Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame Third Edition

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This 2-volume set is an outstanding teaching guide for lampworking glass. The sprial binding allows the books to lie flat while working. Included in the volumes are a glossary of terms and techniques and a reference for locating glass working tools. Hundreds of photos and step-by-step processes.... More >>

Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame Third Edition

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

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"We are all facing choices that define us. No choice, however messy, is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it is only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself. This book is my life in progress."
        Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself is the creative expression of one young woman's attempt to understand herself as she grows into adulthood. Sa... More >>

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

Slab-built Ceramics

• ISBN13: 9781847970046
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The slab-building technique for creating ceramics has been around for centuries and remains a popular construction method for artists today. The basic aspects and astounding versatility of slab-building is unveiled in this lushly illustrated survey. The working methods of 16 international ceramists are covered in detail and accompanied by images of their sculptures and vessels as well as hints on making the most of the slab-built technique. A gallery of pieces from ... More >>

Slab-built Ceramics

BATTLE MiLK 2: Tangents and Transitions in Concept Art

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BATTLE MiLK 2 is the latest collection from several San Francisco-based animation professionals featuring personal works and original concept designs .Inside are over 120 pages of full color imagery incorporating a wide variety of approaches, styles and subject matter. Everything from traditional pen-and-ink to miniature photography to cutting edge digital painting can be found as new worlds and ideas are explored. Each artist provides a step by step guide to their ... More >>

BATTLE MiLK 2: Tangents and Transitions in Concept Art

NONOBJECT

• ISBN13: 9780262014847
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What happens when designers think beyond the object to creative positive, unexpected design experiences.... More >>

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Beach: A Book of Treasures

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Beloved author Josie Iselin's collaged images of the treasures we live with as reminders of the beach from sea glass to driftwood, shells to stones evoke the timeless elements of sand, ocean, and refreshing sea air. In her writings, Iselin shares thoughts on the varied ways we experience the beach while also providing fascinating insights into the scientific ecosystem of the ocean, such as how the oyster constructs its shell and the ways in which algae is classified... More >>

Beach: A Book of Treasures

True Vision: Authentic Art Journaling

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Featuring the artwork of over 25 leading artists with name recognitionAs art journaling grows in popularity (even attracting a new breed of scrapbookers who call themselves "life artists"), there is a movement afoot toward creating more authentic, personal, what some people call "raw" journals. These journals are filled with not just attractive, well-composed pages, but pages that are filled with personal, meaningful content.True Visions is focused on ways to... More >>

True Vision: Authentic Art Journaling

How to Read Greek Vases

• ISBN13: 9780300155235
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How is it possible today to gain insight into the culture that flourished in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago? Works of art are eloquent intermediaries. This generously illustrated volume provides an introduction to the painted pottery that served specific utilitarian functions and that afforded outstanding artists a medium for depicting their gods and heroes and the details of daily existence. The key to understanding the rich language of the Greek vase is tunin... More >>

How to Read Greek Vases

Richard Prince

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Richard Prince emerged in the 1980s as one of America's new, highly innovative artists who worked with the margins of American subcultures and visual debris. Highly idiosyncratic subject matter - such as one-line jokes, cartoons, cowboys ("borrowed" from the Marlboro ads) and motorcycle gangs - are central to his work. In the late 1970s Prince was working for the cutting services of "Time Life" publications in New York, and had access to thousands of cut-up magazine... More >>

Richard Prince

Pretty Little Things: Collage Jewelry, Trinkets and Keepsakes

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Whimsical and Elegant Projects from Well-Known Collage Artist Sally Jean Alexander *Shares 27 projects with 30 variations for additional inspiration
*Uses vintage ephemera to create charms, vials, miniature shrines, and reliquary boxes
*Features author Sally Jean Alexander’s signature style With Pretty Little Things, readers will find collage projects that exhibit a playful air and a sense of magic. The twenty-seven projects and thirty variations f... More >>

Pretty Little Things: Collage Jewelry, Trinkets and Keepsakes

101 Mixed-Media Art Projects, How-to's & Ideas: A Beginner's Guide to Messy Art Without Rules!

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Have you ever wanted to work on an art project without any rules, restrictions or guidelines? If so, the wonderful world of mixed-media arts is the perfect alternative. This beginners guide is a great jumping off point toward achieving that goal. ... More >>

