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Claudine Hellmuth
R168.00
Inside readers will find more than a dozen innovative techniques and step by step demonstrations of 12 different collage projects specifically designed to help them achieve the modern, eclectic collage effect that's so popular today.
Collage Discovery Workshop shows readers how to rust or antique any object for collage and includes four recipes for creating amazing collage backgrounds from peeling paper to textured paint and so much more. In addition, five different image transfer techniques--for layering vintage photos and other art--along with creative excercises, journaling prompts and tips on altering books are included. Projects consist of the following:
*Collaged tin refrigerator magnets
*Heritage collage to honor a friend or relative
*Miniature candy tin assemblages
*Shadowboxes
*Beeswax collages
For stampers, paper and altered books artists--crafters of any skill level--Collage Discovery Workshop opens up whole new worlds of creativity.
Claudine Hellmuth
R167.00
I have both
The Collage Discovery Workshop and
Beyond the Unexpected.
If you are into collage on any level you can not afford to be without these to books.
Wonderful images with step by step instructions
of projects. My favorite chapters are on using Beeswas in collage.
Claudine has a unique and friendly style that will inspire you to create your
own amazing work.
A follow-up to the best-selling Collage Discovery Workshop, this book taps into a whole new level of creativity. It's packed with original ideas and artwork, including:
-16 new collage techniques and 12 new step-by-step projects - Exciting ways for readers to personalize their work with color, photos, lettering and hand drawn elements -A wide variety of fun surfaces like canvas, fabric, altered books, paper, and more -An inspiring gallery of work by the author and other top collage artists
Whether they're fans of the first book or brand new to collage, readers will flip for the appealing artwork and easy-to-follow instruction found here.
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Nita Leland, Virginia Lee Williams
£20.50/ $8.90
Some of the artists featured in this book:
*Nita Leland
*Peggy Brown
*Peter Tytla
*Jeanette Wolff
Jennifer Atkinson, Holly Harrison, Paula Grasdal
R174.00
This is a fantastic book, There is so much to take in.
And many tecqniques to try out. The book is filled with
beautiful coloured images of finished art and step by step photos.
For someone who likes precise instructions it may be a bit vague.
You need to look at the examples and make them relevant to your own
work. I love this kind of open directions, the book gives all the
guidelines and as an artist you should be able to make them applicable
to your own work.
The beauty of collage art appeals to all people. Anyone from the hobbyist to the fine artist can use collage techniques to add creativity and dimension to their work. This book provides creative instruction and inspiration through a wide range of projects, and is sure to stimulate ideas and help hobbyists and artists overcome creative blocks.
Dozens of techniques are demonstrated in visual step-by-step instructions and use a variety of materials, from paper and fabric to found objects. Tips for getting started and using a variety of techniques, such as photo transfer, gold leaf, encaustic, assemblage, photo montage, computer collage, fabric collage, cast-paper-pulp collage, tissue-paper collage, decoupage, painting and printing on paper, working with water-soluble oil pastels, frottage, texturing or altering paper, and altering books, makes this a valuable go-to resource for the collage artist.
Amanda Pearce
R193.00
The Crafter's Complete Guide to Collage covers all the main forms of collage, from the easily accessible paper and fabric techniques to the more complex photomontage, mixed-media, or computer methods. Whatever your preference, you're sure to find something to try and enjoy. Over 400 color photographs illustrate all the techniques required for each of the various crafts projects. And, even if you're convinced that you're not artistic, the straightforward, step-by-step instructions will encourage you and even inspire you to give your imagination free rein. Personalized greeting cards, fabric wall-hangings, pretty handmade boxes and books, and even a functional clock are just some of the many beautiful and easy projects included. And, each section also presents an inspirational gallery of finished works by accomplished collage artists.
Craft and Collage Resource:
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Frenzy Corner
Seena B. Frost
£17.99/ $16.47
My dear friend Julie donated this book to me. The book is a guide
to create cards, either soul cards or tarot cards, whatever you
fancy to aid you in your personal growth or to share. Images are
allmost all black and white with only a few in colour. The images
are also mostly results of work and interpretation of themes rather
than instructive.
Holly Harrison, Paula Grasdal
R179.00
This book was donated to me by Dewald and Lucy. It is beautiful
and I love using it. My only critisism is that many of the projects
and images in this book also appears in other books that I own
Beautiful, coloured images throughout, although none are instructive
the detail provided offers more than enough food for thought.
Every piece featured in this book is accompanied by clear step by
step instructions. Along with the images mentioned above it provides
a clear recipe to create something marvelous.
For many people, art is at once a form of self-expression and discovery. Perhaps that’s why collage, which is based on the idea of spontaneously layering images and symbols, is a favorite medium for crafters of all kinds.
