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Nita Leland's Exploring Color & Creativity
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My life as an artist began in a suburban YMCA. Unlike Georgia O'Keeffe, I didn't always know I'd be an artist. Like most kids, I liked to draw and paint, but I spent more time with my nose in a book.
So I was at a loss what do to with a set of watercolor paints my husband gave me for my birthday in 1970, especially when I realized I didn't even know what a wash was. Well, actually, I thought I knew a lot about that, raising four kids, but this was altogether different! So I signed the kids up for swimming lessons at the YMCA, where there was an adult watercolor class going on at the same time. From the first brush stroke I knew this was something I had to do. It wasn't easy fitting classes, workshops and painting in between car pools, but somehow I managed. Early on, I discovered that teaching watercolor painting was a great way to learn and, just incidentally, to help pay for materials.
My instructor said, "If the values are right, the color doesn't matter." But color turned out to be my passion, and after several years of studying color, I wrote my first book, Exploring Color. Then I gathered together many of the lessons I used in my classes, researched creativity, and wrote The Creative Artist, and finally, collaborated with Virginia Lee Williams on Creative Collage Techniques. All three books, published by North Light Books, became bestsellers in art instruction, and in September 1998, Exploring Color, Revised was released, completely rewritten, with new art and exercises in color study. In 2000 I self-published Exploring Color Coloring Book, a hands-on color journal and reference book for artists.
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