Painting Happiness

Author : Terry Runyan
Publisher : Leaping Hare Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780711270572

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Painting Happiness by Terry Runyan Pdf

Combat stress and anxiety and release your own inner creative with this beautiful mindful watercolour book. In this simple and vibrant guide, hugely popular Instagram muse @TerryRunyan explores the art of watercolour through the lens of mindfulness, presenting activities and projects which you can paint along with as you allow your creative side to flourish. This watercolour guide is easy and accessible for beginners, as Runyan gently delves into the basics of the artform, starting with simple techniques which you can follow along with, as well as presenting some fun projects ideas for painters to explore. Alongside beautiful examples of the techniques and styles explored in the book, Runyan also encourages readers to practice mindfulness as they paint, and explores the ways in which art can be used to help improve mental health. Exploring the idea of 'perfectly imperfect watercolours', Runyan places emphasis on self-expression and allowing yourself to make mistakes. Painting Happiness also includes fun projects for readers to try at home, including: Turning blobs into birds Creating wild hairstyles Experimenting with different prompts to paint at least one thing a day From technical skills and notes on materials to insight into the creative process, this book has everything you need to start flourishing in watercolour.

Author : Christophe Andre
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781473529632

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Happiness by Christophe Andre Pdf

From the bestselling author of Mindfulness: 25 Ways to Live in the Moment through Art, comes a new, beautifully illustrated guide to happiness. Drawing upon paintings as a means of inspiration and solace, André teaches us what it means to be happy and how to recognise joy in our lives. From the birth of happiness in youth, to the return of happiness after a period of pain and solitude, André takes us on a journey to uncover the pathway to leading a happy and fulfilled life.

Author : Dalai Lama XIV,Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho,Howard C. Cutler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 073362488X

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The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV,Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho,Howard C. Cutler Pdf

Through conversations, stories, and meditations, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement. Together with Dr. Howard Cutler, he explores many facets of everyday life, including relationships, loss, and the pursuit of wealth, to illustrate how to ride through life's obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace. Based on 2,500 years of Buddhist meditations mixed with a healthy dose of common sense, THE ART OF HAPPINESS is a book that crosses the boundaries of traditions to help readers with difficulties common to all human beings. After being in print for ten years, this book has touched countless lives and uplifted spirits around the world.

Author : Terry Runyan
Publisher : Leaping Hare
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780711270565

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Painting Happiness by Terry Runyan Pdf

Painting Happiness offers playful, expressive watercolour painting techniques and projects that will help you find your calm.

Author : Shana Gozansky
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1838660828

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My Art Book of Happiness by Shana Gozansky Pdf

The third in an introductory series to fine art curated by theme for young children Emotions are part of every toddler's day... and now, part of their first art collection! 35 full-page artworks from a variety of periods introduce emotions through one of the most important feelings of all - happiness. Each image is accompanied by a brief, tender, read-aloud text, and the work's title and artist's name are included as secondary material for true integration of narrative and information. It's a perfect introduction to this wonderful emotion for families of all kinds. Ages 2-4

Author : Terry Runyan
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781631599927

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Draw 62 Characters and Make Them Happy by Terry Runyan Pdf

A new take on Quarry's successful Draw 62 series, Draw 62 Characters and Make Them Happy features the humorous work of artist Terry Runyan, presenting step-by-step how-to for each subject.

Author : William Barcham,Ronit Milano
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443868259

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Happiness or Its Absence in Art by William Barcham,Ronit Milano Pdf

The concept of ‘happiness’ is central to most civilized cultures. This volume investigates the many ways in which Western art has visualized the concept from the early Middle Ages to the present. Employing different methodological approaches, the essays gathered here situate the concept of human happiness within discourses on gender, religion, intellectual life, politics and ‘New-Age’ culture. Operating as a cultural agent, art communicates the idea of happiness as both a physical and spiritual condition by exploiting specific formulae of representation. This volume combines art history, cultural analyses and intellectual studies in order to explore the complexities of iconographic programs that represent various forms of happiness, or its explicit absence, and to expose the implications embedded in the artistic works in question. Through innovative readings, the ten authors presented in this book survey different artistic and/or cultural paradigms and offer new interpretations of happiness or of its absence.

Author : Clare Youngs
Publisher : CICO Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1782493557

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Color Yourself to Happiness by Clare Youngs Pdf

Color your way to a happy state of mind with this anti-stress adult coloring book of gorgeously detailed illustrations hand-drawn by designer and author Clare Youngs. Color your way to a happy state of mind with this anti-stress adult coloring book of gorgeously detailed illustrations hand-drawn by designer and author Clare Youngs. Enter an enchanting world, inspired by nature, through coloring in these stunning artworks by Clare Youngs. Intricately detailed, each one is drawn by hand, featuring animals big and small that sit among larger-than-life flowers and grasses. Coloring is a form of art therapy: when you focus on every detail, from choosing colors to coloring in each area with care, it allows you to relax and become oblivious to the stresses and strains of everyday living. Plus, completing each page brings a great sense of achievement and joy.

