Altered Art

Altered Art
Author: Terry Taylor
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579905507

Contains techniques for creating altered books, boxes, cards, and more.

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Collage and Altered Art

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Collage and Altered Art
Author: Roni Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-06-22
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0470498048

Collage and altered art pull together elements from a wide variety of crafts to create one-of-a-kind pieces that truly reflect your individual style. This photo-intensive guide walks you through all the latest techniques, from aging paper and photos to working with image transfers, rubber stamps, fabrics, and more. Plus, you'll learn how to source inexpensive materials—as well as found objects around your home—to make everything from handmade journals and artist trading cards to decorative boxes, jewelry, and wall art. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review Each skill or technique is defined and described Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance

Box Art

Box Art
Author: Dona Z. Meilach
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1975
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Altered Curiosities

Altered Curiosities
Author: Jane Ann Wynn
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007-09-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581809725

Discover a curious world of assemblage with projects that have a story to tell! Step inside Altered Curiosities, where a wisdom tooth gets its own shrine, a honeybee lights up the room and a taxidermy eye becomes the eye in the back of your head. As author Jane Wynn shares her unique approach to mixed-media art, you'll learn to alter, age and transform odd objects into novel new works of your own creation. Step-by-step instructions guide you in making delightfully different projects that go way beyond art for the wall—including jewelry, hair accessories, a keepsake box, a bird feeder and more—all accompanied by a story about the inspiration behind the project. You'll also learn to: Find your personal symbols and incorporate them into your work. Alter toy figures to create curious new creatures. Master simple soldering techniques that take you beyond the soldering iron. Apply beautiful patinas and etchings to brass and copper. Transform cast resin into pieces that look like metal. The endless possibilities of assemblage are yours to discover! Let Altered Curiosities inspire you to create a new world that's all your own.

The Art of Assemblage

The Art of Assemblage
Author: William Chapin Seitz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1961
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Assemblage art consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found-objects."--Boundless.

Storytelling with Collage

Storytelling with Collage
Author: Roxanne Evans Stout
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440340501

Every collage has a tale to tell. Tell your story in paper, fabric, and objects collected from your world. Storytelling With Collage will inspire you to capture your poetic thoughts, fond memories and passionate daydreams in a soft and simple style. Using simple tools and supplies that delight you, you'll learn to work with a variety of prompts and will discover how each element you select--from small shells collected on your last trip to the pretty paper you unwrapped from a recent gift--has its own part of a complete narrative. Nine collage prompts will walk you step-by-step through a collage creation as you work with textured papers, fabric, stitching, found objects, images, natural materials, color, wax and metal. In addition, inside you will find: • Numerous Tasks--ideas for combing your world for collage fodder • Beautiful photos to inspire you to customize your own worktable • Perspective on finding inspiration outside your window through the seasons • Extra inspiration in each chapter from the Collage Stories and works by 25 contributing artists Capture the textures and colors of your moments today through your own Storytelling With Collage!

Storytelling Art Studio

Storytelling Art Studio
Author: Cathy Nichols
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 144034941X

Mixed Media Art Storytelling With Powerful Results! Storytelling Art Studio is the guide that will show you how to create mixed media art that tells impactful stories. It's a creative guide for mining your own life to manifest imaginary worlds, emotional narratives and clever characters. Each chapter presents a new subject--you may paint a tree, collage a landscape or use sgraffito to create a scene. You will begin with inspirational warm-up exercises, then learn how to do it with a step-by-step demonstration and even get to see alternate versions of the piece that explore the magic and impact of different choices. Perfect for you no matter what your skill level or style, this guide does not have to be read in order. Simply choose what you would like to do and go for it! You might: • Paint and collage trees and landscapes • Create a romantic scene with sgraffito • Add color to black and white photographs • Alter a book page • Create a family tree with ephemera • And much, much more! 10 projects and 10 inspiration exercises!

Mixed-media Books

Mixed-media Books
Author: Gabe Cyr
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600595431

Previously published as New directions in altered books.

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces
Author: Jane Davenport
Publisher:
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1592539866

Perfect for aspiring designers, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed-media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration–style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist and international workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy, and encouraging style. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces, Davenport guides you, step by step, through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting, and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed-media portraits. With this elegantly designed guidebook, you will quickly master a variety of techniques in a variety ofmediums, including: Pencil Marker Pen Watercolor Acrylic paint Ink Pastel Ephemera Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces will have you dancing your way through the exercises. In no time at all, you will have a selection of beautifully faced portraits ready to view, display, or even sell to a fashion designer.

Mixed-Media Dollhouses

Mixed-Media Dollhouses
Author: Tally Oliveau
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-01-09
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 161673857X

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 techniques while showing readers how to construct beautiful, fantasy doll houses. Readers learn to how to construct or repurpose found boxes into rooms and houses, how to decorate interior surfaces, how to build miniature furnishings, how to make their own paper dolls, and how to embellish their houses using a variety of imaginative materials.