Friday, April 30, 2010

Tiffany Designs Stained Glass Coloring Book


  • ISBN13: 9780486267920
  • Condition: New
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Sixteen boldly outlined motifs, based on actual Tiffany designs, include lovely pastoral landscapes, lush florals, birds, a ship in full sail, and other attractive images. Original subjects reproduced in full color on covers. Hang finished designs in windows or near light source to provide a lovely decorative accent.
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Tiffany Designs Stained Glass Coloring Book

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes: Glazing & Firing at Cone 10



Product Description
With hundreds of recipes for some of the most popular and enduring high-fire glazes used today, this reference will prove a boon to ceramicists who want to master this complex aspect of the art. Author John Britt, who recently served as Clay Coordinator at the respected Penland School of Crafts, has personally tested many of the recipes himself, and carefully reviews every one. He offers a thorough examination of glaze materials, chemistry, and tools, and presents t... More >>

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes: Glazing & Firing at Cone 10

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Collage Discovery Workshop


  • ISBN13: 9781581803433
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
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This title includes innovative techniques and step-by-step demonstrations of 12 different collage projects. Readers are shown how to 'rust' or 'antique' any object for collage, and there are also recipes for creating collage backgrounds as well as image transfer techniques.... More >>

Collage Discovery Workshop

Friday, April 23, 2010

Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques: Raku * Saggar * Pit * Barrel



Product Description
Ceramicists searching for new ways to fire their creations now have a wealth of options. Authors James Watkins and Paul Wandless, along with a group of distinguished artisans, demonstrate in detail how to build low-cost, low-tech, yet high-quality kilns. These clever devices make it possible to produce rich surface effects from alternative reduction firing techniques. In addition to showing the basic procedures for using each kiln, easy-to-follow directions for many... More >>

Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques: Raku * Saggar * Pit * Barrel

Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Mosaic Artist's Bible of Techniques: The Go-To Source for Homes and Gardens: Complete, In-Depth Instructions and Creative Designs


  • ISBN13: 9781570764288
  • Condition: New
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Featuring detailed instructions and full color photography throughout, this is a complete reference of techniques and ideas for creating mosaics for the home and garden. Step-by-step sequences demonstrate the entire process, from how to develop an idea and draw the design to cutting and laying tiles and adding a beautiful finish to the piece. All of the necessary tools, equipment, and materials—including mirror glass, millefiore Venetian glass, shells, and peb... More >>

The Mosaic Artist's Bible of Techniques: The Go-To Source for Homes and Gardens: Complete, In-Depth Instructions and Creative Designs

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations


  • ISBN13: 9781592534128
  • Condition: New
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Over 1,000 journal pages presented in one beautiful full-color bookJournals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life.This would be the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal pages in on... More >>

1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations

Monday, April 19, 2010

DRIVE: vehicle sketches and renderings by Scott Robertson


  • ISBN13: 9781933492872
  • Condition: New
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DRIVEfeatures Scott Robertson's very latest vehicle designs intended for the video game space communicated through skillfully drawn sketches and renderings.DRIVEbuilds upon the success of his prior two vehicle design books,Start Your EnginesandLift Off. Featuring four chapters, each representing a different aesthetic theme, Aerospace, Military, Pro Sports and Salvage, conceptual sports cars, big-rig... More >>

DRIVE: vehicle sketches and renderings by Scott Robertson

500 Vases: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Form


  • ISBN13: 9781600592461
  • Condition: New
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Form, function, beauty: vases are versatile and flexible,  and beloved by potters for the variety of techniques, ideas, and aesthetics they embrace. 500 Vases is the tenth book devoted to ceramics in the popular series, and a welcome addition. It showcases the finest contemporary work from international artists, capturing the full spectrum of styles, each potter's original voice, and whenever possible, close-up details that truly capture the surface quality of the ... More >>

500 Vases: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Form

Saturday, April 17, 2010

My Secret: A PostSecret Book


  • ISBN13: 9780061196683
  • Condition: New
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Postsecret.com founder Frank Warren is back with a fresh and compelling companion to his wildly popular Los Angeles Times bestseller, PostSecret. For My Secret, a collectible, paper-over-board book that includes a page of vibrant, decorative stickers, Warren has personally selected never-before-seen anonymous postcards created by teens and college students from across the country. Each card bears an intimate and powerful secret—at turns inspirational, shocking, h... More >>

My Secret: A PostSecret Book

Friday, April 16, 2010

Digital Expressions: Creating Digital Art with Adobe Photoshop Elements


  • ISBN13: 9781600614545
  • Condition: New
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Express yourself on a digital canvasImagine flying through an inky night sky tethered to a red, heart-shaped balloon. Now imagine expressing that dream artistically. With Digital Expressions you can take ordinary photos and, with the help of Adobe Photoshop Elements, voice your flights of fancy. Digital Expressions guides you through 25 digital art projects created with Adobe Photoshop Elements. With this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll get inspired to tackle ... More >>

