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127 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Successful mixed-media art starts with selecting the best materials and tools for the job. Here's where the very thing that attracts many artists to the genre -- the vast array of available supplies and media -- can also pose the greatest challenge: How to choose from the wide variety of options for any given project? Mixed Media Handbook makes your decisions easier and more confident by providing a complete and current working guide to today's traditional...
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143 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Provides you with techniques and ideas for mixed-media surface treatments. In addition to over 45 stepped-out techniques, projects that combine the techniques into finished works of art are shown as well. Traditional techniques as well as new applications that have not been explored in other books such as the use of WonderUnder, pulled paper and plaster-dipped gauze are explored. Extensive examples from both artists show how the same techniques can...
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128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
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"The Art of the Travel Journal offers all the techniques, ideas, inspiration, and step-by-step instructions needed to create artful, one-of-a-kind journals filled with drawings, ephemera, lettering, and more that document our lives traveling around the world -- or around the corner"--
5) Art workshop for children: how to foster original thinking with more than 25 process art experiences
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"Art Workshop for Children cultivates creativity and encourages deep thinking by encouraging a unique child-led approach to art projects"--
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128 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Forget perfection-grab your supplies and get messy with the easy techniques and projects for creating with watercolor, acrylic, markers, inks, and more in Get Messy Art. Play, experiment, and explore with zero judgment, zero pressure, and all the fun"--
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"Each project in this book combines bookbinding with a specific craft such as quilting, jewelry making, or polymer clay, and offer levels of expertise: basic, novice, and expert. Illustrated step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate how to construct the cover pages, and a unique binding technique, easy enough for a beginner to master. Each project also features two other versions with the same binding geared to those with more or less...
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124 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm
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Get inspiration from Emily Botelho - the genius behind @salt_stitches - and learn to create highly detailed abstract works of embroidered art. From mini hoops to larger fabric canvas work, ideas to capture your natural surroundings abound in this stunning book. Drawing on her love of nature, Emily Botelho creates highly textured and incredibly detailed embroidery pieces. Her work is organic, intuitive and celebrates patterns found in the natural world....
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Originally published as a dissertation in 1993, this revised edition of Black Athletes in the Media is a sociohistorical documentation of trends in the characterization of black athletes in the news media. This study seeks to demonstrate and explain the ambiguity and dilemma of black acceptance in the American ideal with respect to black sporting achievements over the Twentieth Century. The evolution of black stereotypes, depictions and generalizations...
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An instructional book for intermediate and advanced students, this volume is also a valuable tool for teachers looking to master the principles of light and shade. One of the most in-depth treatments available, it offers a wealth of details on mediums and techniques, including natural and artificial light, gradations, and more. Author Anson K. Cross begins with studies of chiaro-oscura, or light and shade, and examples of values and their tests. He...
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128 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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This is more than a 'how-to' on flower painting. It is a guide encouraging artists to explore new and exciting ways to create flower paintings bursting with individuality and moving towards a contemporary and impressionist style. The book covers: Colours, shapes, patterns and textures particular to various flowers through the seasons, from fresh green foliage in the spring to rich red and gold hues in the autumn, How to incorporate flowers in both...
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144 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"An inspiring collection of ideas and projects for encouraging an artistic spirit in children! 3D Art Lab for Kids includes 36 kid-friendly fine art projects in paper, clay, textiles, sculpture, and jewelry. Each project is inspired by the work of a prominent artist and is illustrated with step-by-step full-color photographs of the process as well as finished samples and variations. Whether you use these projects independently or as a curriculum for...
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Create astonishing artwork with crayons! Crayons aren't just for kids anymore! Sculptors use them whole, bundling thousands of crayons to create environmental and installation-size sculptures. Carvers pierce and reshape crayons with scalpels, turning them into mini totems, helixes, and portrait busts. Landscape and still-life artists layer crayon shades in works on paper that rival paintings in their subtlety and depth. What will you do?!The Art of...
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127 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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A great guide for painters who want to experiment with mixed media and make their landscape paintings more adventurous. Popular artist and teacher Soraya French encourages readers to experiment with mixing media and to create more adventurous paintings and broaden their artistic horizons. The media that Soraya uses in this book are acrylics, pastels and collage and she shows how to bring the best out of mixing these media with handy tips, some simple...
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This volume presents a showcase of cutting-edge contemporary art from across the globe features galleries of collage by 30 practitioners, from the surreal landscapes of Beth Hoeckel to Fabien Souche's humorous appropriations of pop culture. Each artist has also created a new piece especially for this book -- all using the same original image, but with results as wildly diverse as the medium of collage itself.
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Auroras & Blossoms Creative Arts Journal features inspirational art, no matter the topic.
In issue 1: Elizabeth Smith (essay), Venkatesh Govindarajan (short story), Azelle Elric (drawing), Bharati Bolloju (short story), Debra Murphy (short story), Analia Adorni (painting), Emma Wells (short story), Anushka Mishra (short story), Gloria Keh (painting), and Thirupurasundari C J (drawing).
Issue 1 also features social media tips and useful creative...
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Explore a diverse array of adventurous methods for creating mixed media art with 101 More Mixed Media Techniques.
Whether you are an experienced artist or just starting out, you'll discover new, approachable concepts for creating and embellishing your own mixed media art with 101 More Mixed Media Techniques. Following in the footsteps of 101 Mixed Media Techniques, this companion edition explores even more versatile mixed media techniques, from printmaking,...
20) Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu: Drawing, Painting, and Fanciful Adornments from Start to Finish
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Growing out of her popular online workshops and videos, Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu takes you step by step through the process of drawing a folk art and stylized girl's face. You will learn to create simple, balanced features and add shading with colored pencils and paint. From there, you will learn how to draw the rest of the figure and put it into a unique, textured, mixed-media background.-Learn to design costumes and personalities for your...
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