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| Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
by Bobby Lake-Thom, Medicine Grizzly Bear The author, a Native American healer, draws from plains, southwest and northwest Native American traditions to compile a practical and enlightening resource. |
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Medicine Cards : The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals by Jamie Sams and David Carson Excellent resource on Native American animal symbols. It comes with cards, but the details in the book are priceless. | |
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The Druid Animal Oracle : Working With the Sacred Animals of the Druid Tradition by Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm Excellent resource on the symbolism of animals in Celtic lore. Like Medicine Cards, it comes with cards which you may or may not choose to use. The book itself is a excellent source of Celtic animal legends. | |
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Animal-Speak : The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small by Ted Andrews Another excellent resource. This author crosses cultures and explains the symbolism of animals (including a large catalog of birds, reptiles, and insects) from Native American (North American and South American), Celtic, Greek, African, and other traditions. Consequently, this is the only resource of animal symbols listed here that contains animals outside of North America and Europe. |
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Spirit Animals by Victoria Covell, illustrations by Noah Buchanan Not only filled with great information from Native American traditions, but also loaded with inspirational art. |
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The Celtic Tree Oracle : A System of Divination by Liz and Dolin Murray This is another book that comes with cards. It is based on study of Ogham, an ancient alphabet used by Druids and associated with various sacred trees among the Celts. Whether you use it for divination or not, the book is a great resource about Celtic tree lore. And sometimes the best symbol for a portrait is a tree rather than an animal. |
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Dictionary of Symbolic and Mythological Animals by J. C. Cooper Covers a wide variety of symbolism from traditions world wide. |
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The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects by Barbara Walker This resource deals primarily with symbols and objects related to women. Organized in an easy to use format. Great reference. |
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| Personal Totem Pole: Animal Imagery the Chakras, and Psycholtherapy by Eligio Stephen Gallegos, Ph.D. A psychotheraputic process used by some therapists. While extensive training is required to use this process therapeutically, it gives the healthy seeker some useful approaches to meditating upon the chakras to find which animals, or animal symbols, govern each of the seven major chakras. For in-depth information visit the author's website at http://www.geocities.com/esgallegos. |
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Tussie-Mussies : The Victorian Art of Expressing Yourself in the Language of Flowers by Geraldine Adamich Laufer I've never had a situation where I couldn't find the right ancient animal or tree symbol for a portrait, but you never know. So I keep this book handy. The Victorian tradition applies an exhaustive list of meanings to flowers. This book has excellent indexes arranged by flower and by meaning. And the flower photography is outstanding. |
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The Creative Brain by Ned Herrmann The book that started me on my artistic career. |
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards A course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence. It worked for me! If you follow the exercises in this book, you can't fail. |
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The Whole Brain Business Book by Ned Herrmann Think creativity is just for artists? Think again! |
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The Best of Colored Pencil 1 compiled by the Colored Pencil Society of America Part of the Best of Colored Pencil Series. See what amazing art can be created with this medium. |
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The Best of Colored Pencil Two compiled by the Colored Pencil Society of America Second of the Best of Colored Pencil Series. More incredible art. |
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The Best of Colored Pencil III compiled by the Colored Pencil Society of America Third of the Best of Colored Pencil Series. More incredible art. |
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The Best of Colored Pencil 4 compiled by the Colored Pencil Society of America Fourth of the Best of Colored Pencil Series. Still more incredible art. |
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| Best of Colored Pencil 5 edited by Vera Curnow Latest in the Best of Colored Pencil Series. And still more incredible art. |
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| Creative Colored Pencil: The Step by Step Guide by Vera Curnow Creative applications, creative palettes, creative mixes of colored pencil artists Ann Kullberg, Maggie Toole, Sherry Loomis, Gary Green, Mike Pease, Bernard Poulin, Dyanne Locati, Vera Curnow, Karen Ann Klein, and Richard Mueller. |
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| Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step by Ann Kullberg Terrific suggestions, tips, techniques even if you aren't a portrait artist. |
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| Creating Textures in Colored Pencil by Gary Greene Instructions on creating natural and man-made textures with colored pencils. |
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| Colored Pencil Solution Book by Janie Gildow & Barbara Benedetti Newton Colored pencil tips and techniques for winning results. |
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| The Colored Pencil by Bet Borgeson Key concepts for handling the medium. A great place to start. |
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| The Encyclopedia of Colored Pencil by Judy Martin a directory of key techniques plus an inspirational gallery showing artists how to use them. |
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown With a name like SymbolArt how could I not recommend a pager-turner about symbology and art. According to the author only the plot and characters are fictional, all the art history is factual. |
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