Painting Can Save Your Life, Sara Woster
Painting Can Save Your Life, Sara Woster
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Painting Can Save Your Life
How and Why We Paint

Author: Sara Woster

Narrator: Sara Woster

Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/19/2022

Synopsis

Artist and founder of The Painting School Sara Woster invites readers into the vibrant world of painting as a creative practice powerful enough to transform our lives.

Sara Woster is a painter, teacher, and art evangelist. She believes in art as a form of mindfulness, a ritual for healing, and an outlet for self-expression. In Painting Can Save Your Life, Woster welcomes readers into this transformative art form, inviting them to pick up a brush and discover how painting can help you see the world in a whole new way.

Weaving soup-to-nuts instruction on how to paint—from choosing the right materials to painting the human body—with her own story of discovering a passion for painting, this book includes:
 
simple and easy techniques for painters of all skill levelsplayful and challenging painting exercisestips on how to build a creative community using artinsights on how to use painting to cultivate a sense of calm in a stressful world 
Part how-to-paint, part sheer inspiration, Painting Can Save Your Life is a wise and inspiring guide to the power of painting.

About The Author

Painter and art teacher Sara Woster founded The Painting School in an effort to share her passion for painting with her community. Woster shows her work in the United States and internationally, in solo shows and group exhibits. She illustrated several children’s books, and her animations, multimedia, and collaborative performances have been shown at numerous art venues including the Hammer Museum, UCLA, and Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis. She has been granted a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, a Franconia Sculpture Park residency, and a Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA residency. Woster also has a creative writing degree from The New School. She has contributed personal essays to several anthologies and has written two middle-grade books. Woster and her husband, Rob Fischer, established artist residencies in northern Minnesota and the Bleakley House in New York. She lives with her family in Brooklyn. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on January 08, 2024

It's silly, really, to say I'm finished with the book. I've read it straight through, true, but now I'm going to start again and do the exercises, which may take several months. Sara Woster nicely combines personal memoir-anecdote with theory, technique, and tips. I especially like how she rattles o......more

Goodreads review by Rosie on January 19, 2023

This book is captivating and a great guide for a new painter looking to paint to relieve some stress after a long day at work. The author has a great back story and a purposeful approach. Sara owns a painting school and reading this book made me feel like I was one of her students learning how to pa......more

Goodreads review by Ann on February 25, 2023

A comprehensive guide to the art of painting and living the life of an artist - with illustrations from her art and her life as an artist plus advice on techniques of painting and an advice to garner the courage to become an artist. She has advice on how to live the best life that you can while bein......more

Goodreads review by Cameron on November 12, 2024

I'm not an acrylic painter, but this would make a good book for anyone interested in working in any painting medium. This is a nice overview of basic art principles, but also a meditation on why art moves us, and what moves us to make it.......more

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