101 Mixed-Media Art Projects, How-to's & Ideas: A Beginner's Guide to Messy Art Without Rules!

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

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Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine bathroom fixture be considered a work of art? Shouldn't a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end--or at least a story? In this Very Short Introduction, Christopher Butler ... More >>

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

The Art of Illumination

• ISBN13: 9781844483853
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Pulling together only the best projects from this bestselling author’s three previous books on illumination, this compendium instructs designers on a range of exquisite designs in watercolor and gouache to enhance calligraphy, texts, and a host of other decorative items. Employing timeless techniques to more than 60 design ideas, these projects draw their inspiration from classic manuscripts and texts.... More >>

The Art of Illumination

Printmaking + Mixed Media: Simple Techniques and Projects for Paper and Fabric

• ISBN13: 9781596680951
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Reinterpreting traditional methods, this resource presents creative, affordable, and accessible techniques for mixed-media artists and printmakers of all experience levels looking to incorporate printed images onto paper or fabric. From screen printing to collagraphy to sun printing, the techniques are shown with step-by-step photographs and can be done without printing presses or special papers. A variety of projects are included to demonstrate a wide range of po... More >>

Printmaking + Mixed Media: Simple Techniques and Projects for Paper and Fabric

Lift Off: Air Vehicle Sketches & Renderings from the Drawthrough Collection

• ISBN13: 9781933492155
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Lift Off presents personal and professional works by Scott Robertson, Program Director of the Entertainment Design major at Art Center College of Design. This book features the following chapters: Airships, Spacecraft, Aircraft, Lefty Sketches, Hovercraft, Original "Card Collection" and selected work from the conceptual design of vehicles for the video games Field Commander and Spy Hunter 2. Anyone interested in air vehicle sketche... More >>

Lift Off: Air Vehicle Sketches & Renderings from the Drawthrough Collection

Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams

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A truly visionary book based on the popular workshops of a highly acclaimed art therapist, designer, and pioneer in personal growth through creativity.

In Visioning, Lucia Capacchione, the author of such self-help classics as Recovery of Your Inner Child and The Power of Your Other Hand, shows us that we can transform our lives in the same way that a designer transforms raw materials to meet his or her vision. Drawing on her experiences as a designer and cor... More >>

Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams

Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages

• ISBN13: 9781592535880
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This book takes the artistic approach of assemblage and collage, and combines it with the long-loved tradition of making doll houses--but these doll houses are anything but traditional! Begun as an artistic challenge between a group of talented friends, these mixed-media doll houses include beautiful castles, undersea fantasy-lands, gothic attics, inspiring tree houses and much more. Authors Tally Oliveau and Julie Molina share a host of interesting alteration tech... More >>

Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages

Fabric Art Collage: 40+ Mixed Media Techniques

• ISBN13: 9781571205803
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Everything you ever wanted to know about mixed-media fabric collage. Includes more than 40 original techniques.... More >>

Fabric Art Collage: 40+ Mixed Media Techniques

Stitch Alchemy: Combining Fabric & Paper for Mixed Media Art

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Mixing the versatility of paper with the dimensional qualities of cloth, this inventive handbook to crafting with “paper-cloth” provides mixed-media artists with the knowledge to easily transform their works into collaged quilts using embellishment techniques, such as painting, stitching, needlefelting, and beading. Though the technique is inexpensive and requires less space, equipment, and skill than dyeing fabrics for quilt making, readers will learn step-by-st... More >>

Stitch Alchemy: Combining Fabric & Paper for Mixed Media Art

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks. His words live on longer than his paintings...... More >>

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Celebrations of Curious Characters

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Celebrations of Curious Characters cracks open the personal vaults of Ricky Jay—raconteur, historian, and legendary sleight-of-hand artist—exposing a wonderful world of amusing and arcane knowledge. Adapted from his popular NPR series "Jay's Journal," Celebrations of Curious Characters features one-page anecdotes of mind-bending performers (limbless jugglers, piano-playing parrots, unkempt Londoners) paired with engravings, mezzotints, and broadsheets from the a... More >>

Celebrations of Curious Characters

Creative Mixed Media: Paint Print Stitch Stamp Embellish

• ISBN13: 9781564779489
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The popular author of Creative Embellishments is back with even more exciting ideas to explore! Packed with inspiration, this book offers 15 creative techniques to try with paper and fabric. Discover out-of-the-ordinary uses for everyday items such as facial wipes, hair gel, and shower mats. Play with new techniques and materials; then follow Sherrill's guidelines on design and composition to create a stunning work of art.