This book approaches the topic by theme: 5 chapters present 20 projects that deal with expressing personal creativity, exploring and recording relationships, dreaming and wishing, finding inspiration in nature, and creating visual memoirs.
The instructions tell how to create a personalized project, sharing necessary techniques while suggesting ideas for substituting personal themes and materials. The directions are a starting point to encourage the reader’s own artistic journey, guiding the reader to contemplate, explore, and express thoughts and feelings through the medium of collage.
An inspirational gallery concludes the book, with another 26 projects by leading artists in the field. Whether a person’s passion is stamping, decoupage, painting or paper art, this book shows how various collage techniques can combine to help any crafter or artist improve their craft and enrich their soul.
Holly Harrison is a freelance writer and editor. Her first craft book, Angel Crafts: Graceful Gifts, Inspired Designs, was published by Rockport in April 2002. She has also contributed to numerous magazines, including Metropolitan Home. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
Paula Grasdal is a printmaker and mixed-media artist living in the Seattle area. She has contributed to several other Rockport books, including Angel Crafts: Graceful Gifts, Inspired Designs, The Crafter's Project Book, and Making Shadow Boxes and Shrines. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in the U.S. and Canada.
Artists featured in this book:
*Ann Baldwin's Art Studio
*Crafty Chica - Kathy Cano Murillo
*Judi Riesch
Lynne Perrella
R164.00
Mixed media techniques have come to forefront again, with artists in every field combining materials and effects to create journals, altered art, collage pieces, memory art and more. With all the creative experiementation developing at such a fast pace, it is pertinent to know how various techniques and combinations work and whether they are right for your latest project. Alphabetica illuminates new techniques through detailed visuals and rich, explanatory text. From cover to cover, readers absorb the specialties of each contributing artist, such as Judi Riesch's use of vintage photographs, and Lesley Riley's sophisticated fabric transfers, and are able to get an "over the shoulder" glance at how these artists work.
Lynne Perrella
R162.00
Lots of great images, in colour. Very user friendly.
Tons of techniques from transfering images to altering
photographs and everything in between. This is a great book.
It is a brilliant resource for so many techniques.
If you create journals or want to create them I am sure
you will find something useful in this book.
Creative souls want and need a special place for recording and decoding their interior world a place to download all their creative ideas, a place to remember the events of the day, or a place to doodle, to draw, and to dream. This book is an engaging and intimate glimpse into the personal pages of a wide variety of select artists and journal keepers whose works not only provide visual delight and inspiration but evidence the intensity and devotion that such personal journals invite.
Jennifer L. Atkinson
R181.00
Presenting 9 innovative and fun collage projects from professional collage artists, this book is a visually exciting class in one of the world most often used and admired art techniques. The beauty of collage art is its appeal and accessibility at every level of sophistication. Anyone from the hobbyist to the fine artist can use collage techniques to add creativity and dimension to their work. This book provides creative instruction and inspiration through a wide range of projects from nine collage artists.
Barbara Matthiessen
R159.00
Here's a fresh take on a hot, creative craft: turning old books into new art.
Give a favorite book new life as a beautiful collage. Just take the old volume, pull out or color photocopy the pages, cut them up, and then arrange the pieces in a fresh new design. That's an altered book collage, and it's a great way for paper crafters and scrapbookers to create a wonderfully personalized objet d'art. Get in on the fun of this super-popular craft with this guide to putting together that very first altered book, and beyond. The entire enjoyable process receives detailed attention. Find out how to choose a theme, the mechanics involved, and a variety of crafting techniques to use, from painting to stitching, from beading to stenciling. Hundreds of sample pages will inspire you to start designing immediately.
Cheryl Stevenson
£24.69 / $14.00
Learn how fiber artist Cheryl Stevenson recycles inexpensive and easily found materials into breathtaking art. Her techniques are simple, inspiring, and undeniably unique. With a little playfulness and experimentation, any crafter can create an amazing variety of handmade papers and collages.
• Discover how Cheryl recycles paper, fabric, thread, and dried flowers to make exquisite handmade paper
• Explore how to collect, sort, layer, and arrange handmade paper, puzzle pieces, magazine images, postage stamps, and other common materials to create striking collages
• Experiment with projects ranging from simple greeting cards and envelopes to handmade paper shapes and complex kaleidoscope collages
• Includes a wealth of tips and step-by-step instructions for making 15 extraordinary projects that will start you on your own creative journey
Susan Pickering Rothamel
R134.00
One of today’s most outstanding collagists has produced an indispensable guidebook to the vast assortment of tools and techniques available: grounds and supports for the work, paper layering, faux-lace embellishing, assemblage, impression lifts, and more. Look into products like webbing spray, mica tiles, crackling medium, and crystal gel. Lushly illustrated with the author’s masterpieces and an artists’ gallery.
