Beauty Muse: Painting in Communion with Nature by Lisa Lipsett

This is an award winning book about awakening to Nature through our own creativity. Easy-to-try painting activities, inspiring narrative and beautiful images invite the reader to develop a Natural Painting practice to call their own. Beauty Muse will appeal to parents, teachers, artists and therapists interested in strengthening human connection to Nature through the arts.



Reviews


Living Now Award
On April 22, 2010 Beauty Muse: Painting in Communion with Nature won a Silver Medal in the motivational/self-help book category of the Living Now Book Awards.
“Authors and publishers all over the planet are helping readers sense the need to slow down, see and feel the natural world around them, and to find balance in their lives. The Living Now Book Awards are intended to recognize and promote newly-published lifestyle books that help us keep ourselves, our families, and the Earth healthy – today, and for future generations.”



Green Teacher e-book version review

 
Starhawk- well known eco-activist, writer and pagan witch writes that Beauty Muse is “an engaging, affirming set of tools and activities for awakening to Nature through our own creativity.” 
Ecotherapist Linda Buzzell, co-editor of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind writes:“Lisa Lipsett has created an inspiring and informative guide to the new field of art ecotherapy. As we open our senses and spirit to the rest of Nature we are rewarded with both beauty and healing.
Art therapist and educator Peter London, author of Drawing Closer to Naturestates: “Lisa Lipsett demonstrates a full knowledge of the higher purposes of art, the deeper meanings of the relationship between humans and all the rest of creation, and how artistic processes can bring a more profound communion between the two.”