Introduction
Part I: The Tools
Chapter 1: Keeping a Visual
Journal
Chapter 2: The Mindset—“I” is for Improvise
Chapter 3: Getting Started
Chapter 4: Coloring 101
Part II: The Practice
Chapter 5: The Unplanned Painting
Chapter 6: The Language of Images
Chapter 7: Oops, Ouch, and Aha!
Chapter 8: Letting Go
Chapter 9: Myth, Magic, and Psyche
Chapter 10: Working the Edge
Chapter 11: It’s Over When It’s Over
Afterword: The Journey Continues
Resources Section
Materials
Asking More Questions
Additional Exercises and Prompts
Attributions for Chapter Opening Quotes
Endnotes
Suggested Reading
Acknowledgments
A longtime artist familiar with battling creative blocks, Barbara
Diane Barry developed and teaches an improvisational painting
approach that helps us to break free from blocks and honor our
creative imaginings. She created "Art for Self-Discovery," a studio
art program for adults, children, and business communities that has
reached nursing home residents, cancer patients and stroke
survivors, battered women, adults in transition, and children with
ADD.
She teaches in public school art residencies throughout the five
boroughs of New York City and is part of an outreach program at
Symphony Space that introduces students to various cultures through
art making and visits to the city's art museums. She is a faculty
member at Manhattan's C.G. Jung Foundation and is a guest educator
at the Rubin Museum of Art.
“Barbara Barry provides a practical and workable solution to the
most daunting problem for all those who yearn for self-expression
through art: How to get started. Her prescriptions for
painting as journal-keeping and her imaginative exercises show her
skills as a teacher and her respectful empathy for the beginner’s
fear of the blank page and the inner critic. So often, just getting
going is the problem. This book will make you want to jump
in.”
—Betty Edwards, author of the international bestseller Drawing on
the Right Side of the Brain
“Much more than just a wonderful guide for learning to paint, this
book is a glorious gift to anyone who yearns for a more creative
life!"
—Michael J Gelb, author of How to Think Like Leonardo Da
Vinci
“I love this book! It supports readers exploring themselves in a
symbolic way that results in true transformation. I am
already using it with myself and my clients.”
—MJ Ryan, author of This Year I Will…
“There are two ways of spreading light—to be the candle,
or the mirror that reflects it. This book combines
both. When you paint in your journal, you are the candle that
creates the light that shines on your inner thoughts and
fears, and the journal reflects back this light to make you
aware of the creative choices you must make to
navigate through the difficulties of life.”
—Michael Michalko, author of Thinkertoys and Creative
Thinkering
“Barbara Barry has developed an amazing method for opening the
creative flow for anyone who wants to dip in and draw from deep
water. Writers, poets, painters, chefs, designers, or anyone who
wants to work from a creative center can let her be the guide.”
—Linda Leonard, Ph.D., author of The Wounded Woman and The
Call to Create
“Some of my most profound and powerful breakthroughs have happened
with paintbrush in-hand standing in front of my own wild, intuitive
paintings. That's why I'm so delighted that creative souls now have
Barbara Diane Barry's Painting Your Way Out of a Corner to turn to
for guidance on their own self-discovery journeys. Barbara's
insightful exercises will help you quiet the inner critic, ignite
your intuition, and rev up your innovative problem solving
abilities. So pick up your paintbrush and give yourself full
permission to play!”
—Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan
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