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The drawing club of improbable dreams : how to create a club for art / Cat Bennett.

by Bennett, Cat.

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Findhorn Press, 2015.

Drawing -- Study and teaching.

Drawing -- Technique.

Artistic collaboration.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

9781844096756 (pbk.)

1844096750 (pbk.)

125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Subtitle from cover.

Drawing -- How a club helps -- Improbable dreams -- Attitude matters -- It starts with people -- Space, time and materials -- Running the club -- Working together -- A tip -- Our one rule -- Making a plan -- Show and tell - Keeping a sketchbook -- About the sessions -- Session 1: basic drawing practices -- Session 2: trying things out -- Session 3: stepping it up -- Carrying on -- Back to the studio -- The improbable dream.

"How to create a drawing club to work with fellow artists to build skills and find our own genius. In the club we make art experiments and the bold mistakes that free us from unnecessary limitations. We also reap the benefit of witnessing how others solve problems. Inside are full instructions on how to start and run a club as well as three 8-week session plans with specific art explorations. The purpose of the explorations we make is not only to build drawing skills but also to build the qualities of curiosity, courage, and critical thinking we need for making art. We will learn how to work from the inside out to make art that is fresh, vital and authentic. The book offers two important rules that will help us be the unique artists we are meant to be. As artists we dream that we might make something fantastic and be fully who we are. We dream that art matters, even that it might change the world. Improbable dreams but, in a club, things start to happen that we didn't imagine possible. Cat Bennett worked as an Illustrator for 25 years. She taught drawing to adults for ten years in her Saturday Morning Drawing Club. Even those who came to the club having not drawn since childhood have gone on to make, exhibit and sell art, some in galleries, shops and museum shop settings. She lives outside Boston"--Provided by publisher.

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