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December 2025
 
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We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something by Amie McNee
We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something
by Amie McNee

From Amie McNee, the voice behind Inspired to Write, a manifesto on the vital, human importance of creating, with guidance for all artists in all endeavors, whether they're starting their journey or seeking a fresh perspective. In We Need Your Art, Amie McNee calls artists and aspiring artists of all kinds to do the work they're meant to do: create. Using her own experiences as a novelist and the inspiration she's shared as a creative coach, Amie guides you on why we need your art and how you can make it happen--starting with a two-week reset plan to help you kick-start your creative habit. This isn't about writing your great novel in a month or painting a masterpiece in a flurry of inspiration. Rather, this process is about practicing small, sustainable creative steps every day over time--five hundred words of writing each day, a pencil sketch every evening--so that you avoid burnout, produce consistent, reliable content on your own terms, and begin to see yourself as an artist. With frank and empowering conversations on the many issues creatives face, including impostor syndrome, perfectionism, procrastination, and the inner critic, as well as invitations to coronate yourself and celebrate your ambition, Amie provides the framework and encouragement you need to begin to take your art seriously. Each chapter also includes journal prompts that help you apply what you have learned to your new life. We Need Your Art is a revolutionary reprogramming of everything we have been taught and told about being a creative, removing the shame and fear we may feel at dubbing ourselves artists and inviting us to create proudly, with celebration. This book is a warm hug, a pep talk, the wise teacher you always wanted, the loving parent you needed, and the fire in your belly that you need to get roaring.
Conscious Creativity: The Workbook: Experiment, Explore, Create by Philippa Stanton
Conscious Creativity: The Workbook: Experiment, Explore, Create
by Philippa Stanton

Conscious Creativity: The Workbook is an exciting, experimental journal to help readers connect with their creative impulses and senses.
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Paint, Play, Explore: Expressive Mark-Making Techniques in Mixed Media by Rae Missigman
Paint, Play, Explore: Expressive Mark-Making Techniques in Mixed Media
by Rae Missigman

Rae Missigman helps you discover the marks that define you as an artist and weave them into your art in new and interesting ways.
101 Mixed Media Techniques: Master the Fundamental Concepts of Mixed Media Art by Cherril Doty
101 Mixed Media Techniques: Master the Fundamental Concepts of Mixed Media Art
by Cherril Doty

Gain the essential skills and inspiration for making mixed media art with 101 Mixed Media Techniques.
Journal Fodder 365: Daily Doses of Inspiration for the Art Addict by Eric M. Scott
Journal Fodder 365: Daily Doses of Inspiration for the Art Addict
by Eric M. Scott

Art Journal Adventures! Learn how to journal your exceptional story. Life is not always extraordinary in all its details, but it is the sum of those ordinary events that add up to extraordinary lives. The journal is no different. With Journal Fodder 365, the Journal Fodder Junkies will lead you on a year-long adventure in drawing and writing, ...