Painting Can Save Your Life: How and Why We Paint

Artist and founder of The Painting School Sara Woster invites readers into the vibrant world of painting as a creative practice powerful enough to transform our lives.

Sara Woster is a painter, teacher, and art evangelist. She believes in art as a form of mindfulness, a ritual for healing, and an outlet for self-expression. In Painting Can Save Your Life, Woster welcomes readers into this transformative art form, inviting them to pick up a brush and discover how painting can help you see the world in a whole new way.

Weaving soup-to-nuts instruction on how to paint—from choosing the right materials to painting the human body—with her own story of discovering a passion for painting, this book includes:
 

simple and easy techniques for painters of all skill levels

playful and challenging painting exercises

tips on how to build a creative community using art

insights on how to use painting to cultivate a sense of calm in a stressful world

 
Part how-to-paint, part sheer inspiration, Painting Can Save Your Life is a wise and inspiring guide to the power of painting.

Sara Woster is an artist, art teacher, painting evangelist and founder of The Painting School in Brooklyn, New York, an art studio that uses art history and contemporary art as the foundation of its teaching method. In an effort to help as many people as possible establish their own painting practice, she also leads workshops around the United States. Sara and her family split their time between Brooklyn and a 1880s former boarding house that sits on top of a Catskills mountain.