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# Vibrant color mastery Layered, evolving compositions Unconventional tool techniques Brave Intuitive Painting Let Go. Be Bold. Unfold.: Techniques for Uncovering Your Own Unique Painting Style

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## Summary

> 🎉 Paint Boldly, Let Go, and Unfold Your Unique Creative Journey!

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- **What is this?** Brave Intuitive Painting Let Go. Be Bold. Unfold.: Techniques for Uncovering Your Own Unique Painting Style by quarry books
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## Key Features

- • **Flow with Nonattachment:** Let go of perfectionism and struggle by working with what’s working, keeping your creative momentum alive.
- • **Transform Through Layers:** Build complex, lush paintings by layering and allowing your art to organically unfold.
- • **Unleash Your Bold Palette:** Master vibrant colors while avoiding muddy blends for eye-catching, dynamic paintings.
- • **Innovate with Unexpected Tools:** Create rich, textured marks using unconventional tools that break the mold of traditional painting.
- • **Break the Rules, Own Your Style:** Embrace compositional freedom to develop a unique, fearless artistic voice.

## Overview

Brave Intuitive Painting by Flora S. Bowley is a transformative guide for artists seeking to develop a spontaneous, expressive painting style. Combining practical techniques with a soulful approach, it teaches vibrant color use, innovative mark-making with unexpected tools, and embracing compositional freedom. This book encourages painters to release fear, work intuitively through layers, and find joy in the creative process, making it ideal for both beginners and experienced artists eager to break free from convention.

## Description

Product Description Adopt a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery-one that results in lush and colorful finished works that will beg to be displayed. This inspiring and encouraging book for both novice and experienced painters teaches how to create colorful, exciting, expressive paintings through a variety of techniques, combining basic, practical painting principles with innovative personal selfexpression. Flora S. Bowley's fun and forgiving approach to painting is based on the notion that "You don't begin with a preconceived painting in mind; you allow the painting to unfold" Illustrating how to work in layers, Flora gives you the freedom to cover up, restart, wipe away, and change courses many times along the way. Unexpected and unique compositions, color combinations, and subject matter appear as you allow your paintings to emerge in an organic, unplanned way while working from a place of curiosity and letting go of fear. -Learn techniques for working with vibrant color and avoiding mud. -Make rich and varied marks with a variety of unexpected tools. -Break compositional rules. -Embrace nonattachment as a way to keep exploring. -Keep momentum by moving your body and staying positive. -Work with what's working to let go of struggle. -Connect more deeply to the world around you to stay inspired. -Embrace layers to create rich complex paintings. -Find rhythm by spiraling between chaos and order. Review Select Guide Rating P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Author The author of Brave Intuitive Painting, Creative Revolution, and Fresh Paint, Flora Bowley is an internationally celebrated painter, workshop facilitator, author, visionary, and inspirationalist. Her soulful and transformational approach to painting has inspired thousands of people across the globe to "let go, be bold, and unfold" as they move through fear and welcome joyful, spontaneous expression back into the creative process. Combining twenty years of professional painting experience with her background as a yoga instructor, massage therapist, and lifelong truth seeker, Flora infuses her teaching and painting style with a deep connection to body, mind, and spirit. This unique fusion offers up a truly transformational experience―one that honors intuition, self-discovery, and the perfect, ever-changing present moment. Flora's vibrant original paintings are sold in several galleries throughout the United States and her licensed product lines and prints are available worldwide. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Getting Perspective and Working with What's WorkingWe often look at the world through a critical lens. Traditional art school critiques encourage us to find what is not working in order to learn from these "mistakes." What I am presenting here is a new approach. I am kindly asking you to reprogram your response style; instead of focusing on what is not working, ask yourself, "What is working?" This is an extremely important step in this process. It keeps you focused on the positive aspects of your work and offers you a starting point or a portal back into your painting. "Working with what is working" is especially useful when you are feeling stuck or uninspired.What is Working?After you have built up a few layers with a variety of marks and colors, spiral out by moving to the opposite side of the room, or to an entirely different room. Now soften your eyes and take a fresh look at your painting. Ask yourself, "What is working?" What is the first thing you notice? It can be anything. It may be one square inch of your canvas where the colors blend together in a certain beautiful way. It may be one interesting shape, a small area of etching, a dynamic line, or the way two colors vibrantly react next to each other. I also encourage you to ask yourself, "What has been the most enjoyable or interesting part of this process?" You may find that you really love spraying water, using your fingers, rendering certain images, or dragging your rag through wet paint. Pay close attention to these joyful moments... they are an essential part of "what is working" no matter what your painting looks like.Be easy on yourself at this point. You are deep in the process of creating. Your paintings are not finished. They may feel ugly, chaotic, or overwhelming to you, but remember each and every mark is simply an opportunity. Most new creations go through an "awkward teenager" phase as they mature and figure out who they want to be. Don’t judge them. Support them. Be patient with their process, and remember there are no mistakes. Growing up takes time. See more

