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Mixed-Media Self-Portraits: Inspiration & Techniques
Featuring artwork from a wide range of contributors, this resource explores creative self-portraits through fun and easy exercises and essays that instruct and inspire artists working in all media. Examples of collage, fiber arts, and mixed-media artwork offer visual inspiration while essays throughout the book act as a guide to personal and artistic self-discovery. Step-by-step techniques and creative prompts are used to direct artists through different approaches to creating self-portraits while exercises utilizing collage, drawing, photography, and stitching will jump-start the creative process and get ideas flowing on paper and fabric, encouraging artists to express themselves in new ways. .
Price: $14.25
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Making Connections: A Handbook of Cold Joins for Jewelers and Mixed-Media Artists
Featuring a wide variety of cold-join techniques from the commonly used to the amazingly new, this beautiful handbook is the first on cold connections and combines the art of jewelry making with modern craft assemblage, which metal workers can use to spark creativity and look at their craft in new, innovative ways. Proving everyday found objects—staples, rivets, fibers, resins—can be used to make beautiful jewelry, sculpture, or mixed media, this guide explains how to craft original works with just about anything. Each chapter offers a new technique with a different attaching method along with descriptive sketches showing the connecting layers. This handy crafter’s resource showcases a gallery of 23 top jewelry artists and offers insights, philosophies, and techniques as well as pages of creative musings and stunning photos of marionettes and jewelry. .
Price: $31.29
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Polymer Clay and Mixed Media-- Together at Last: Incorporating Craft Materials and Found Objects in Clay Figures
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Mixed Mania: Recipes for Delicious Mixed Media Creations
Featuring a wide range of mixed media projects, this outrageously fun craft primer takes a decidedly unstuffy approach to an immense range of art methods Projects—including art quilts, painting, collage, bookbinding, assemblage, doll making, decoupage, and image transfers—are divided into three main sections: Artistic Appetizers, Creative Main Courses, and Sweet Treats and Special Occasions, with each addressing a different level of time invested and difficulty. Whimsically laid out like recipes, each project includes detailed ingredients (materials), instructions (what to mix and add), and tasting tips (how it should look). .
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Mixed-Media Mosaics: Techniques and Projects Using Polymer Clay Tiles, Beads & Other Embellishments
Great crossover potential--introduces a fresh creative medium and process for mixed-media, collage, assemblage, polymer clay and mosaic tile artists Project variety--along with more familiar surfaces (like tables and mirrors), mosaic work is introduced in refreshingly new formats, such as jewelry and shrines. Features an extensive techniques section and 18 step-by-step demos designed to be accessible to all skill levels. Mixed Media Mosaics uses polymer-clay, mosaic-tile work as a new and exciting platform for mixed-media/collage artists. Readers will learn to craft highly textural and vividly colored icons, boxes, tables, items of personal adornment and more, using a combination of manufactured tiles and handmade tiles. Techniques for creating the tiles include painting and glazing, stamping, embedding items like beads and buttons, mixing pigments and mica powders with clay, adding metallic leaf, creating molds, combining the handcrafted tiles with traditional mosaic tile, grout alternatives and more. In addition to learning techniques for making their own tiles, readers will discover helpful processes for working inspiration (such as an homage to a loved one or a memorable getaway) into their tile-work, using personalization techniques such as stamping words or adding personal ephemera and found objects..
Price: $13.96
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The Color of Water
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The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery : Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More
Altered art is hot. It's a current term that encapsulates all the layered, complex imagery used by artists who make altered books, keep artist journals, and do collage The concept is even crossing into the scrapbooking world. This is the most comprehensive technique book published to date for creating altered imagery and covers a range from traditional art techniques to digital art techniques, showing how to blend and merge the two successfully. The technique section is followed by a project gallery that shows how to use your finished imagery in collage, journal, and altered book projects. There is significant crossover among artists who work in the areas of collage, artist journals and altered books and although there are books on each of these distinct areas of art, there is not a good comprehensive book that thoroughly covers all of the methods of visual imagery and manipulation that can be applied when creating collage, altered books, journals or even for framed art, until now. Techniques include: I. Altered Imagery using Photography Altering 35mm prints (3 techniques, Altering digital photography Altering Polaroid photography II. Altered Imagery using your Computer Working with printers Working with scanner.
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Pretty Little Felts: Mixed-Media Crafts To Tickle Your Fancy
Pretty Little Felts features a wide range of pretty and functional projects from useful items, like a colorfully embellished needle book and zippered pouch, to a number of whimsical and playful offerings, like tiny flowers with crochet-edged petals and paper dolls. Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions accompany the 24 projects, and crafters of all skill levels will appreciate the comprehensive getting started guide and bonus gallery of 25 project variations. Crafters who enjoy simple sewing and mixed-media art will appreciate the combination of both aspects in these fancy little felt projects..
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Mixed-Media Collage Jewelry: New Directions in Memory Jewelry
Crafting a piece of collage jewelry is more than just a creative act; it can also be a very personal journey when the materials include precious keepsakes and mementos  In these 25 stunning projects, readers can experience the pleasure of creating works of beauty and memory. The techniques are basic, and each project features three or more step-by-step photos along with an image showing the gorgeous final results.   .
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Interactive Art Workshop: Set Your Mixed Media in Motion
Interactive Art Workshop guides the reader step-by-step through the creation of more than 20 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 contributors (including Claudine Hellmuth) follow each tutorial. The author and contributing artists go beyond moving parts to include techniques that also engage the senses of touch, smell and sound for an overall sensory experience. Readers will be moved to create art that moves, both literally and figuratively..
Price: $15.63
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