyin painting. Through a series of exercises that emphasize improvisation and risk-taking, readers will learn how to quiet their inner critics and strengthen their creativity. The more we learn to play and accept whateverappears on the page, the more we are able to try new things in life.Readers will be inspired by Barry's delightful full-color paintings featured throughout the book.

A longtime artist familiar with battling creative blocks, Barbara Diane Barry developed and teaches an improvisational painting approach that helps us to break free from blocks and honor our creative imaginings. She created Art for Self-Discovery, a studio art program for adults, children, and business communities that has reached nursing home residents, cancer patients and stroke survivors, battered women, adults in transition, and children with ADD.

She teaches in public school art residencies throughout the five boroughs of New York City and is part of an outreach program at Symphony Space that introduces students to various cultures through art making and visits to the city's art museums. She is a faculty member at Manhattan's C.G. Jung Foundation and is a guest educator at the Rubin Museum of Art.

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ISBN 13	9780399163357
ISBN 10	0399163352
Title	Painting Your Way out of a Corner
Author	Barbara Diane Barry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tarcher/Putnam,US
Year published	2014-01-16
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.