Within the pages of "Exhibition 36", the reader enters a virtual art exhibit featuring 36 mixed-media artists whose collage, digital, assemblage, altered and repurposed art adorn the walls and pedestals of the gallery.The artists are 'present' with the reader, available to talk about their work and share their techniques and creative processes. ...
A workshop-style book, oriented to the wide community of crafters and artists including those interested in paint, surface design, mixed media, and collage, which explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction, texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text, and ...
This liberating guide teaches artists how to begin, design and apply collage techniques in exciting new ways. It features fascinating work from 50 leading collage artists who explain their techniques in easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations. Seven different sections encourage artists to stretch the relationships between color, texture, shape ...
Two very important things make this book stand out from the crowd of other collage, mixed-media and assemblage titles: the projects (full of oddities and the unexpected) and the techniques - several of which have never been published before. A common element of Jane Wynn's style is to find an object, break it and put it together again (sometimes ...
Transform old books into one-of-a-kind pieces of art with Altered Books Workshop! In this book, readers receive detailed instructions for the newest craft trend - altered books - which combines bookmaking, collage, journaling, rubber stamping, papercrafting, stitching, embellishing and much more. Readers will discover how to construct each page of ...
Today's paper art magazines showcase intricate layered pieces yet give little instruction on how to instill meaning into personal projects. "Layers" teaches papercrafters the skills they need to express themselves using paper, embellishment, color and texture. Expert designer, Shari Carroll, provides simple step-by-step directions for the latest ...
Chickens show off their human side in Tanen's irresistible dioramas. With more personality than most people have to spare, the New York artist's tiny yellow chickens negotiate the tricky modern world, filled with three-headed blind dates, menacing KFCs, playground popularity battles, and annoyingly crowded yoga classes.
Readers begin their creative journey with an overview of the intention setting process and instruction on how to start a Book-of-Dreams Journal to record their Creative Awakenings. Then, readers are introduced to 12 artists who went through the process themselves and will see firsthand - through inspirational artwork as well as several step-by ...
Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. This text offers a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this ...
Strong colour, bold lines and funky ideas combine to introduce the reader to forty-five techniques and twenty-five projects using paint, collage and canvas.After a brief introduction to working with canvas (including stretching canvas, working with raw, unstretched canvas, working with a variety of paint, and several applications - blending colour ...
One of many exhilarating artistic developments that took place during the early twentieth century, the fine art medium of collage emerged from the cubist gluing and pasting explorations of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. As a result of its experimental genesis, collage has continued to serve not only as a primary form of expression for many ...
Modern art, reflecting and defining new intellectual, scientific and technological developments, has radically extended the conventional media of sculpture and painting. Following innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism - particularly in the work of Duchamp - artists abandoned strict ...
Today, more than ever, you can't judge a book by its cover. Why? Because two trends in bookmaking are pushing the boundaries of what it means to write, read and experience a book. This guide explores the creative processes behind "altered books" - when artists make their own distinctive mark on an already published work - and "collaborative ...
In "The Art of Personal Imagery", author Corey Moortgat introduces readers to a new approach to collage, one that blends traditional collage techniques, such as the use of symbolic images and words, with typical methods of chronicling life events, such as journaling and scrap-booking. The result is innovative, fresh and meaningful collage that ...
With their splendid array of colours, textures and patterns, collages have an alluring beauty unlike any other art-form. One of today's most outstanding collagists has produced this indispensable guidebook to the vast assortment of tools and techniques available: grounds and supports for the work, paper layering, faux-lace embellishing, assemblage ...
Mary Delany's "paper mosaics" of flowers, made from hundreds of pieces of cut coloured paper, were the crowning achievement of a long and creative life. Mrs Delaney was 782 before she embarked on the 1000 flower collages, but she had already made a name for herself with her exquisite works of embroidery, decorative shellwork and landscape sketches ...
For many people art is at once a form of self-expression and discovery, and collage, based on the idea of spontaneously layering images and symbols, is a perfect medium for this process. This book approaches collage by theme, with five chapters representing 20 projects. These chapters deal with the expression of personal creativity, exploring and ...
For the first time, readers will be able to witness the entire journey/transformation of common discarded materials into shrine-like assemblage art - from the yard sale where an item was found, to witnessing the author's design thought process (which objects currently in the studio could work together?) to painting the final touches. Tales of ...
Surprisingly human, these chickens face a series of dilemmas in exquisitely crafted, miniature settings. Whether playing the online dating game, dreaming of a better life, or dealing with uncooperative children, the chickens encounter everyday troubles and triumphs in this follow-up to "Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same."
Every page of this play book has pictures for toddlers to complete by adding dry "Cheerio" cereal pieces in recessed slots, to form buttons, wheels, bubbles and more.
"Interactive Art Workshop" guides the reader step-by-step through the creation of 25 projects, each with a unique interactive element ranging from paper wheels that magically change images as they are turned, to fully functioning pull tabs, to flapping doors and slide puzzles.A gallery of inspirational examples from a wide variety of talented ...
This book has a special focus on observation. Instead of encouraging the reader to sit in a coffee house and journal about a favourite memory, the author will encourage them to sit in the coffee house and take note of what they see, and how sitting at a particular table makes them feel, right then and there. It's very much about being in the ...
Modern art has radically extended the conventional medium of sculpture and painting. Following on innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism - particularly in the work of Duchamp - artists abandoned strict adherence to traditional hierarchies of mediums and embraced any means, including ...
Artist-author Diane Maurer-Mathison begins with an overview of collage, including history, tools, and techniques, plus materials and the principles of colour and design. She then proceeds with sections on collage, assemblage, and altered art - each detailing the various creative possibilities and including inspirational projects. Detailed step-by ...
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