Adventures in Creativity, Collage, & Water Media May 5-9

Ocean City Center for the Arts, Maryland. Email Ann Terrell
Free your creative spirit in Nita Leland's workshop, where the emphasis is on you. Access your creativity in sketches, capturing images and quotations in a sketchbook. Try new color and design ideas; experiment with abstraction; play with mixed media, learn basic collage techniques and more. You'll benefit from helpful daily critiques tailored to every skill level and useful tips on goal setting in a fun and friendly atmosphere. A free private consultation with Nita on one or two pieces of current work is optional.

Book Review: Abstract Painting

Abstract Painting by Vicky Perry ties historical abstraction in with modern techniques in this colorful book. It isn't a how-to book in the sense of step-by-step demos, but helps the artist to see how abstraction has developed and some directions the artist might take to explore abstract concepts in oils and acrylics. The emphasis is on non-objective abstraction, leaning more toward expressionist organic design than geometric color/field. Probably not for beginners, but a very interesting book for someone thinking to explore this genre. Another book I have learned a great deal from is Painting and Understanding Abstract Art.