1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations (1000 Series)
by Dawn DeVries Sokol
from Quarry Books
Journals 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 one eye-catching, visual format, and would attract a wide swathe of artists who fully embrace or experiment with this medium.
Journaling has seeped into popular culture in a big way and this collection provides a wide array of ideas, techniques and themes to inspire and inform mixed media and journaling enthusiasts.
Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts
by Becky Fleck
from Memory Makers
Scrapbook Page Maps takes the guesswork out of where to begin by giving plenty of design ideas for their scrapbook layouts!
By referring to the sketches in the book, readers can select photos, papers and embellishments and then bring the page together quickly and easily. Helpful resource information such as a supply list and photo sizes are included on each card, along with page information cross-referencing the sketch back to the book. Scrapbook Page Maps is the essential book for beginning scrapbookers as well as those short on time.
And you get more than just an inspiring, design-filled idea book!
Also included is a deck of laminated cards that includes a thumbnail of many of the sketches in the book along with corresponding finished layouts.
Human Anatomy Coloring Book (Colouring Books)
by Margaret Matt
from Dover Publications
Artist Trading Card Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap
by Bernie Berlin
from North Light Books
Techniques and Inspiration for Creating and Sharing Artist Trading Cards
*First how-to book on the market, providing both instruction and ideas
*Topic speaks to a range of crafters, including memory artists, papercrafters, metal workers, quilters, and more
*Features contributions from top-name artists for star-power appeal
A world-wide phenomenon, Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are the rage among all types of creatives. With this book, readers will find a spectrum of techniques--collage, painting, metal working, stamping, and more--for making the cards and albums to store them, as well as suggestions for fostering a community of friendship and technique sharing and card trading."
School Years: A Family Keepsake of School Memories
from Chronicle Books
Families will love this cute and clever keepsake album for recording precious milestones and accomplishments. Both parent and child can fill each expandable pocket. There's one for every year from kindergarten to 12th grade. Fill them with photos, report cards, art projects, and other mementos. Great for keeping track of favorite subjects, hobbies, and friends. Families create an ongoing memory book to cherish for years to come.
True Vision: Authentic Art Journaling
by L.K. Ludwig
from Quarry Books
As 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 bring authenticity and meaning into one's art journaling. The book will examine themes and topics common to all while offering activities and exercises to create rich meaningful content. Each chapter will highlight familiar subject areas such as life events, spirituality, childhood, and even an artist's favorite writings. Within each topic, readers are given guided activities and exercises for developing content, provided one or two artistic techniques, and are shown inspiring examples of work by a variety of talented art journal artists.
Coloring Mandalas 1
by Susanne F. Fincher
from Shambhala
Drawing the traditional circular designs known as mandalas is a meditative practice, a healing exercise in times of crisis, and a pleasurable act of creativity. As a symbol of the Self, the mandala provides a connection to our innermost being. The forty-eight drawings presented here for coloring include designs inspired by forms of nature, Native American and Tibetan sand paintings, Hindu yantras, Turkish mosaics, the illuminations of Hildegarde of Bingen, and the art of M.C. Escher. These mandalas are organized according to the Great Round of Mandala, a scheme of twelve archetypal stages that represents a complete cycle of personal growth. Thus, to do the coloring book from start to finish will carry the reader through a balanced experience of change, guided by the accompanying text.
Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery
by Angela Cartwright
from Quarry Books
Mixed Emulsions is a follow up to Karen Michel's book, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery. Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery takes a slightly different tact, bringing traditional and digital photography front and center, showing the many ways that photographic imagery can be manipulated, not electronically, but using various art materials and techniques. The chapters explore ways to add color (paints, oil sticks, watercolors, inks), ways to add texture (embossing powders, gessos, pastes, wax), and special effects (printing on unusual substrates, imprinting, photo mosaics, using tissue, fabric, cardboard).
Altered art continues to grow as an area of interest for many kinds of crafters.
- A great technique book for artists looking to expand the creative possibilities for altered photography
- A gallery of artwork by other well-known artists offers further inspiration
Encyclopedia Of Scrapbooking (Creating Keepsakes)
from Leisure Arts
Introducing the scrapbookers new best friend. When it comes to making the most of your memories, take a page from the Creating Keepsakes experts. Beginners and more experienced scrapbookers alike will turn to this hefty new reference guide time and time again for helpful insights and daily inspiration on tools, techniques, layoutsplus all the cant-miss tips youd expect from The Scrapbooking Authority.
Photo Freedom
Are you tired of feeling like you're drowning in a sea of photos that may never get scrapbooked? Stacy Julian throws you a life preserver in her new book, Photo Freedom. Teaching you the system she teaches in her successful Library of Memories class, Stacy gives you a Big Picture approach to prioritizing and organizing photos. With Stacy coaching you through this book, you'll get those piles of photos off the computer (and out of shoeboxes) and into your scrapbooks quicker than you ever thought possible. Through Photo Freedom, you'll gain the freedom to scrapbook the memories you wish to preserve and have fun in the process!
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