There are many books about creative things out there. I'm linking a few of them here. If you click on a book, it will take you to a place at Amazon.com where you can purchase a copy. I've ordered books from Amazon.com before, and they're very reliable. So, enjoy your stay and I hope that you find some good reading material!
Books by SARK
I have a copy of Living Juicy and it's really nice. I love it. I really recommend it, along with all of her other books. She has a *very* creative spirit.
Living Juicy
A Creative Companion: How to Free Your Creative Spirit
The Passion Dream Book by Whitney Otto
This is a really good book. It's about artists in different eras. I'm in the middle of reading it, (this being August 6, 1998) in the part with Giulietta in the Italian Renaissance, and it's *wonderful* I highly recommend it. This is Valerie's favorite book.
In The Passion Dream Book, Whitney Otto gives a list of the books. This is a list of those books:
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Exiled in Paris by James Campbell
This was Harlem by Jervis Anderson
The next book on the list was The Renaissance and Color. I couldn't find one on the combined title, but I did find each one separately.
Color and The Renaissance by Alison Cole
Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America, David Driskell, editor.
Madame Yevonde by Robin Gibson and Pam Roberts
The Dream at the End of the World by Michelle Green
Italian Days by Barbara Grizutti Harrison
Selected Poems, Langston Hughes
Cyanide & Spirits: A Inside-Out View of Early Photography by Bill Jay
Joan Miro by Carolyn Lachner
Freer: A Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill
James Baldwin by David Leeming
Mary Cassatt
by Nancy Mowll Mathews
I just got a copy of The Captian's Verses. I highly recommend it. I also wrote some poetry kind of influenced by Pablo Neruda. To see it, visit my poetry page.
The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
Photos by James Van Derzee
The Italian Renaissance by John H. Plumb
The Lives of Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Volume One
Volume Two
The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture by Steven Waston
Paris was a Woman by Andrea Weiss
Drawing
Drawing on the Right Side of The Brain by Betty Edwards
Painting
Sister Wendy's Story of Painting: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Art
Sculpture
Sculpture: Principles and Practice by Slobodkin Louis
Stories
Blood on the Forehead by M. E. Kerr
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg and Samuel Bercholz
Poetry
How to Write Poetry by Nancy Bogen
A Poet's Portable Workshop by Steve Kowit
Journaling
Totally Private and Personal by Jessica Wilber
Blank Books
Angels Diary
Blank Book with Quotations from Women on Life
Celestial
China
Daisy
Anne Geddes
Dream Journal
Gratitude Journal
India
The Idea Book: A Journal for Creative Thinkers
Lighthouse
Lounge Lizard Journal
Parrot Tulip
Rainbow Fish
Renoir
Travel Journal
Van Gogh
Victorian Flowers
Astrology Journals
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pices
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