Flow Magazine Creative Books (1- or 2-Pack)

50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life: Practical Lessons in Pencil and Paper

In its innovative magazines and books, Flow celebrates creativity, mindfulness, and the pleasures of paper through a uniquely appealing marriage of ideas and visuals—beautiful illustrations and paintings created by a group of talented professional artists. Now those same artists have opened up their toolkits, sharing secrets, techniques, and point of view to teach the creatively curious how to draw.

Here are 50 easy, illustrated step-by-step lessons on how to draw a whimsically curated list of the things we see and interact with every day: a bouquet of flowers, a watering can, a cat, mittens, favorite plants and vegetables, a cup and saucer, a kitchen table, fruit wrappers, a seagull, a dress collar, an apple tree. The lessons take us line by line from early sketch to finished drawing, with space alongside for the reader to draw the same. And unlike other beginner’s drawing guides, every lesson stems from each artist’s particular sensibility. This book is not about learning shapes, but how to create beautiful images with quirkiness and personality. The focus is not on perspective or shading, but the mindful pleasures of doing creative work.

• 50 easy lessons on how to draw different objects
• Beautiful illustrations created by professional artists
• 32-page booklet with a bellyband included
• Also comes with postcards, paper doll foldouts, sheets of tracing paper, watercolor paper, colored paper, and more
• Authors: Irene Smit and Astrid van der Hulst
• Length: 256 pages
• Paperback
• Product dimensions: 10” x 8.06” x 1.06”

A Book That Takes Its Time: An Unhurried Adventure in Creative Mindfulness

Take time to breathe. Take time to create. Take time to reflect, take time to let go. A book that’s unique in the way it mixes reading and doing, A Book That Takes Its Time is like a mindfulness retreat between two covers.

Read about the benefits of not multitasking, then turn to “The Joy of One Thing at a Time Notebook” tucked into the pages. After a short piece on the power of slowing down, fill in the designed notecards for a Beautiful Moments jar. Make a personal timeline. Learn the art of hand-lettering. Dig into your Beginner’s Mind. Embrace the art of quitting. Take the writing cure. And always smile. Move slowly and with intention through A Book That Takes Its Time, and discover that sweet place where life can be both thoughtful and playful.

• Includes writing and drawing tasks that help you learn how to slow down and enjoy life more
• Beautiful illustrations
• Authors: Irene Smit and Astrid van der Hulst
• Length: 240 pages
• Hardcover
• Product dimensions: 9” x 7.75” x 1.31”

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