* Master techniques that ran... More >>

Creative Mixed Media: Paint Print Stitch Stamp Embellish

Playboy: Redheads

• ISBN13: 9780811848589
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From Playboy's classic archives comes a trilogy of stocking-stuffer-sized volumes, each devoted to a certain hair color destined to quicken a man's pulse. Blonde? Brunette? Redhead? In the fifties, sixties, and seventies, it seemed like all the Playboy models, not just blondes, had more fun. Building sandcastles in the buff, romping on tiger skin rugs, or starting pillow fights, beauties of every tress are captured in these timeless color photographs. Playboy contri... More >>

Playboy: Redheads

Objects of Reflection: A Soulful Journey Through Assemblage

• ISBN13: 9781600613319
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Objects of Reflection embodies visual journaling disguised in the form of dimensional assemblage by finding uncommon ways to reinvent common objects, while at the same time, creating art that is so personal it resembles a page from the artist?s journal. Inspiration pours from every page of the book through a gallery of projects designed by the author. In addition, 20 step-by-step techniques include tips for attaching elements with simple materials like string, wire... More >>

Objects of Reflection: A Soulful Journey Through Assemblage

The Skillful Huntsman: Visual Development of a Grimm Tale at Art Center College of Design

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A tale from the Brothers Grimm provides inspiration for three gifted students from the world-renowned Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Khang Le, Mike Yamada, and Felix Yoon were guided by their instructor, Scott Robertson, to create original design solutions for the environments, characters, props, and vehicles found within The Skillful Huntsman. The trio's sketches and full-color renderings thoroughly document the cre... More >>

The Skillful Huntsman: Visual Development of a Grimm Tale at Art Center College of Design

The Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook

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Extensive guidebook to a popular and rapidly growing craft. Many of us have walked the squares of Venice, Rome and Madrid and admired the geometric pavements of pebble mosaics. Made from found stones, and as beautiful as they are durable, pebble mosaics are a welcome addition to gardens, patios, and public spaces. The Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook is the most complete sourcebook for enthusiasts and landscape designers -- an accessible and illustrated guide t... More >>

The Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook

Beginner's Guide to Mosaic

• Dimensions: 10.25 in. h x 8.1 in. w x 0.25 in. d
• Weight: 0.47 ounces
• Made in GB

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Eight colorful, innovative, easy-to-follow projects show the beginner how to create a range of mosaics, from a colourful table top and crazy-paving flower pots to a beautiful clock embellished with beads and stunning bathroom panels. Each project is accompanied by a design template, and clear step-by-step photographs. A selection of striking mosaic items are included to inspire readers to create their own original decorative objects, three dimensional forms and pane... More >>

Beginner's Guide to Mosaic

Creative Collage Techniques

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This liberating guide teaches artists how to begin, design and apply collage techniques in exciting new ways. It features fascinating work from 50 leading collage artists who explain their techniques in easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations. Seven different sections encourage artists to stretch the relationships between color, texture, shape and paper. Following 100 innovative demonstrations, artists will achieve amazing results from mixing collage with other ... More >>

Creative Collage Techniques

Semiprecious Salvage: Creating Found-Art Jewelry

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The jewellery techniques introduced include the basics of wirework and soldering, but go beyond the typical jewellery book to include mixed-media applications such as sewing, plaster work and the altering of found objects.Pieces include brooches, pendants, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and belts. In making their own inspired pieces, the reader will be introduced to the possibilities of bringing small objects, whether from nature, one's travels or the comfort of hom... More >>

Semiprecious Salvage: Creating Found-Art Jewelry

Mud to Ashes

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A Pottery Mystery

When Karo Meisner moved to Belle Vista to start the second half of her life she was excited by the opportunities it promised her. There was the ocean sitting only one block away. There was the charming 1930's Craftman style California bungalow that became her new home. And, best of all, there was the great pottery studio attached to the Belle Vista Recreation Center available to all who wished to work there.
The studio was a ma... More >>

