Roxanne Padgett

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Layer, Scribble, Stencil, Stamp

Layer It Colorful! Layer It Lush! Are you afraid of spoiling the blank page with a mish-mash of ugly colors? Vibrant design, striking marks, textures and dynamic color combinations can be easily attained by anyone--seasoned painters as well as those who have never squeezed paint from a bottle. The secret is the right progression of layers. Within these pages you will find easy to follow secrets for successfully painting with acrylic, and blending and layering colors using a combination of found and made stamps, stencils and mark-making tools. You will learn exactly what to do with a blank page. You will "Fear No Color!" You will create vibrant, abstract works of art! Dozens of creative techniques for making amazing and colorful surfaces Fully illustrated step-by-step projects including handmade journals and business cards Tons of tips and tricks for using inexpensive and easy-to-find materials

Acrylic Techniques in Mixed Media

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Bev Brazelton

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression

Give books new life filled with creative expression

Turn old books into personalized works of art with Altered Books Workshop. Altered books bring together a variety of mixed media and papercrafting techniques including collage, journaling, rubber stamping, embellishing and scrapbooking. The creative possibilities are endless - go where your imagination takes you!

Through 18 step-by-step demonstrations and 65 variation ideas, Bev Brazelton teaches you basic, intermediate and creative techniques for crafting unique altered books. You'll find helpful tips as you're guided through the process of altering pages along with captivating embellishment ideas such as adding doors and drawers to your altered books.

Whether you're a beginning crafter or a fine artist, Altered Books Workshop will give you comprehensive instruction and inspiration for creating multi-dimensional art that is a reflection of your moods, thoughts and life. Make your altered book the greatest story ever seen!

Altered Books Workshop

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Constance Richards

20 Great Weekend Projects

Making Books and Journals

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Janet Waterston

Jane Davila

Elin Waterston

Ignite Your Inner Artist-Experiment with Surface Design Techniques

Expand your artistic horizons and learn new and exciting ways to play with surface designs and art materials with this fabulous new book from premier handicraft publisher C&T. Art Quilts at Play teaches you 22 different techniques and special visual effects that are sure to ignite your artistic flair. It also includes a huge photo gallery for inspiration, as well as hints and tips for connecting with other like-minded artists through online groups and art shows.

Art Quilts at Play

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Katie Pasquini Masopust

Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Dynamic Art Quilts

"Bring out your inner artist--explore 10 approaches to designing art quilts. Techniques work for everyone, beginner or advanced."--Provided by publisher.

Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter

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Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Designing and Creating Custom Stamps

Take an exciting journey into printing with custom-carved stamps! In this complete stamp-carving workshop, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer covers every aspect of creating and using rubber stamps, including carving linear and curved designs, alphabets, complex and repeating geometrical shapes, and image transfers.

After carving your own unique stamps, you'll also learn:

 * How to combine and layer stamps into original designs.
 * How to design stamps that work together as well as individually.
 * How to create stamps that combine with or enhance other stamps (hand carved or commercial).
 * And how to create complex, layered effects that resemble screen printing.

This book also includes simple projects that explore various applications for stamping, including printing on different surfaces such as fabric, leather, paper, and canvas. Find your "authentic" design voice and get carving today!

Carve, Stamp, Play

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

25 Patchwork Purses, Totes, and Bags

Bags of Style

Marie Browning

The book has normal shelf wear. Please see photos for exact condition. 

Provides recipes for making soaps, bath salts, bath oils, massage oils, facial scrubs, and bath tea bags, and includes instructions on creating gift packages and labels

Natural Soapmaking

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Edward R. Tufte

The book jacket has tears and a stain but the book itself is in excellent condition. Please see photos for exact condition. This is a classic for information designers! 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Envisioning Information

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Kim Baer

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Graphic Approaches, Solutions, and Inspiration + 30 Case Studies

New in paperback, this workbook is a methodical yet comprehensive approach to conveying the fundamentals of avant-garde, innovative, information design by examining history, theory, criticism, technology and media, process, method, and practice. Opening with a very brief history followed by an instructive breakdown of the discipline, readers get an intimate understanding of the complexities of crafting information design to effectively improve communication both functionally and aesthetically. The back half of the book contains a wide range of case studies from design firms around the world so designers can see the techniques previously outlined in the first half of the book. The author also critiques and explains why the design is successful in terms of formal quality (Aesthetics) and function (How does it improve communication?).

Information Design Workbook

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Arnold Schwartzman

Art of the Decorative Sign

Storefront signs have long been a charming and respected commercial art form. DESIGNAGE presents more than 300 examples of vintage and contemporary signs from around the world. Graphically ingenious and imaginative, they proclaim a variety of services and products. Over 300 color images.

Designage

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David Sherwin

80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills

Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so, then this book is for you. Within these pages, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages and other interactive experiences. Each exercise includes compelling visual solutions from other designers and background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate. Creative Workshop also includes useful brainstorming techniques and wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you'll find new and more effective ways to solve tough design problems and bring your solutions to vibrant life.

Creative Workshop

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Tim Leong

A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe

The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more. Super Graphic offers readers a unique look at the intricate and sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their way through comic books, and shares advice for navigating the pages of some of the most popular, longest-running, and best-loved comics and graphic novels out there. From a colorful breakdown of the DC Comics reader demographic to a witty Venn diagram of superhero comic tropes and a Chris Ware sadness scale, this book charts the most arbitrary and monumental characters, moments, and equipment of the wide world of comics.

Super Graphic

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Tamara Laporte

Create Fairy Tale-Inspired Mixed-Media Art Projects to Develop Your Personal Artistic Style

Let the wisdom and enchantment of timeless fables and fiction help you achieve your creative goals! From celebrated mixed-media artist and author of Create Your Life Book Tamara Laporte, Ever After is a rich collection of step-by-step mixed-media art lessons inspired by fairy tales, folk tales, and classic fiction.



Based on one of Tamara's popular series of online classes, Ever After addressesthe most frequently asked question she receives from her students: "How do I develop my own creative style?"



In addition to the beautiful art lessons created especially for this book by Tamara and eight other noted mixed-media artists, each chapter offers creative exercises that invite readers to explore stories, their symbolism, and a specific aspect of style development as they work toward and ultimately achieve their artistic goals.
 * The Story of You. Explore the experiences, feelings, and ideas that stir your passion, and how to adapt and change motifs and other visual elements to make them your own.
 * Inspiration: How to Find It, How to Use It. Examine how to stay open to inspiration, incorporate it into your art practice, and integrate it into your artwork.
 * Comfort Zones & Productivity. Learn strategies for working through your fear and dedicating time to your artmaking.
 * Dealing with Challenges & Deepening Your Voice. Find guidance for starting a mindfulness practice to help you deal with harsh feedback, and for allowing yourself the joy of continually evolving your story, your message, and your style.

Ever After will teach you to tell your own unique stories through art making so that your wish--to become the artist you've always wanted to be--is sure to come true!

 

Guest Teachers

Includes lessons and tips from these renowned mixed-media artists:
 * Kara Bullock
 * Lucy Chen
 * Danita
 * Andrea Gomoll
 * Annie Hamman
 * Mariëlle Stolp
 * Effy Wild
 * Micki Wilde

 

Fairy Tales, Fables & Fiction

Featured stories include:
 * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * Bambi
 * Beauty & the Beast
 * Goldilocks & the Three Bears
 * Mulan
 * Peter Pan
 * Sleeping Beauty
 * The Little Mermaid

Ever After

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