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In The Maker's Book Tesia Blackburn once again urges you to stop thinking about making art and just make it - right inside this book. Filled with techniques and instruction on how to create art easily without a lot of set-up or expensive materials, The Maker's Book even contains blank pages for your work. In this follow-up to It's Only Painting: Essays on Creativity From A Veteran Artist, Tesia gives you techniques and information on a variety of ways you can create no matter where you are or what materials you have. Make art from found objects. Make art on your lunch break. Make art while you're waiting to pick up the kids from soccer. Make art on your kitchen counter with a potato. Make art with your coffee cup. Make art with fallen leaves. Make art on your sidewalk. Just. Make. Art.

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"Tesia has been a working artist and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. In 2000 she was hired by Golden Artist Colors, as the Golden Certified Working Artist in San Francisco. In 2014 her first book ""Acrylic Painting with Passion"" was published by Northlight Books. Her work hangs in homes, offices, hotels and hospitals all over the world. A beloved teacher, Tesia's classes and workshops are often sold out. Whether she's teaching a painting retreat in Santa Fe or a weekly class in San Francisco, her approach is the same; help the student find their own personal voice - and express it. She received her BFA from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, studied lithography at the San Francisco Art Institute and received her Master's of Art from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California. Patrice Drago is an East Coast abstract artist and arts writer, and is an Artist in Residence at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. During her professional career in the hospitality industry, she used her creative writing, investigative and artistic skills to create in-depth training programs and brand materials, write video scripts, simulations, and user-friendly training, editing the writing of numerous developers. She is an arts columnist for the Annapolis Capital Gazette in Maryland, an arts blogger for the area's destination marketing organization, Visit Annapolis, and is the Board VP of Public Relations as well as Communications Chair for Maryland Federation of Art, a nation-wide non-profit art organization of 700+ members."

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