Your Year in Art

I absolutely loved this book, it is so inspiring for everyone who gets it into his hands! The book manages to motivate people to draw and sketch more and gives a great number of tips. I liked all the drawings and ideas Chelsea Ward included and I am definitely going to try out a lot of them :) I can definitely recommend this book to just everyone because it's great and full of creativity and colours.

52 weekly exercises to help fuel your creativity all year long. Some assignments focus on skill building, others on stretching creativity. All give the artist ideas for using their skills and discovering new styles along the way while building a habit of using those skills on a regular basis.

Thank you to Chelsea Ward, Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. All comments are my own, unbiased opinion.

I often feel like drawing only to open my sketch book and cannot decide what to draw. Here’s the solution. This book is a great crib to get you started. It starts simple and becomes more challenging as the weeks progress. If you don’t want to follow it’s week by week exercises you can open it at any page and find something to inspire you. It will help you to see art in the shape pattern and design of everyday objects and use them in you own work. It’s fun to be creative and this book is fun!

First of all, thank you to the publisher for granting the wish to review this book.
I have recently become interested in art and drawing so this book is fab. I love that each week there is a different challenge as at the moment I don't know where my talents lie. This helps to explore areas which I probably wouldn't think of. So far I am really impressed with this book and I am excited to get stuck in.

This book sets out art projects for a year. Each week there is a task to work on. You start with goal setting and then work through various techniques to hone your craft. As someone new to drawing, I found this very helpful in getting started and how to motivate myself to create. I look forward to my year in art and I think you will too!

Of all of the art books I have read in the last year or two, this is one of my favorites. It gives you projects to focus on for every week in a year. You can start the book at anytime as the projects aren’t month specific. Feel like you need inspiration now? Start now. Like a more structured January - December journal? Do that.

The projects are detailed enough to give you a place to start but vague enough that you could interpret them very differently from a friend working from the same book. As is the case when any such book, some week’s projects may inspire you more than others. Or you may find that on the week you are at, you’d really prefer to do the week after, no rules (though to get the most out of this book you will want to keep track so you don’t do one week’s project three times while skipping others).

Projects vary from self portraits to quotes to lists. Great for those who want to improve their art generally or who have more specific goals like illustrated bullet journals. There are samples of each week’s project as well as tips, so if you’re really stumped you could try to recreate the samples.

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A wonderful guide to performing a collection of art project during the year. The author pushes to our limits of creativity with amazing challenges starting with a beginner level accompanied by practical and theoretical exercises. An excellent idea for Christmas gift.

I hadn't had very high expectations and there are tons of art books and how to draw books out there that just show you pretty pictures of the artist, but don't teach you anything or get you more creative.
This book is different. Divided in sections and 52 chapters, one for each week of the year. It gives you a task and a few examples. I loved the exercises and they cover almost the entire range of techniques and subject matter. Perfect for beginners to find out what you like to draw or advanced artists to broaden your horizons.
I would recommend this book to everyone no matter what age or how professional. You could even do the same exercises each year and come up with something different. Great to get your creative juices flowing again or if you experience some kind of art block!

I absolutely love this book. It would be so much fun to spend a year following it's curriculum. If you want to give this book as a gift, it would work equally well for a budding artist or an already accomplished one. The illustrations are fun and the assignments are thought provoking.

"Your Year in Art: A project for every week of the year to overcome blank-page anxiety and inspire creative exploration" by Chelsea Ward has a broad title, but really is focused just on drawing techniques. Which is not at all a bad thing! The book has a very short list of art supplies, making it easily accessible for everybody to get started.

While "Your Year in Art was primarily designed as inspiration, providing weekly prompts and ideas, you do not need to be an expert in drawing to get going. In fact, it starts really easy, with decorating words or coloring your own doodles. There are weeks devoted to getting used to drawing techniques- simplifying shapes, mixing, colors, mark making or contour drawing. Later things get more interesting, with projects like recipe illustrating and various lists. Assignments also get far more challenging later in the year, with exercises like drawing hands. There are intimidating assignments that make you draw outside your house, in public spaces or fun, like making a map - it really is a mixture of easy and challenging from week to week. To purpose- to keep you drawing, systematically and for simple pleasure.

"Your Year in Art has a very modern design and informal feel. Pages are consistently organized, with the week project idea description, assignment, and additional challenge "Try this".

I really enjoyed reading "Your Year in Art, and I plan to go back to the 52 projects often. Perhaps even finish most if not all of them, eventually. So let me go and but my watercolor pen brushes now...

