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Language
English
Description
"In Collage Your Life, artist and teacher Melanie Mowinski teaches a variety of core techniques including lettering, stamping, stenciling, transfers, and adhesive methods, and provides dozens of prompts to jumpstart the creative process and encourage crafters to explore the versatility of collage"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Whether using dried flowers or tiny shells, spaghetti or postage stamps, Jeannie Baker draws from the world around her to make work that is singularly beautiful and imaginative. Incorporating a wide range of textures, her arresting collage pieces have earned her international acclaim. Now she shares her secrets and encourages readers to get creative: each of the four main sections in Playing with Collage presents an abstract collage by the artist...
8) Collage workshop for kids: rip, snip, cut, and create with inspiration from the Eric Carle Museum
Author
Publisher
Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Be inspired and delighted by Collage Workshop for Kids , a colorful art instruction book on collage techniques for children--made in cooperation with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Collage Workshop for Kids pairs essays by educators from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art with instructions on collage technique . Chapters explore favorite art themes for kids and demonstrate how to work with colored tissue paper, newspaper, fabric...
Author
Publisher
North Light Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Explains how to use leftover pieces of art and scraps of art supplies to make imaginative new creations, with photographic instructions for fifty basic techniques, eighty additional "fast and easy" techniques, and photos of seventy finished pieces.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This showcase of cutting-edge contemporary art from across the globe features galleries of collage by 30 practitioners, from the surreal landscapes of Beth Hoeckel to Fabien Souche's humorous appropriations of pop culture. Each artist has also created a new piece especially for this book--all using the same original image, but with results as wildly diverse as the medium of collage itself.
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Collage is an artistic language comprising found images, fragmentary forms, and unexpected juxtapositions. While it first gained status as high art in the early twentieth century, the past decade has seen a fresh explosion of artists using this dynamic and experimental approach to image making. Organised in an A-Z sequence by artist, the book features both well-known collagists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby; Ellen Gallagher; Peter Kennard; Linder,...
Author
Publisher
Walter Foster Publishing, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Paper Collage Workshop enables mixed media artists, DIYers, crafters, and aspiring artists to explore their artistic side without having to invest in a range of expensive art tools and supplies. The only things required to play are scissors, glue, and imagination! With Paper Collage Workshop, you can experience the joy of creativity as you use color swatches to transform photos into original, lifelike mixed-media collages. In addition to taking you...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium. In a flash of inspiration, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage. It was the summer of 1772, in England. During the next ten years she completed nearly a thousand cut-paper botanicals (which she called mosaicks) so accurate that botanists still refer to them. The Duchess of Portland introduced Delany to the...
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Craft
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A digital collage technique layers together virtual images into a new piece of art, ready for mixed-media and collage makers to use as an eye-opening element. Artist and teacher Wen Redmond shows how by sharing 42 of her main techniques (and many variations) here.
20) Vanishing act
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Written and drawn in thirteen tones, from comedy and confession to interpretative dance, Vanishing Act is synchronized in time and space on one melancholy evening. A paranoid man rehearses for an upcoming party. A disheveled actor expounds on the conceptual potential of sitcoms. A beloved dog accesses the internet and starts a cult. A couple argues in reverse. A bored seagull excretes the entire known universe."-- provided by publisher.
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