Creative people like to challenge themselves
Doing so keeps their ideas fresh and their juices flowing. It's not too difficult to produce amazing stuff when you've got a studio full of things to play with but what happens when a wildly creative artist is limited to just a piece of paper and a pencil? Marti McGinnis is an artist who makes art with a variety of media (www.happyart.com) but she wanted to see what might happen if she just stuck to drawing with just a pencil on paper for a year, once every morning. "400 Mornings: Artist Dreams + Pencil Drawings" is a visual journal that...

Just Add Color
In this second volume of pencil sketches, artist Marti McGinnis continues inspiring smiles through the 400 fresh ideas she brings to the drawing table. The drawings in her first series entitled "400 Mornings: Artist Dreams - Pencil Sketches" inspired people of all ages to add their own artistic vision by coloring in them and this book offers several hundred new pages for creative expression.

Children know almost naturally know what to do when they're faced with a black and white drawing - they reach for the box of crayons and have at it Adults, too, with a little...