This is fun book for helping you create art everyday with prompts and inspiration that will help inspire you to try new mediums and supplies. There are plenty of pictures and clear instructions found on every page. If you have wanted to sign up for the many online year log art classes but didn’t want to pay a lot of money for it this is a great way of still getting the ideas and instructions without the high cost of classes.

This book is full of inspiring ideas and prompts for creating and dipping into different methods of creating art all year round. It is full of colour and little snippets of information and is extremely visually appealing. There are not enough detailed instructions for a complete beginner to learn a technique from but enough to get you going. Definitely an ideas book to give you a taster. Thank You

I received a digital copy of this book thanks to Netgalley. I picked this book because I love to make art and I'm always looking for ways to create. This book is full of art prompts and tips. Great ideas to inspire you when you need it. 52 fun challenges to keep you creating and learning.
So this is a great book for any age. Will be looking to buy this book once it's out.

As an artist who sometimes has a creating block and is also looking to expand my creating horizons, I'm always looking for great books on creativity and how to get through the block. This book proved to be just that. It's fun, has a lot of various exercises to try and provides new ways to expand artistic creativity. I'm glad I have read it and will use many of the exercises and tips going forward.

A perfect book to encourage you to get started making art!
Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author. All opinions are my own.

This book was designed to do one exercise per week. I absolutely loved this book. I have read many art books and this one was very unique. The exercises were inspiring and effective. A few of my favorites was using only primary colors, drawing things that are large small being sure to include defining details and drawing small things large focusing on details you would be unable to fit in a small drawing, and landscape zendoodles.

This was an excellent book for beginning and advanced artists.

I received this galley from NetGalley.

This is fantastic, after finishing reviewing this book I purchased it for myself.
One exercise a week for 52 weeks.
The exercises and tasks are different and interesting, following this book will really develope your drawing and artistic skills.
I brought it to do the exercises each week as a family with my children next year. I'm really looking forward to seeing the different perspectives for each week.
Great book.

I voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Your Year in Art by Chelsea Ward is a colorful awe inspiring creative book! The concept is so wonderful. Chelsea walks you through 52 weeks of art mindfulness. Her suggestions are unique and colorful as well as encouraging. The book breaksdown your artist endeavors in small weekly bites. It focuses on one aspect that you can focus on for seven days. I think this is a doable way to learn and grow. This book is for grown ups as well as budding artists of all ages. Great book! I definitely plan on using it this year. This would also make a great gift.

Thank you Quatro and Netgalley for an ARC of this book in return for my unbiased opinion.

This book was broken into weekly projects to sustain creativity over the period of a year.
As a very beginner of art I am enthused to attempt many of these weekly ideas. The book is easy to read, colourful and attractive.
I particularly liked the zen doodle, mandala and lettering weeks and am excited to try these in the coming weeks.

I really like this - I is not one of those mindless art books that wants you to copy the writers instructions step by step. There are ideas and illustrations, but what you draw is your own choice. There is an assignment each week (there are 52 of them) which teaches a skill - or at least challengers your mind - such as making 2 sketch, one using your dominate hand and one your passive hand. - great fun.
I really look forward to each weeks assignment, they are fun and gets me out of the dull mind and back into a painting/drawing creative mindset.
I think this book is perfect for any one who wants to make a start in something creative, someone who doesn't know where to start or just for fun.
You never know what you can achieve at the end of 52 weeks, what you have learnt, the confidence gained and the satisfaction and inspiration found in making it to the end.

Explore with your children and embark on a year in art!
Your Year In ArtExploring is one of the greatest parts of doing art with your children. But oftentimes the biggest hurdle to overcome is not knowing what to draw. I feel that way often when I sit down with pens or pencils and a thick stack of paper. I have heard my kids voice the same frustration time and again over the years.

This amazing book from Walter Foster Publishing takes you through a new project to work on for every week of the year. You don’t have to force yourself, or your children, into a rigid timetable that involves daily activities and will likely end in failure. Face it, how many times have you set up a schedule for yourself or your children that is simply over ambitious and it ends in a blazing ball of failure after just a week or two?

Join your kids and create a year in art!
This book will guide you and your children through week by week, practicing all sorts of art and learning new techniques along the way. At the end of it all you will have enjoyed each other and shared special time together, and your children will have completed a homeschool art class!

Wonderful book with lots of fun ideas for a creative year in your journal!
The prompts are inspirational and motivating. I recommend this book to people who love journaling or who would like to start a journal in the new year,

Thank you, NetGalley for the preview of this digital ARC.

Your Year in Art is filled with Chelsea Ward is filled with prompts to help your creative juices get going. It is a perfect gift for people who want to make art but is hesitant to do so because they are anxious that they might not be good enough. I loved all the prompts that Chelsea and provides the reader with. I recommend it to anyone and everyone.