Mud to Ashes

Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials

• ISBN13: 9780823013425
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The Digital Art Studio combines traditional art techniques with digital media to create inventive techniques. The book covers the basic processes for preparing canvas watercolor and printmaking papers handmade papers wood leather etc. More advanced methods include transferring digital images to absorbent or three-dimensional surfaces. 300 color illustrations. 160 pgs.... More >>

Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials

Techniques Using Slips

• ISBN13: 9780812221176
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Slip, a form of liquid clay, has been used since ancient times to add color and texture to ceramics. This method of clay decoration, practiced from Rome to Mesoamerica, continues to develop internationally. Slips allow ceramicists to give their works rich, intriguing surfaces in a range of hues. In Techniques Using Slips, expert potter John Mathieson explains how to formulate and apply slips successfully to embellish earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain.

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Techniques Using Slips

Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art

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Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount of attention that curators and gallery owners have paid to these and many other conceptual artists who incorporate craft into their work, few art critics or scholars ... More >>

Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

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Critic Roberta Smith has written about Chicago-based artist Nick Cave, "Whether Nick Cave's efforts qualify as fashion, body art or sculpture, and almost regardless of what you ultimately think of them, they fall squarely under the heading of Must Be Seen to Be Believed..." Meet Me at the Center of the Earth features sculptures that Cave calls Soundsuits, to evoke the sense of movement, rattles and rustles inherent in the design of the pieces-which are composed of m... More >>

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time

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Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923) is one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Best known for experimenting with light and movement, and for stimulating the dialogue between the stable and unstable use of color, his pieces engage viewers on a multisensory level. Through the use of unconventional materials, Cruz-Diez strives to create art that is sophisticated in construction and theory while also accessible to viewers. Combin... More >>

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time

Collectible Cups & Saucers: Book ll

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The study of cups and saucers is the best way to research the ceramics industry. This second book by Jim and Susan Harran provides information on the history of tea, coffee, and cups and saucers, how they were made and decorated, manufacturer's information, representative sample photographs, and helpful facts such as dates, sizes, marks, and current values. Over 800 NEW full-color photos fill this exciting new book--that's twice as many as Book 1, with no rep... More >>

Collectible Cups & Saucers: Book ll

Collage Techniques: A Guide for Artists and Illustrators

• ISBN13: 9780823006557
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One of many exhilarating artistic developments that took place during the early twentieth century, the fine art medium of collage emerged from the cubist gluing and pasting explorations of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. As a result of its experimental genesis, collage has continued to serve not only as a primary form of expression for many prominent artists, but as a principal means of evaluating and developing new creative strategies.

Conceived and writt... More >>

Collage Techniques: A Guide for Artists and Illustrators

Secrets of Rusty Things: Transforming Found Objects into Art

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*Combines two popular topics--assemblage and found objects *Pairs gorgeous photography with a creative design to help it jump off shelves *Features an artistic style that's proven popular with countless magazine readers and workshop students Secrets of Rusty Things takes readers behind the scenes to show them each step in the assemblage art process. It covers everything from gathering found-object materials to putting them together in a way that t... More >>

Secrets of Rusty Things: Transforming Found Objects into Art

Collage Unleashed

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The funky, colorful 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 -Features a wide range of techniques for crafters at every level, including crayon transfers, funky embroid... More >>

Collage Unleashed

Celebrate Your Creative Self

• ISBN13: 9781581801026
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Artists and creatives of all kinds who are looking for new ways to liberate their artistic imagination will love this book. Readers are invited to playfully explore various aspects of visual art, such as light, color, texture and design through a series of imaginative art projects. Artists will experiment with a range of techniques and mediums in new and unconventional ways including: Capturing whites with crayon and wax resist; Glazing and floating colors; Portrayi... More >>

Celebrate Your Creative Self

William S. Rice: California Block Prints

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William Seltzer Rice (1873-1963) was a young artist of twenty-seven when he stepped off a train in Stockton, California, in 1900; he had left his home in Pennsylvania to take the job of assistant art supervisor for the Stockton public schools. California became not only his lifelong home but also his muse, inspiring a prolific career in art.Rice soon moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the region's Arts and Crafts movement was flowering. He was talented in se... More >>

William S. Rice: California Block Prints