Review: FIVE STARS FOR THE FUN FACTOR ! - You know you've got an unusual book when you turn over the title page to be greeted with a double-page spread of the author's backside... decorously clad, albeit... Add to this that the author is a self-proclaimed, peripatetic, "lifetime seeker after joy", and you immediately get the book's flavour. The cover - comprising a bit of a quirky painting, and two shots of parts of the author's anatomy - is an accurate reflection of the contents. Leafing through the pages, it seems there are almost as many illustrations of the latter as the former. I'd say that, as far as artists are concerned, this book is aimed at a relatively small audience. It's patently not your average how-to-do-it book, and if anyone saw this 80-year-old following the advice on pp 26-27 to "dance like no-one is watching", which includes dancing with my eyes closed whilst clutching my brushes - one in each hand - and various areas of my body preparatory to painting, I might risk incarceration. Whilst I can fairly truthfully say that this painting procedure would not work for me, perhaps it might for you... However, there IS true painterly advice in this book, and whilst the author's decorative, freely-expressed paintings aren't my style, her medium is. She paints in acrylic, and has much good advice to offer about it, with all of which I agree wholeheartedly; why anyone, especially leisure painters, bothers to paint in any other medium I can't think. It is, of course, ideal for the kind of free expression she advocates, and if the book does no more than encourage anyone to try this medium for the first time, it will have served a useful purpose for that reason alone. The author seems a gay (in the old sense), extroverted sort of girl, and reading her book was good fun; it therefore gets five stars from me for that alone. The unkind might describe much of it as psycho-babble, but at least most of it is sensible and even cheerful psycho-babble, and it comes across as genuine rather than pretentious; being as much about having a thoroughly good time as it is about painting. It won't necessarily be YOUR idea of a good time, of course, but if, on the other hand, the notion of being a free spirit appeals to you, and you like leaping around during painting whilst some pleasing youth plays his guitar, you will identify with the delectable Miss Bowley.
Review: Very inspiring - I really like this book. Flora S. Bowley doesn't show you a painting and then tell you how to recreate it, she gives you tips on how to create interesting paintings and lets you use your own creativity to create your own works of art. You're using your own inspirations but learning how to paint with different objects, such as rags, any kind of stamper, spray bottles, etc. She gives you the confidence to go and try her style of painting, a looser style, but in your own way. There are prompts all through the book to kick start your creativity and to help you if you get stuck while in the middle of something. There are also a few challenges and a bit of yoga thrown in too. I found it really inspiring and it has helped me find a looser way of panting which I'm really enjoying. The subject or theme develops as you paint so you have no worries about making it look a certain way. I think this would be helpful to beginners and to more experienced painters who want to loosen up their style.

