The Pocket Paper Engineer, Volume I: Basic Forms: How to Make Pop-Ups Step-by-Step
by Carol Barton
from Popular Kinetics Press
Elegant and accessible, this interactive handbook teaches crafters of all ages how to create kinetic paper art. The projects are complete with examples, formulas, and the essential instruction that allows them to be constructed directly from the book with simple materials on hand: paper, scissors, and glue. Pop-ups are grouped by type—box or triangle—and as the chapters progress, the techniques are combined and layered for more dramatic effects. With its thorough explanations and inspiring ideas, this book will bring color and motion to crafters’ cards, scrapbooks, and invitations.
Gemstone Buying Guide, Second Edition: How to Evaluate, Identify, Select & Care for Colored Gems
by Renee Newman
from International Jewelry Publications
Pyrography Workbook: A Complete Guide to the Art of Woodburning
by Sue Walters
from Fox Chapel Publishing
Beyond the Basics: Gourd Art (Beyond the Basics)
by David Macfarlane
from Sterling/Chapelle
The Little Book of Whittling: Passing Time on the Trail, on the Porch, and Under the Stars
by Chris Lubkemann
from Fox Chapel Publishing
New Concepts in Paper Quilling: Techniques for Cards & Gifts
by Marie Browning
from Sterling
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
by Philippe Vergne
from Walker Art Center
Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the antebellum American South, Walker's compositions play off of stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses and slave men, women and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. Over the years, the artist has used drawing, painting, colored-light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression and liberation. Her scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Deploying an acidic sense of humor, Walker examines the dialectics of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. This landmark publication, which is sure to win international design awards, accompanies Walker's first major American museum survey. It features critical essays by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr and Kevin Young, as well as an illustrated lexicon of recurring themes and motifs in the artist's most influential installations by Yasmil Raymond, more than 200 full-color images, an extensive exhibition history and bibliography, and a 36-page insert by the artist.
The Beginner's Handbook of Woodcarving: With Project Patterns for Line Carving, Relief Carving, Carving in the Round, and Bird Carving
by Charles Beiderman
from Dover Publications
Gourds: Southwest Gourd Techniques & Projects from Simple to Sophisticated
by Bonnie Gibson
from Sterling
How to Carve Wood: A Book of Projects and Techniques (Fine Woodworking Book)
by Richard Butz
from Taunton
Woodcarver Richard Butz teaches chapter by chapter whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, relief carving, lettering, and architectural carving. The reader learns by doing, working through carefully illustrated and progressively more challenging exercises and projects. Butz provides scaled patterns for each project and ends each chapter with a gallery of additional projects using the techniques learned.
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