"Unleash your creativity with 'Conscious Creativity: The Workbook: Experiment, Explore, Create.' This transformative guide sparks imagination, offers engaging exercises, and empowers you to embark on a fulfilling journey of self-expression. A remarkable resource for artists and creators seeking inspiration and personal growth."

Amazing creative book for people looking for inspiration. This is like a course in that you are encouraged to take steps and you can measure your own progress.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me read an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I was provided an advanced copy of this book by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is both a companion and a standalone workbook to Philippa Stanton's previous book, "Conscious Creativity,' which is one of my favorite art books, because she shows you how to slow down and listen to what is around you.

This workbook helps you do just this with guided prompts that are not necessarily traditional, but are designed to help you find art outside of the boundaries of society's and your own expectations. Stanton finds a lot of art in mindfulness; noticing and processing, reacting and expanding. This is a book that will make you work, because it doesn't just give you a series of steps to follow, but prompts that show how your emotions can help deepen your art practice.

This is a super fun read. I really enjoyed this one!

Many thanks to the author, the publisher, and Netgalley for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

'Conscious Creativity: The Workbook' builds upon the hugely successful 'Conscious Creativity' book by Philippa Stanton. I love this workbook! The imagery and photography is absolutely sumptuous and it is absolutely full of ideas, prompts, and inspirations to create with no limits. The book offers a safe space to begin finding different ways of using your creativity to make.

I wasn't sure what to think of this book upon opening, but I really enjoyed flicking through and picking up whichever prompts I felt like in the moment. Certainly, this book would work much better as a physical book rather than ebook, but would do well among students with creative assignments. This felt like Wreck this Journal but with a degree and coffee habit.

I loved Stanton's book Conscious Creativity, and this workbook is the perfect companion to it. The aim is to inspire you to explore your creativity, and the workbook has lots of prompts and projects to help you do that, using different themes: being impulsive, destroying things, experimenting with no expectation of success, and more. I love Stanton's approach to breaking us out of our ruts, and would recommend this book to any artist or crafter who needs/wants some new inspiration. The workbook is meant to be used as part of the process, with prompts to cut pages, draw on the pages, then letting rain alter the medium used, attach things to pages, etc, much in the way of the Wreck This Journal series, but it stays fresh. The photos throughout are lovely, and give the reader a boost of creativity. This book is good on its own, and will be even better alongside Conscious Creativity!

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Note: I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

While I did not find many practices and activities in this book that were relevant to me or that I would enjoy, I appreciate the idea of these many various creative exercises to kick off creativity. Some are very interesting and somewhat unusual exercises, and someone can have a lot of fun with these.

This inspiring book is filled with unusual exercises to help you become more creative. Focusing on the senses, texture, paper and mixing materials, this is a book which you can open at any page if you're stuck for ideas. Some activities are extremely simple, such as the observation ones, but others require more thought, such as making a collage. The beautiful photos will make you want to start straightaway!

I received this free ebook from NetGalley in return for an honest review.

A real workbook for opening up to creativity. Lots of exercises, using many different mediums and ideas to find a way into creativity
The spark are introduced by random practices, texture, colour, observation abstract and more and it is a practical book
A good starting point

A gorgeous place to get messy! A perfect companion for those who loved her original book, Conscious Creativity, or an excellent stepping stone to discovering her first book (which has been life changing for me!)

Conscious Creativity: The Workbook is a companion volume to Philippa Stanton's Conscious Creativity. Released 6th Oct 2020 from Quarto on their Leaping Hare imprint, it's 128 pages and available in paperback format.

This is a companion book, but it works perfectly well as a standalone. It *is* a workbook however, so much/most of the content is guided exercises and less content is devoted to actual technique tutorials. The exercises are grouped roughly thematically: creating (freely, without an agenda), practice, observation, texture, colour, other senses and synaesthesia, and abstract comprehension and synergy.

