Create Art Wherever You Are with Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration

It’s time to pack up your drawing or painting kit and take it with you to create artwork on the go, and Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration by Betsy Beier (Walter Foster, May 2019) will show you how!

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This book is the latest in the Walter Foster series, Anywhere, Anytime Art. Previous releases include Watercolor, Crayon, Gouache, and Colored Pencil. Although “Illustration” includes the use of some of those media, its focus is on capturing the essence of a place through creative imagery, often combining several different media. Betsy Beier’s charming illustrative style and easy instructions are sure to inspire you to illustrate your surroundings, either at home or while traveling.

Like most art instruction books, Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration begins with a few chapters describing the techniques and materials employed to create its projects. In this case, there are discussions of illustration styles and making art on the go, as well as the use of different media, found materials, and color. Once you grasp that information, you’ll be ready to embark on the 12 projects in the book, each bursting with ideas, variations, and inspiration within its step-by-step instructions.

The projects range from montages of your home, garden, and pets, to illustrations of your state or country, to images from your travels, including collages that incorporate mementos such as ticket stubs. All are absolutely charming, and any would make lovely gifts for your favorite people—imagine how appreciative a hostess would be to receive a picture or collage you’ve made to commemorate your visit to her home! (Likewise, if you know a travel-loving artist, a copy of Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration would be a thoughtful gift, perhaps combined with a few portable supplies like a sketchbook and a set of watercolor pencils.)

Betsy Beier is not new to the concept of documenting her surroundings and travels through art. Her website, Wanderlust Designer, will take you with her on her journeys as well as showing you ways to get creative yourself. Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration is the perfect expression of Ms. Beier’s talent for teaching and inspiring those of us who wish to share the world around us through the art of illustration.

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Walter Foster Publishing (an imprint of the Quarto Group), specializes in books on art instruction, so if you’re interested in books like Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration, you’ll enjoy browsing their catalog of books about drawing, sketching, painting, lettering, illustration, and so on.

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