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Creativegirl: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life by Danielle Donaldson

jencameron's review against another edition

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5.0

This is for the kindle format viewed using the app on an iPad Pro (please see my notes about this at the end of the review). I really enjoyed the book, especially the author's encouragement to embrace the "mud" of mixing several colors together. She also gives practical tips on the "hot mess" phase. Overall I just really love her style and lack of fear to experiment with her materials and her ability to encourage the reader to try experimenting while keeping notes on the outcome so you can possibly recreate a similar effect. The only problem is that when enlarging the photos in the kindle format, they get very blurry and difficult to see. This is particularly troublesome on the small process photos given in the step by step instructions. Other than that, the kindle version is great. I love having some of my art books in kindle format so that they are more portable and don't take up the limited shelf space. However, nothing beats having the physical copy of a book.
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