Creative Grab Bag: Inspiring Challenges for Artists, Illustrators and Designers

by Ethan Bodnar

Push the Limits of Your Creativity

Creative Grab Bag captures the spirit of exploration and innovation—inside, you'll find inspiring work from 101 artists from around the world. Ethan Bodnar asked each artist to take on a task outside the realm of their normal work. Each task was randomly selected from a grab bag. The result is a collection of work brimming with creative energy. In this book, you'll find short biographies of the artists, examples of their typical work, their thoughts on the creative process, and images of their completed creative task.

Here's a sampling of the creative grab bag

Creative Grab Bag also features tear-out cards, so you can do the creative challenges yourself. Work together or in a group, and push the limit—you'll break out of your routine and take your work into unchartered territory.

PLEASE Tear-out cards are NOT included with the ebook version of this title

Genres: Art

230 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Kiminmiki]

it's quite an interesting book.. various tasks such as making a comic strip.. creating a sculture.. do a photo essay.. are put into a grab bag and randomly assigned to artists of the authors' choice.. and they may do something which they are not adapt at. was intrigued to read about their thoughts behind their designs.

[Sue Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great place to start if you have artist's block or if you are just in need of a fresh perspective. This book not only grants permission to think outside the box - it takes you there. Creative Grab Bag is a valuable teaching resource as well as a key that unlocks my creativity as a textile artist.