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The trickster's hat : a mischievous apprenticeship in creativity / Nick Bantock.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Group, c2014.Edition: 1st edDescription: 194 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0399165029
  • 9780399165023
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Contents:
If you want a shortcut -- The exercises. Climbing in through a small window -- Loosening the brain -- Stamp collage -- Pictorial autobiography -- Directed collage -- Finishing lines -- Building a country -- Composition -- Transposing nouns -- Portrait of the artist as a young man -- Traveling with archetypes -- Limerick -- First kiss -- A rant -- Inventing words -- Dice game -- Porky pies or passionate lies -- Board game -- The unusual suspects -- Ice and fire -- Four-square collage -- Lost in the forest -- Poetry of silence -- Altered models -- Face collage -- Chiaroscuro -- Form and content -- Mundane vs. romantic -- Graphic quotes -- A marriage of opposites -- Learning from others -- Magical object -- The unexpected -- Envelope -- Drawing empty -- Sage -- Dreams -- Top fives -- Blue -- Expanding the Jabberwocky -- Climbing the steps -- Big pastel -- Reverse time capsules -- Childmind -- Lopsided lighthouse -- Painting without brushes -- Risk and happy accidents -- Delivered by accident in twilight -- Seduction optional. And then-- -- Index of the familiars.
Summary: "In The Trickster's Hat, bestselling author of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy Nick Bantock invites you to lose yourself in order to become a better creator. Inspired by Nick's popular and mischievous workshops, the book's fourty-nine perceptive exercises will encourage you to forget your destination while you meander through the wonderous world that awaits you in the periphery of your mind's eye.."--back cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The act of creating art, in all its forms, offers us a path to our souls. But the path can be confusing, and getting lost along the way is inevitable. However, maybe that's the point.

In The Trickster's Hat, bestselling author of the Griffin & Sabine cycle Nick Bantock invites you to lose yourself in order to become a better creator. Inspired by Nick's popular and mischievous workshops, the book's forty-nine perceptive exercises will encourage you to forget your destination while you meander through the wondrous world that awaits you in the periphery of your mind's eye.

If you're willing to be lead hither and thither down unlikely paths by a fellow of dubious reputation, if you're prepared to keep a sense of humor and not be phased when he plucks the unexpected out of a mischief-stuffed hat, if you're ready to zigzag, detour, and wander in search of a better understanding of your artistic core, then, let the Trickster be your guide.

"A Perigee book."

If you want a shortcut -- The exercises. Climbing in through a small window -- Loosening the brain -- Stamp collage -- Pictorial autobiography -- Directed collage -- Finishing lines -- Building a country -- Composition -- Transposing nouns -- Portrait of the artist as a young man -- Traveling with archetypes -- Limerick -- First kiss -- A rant -- Inventing words -- Dice game -- Porky pies or passionate lies -- Board game -- The unusual suspects -- Ice and fire -- Four-square collage -- Lost in the forest -- Poetry of silence -- Altered models -- Face collage -- Chiaroscuro -- Form and content -- Mundane vs. romantic -- Graphic quotes -- A marriage of opposites -- Learning from others -- Magical object -- The unexpected -- Envelope -- Drawing empty -- Sage -- Dreams -- Top fives -- Blue -- Expanding the Jabberwocky -- Climbing the steps -- Big pastel -- Reverse time capsules -- Childmind -- Lopsided lighthouse -- Painting without brushes -- Risk and happy accidents -- Delivered by accident in twilight -- Seduction optional. And then-- -- Index of the familiars.

"In The Trickster's Hat, bestselling author of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy Nick Bantock invites you to lose yourself in order to become a better creator. Inspired by Nick's popular and mischievous workshops, the book's fourty-nine perceptive exercises will encourage you to forget your destination while you meander through the wonderous world that awaits you in the periphery of your mind's eye.."--back cover.

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