M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry - Notebooks, Periodic Drawings and Related Work

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The author deals with one powerful motif in Escher's work - the puzzlelike interlocking of birds, fish and other natural forms in continuous patterns. His methods are examined through a meticulous analysis of his notebooks and an an epilogue reveals new information about Escher's inspiration.... More >>

M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry - Notebooks, Periodic Drawings and Related Work

In This Garden: Exploration in Mixed-Media Visual Narrative

• ISBN13: 9781592535163
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This book acts as a showcase for a collaborative art project sponsored by artists Angela Cartwright and Sarah Fishburn. The project explores the theme of "gardens" as a metaphor for peace, beauty, tranquility, reflection, and creativity, while at the same offering readers an inspiring collage workbook that explores the techniques, methods, and the insights of the participating artists. The book includes inspiring garden-related quotes that artists can use in their ... More >>

In This Garden: Exploration in Mixed-Media Visual Narrative

Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow

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Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), set in an alternative-universe version of World War II, has been called a modern Finnegan’s Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers’ experience of the book. A leading exponent of punk-based, DIY art, Smith here... More >>

Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow

Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface

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Starting with the fundamentals, Hopper explores in great detail the following surface techniques: plastic and liquid clay, glazing, pigment processes and firing processes.... More >>

Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface

Hybrid Prints

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This book reveals the secrets of hybrid and combination techniques. Combined techniques are often used by printmakers as tricky ways of achieving particular results, and then not fully acknowledged or detailed in the information that accompanies the print when it is exhibited. Combination printmaking has a long history, but the explosion of media now available to printmakers has opened up many new possibilities. Learning the techniques associated with creating ... More >>

Hybrid Prints

Art Making, Collections, and Obsessions: An Intimate Exploration of the Mixed-Media Work and Collections of 35 Artists

• ISBN13: 9781592536269
• Condition: New
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This large format, full-color, inspirational book, now in paperback, is about how artists use their collections to make artwork. The gallery-style format allows readers to see what artists collect, and the resulting spectacular artwork they make from it. The book features the collections and the artwork of forty major mixed-media artists. The artwork includes journals, assemblages, altered books, as well as jewelry pieces, and detailed descriptions of the materials ... More >>

Art Making, Collections, and Obsessions: An Intimate Exploration of the Mixed-Media Work and Collections of 35 Artists

Paintings of Pablo Picasso formatted for Kindle

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This is a collection of thirty seven paintings by Pablo Picasso specially formatted for the Kindle, with titles and dates.

Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.

His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune throughout his life, making h... More >>

Paintings of Pablo Picasso formatted for Kindle

Plexi Class: Cutting-Edge Projects In Plastic

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Mixed-media artists and DIY crafters will be excited about all the endless possibilities of working with a variety of plastic materials such as acrylic sheeting (otherwise known as Plexiglas), clear vinyl and even shrink plastic. In Sexy Plexi, readers will be amazed at the versatility of these various plastics, the ease of use and forgiveness plastic possesses, and how plastics can mimic glass in numerous applications. The author guides readers through 25 step-by-s... More >>

Plexi Class: Cutting-Edge Projects In Plastic

Mrs. Delany and Her Circle

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At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700-1788), embarked upon a series of nearly a thousand botanical collages, or “paper mosaics,” which would prove to be the crowning achievement of her rich creative life.  These delicate hand-cut floral designs, made by a method of Mrs. Delany’s own invention, vie with the finest botanical works of her time.   More than two centuries later her extraordinary work continues to inspire.  Although be... More >>

Mrs. Delany and Her Circle

Steampunk Emporium: Creating Fantastical Jewelry, Devices and Oddments from Assorted Cogs, Gears and Curios

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The steampunk genre takes Victorian charm and steam-powered machinery parts and combines that with modern day elements and technology. In Steampunk Emporium, you are introduced to the rich charm and harrowing adventures of the steampunk world. Follow along with author Jema "Miss Emilly Ladybird" Hewitt as she guides you through several beginning-level jewelry techniques (basic wire wraps, using basic findings and so on) as well as some basic work with polymer clay, ... More >>

Steampunk Emporium: Creating Fantastical Jewelry, Devices and Oddments from Assorted Cogs, Gears and Curios

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms

• ISBN13: 9780892362172
• Condition: New
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What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book--part of the Museum's popular Looking at series--offers definitions of these and numerous other techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer are presented in an easily portable format. With numerous illustrations, many of them in color, this volume w... More >>

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms

Collage Lost and Found: Creating Unique Projects With Vintage Ephemera

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Now there’s a hip way for crafters to bring family history into their daily lives. Collage Lost and Found combines basic collage techniques and found objects to create edgy and unusual crafts with not only style, but a story to tell, as well. Highlights include: -20 step-by-step projects with easy, fashionable designs for greeting cards, magnets, necklaces, journals, and more -Sassy, and alluring artwork that reflects the author's old-world Sicilian upbringi... More >>

Collage Lost and Found: Creating Unique Projects With Vintage Ephemera

Collage Journeys: A Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork

• ISBN13: 9780823099511
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

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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... More >>

Collage Journeys: A Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork

The Art of Calligraphy: A Practical Guide to the Skills and Techniques

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Whether you want to personalize stationery or enhance other special gifts and objects, The Art of Calligraphy helps you choose equipment, from brushes, pens, pencils, papers, to inks, and then shows exactly how to produce every letter of the alphabet in a number of different scripts.... More >>

The Art of Calligraphy: A Practical Guide to the Skills and Techniques