## Features

- Learn techniques for working with vibrant color and avoiding mud
- Make rich and varied marks with a variety of unexpected tools
- Break compositional rules
- Embrace nonattachment as a way to keep exploring
- Work with what's working to let go of struggle

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | 1592537685 |
| Batteries Required? | No |
| Batteries included? | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | 679,658 in Home & Kitchen ( See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen ) 1,623 in Drawing Pads & Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (86) |
| Date First Available | 2 Sept. 2011 |
| Included components | Book |
| Item Package Quantity | 1 |
| Item Weight | 1.05 kg |
| Item model number | 9781592537686 |
| Manufacturer | Quarry Books |
| Part number | 9781592537686 |
| Product Dimensions | 21.46 x 0.95 x 27.94 cm; 1.05 kg |
| Size | 215.9mm x 254mm |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ FIVE STARS FOR THE FUN FACTOR !
*by J***Y on 11 July 2012*

You know you've got an unusual book when you turn over the title page to be greeted with a double-page spread of the author's backside... decorously clad, albeit... Add to this that the author is a self-proclaimed, peripatetic, "lifetime seeker after joy", and you immediately get the book's flavour. The cover - comprising a bit of a quirky painting, and two shots of parts of the author's anatomy - is an accurate reflection of the contents. Leafing through the pages, it seems there are almost as many illustrations of the latter as the former. I'd say that, as far as artists are concerned, this book is aimed at a relatively small audience. It's patently not your average how-to-do-it book, and if anyone saw this 80-year-old following the advice on pp 26-27 to "dance like no-one is watching", which includes dancing with my eyes closed whilst clutching my brushes - one in each hand - and various areas of my body preparatory to painting, I might risk incarceration. Whilst I can fairly truthfully say that this painting procedure would not work for me, perhaps it might for you... However, there IS true painterly advice in this book, and whilst the author's decorative, freely-expressed paintings aren't my style, her medium is. She paints in acrylic, and has much good advice to offer about it, with all of which I agree wholeheartedly; why anyone, especially leisure painters, bothers to paint in any other medium I can't think. It is, of course, ideal for the kind of free expression she advocates, and if the book does no more than encourage anyone to try this medium for the first time, it will have served a useful purpose for that reason alone. The author seems a gay (in the old sense), extroverted sort of girl, and reading her book was good fun; it therefore gets five stars from me for that alone. The unkind might describe much of it as psycho-babble, but at least most of it is sensible and even cheerful psycho-babble, and it comes across as genuine rather than pretentious; being as much about having a thoroughly good time as it is about painting. It won't necessarily be YOUR idea of a good time, of course, but if, on the other hand, the notion of being a free spirit appeals to you, and you like leaping around during painting whilst some pleasing youth plays his guitar, you will identify with the delectable Miss Bowley.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very inspiring
*by S***O on 5 September 2016*

I really like this book. Flora S. Bowley doesn't show you a painting and then tell you how to recreate it, she gives you tips on how to create interesting paintings and lets you use your own creativity to create your own works of art. You're using your own inspirations but learning how to paint with different objects, such as rags, any kind of stamper, spray bottles, etc. She gives you the confidence to go and try her style of painting, a looser style, but in your own way. There are prompts all through the book to kick start your creativity and to help you if you get stuck while in the middle of something. There are also a few challenges and a bit of yoga thrown in too. I found it really inspiring and it has helped me find a looser way of panting which I'm really enjoying. The subject or theme develops as you paint so you have no worries about making it look a certain way. I think this would be helpful to beginners and to more experienced painters who want to loosen up their style.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ worth waiting for
*by S***C on 5 June 2012*

I have been aware of the work and teachings of Flora Bowley for a while from her website and as she is recommended by so many people on the internet sites I visit. This book was well worth waiting for. I will never be able to afford the chance to attend one of her workshops and even the online course is out of my reach financially so I was excited to find that she was writing a book. I plan to spend my summer exploring her ideas and cues and suggestions all of which seem to be clearly explained along with her inspirational encouraging suggestions to 'let go, be bold'. Thank you Flora, for making your methods and processes so accessible.

## Frequently Bought Together

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