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# Original, captivating artwork throughout Compact 8x6 inch size, portable inspiration 200 pages of immersive creativity The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity

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## Summary

> 🎩 Dare to play with creativity’s wild side!

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## Key Features

- • **Artistry Meets Inspiration:** Experience Nick Bantock’s signature, high-quality artwork that transforms every page into a visual delight.
- • **Portable Creative Companion:** Compact and lightweight design lets you carry your creative muse anywhere—never miss a moment of inspiration.
- • **Unlock Your Inner Trickster:** Engage with playful, boundary-crossing creativity exercises that spark fresh ideas and perspectives.
- • **Join a Community of Creatives:** Loved by over 130 reviewers with a 4.6-star rating—don’t miss out on the creative movement everyone’s talking about.
- • **A Lifelong Creative Investment:** A beautifully crafted book that keeps giving, perfect for ongoing artistic growth and reflection.

## Overview

The Trickster's Hat is a 200-page, beautifully crafted creativity workbook by Nick Bantock, featuring original artwork and engaging exercises designed to unlock your creative potential. Compact and portable, it’s perfect for professionals seeking inspiration on the go. With a 4.6-star rating from over 130 reviews, it’s a must-have for anyone ready to embrace playful, boundary-breaking artistry.

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Review: A Treasure of a Book in So Many Ways - This is the best work on creativity I've ever come across. It's both light-hearted and profound, which takes real skill (or blind luck) to balance. The artwork is fascinating, and the inspiring exercises I've tried so far provide just the right amount of challenge and encouragement along with spring boards to toss you about and rivulets to carry you sideways. A delightful ride! (But then where will you go? That is the question.) This is just a wonderful book! I've always been inspired by Nick Bantock's work--which has actually been life changing for me--and so I was very excited to learn of this book. I find his artistry, amazing and his ideas, fascinating. I love his brain! His spirit and insights too. In his work, I find wisdom along with playfulness and wry humor, beauty aside the grotesque and grisly, the monumental and the beauty of quiet and considered ordinariness, the sensual and the coldly cosmic. I'm not really trying to get down a set of oppositions here--or even be complete--but my point is that, for me, his art and his writings--beautiful and/or compelling, etc.--often expose, in an interesting or affecting way, how things really aren't just "this or that," but both, individual and neither all at the same time--complex and not. Or often his work reveals something unexpected and that something is "something other"--or could be. And on... Who could be a better guide into creativity and inspiration? And so when this book came out, I pounced. And I love the "participation" of the Trickster. I love this so much! Who else could be so perfectly suited as a "helpmate" (and mischief-maker) for these adventures as the Trickster is the boundary crosser, the one who mixes up all the lines and more? Too many things to say about Trickster and the wonderfulness of this motif--Lewis Hyde's book, "Trickster Makes this World," is one of my very favorite books of all time, and Bantock's appropriating the Trickster as the "familiar" for this book and these endeavors is brilliant. The book, itself, is beautifully put together. As art- and workbooks generally go, it is a small book (not saying thin at nearly 200 pages, but 8 x 6 inches), and because of this, there is something so lovely and accessible about its size that wouldn't feel the same in a large book. (Plus I can tuck it into a small bag and easily take it with me wherever I go.) The production is of high quality. It is a delight to touch and to hold. As with all of Bantock's books that I've seen, it is a book of incredible craftsmanship. As an example, the title alone is emblematic of considerable thought and craft. There is Bantock's exceptional artwork throughout--I love that anywhere I open the book, there is something wonderful to see. Best, this book is something that I will enjoy forever, a gift that will keep on giving--which is partly why my introduction to Bantock's work several years ago was so life changing for me both in terms of my own art, but also in other ways for my life. I look forward to this delightful and beautiful little book giving me more access to the Trickster within and without again and again. Further, it is just a beautiful little book--even if one never exactly "uses" it for the exercises. It is a treasure to look at, touch, contemplate and enjoy a little ride with ideas, amazing artwork, little Trickster journeys and wonderful stories within. Sooooo recommended...
Review: Fantastic, Fun Book to Spark your Unique Creativity! - I am a HUGE Nick Bantock fan! This is a step by step book of many exercises to loosen up your creative self. Some are art, some are written. Do them! I found myself surprising myself with projects or ideas that I never would have had otherwise. These are not precious little crafty ideas like a lot of other books have. Bantock is a serious artist who has a gift for teaching, inspiring and illustrating what might go into his inimitable, wondrous work.