Digital Expressions: Creating Digital Art with Adobe Photoshop Elements

Steampunkery: Polymer Clay and Mixed Media Projects


  • ISBN13: 9780980231465
  • Condition: New
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A project book for all skill levels. Step-by-step pictures combined with detailed and humorous instructions keep the pace quick and the excitement level high. Steampunk look combines a Victorian-era sense of romance with a clockwork mechanical-ness. This book adapts those characteristics to polymer clay creations and offers projects that are sophisticated yet playful, challenging without being difficult. This eighth book by well-known author/artist Christi Friesen i... More >>

Steampunkery: Polymer Clay and Mixed Media Projects

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers


  • ISBN13: 9780981484600
  • Condition: New
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This is an updated version of the enduring classic that first introduced the concept of “imperfect beauty” to the West. Text, images, and book design seamlessly meld into a wabi-sabi-like experience. Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete . . .
. . . wabi-sabi could even be called the “Zen of things,” as it exemplifies many of Zen’s core spiritual-philosophical tenets . . .
Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and charact... More >>

Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Image Transfer Workshop: Mixed-Media Techniques for Successful Transfers


  • ISBN13: 9781600611605
  • Condition: New
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The process of making an image transfer is so universal. It can be used in mixed-media art, scrapbooking, fine art and a host of other craft disciplines. Rarely does any one book cover a large variety of transfers until now. Image Transfer Workshop introduces you to a vast number of transfer techniques (complete with finished art samples) that go well beyond the rudimentary tape and gel transfers found in other books. Instructions for combining transfers, trouble-sh... More >>

Image Transfer Workshop: Mixed-Media Techniques for Successful Transfers

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Artist's Way Workbook


  • ISBN13: 9781585425334
  • Condition: New
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For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through the Artist's Way program-a workbook and companion to the international bestseller.

Alife-changing twelve-week program, The Artist's Way has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Now, for the first time, fans will have this elegantly designed and user-friendly volume for use in tandem with the book. The Artist's Way Workbook includes:

- more than 110 Arti... More >>

The Artist's Way Workbook

Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects


  • ISBN13: 9781592535651
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Collage Lab offers artists and crafters a fun and experimental approach to making art. The book is organized into 52 different labs which may, but don't need to be, explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired by a particular collage theme or application. The underlying message of this book is that artists can and should learn and gain expertise through experimen... More >>

Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series


  • ISBN13: 9780140135152
  • Condition: New
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"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential bo... More >>

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

Monday, April 12, 2010

Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media



Product Description
In Digital Alchemy, acclaimed printmaker Bonny Pierce Lhotka shows how to turn your standard inkjet printer into a seemingly magical instrument capable of transforming your printed images into true works of art. Using plenty of visuals and straightforward terms, Lhotka walks you step-by-step through over a dozen projects. Forget printing on boring old paper, in Digital Alchemy, you’ll learn how to transfer and print images to a variety of surfaces including metal,... More >>

Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media

Friday, April 9, 2010

Surface Treatment Workshop: Explore 45 Mixed-Media Techniques



Product Description
Similar to the authors' first best-selling book, Image Transfer Workshop, this book Surface Treatment Workshop provides you with an equally impressive amount of 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 WonderUnd... More >>

Surface Treatment Workshop: Explore 45 Mixed-Media Techniques

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Art at the Speed of Life: Motivation and Inspiration for Making Mixed-Media Art Every Day



Product Description
Need high-energy inspiration when your life gets crazy and your art keeps getting pushed to the back burner? Offering terrific mixed-media art projects, as well as tips for getting organized and inspired, Art at the Speed of Life is a treasure chest of ideas for the artist whose creative goals sometimes get stymied by the frantic pace of modern life. Author and mixed-media artist Pam Carriker proves that art and life can coexist peacefully, productively, and happily... More >>

Art at the Speed of Life: Motivation and Inspiration for Making Mixed-Media Art Every Day

The LEGO Book


  • Book collection that celebrates Lego History
  • Wonderful photo archives
  • Full of inspiring ideas
  • Hardcover copy with 200 pages

Product Description
Reveal, explore, and celebrate the fascinating LEGO® story in The LEGO® Book. From its beginnings in a carpenter's workshop and the development of the first plastic brick, to the group's current position as an international brand, a timeline highlights key moments in LEGO® history.

Fascinating facts on every significant LEGO® product line, theme park, video game, artwork, competition, club, collectible and more combine with images from the LEGO Group's ... More >>

The LEGO Book

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun


  • ISBN13: 9781592536139
  • Condition: New
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Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Art... More >>

Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun

Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss



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The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox.

The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection of netsuke. Ent... More >>

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss