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The Artist’s Journey®:
Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity
Whether you dream of loosening up and exploring creativity, expressing yourself, healing and becoming whole, experimenting with paints, colors, and techniques, or surprising yourself with your art, The Artist’s Journey® is your step-by-step guide to bold self-expression.
The Artist’s Journey®:
Creativity Reflection Journal
Creativity is central to feeling alive. Unleash your inner artist.
From the best-selling author of The Artist’s Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity, a playfully illustrated and inspirational self-help journal crafted to activate the inner sources of your creativity and the outer reaches of your imagination.
Spark your imagination in The Artist’s Journey Creativity Reflection Journal with creativity prompts, poetic musings and stories inviting you to reflect on and activate the inner sources of your creativity.
The Adjacent Possible:
Evolve Your Art. From Blank Canvas To Prolific Artist
Discover the science of creativity and the art of the possible- the adjacent possible!
Being an artist is about continually evolving your art. It’s about cultivating your fullest self-expression and getting to the elusive deepest work your heart yearns to create.
Take your art to the edge of creation and collapse- Step into the unknown, access The Adjacent Possible and create art that surprises and wows you.
Winner of Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal International Award and Book Excellence Award.
The Adjacent Possible:
Guidebook & Stories of Artistic Transformation
This guidebook animates the science of creativity with concepts and artists’ stories embracing the unfolding of their art.
It connects scientific concepts with artistic practice to understand the nature of surprise. And illuminates the creative journey of discovery through artists’ stories.
This is poised instability- the pivot point between creation and collapse. This is where innovation thrives. This is the art and science of the possible- a world of continuous creation.
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The Adjacent Possible: Guidebook & Stories of Artistic Transformation
THE SURPRISE: MY FORTHCOMING NOVEL
He was dying. I was losing him.
None of this makes sense…
The love of Charlotte Youngblood’s life is missing, presumed dead. Eighteen months later, she’s still consumed by grief and guilt over his shock diagnosis…until she reluctantly attends a party and meets a charming writer, whose resemblance to her lost love leaves Charlotte unsettled.
Jake Hemingway is captivated by Charlotte from the moment he sees her. Yet before their first date he’s approached by a woman who warns him that there’s more to Charlotte than he realizes. She’s unbalanced. Dangerous.
But it’s far from a sincere warning. When her lover’s last possession raises uncomfortable questions, Charlotte is confronted by the lies of her past. The question is: can the truth bring her closer to Jake? Or is she doomed to drown with her ghosts?
Nancy’s new novel is a dual POV romantic suspense that is sure to have you whispering just one more chapter…
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This genre is contemporary romantic suspense and I will publish it as Nancy Hillis.
MY PEN NAME: GRACIE GABLE
One decision.
Four lives changed forever.
Rose Aberdeen is pretty sure she’s had her shot at love. Now, all she has left is the bruised heart and messy divorce that proves it. So, swapping the bright lights of her LA psych office for a first-grade classroom in Arkansas, Rose settles into small town —single — life. Until her concern for an unkempt student leads her to the doorstep of a stoic, handsome, single father who upends her heart…
Jahi Adams is in the business of saving people. As the resident firefighter and paramedic at the Eureka Springs station, he carries the weight of a town on his shoulders and the burden of grief in his soul. But when Ms. Aberdeen’s concern for his child blossoms into mutual warm regard, Jahi can’t help but allow hope to take a foothold.
As his feelings for Rose tenderly cross a threshold from which he can’t return, Jahi realizes he can’t hold back forever. But when the big city comes calling, Rose has a choice to make — and building a future seems impossible when they keep tripping over the past.
Click ‘nap your copy’ to read Rose and Jahi’s story today!
The Artist’s Journey® & The Adjacent Possible®
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Runaway Best Seller Color Pop Self-Study Courses
TOP SELLER: Color Pop Intensive: Zorn, Rembrandt, Magnificent Monochromes & Tantalizing Tertiaries
Mix gorgeous palettes and use them to create abstract paintings: Magnificent Monochromatic Palettes, Tantalizing Tertiaries & The Two-Color Palette, Zorn Palette, and Rembrandt’s Palette (Modern).
And find out how does a Rembrandt Palette connects with contemporary abstract art and some exciting modern variations on Rembrandt’s palette.
TOP SELLER: Color Pop Intensive: Van Gogh Green, Turner’s Yellow, Think Pink & Matisse Red
The Gorgeous Greens of Vincent Van Gogh and the mysterious Turner’s Yellow.
And then we have Think Pink. Pink is having a day and it turns out the master colorist Henri Matisse explored pink with astonishing luminosity in his 1911 masterpiece, The Pink Studio, as well as Pink Nude and other works.
And finally, the Big Momma. Red. Matisse’s arguably most famous painting, The Red Studio, 1911, is a stunning, innovative painting that has been described as a mini museum, an example of the concept of art in art, showing several of his artworks in the painting.
Color Pop Self-Study Courses
Color Pop Intensive: Tertiaries, Peach & Turquoise
We’ll mix gorgeous palettes and apply them to an abstract painting exercise, creating mouth watering, large scale (or medium or small scale, if you choose) abstract expressionist paintings.
Color Pop Intensive: Beauty From The Beast: Mud & Magic
Create complex, compelling, chromatic grays & beautiful chromatic palettes. Simplify color with ease.
Find Beauty in the “Ugly”, and learn how to use neutrals to tame chaotic work.
Color Pop Intensive: Chagall Blue, Eye Candy Palette, Hilda of Klint Neutrals & Magical Metallics
The gorgeous blues of Marc Chagall.
The power of warm, cool, and dirty primaries and connecting this to Constraint, Scale Contrast, and Color Contrast.
And Metallics, glass, mirrors… reflective surfaces. Because it’s all about light.
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