Each of the chapters contain guided creativity prompts for looking at objects, finding similarities between form and function and opening a creative conduit to expression without throttling or limiting ourselves by internal expectations. The point is to free the reader's creativity and expression. The book is very colourful and appealing with high contrast graphics and lots of pages on which to paint - draw - write - and express. These are -not- limited to graphic arts or painting or drawing or sketching or the like. There are some exercises which will provide some takeaways for the graphic artist, certainly, but the majority are holistic in nature and will have broad applicability to writing, thinking, and being.

There are a great number of activities included here; not all will appeal to all readers, obviously. There are a number of intriguing tutorials which I will try out (writing a note to a stranger and tucking it into a pocket in a piece of clothing in a shop appeals to me very much).

This would make a super gift for a creative friend, possibly in conjunction with some writing or arts supplies. It would also make an intriguing selection for the studio library, maker's groups, or other activity based groups.

Four stars. Definitely full of interesting possibilities.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This is a book about embracing spontaneousness, imperfection and thinking outside the box in order to be a better creator.

What drew me to it, was the cover and the interesting subject.

That being said, most of the advices seem unorthodox and I can't tell what you can accomplish by following most of them. What can I as a creator accomplish by ruining my books on purpose? What can I get by mixing coffee, salt and water and other stuff like that.

Plus, this is one of those books with several blank pages that make you 'do the job your own' (kinda like that episode from Family Guy, where Brian writes a best seller that consists mainly of a bunch of blank pages) so even those 'advices' mentioned above, are very short and vague, but hey, it makes reading it much faster.

I don't feel I gained anything by reading it, but I appreciate the intend behind it and of course, the photographs which are definitely the best part of the book. That's the main reason I won't give it a bad rating, because as a photography book, it's actually pretty decent.

If you made it this far, congratulations!
'Til next time, take care!

I received a free e-book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is definitely an interesting book. The pictures are simply beautiful and the author has some very unique ideas. However, it was little to off the wall for me as I couldn’t see myself actually completing most of the projects. I am sure this book will appeal to someone, but just wasn’t for me.

This is a beautiful, fun workbook to stretch your creativity. It's gorgeously illustrated with bright and colorful stock images and packed with prompts very similar to "wreck this journal" kind of things with a little more focus on artists and artistry. In all honesty, I got a little tired of all the pages I was supposed to rip out and do something with (leave it in the pocket of clothing in a store, for instance) that struck me as more random and less artistic, but even those were still fun.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Throw all conventional artistic boundaries out the window! I loved the challenges offered in this collection of creativity exercises. I love art, but am also bound by lines, symmetry, patterns and expectations. This workbook was a wonderful stretch for me to break outside of those lines in an effort to loose the creative in me. All senses are invited and there is absolutely no right or wrong. It’s a perfect exercise for someone trying to expand their creativity.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley. All opinions expressed are my own, freely given.

This was a fun book that helps you grow in creativity. The digital version is a little limiting, so I would suggest buying a physical copy to get the most out of it. Still, there were a lot of great exercises and tips that got my creative juices flowing!

This visually stunning book will inspire you to experiment and take creative chances. Stanton's book is divided into 7 sections:

* creating with no agenda
* random practice
* seeing, finding and observing
* texture
* colour
* The senses and synesthesia
* abstract

Each section highlights a few practices you can try that challenge you to think differently, be curious and have fun while trying new ways to approach creativity.

I couldn't even pick a section that was my favorite because each of them have their unique joys and there is so much inspiration in each section. I loved looking at all of her examples. I loved each of the provocations.

This book reminded me of Keri Smith's books in idea and concept and how daring it is, but this journal is much more visual and it was absolutely stunning to look at. I cannot recommend it enough.

with gratitude to Quarto Publishing Group and netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

The subtitle says it all: experiment, explore, create! I might also add the word express. If you’re looking for a way to let your innate creativity bubble forth, this is IT! And if you don’t think you’re creative? This is still the book for you, because it will loosen you up, help you let go of your left brained rational thinking, and move you towards fearless creating In a fun and non-threatening way. I am going to be giving this as gifts to my many friends this holiday season!

What a wonderful book! Full of gorgeous, inspiring images to accompany its playful suggestions, it's perfect for anyone who wants to explore or kick-start their creativity.