In its innovative magazines and books Flow celebrates creativity mindfulness and the
pleasures of paper through a uniquely appealing marriage of ideas and visuals--beautiful
illustrations and paintings created by a group of talented professional artists. Now those same
artists have opened up their toolkits sharing secrets techniques and point of view to teach
the creatively curious how to draw. Here are 50 easy illustrated step-by-step lessons on how
to draw a whimsically curated list of the things we see and interact with every day: a bouquet
of flowers a watering can a cat mittens favorite plants and vegetables a cup and saucer a
kitchen table fruit wrappers a seagull a dress collar an apple tree. The lessons take us
line by line from early sketch to finished drawing with space alongside for the reader to draw
the same. And unlike other beginner's drawing guides every lesson stems from each artist's
particular sensibility. This book is not about learning shapes but how to create beautiful
images with quirkiness and personality. The focus is not on perspective or shading but the
mindful pleasures of doing creative work. Included are special paper goodies from the
instructional (sheets of tracing paper watercolor paper colored paper for a singular effect)
to the purely joyful--postcards a 32-page booklet with bellyband paper doll foldouts and
more.
