Books about Artwork from Amazon.com

With art drawn from a wide variety of sources — books, graphic novels, video games, films, galleries, and advertising — Spectrum 15 reinforces both the importance and prevalence of fantasy art in today’s culture. Featuring over 300 exceptional works by artists from around the globe, this gorgeous full-color collection celebrates a cadre of creators working in every style and medium. Included are luminaries such as Brom, James Gurney, Marc Gabanna, Shaun Tan, and 2008’s Grand Master Award winner, John Jude Palencar.

These art quilts showcase such versatility, innovation, and beauty that readers can’t help but be truly inspired The gifted artists come from across the globe—including Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America—and their work displays their varying sensibilities, backgrounds, and talents.
Abstract appliquéd shapes cascade across the surface of Ita Ziv’s brilliantly colored quilts, creating vibrant celebrations of life. Noriko Endo captures her deep feeling for trees in a stunning interplay of light, shadow, and leaves. Gloves appear in nearly every quilt by Jane Burch Cochran, representing probing hands and, sometimes, angel wings. John Lefelhocz’s fantastic imagery—including an airplane silhouette that lights up—grabs viewers’ attention.
Esteemed curator Martha Sielman contributes an illuminating essay for each of the 40 featured artists, who are showcased in eight-page features.
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Always wanted to design a quilt of your very own…but didn’t know where to start? Let this book show you how! Ten innovative approaches to designing art quilts make it easy for any quilter, beginning to advanced, to free the artist within. These “game plans” help quilters create a design, then turn that design into a pattern, then complete the quilt. World-renowned artist and teacher Katie Pasquini Masopust offers inspiration and practical guidance in Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter.

Intimidated by free-motion machine quilting? Forget it. Who needs it? No one, not with Foolproof Machine Quilting, the book that gives step-by-step directions on using your machine’s walking foot and heavier-weight threads from the top (not the bobbin) to create dimensional effects without sewing from the back side of the quilt. Paper-cutting techniques, tricks for choosing needles, threads, and batting, tips on using preprogrammed decorative stitches, and much more make Foolproof Machine Quilting truly foolproof…and truly full of innovative ideas.

Eight techniques, endless possibilities

* Create fabric that expresses the artist within

* Great for cotton, silk, and rayon

Discover your inner artist--and the deepest bowels of that junk drawer--with this practical guide to fabric design. The eight easy techniques, explained in clear step-by-step directions and photographs, are stamping, stenciling, random screenprinting, gelatin plate printing, deconstructed screenprinting, discharge printing, soy wax batik, and rubbings. Use one, two, or more to make gorgeous, utterly unique fabric for fashion, home décor, or crafts.

Collage can be more, much more, than just cutting and pasting. It 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.

Follow-up to the dazzling One-Block Wonders--more than 32,000 sold!

* Six quilt projects plus more than a dozen gallery quilts and techniques

* Create dramatic effects: hollow cubes, blocks tumbling into borders, more!

One-Block Wonders definitely wasn’t a one-hit wonder. This fresh, fun follow-up spins more one-block quilts, new visual effects, and great ways to add even more color to your quilts with multiple fabrics. Whirling kaleidoscopic hexagons...simple straight-line piecing (no Y-seams!)...and the dramatic large-scale prints that make these colorful quilts a fabric-lover’s favorite. They’re all here, sure to make One-Block Wonders Encore a big, bit hit on all the charts.