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Collage Journeys: A Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork
by Jane Davies
Collage can be a wonderful art form and a means of
self-expression. Collage Journeys presents a series of innovative workshop
assignments, each designed to relate the technique and format of a collage
to its subject. Gathering materials, generating ideas, painting with paper,
working in layers, using text, keeping a visual journal�project by project,
new collage skills are explored. Stunning finished pieces offer additional
ideas and inspiration. For anyone who has ever wanted to take collage to the
next level�adding meaning, subtext, and style�Collage Journeys offers the
journey of a lifetime.
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Collage Unleashed by Traci Bautista
The funky, colourful projects in Collage Unleashed
encourage readers to turn off their inner critics and tap into a childlike
sense of wonder and imagination. With projects that range from art books and
fabric journals to mixed-media paintings, this book showcases three of the
most popular trends in papercrafting--collage, altered fabric and
journaling. Featuring a wide range of techniques including crayon transfers,
embroidery, freestyle hand lettering and creative book binding, combining
paper, fabric, dyes, and paints in unexpected ways. Collage artists,
bookmaking enthusiasts and papercrafters will want to put this title on
their personal wish lists.
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New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook by Betty
Edwards
An essential companion to her bestselling classic,
Edwards offers readers the key to mastering this art form: guided practice
in their newfound creative abilities. Here are forty new exercises that
cover each of the five basic skills of drawing. Each practice session
includes a brief explanation and instructional drawings, suggestions for
materials, sample drawings, and blank pages for the reader's own drawings.
Also provided in this spiral-bound workbook is a pullout viewfinder, a
crucial tool for effective practice. This new workbook gives readers
experience in various subject matter-still life, landscape, imaginative
drawing-using alternative mediums such as pen and ink, charcoal, and cont�
crayon. For those who are taking a drawing class, who have received
instruction through a book or course, or who prefer to learn by doing, this
volume of carefully structured "homework" offers the perfect opportunity to
reinforce and improve their skills and expand their repertoire.
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The New Creative Artist by Nita Leland
This updated version of The Creative Artist breathes
new life into a popular classic, helping artists reach greater levels of
creativity, inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Perfect for fans of the
original--and anyone who wants to be more creative--this book includes 50
percent new material, with new instruction to address the creative
challenges of today�s artist and more than 60 fun, fabulous activities
for greater creativity. Practical advice combined with inspiring exercises
and insights from other artists in a wide variety of styles and mediums make
this the ultimate creativity guide!
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Oil Painter's Solution Book: Landscapes by Elizabeth Tolley
Spend less time reading and more time painting with
award-winning artist and instructor Elizabeth Tolley as she answers over 100
of the most pressing questions artists have about painting landscapes in
oil. Handy Q&A format covers everything from basic brush techniques to
deciding what to paint first while on location. Learn how to choose
materials, prepare indoor and outdoor workspaces , design spectacular
compositions, select color for visual impact, and evaluate your own work.
Including 10 mini-demonstrations to help refine your technique and 7
complete step-by-step projects, this is one reference no painter can be
without!
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Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the
Renaissance to the Present by Virgil Elliott
How did the Old Masters create their masterpieces? What
kind of education allowed these great artists to create such beautiful work,
and how can an artist learn these lessons today? Traditional Oil Painting
answers those questions and many more. This comprehensive sourcebook
explores the most advanced levels of oil painting, with full information on
the latest scientific discoveries. Distinguished artist Virgil Elliott
examines the many elements that let artists take the next step in their
work: mental attitude, aesthetic considerations, principles of visual
reality, the importance of drawing, materials, techniques, portraiture,
photographic images versus visual reality, and color. Traditional Oil
Painting helps artists master the secrets of realistic painting to create
work that will rival that of the masters.
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The New Acrylics: Complete Guide to the New Generation of Acrylic Paints
by Rheni Tauchid
The New Acrylics illustrates how artists can create
lush textures, color, and lustre with modern acrylics. These are nontoxic,
environmentally sound, and exist in the most dazzling array of chemical
formats-from the most fluid to the highly viscous. Not only do artists paint
with acrylics, they can create rich metallic effects, or even 3-dimensional
sculptures. Traditional technique based books cover traditional methods of
painting. However, The New Acrylics is geared toward nonconventional ways in
which to manipulate modern-day acrylics, and demonstrates new applications
such as glazing, textured effects, and soft sculpture effects, thus
reinventing and revealing a fabulous new artistic medium. The underlying
theme of this dazzling book is to encourage artists to interpret acrylic
paints in a vibrant and individualistic style.
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Rethinking Acrylic by Patti Brady
Acrylic can mimic oil paint,
watercolour, gouache and encaustic; it can be applied in subtle transparent
washes, or as a heavy thick impasto; it can be as transparent as glass or as
dense and black as tar. Because of its ever-changing state, the author and
contributors are covering the most popular techniques for acrylic, making
them accessible to the contemporary artist and crafter thorough a variety of
mini-demonstrations followed by full demonstrations that show how to
transform those techniques into finished paintings. Featuring an in-depth
approach to the most popular techniques with 27 mini-demonstrations and 10
full demonstrations that show how to incorporate the featured techniques
into completed paintings.
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Acrylic Revolution!
by Nancy Reyner
An essential guide for acrylic painting techniques and
more. Featuring over 101 ways to break through the boundaries and re-define
the creative potential of this all-purpose medium.
Ten complete sections provide insight on how to use acrylic paint in ways
you never thought possible including painting on virtually any surface,
creating textures, working with transfers, resists and mixed media,
stencilling and line work, and simulating other mediums, such as oil,
tempera or watercolour. Featuring a gallery of finished works by painting
revolutionaries that blend various acrylic techniques to create amazing
effects. You'll also find practical advice that covers the basics and
beyond--from selecting materials and cleaning your brushes to finishing and
preserving your artwork. There's even a complete glossary of terms for fast
and easy referencing. Pick up a brush and start your own acrylic revolution
today!
  
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