Author : Ailsa Burrows
Publisher : Child's Play International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : Emotions
ISBN : 1846437296

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The Jar of Happiness by Ailsa Burrows Pdf

One child finds a way to find happiness. In this story, one child finds a way.

Author : Nancy Tupper Ling
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452135557

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Double Happiness by Nancy Tupper Ling Pdf

Told in verse, a Chinese American girl and her little brother protest the idea of moving, until their grandmother teaches them a special trick to make the change easier.

Author : Thomas Gambier Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:$B36039

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The Ministry of Fine Art to the Happiness of Life by Thomas Gambier Parry Pdf

Author : Donald Burton Kuspit,Lynn Gamwell,State University of New York at Binghamton. Art Museum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801432790

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Health and Happiness in 20th-century Avant-garde Art by Donald Burton Kuspit,Lynn Gamwell,State University of New York at Binghamton. Art Museum Pdf

This book presents a refreshing new approach to avant-garde art by demonstrating that a genuine core of modernism manifests a positive, life-affirming attitude. Donald Kuspit and Lynn Gamwell challenge the assumption that disintegration and negativity provide the most authentic artistic responses to this century's gloomy zeitgeist. Lavishly illustrated, their book includes colorful images of paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts, as well as photographs of spectacular gardens.

Author : Gita V. Reddy
Publisher : Gita V. Reddy
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Happiness is a Collage by Gita V. Reddy Pdf

This collection of fifteen stories leads the reader into a world that is at once Indian and universal. A painter derives inspiration from a long lost love. Every night after going to bed, a woman scours a vast desert for her missing husband. A young woman strides through two worlds. A son experiences the miracle of his father’s immense love. An actor’s wife struggles to keep her husband from slipping into his reel life. And a busy professional tries to factor in pregnancy and motherhood into her hectic life. Among those traversing this space are a henpecked billionaire, a homeless boy, a middle-aged wife dealing with infidelity, and a seeker finding solace with a lion and a deer. Happiness is a Collage follows the author’s well-received collection, A Tapestry of Tears. ‘Gita V Reddy’s great strength as a writer, it seems to me, is her ability to get to the heart of the matter in just a few expertly chosen words,’ Amanda Jenkinson, Goodreads. ‘Rich in flavor, entertaining and very well considered plot concepts,’ Grady Harp, Goodreads.

Author : John Cowper Powys
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780571279111

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The Art of Happiness by John Cowper Powys Pdf

'It is not our struggle to be happy that is mistaken; it is our false idea that we can find happiness anywhere but in ourselves... happiness does not depend on outward things. It is born of the mind, it is nourished by the mind, it is what rises, like breath in a frosty air, from the mind's wrestling with its fate...' The Art of Happiness (first published in 1935) belongs to John Cowper Powys's sequence of philosophical writings, and finds him exploring the problem of how man lives with his fellow man, and also with woman - that is to say, here, as opposed to the abstract arguments concerning Man in the universe, Powys is concerned with the practical arguments such as arise between man and his neighbour, his wife, his lover - and also with man's arguments against himself, all in the pursuit of happiness. The careful reader will find herein hints, clues, intimations, as to how we all might become a little happier - an invitation few of us would feel so fortunate as to refuse.

Author : Neil Pasricha
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780698155695

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The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha Pdf

The #1 international bestseller from the author of The Book of Awesome that “reveals how all of us can live happier lives” (Gretchen Rubin). What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times–bestselling author, a Walmart executive, a father, a husband. After selling more than a million copies of the Book of Awesome series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts his focus to the practicalities of living an awesome life. In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you simply have yet to unlock the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a piece out of the core of common sense, turns it on its head to present it in a completely new light, and then provides practical and specific guidelines for how to apply this new outlook to lead a fulfilling life. Once you've unlocked Pasricha’s 9 Secrets, you will understand counter intuitive concepts such as: Success Does Not Lead to Happiness, Never Take Advice, and Retirement Is a Broken Theory. You will learn and then master three brand-new fundamental life tests: the Saturday Morning Test, The Bench Test, and the Five People Test. You will know the difference between external goals and internal goals and how to make more money than a Harvard MBA (hint: it has nothing to do with your annual salary). You will discover that true wealth has nothing to do with money, multitasking is a myth, and the elimination of options leads to more choice. The Happiness Equation is a book that will change how you think about pretty much everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness.