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Mindful Travel Sketching
A Memoir of Journeys Inner and Outer
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In this third and final volume of the Mindful Art series, Hiroshi Shimazaki explores what has always been at the heart of his sketching/painting activities, whether for academic research or for pure pleasure. Here he reminisces about times on...
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Creations for Colouring
Psychedelic Designs
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Mushrooms, smileys, psychedelic lines, and cheerful swirls—Creations for Colouring is a colouring book of the artist’s original designs for all ages and abilities. Relax and enjoy colouring! “Go with the choice that scares you the most, because...
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Mindful Landscape Painting
My Watercolour Journeys
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Can landscape painting be an avenue for examining current and historic world views, understandings, and perspectives on human nature? Can it be an avenue for philosophical exploration? Hiroshi Shimazaki’s answer is a resounding, “yes,” and he...
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Mindful Landscape Sketching
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“Visit the old and learn anew without preconceived ideas”—the meaning of the seal on many of Hiroshi Shimazaki’s paintings encapsulates his creative and contemplative approach to landscape sketching. In Mindful Landscape Sketching, with language...
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Art Attitude - The Random Thoughts of RFM McInnis
A Sort of Autobiography
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The fact that I paint what is perceived as subject matter is beside the point. For me, subject matter is only an excuse to observe abstract organic shapes and patterns where they exist in nature and push their shape-space relationships to the...
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Book of Birds
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Book of Birds is a collection of the artist's vividly original paintings of mostly North American birds along with insights into Nadina's unique creative process. The paintings are gently humorous, sometimes touching, sometimes giving pause for...
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Of Wonder & Delight
A Contemporary Fox Tale
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The cheeky, curious fox finds boredom in the day-to-day predictability of the forest he knows as home. Despite the admiration of other woodland creatures, he decides to venture far, only to be enamored by bigger animals than himself. The bears...
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Gallan
Conversations inspired by Gurmukhi Alphabets
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This is my artistic approach to creating a Punjabi cultural dialogue with 83 pages of photographed and graphically reproduced mixed media illustrations, artworks and digital works, combined with a hand written and a typed collection of "Gallan"...
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Busker and the Trees
Eight Decades of Struggle, Adaptation and Happiness
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Like a busker juggling, we go through life balancing values as balls in the air...If one falls, the good busker picks it quickly up, resumes the performance and the audience applauds the skill in maintaining balance and harmony. Busker and the...
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Towards Light
Landscape Paintings of British Columbia
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TOWARDS LIGHT richly redefines the way we experience the scenic beauty of British Columbia. With each magical painting, artist Lil Chrzan informs the viewer that a landscape is not just about clouds and trees but rather the subtle quality of...