Traci Bautista
R190.00
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 embroidery, freestyle hand lettering and creative book binding*Combines paper, fabric, beads, dyes, paints and more in unexpected waysEveryone from collage artists and book-making enthusiasts to papercrafters will want to put this title at the top of their personal wish lists.
Giuseppina Cirincione
R190.00
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 upbringing and her fascination with a bygone era*Inspirational photo galleries packed with ideas, as well as information on basic collage, collecting ephemera, and jewelry techniques Readers won't be able to resist these clever ideas for turning long-forgotten treasures into items they can wear, display, or send!
Jill Bossert
R415.00
In the hands of collage artist Fred Otnes, control merges with chance to create works of subtle, refined beauty that are designed with such assurance as to appear inevitable, works that are infused with a mystery that is both fleeting and eternal. Otnes’s gifts are powerfully displayed in the 126 full-color images reproduced in this book.
Born in 1930 in Junction City, Kansas, Otnes trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he first encountered Cubist works by Braque and Picasso. The Modernist commitment to form without the illusion of depth captured his imagination, though it would be some time before he incorporated it into his own work. Otnes first pursued a career in traditional, realistic illustration in Chicago, and then, from 1953, in New York. While working for national magazines and advertising clients, he and his wife, Fran, built a house in Connecticut designed by architect John Johansen in the International style and furnished it in classic Modernist mode.
By the mid-1960s, aware of the shrinking market in magazine illustration, Otnes made a bold change in his method of working, finally putting into play the ideas that had dictated his taste and interest for years. Using newly-honed printing, photo-transfer, and collage techniques, he pioneered a unique look: multiple images across a one-dimensional plane. This was the perfect form in which to depict some of the more complex concepts of the era such as the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. At the top of his field, Otnes received more than two hundred awards for his work.
Once again sensing a change in the business in the mid-1980s, Otnes committed himself solely to creating gallery work. Fully able to explore the art of collage on his own terms, he has continued to push at the boundaries of scale and abstraction in his work, as is clear in the catalogue section of this book. The text describes his motives and motivations with each transition in his life, especially what artist Mark English describes as Otnes’s "metamorphosis" from realist illustrator to collage artist. Otnes also discusses some of the many and disparate artists and art forms he admires, from Piero della Francesco to Richard Diebenkorn to Outsider Art. He speaks of the challenges of work, the nearly fugue-like state he sometimes achieves when in the studio, and considers the never-ending difficulties that the medium itself imposes, as well as those he imposes upon himself so that he remains interested and the work continues to grow.
With elements as diverse as appropriations from Renaissance and Old Master works, eighteenth-century engravings, bicycle patent diagrams, sheet music, feathers, fabric, and flowers, Otnes demonstrates in image after image a subtle, elegant world where imagery and surface interact, where tonal and textural shifts delight, and where secrets and mysteries emerge from the torn paper and scraped away paint. A world where beauty and meaning hover in wordless communication between artist and viewer.
Dee Davis, Gail B. Cooper
R208.00
The vividly coloured, deeply embossed die-cut images known today as antique scrap were collected by the Victorians in albums (from which the term "scrapbook" is derived). These images were then exchanged on special occasions (the original greeting cards). Today, antique and vintage ephemera is becoming an increasingly popular way for artists, designers and crafters to enhance their scrapbooks, greeting cards and other paper projects.;This volume is a nostalgic collection of these images, based on the scrapbooks of Laura Friese (1887-1972), who completed them when she was 10 years old. This collection of 500 full-colour prints - many of which are appearing for the first time in print - comprise an amusing array of popular themes. Crafters will find images of angels, animals, flowers, holidays, romance, religion, landscapes, people and even odds and ends like cards, crests and tambourines. All of the images are printed on one side only for easy use. This guide also includes complete instructions for working with the images, along with photographs of finished crafts and decorative accessories.
Shari Carroll
R171.00
Cutting-edge skills for sophisticated paper art designs!
*A primer on the hottest techniques that will appeal to scrapbookers, cardmakers, rubberstampers, and all papercrafters *Allows crafts to create amazing effects using collage, torn papers, embellishments, and cherished photos and quotes *Hundreds of tips and tricks reveal how to get remarkable results every time Today’s paper art magazines showcase intricate layered pieces yet give little instruction on how to do it. Finally, Layers teaches papercrafters the skills they need to make these stylish projects. Expert designer Shari Carroll provides simple step-by-step directions for the latest paper techniques, including distressing, sewing, transfers, and much more. Readers receive a variety of ideas ranging from a wall hanging scrapbook page and an art journal to a collage book and CD book cover. Included are stunning examples of Carroll’s own collage work, each of which feature unique and personal messages. She first shares details on what inspired each piece, then offers readers suggestions for customizing their own pieces.