Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum
by Lotta Jansdotter
from Chronicle Books
Beloved Scandinavian designer Lotta Jansdotter shows how easy it is to print patterns on all sorts of surfaces. Using stencils, rubber stamps, homemade screens, and other easy techniques, the projects and processes range from simple prints easy for beginners to more involved projects for experienced artists. Stencil leaves on the walls, stamp flowers on wrapping paper, screen-print on a skirt the sky's the limit. Beautiful photographs inspire while step-by-step instructions and illustrations explain the basics. Plus, Lotta has included eight ready-to-use stencil pages with hand-drawn patterns, so crafters can easily achieve her signature style. Our innovative format, with perforated stencil sheets and a catchall envelope at back, makes this a fantastic resource for any aspiring printer.
Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer
by Nick Paparone
from North Light Books
Print Liberation is a comprehensive DIY guide to screen printing for both novice crafters as well as experienced artists. The book begins by giving readers a brief history of screen-printing while outlining the basic principles of the process including the equipment and tools needed to get started. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color photographs show readers the various methods for making great screen prints and tips on how to avoid screen-printing mistakes. Information about printing on various surfaces from wallpaper to t-shirts, cylinders and more gives readers a general understanding of the various applications for screen-printing and solid information on how to turn their screen prints into a personal art or business. Bonus sample images formatted for screen-printing are included for readers to use in their own screen prints.
The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
by Gustave Dore
from Dover Publications
Collagraphs: And Mixed Media Printmaking (Printmaking Handbooks (PH))
by Brenda Hartill
from A&C Black
Collagraphs are prints made from collages; relief sculptures; carved, stripped, or layered plates; or mixed media. In this book, the authors describe a wide range of collagraph techniques, providing the user with practical help on the choice of materials and printing methods to achieve the best results.
The Dore Bible Illustrations
by Gustave Dore
from Dover Publications
Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast
by Hilary Stewart
from University of Washington Press
Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archives)
by Gustave Dore
from Dover Publications
Hokusai's Mount Fuji: The Complete Views in Color
by Jocelyn Bouquillard
from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
This complete collection of HokusaiÂ’s famous views of Mount Fuji is the only high-quality reproduction of these engravings, long considered the Japanese masterÂ’s greatest works. Taken from the best engravings available and shown in splendid color, this authoritative volume is the first of its kind since 1830. HokusaiÂ’s influence extended far beyond Japan, even to French Impressionists including Degas, Monet, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Each illustration is accopmanied by detailed notes placing the work in its cultural and historical context and exploring the symbolic themes running through HokusaiÂ’s landscapes.
The Complete Etchings of Rembrandt: Reproduced in Original Size
by Rembrandt
from Dover Publications
Texture Effects for Rubber Stamping
by Nancy Curry
from North Light Books
Top trend spotters in the craft and greeting card industry say that consumers are showing a real passion for texture. Crafters can easily satisfy that craving with this treasure trove of 40 elegant card and gift projects. It teaches plenty of texture-making techniques that utilize the magic of stamping in all its forms.
Curry is a master at creating dreamy, sophisticated and surprisingly beautiful texture effects. With enthusiasm, she teaches how to make richly textured backgrounds that look complex, but are surprisingly easy to re-create.
Step-by-step, readers will have fun combining basic stamping techniques with metallic paints, resist effects, alcohol inks, layers of acetate, watercolors, embellishments and much more!
Projects are conveniently grouped into sections that highlight the different ways texture can be created-by using visual texture, spot coloration, layered texture or adding embellishments.
Long-time rubber stampers and card makers will be inspired by all the new texturing techniques and clever variations demonstrated in this book.
:More than just cards, there are also lots of fresh ideas for turning ordinary boxes, tags, clocks and tiles into memorable gift items.
All this makes Texture Effects for Rubber Stamping an inspirational resource crafters will turn to again and again.
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