## Features

- The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 132 Reviews |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Treasure of a Book in So Many Ways
*by S***. on January 9, 2014*

This is the best work on creativity I've ever come across. It's both light-hearted and profound, which takes real skill (or blind luck) to balance. The artwork is fascinating, and the inspiring exercises I've tried so far provide just the right amount of challenge and encouragement along with spring boards to toss you about and rivulets to carry you sideways. A delightful ride! (But then where will you go? That is the question.) This is just a wonderful book! I've always been inspired by Nick Bantock's work--which has actually been life changing for me--and so I was very excited to learn of this book. I find his artistry, amazing and his ideas, fascinating. I love his brain! His spirit and insights too. In his work, I find wisdom along with playfulness and wry humor, beauty aside the grotesque and grisly, the monumental and the beauty of quiet and considered ordinariness, the sensual and the coldly cosmic. I'm not really trying to get down a set of oppositions here--or even be complete--but my point is that, for me, his art and his writings--beautiful and/or compelling, etc.--often expose, in an interesting or affecting way, how things really aren't just "this or that," but both, individual and neither all at the same time--complex and not. Or often his work reveals something unexpected and that something is "something other"--or could be. And on... Who could be a better guide into creativity and inspiration? And so when this book came out, I pounced. And I love the "participation" of the Trickster. I love this so much! Who else could be so perfectly suited as a "helpmate" (and mischief-maker) for these adventures as the Trickster is the boundary crosser, the one who mixes up all the lines and more? Too many things to say about Trickster and the wonderfulness of this motif--Lewis Hyde's book, "Trickster Makes this World," is one of my very favorite books of all time, and Bantock's appropriating the Trickster as the "familiar" for this book and these endeavors is brilliant. The book, itself, is beautifully put together. As art- and workbooks generally go, it is a small book (not saying thin at nearly 200 pages, but 8 x 6 inches), and because of this, there is something so lovely and accessible about its size that wouldn't feel the same in a large book. (Plus I can tuck it into a small bag and easily take it with me wherever I go.) The production is of high quality. It is a delight to touch and to hold. As with all of Bantock's books that I've seen, it is a book of incredible craftsmanship. As an example, the title alone is emblematic of considerable thought and craft. There is Bantock's exceptional artwork throughout--I love that anywhere I open the book, there is something wonderful to see. Best, this book is something that I will enjoy forever, a gift that will keep on giving--which is partly why my introduction to Bantock's work several years ago was so life changing for me both in terms of my own art, but also in other ways for my life. I look forward to this delightful and beautiful little book giving me more access to the Trickster within and without again and again. Further, it is just a beautiful little book--even if one never exactly "uses" it for the exercises. It is a treasure to look at, touch, contemplate and enjoy a little ride with ideas, amazing artwork, little Trickster journeys and wonderful stories within. Sooooo recommended...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic, Fun Book to Spark your Unique Creativity!
*by M***S on May 28, 2020*

I am a HUGE Nick Bantock fan! This is a step by step book of many exercises to loosen up your creative self. Some are art, some are written. Do them! I found myself surprising myself with projects or ideas that I never would have had otherwise. These are not precious little crafty ideas like a lot of other books have. Bantock is a serious artist who has a gift for teaching, inspiring and illustrating what might go into his inimitable, wondrous work.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lots of creative fun activities. I loved doing a picture out of ...
*by J***H on April 9, 2015*

Lots of creative fun activities. I loved doing a picture out of stamps for example. I bought it for my sister and we are going to do the projects "together". She lives in a different state than me. The projects list all the ingredients needed. What I like most perhaps is the time frame. The author is not asking you for a day to complete a project - some are just a few minutes! This book gives you permission to be totally creative!

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