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Craft metal has endless decorative possibilities. It is pliable and can be wrapped around or adhered to any surface you can imagine.
This book is all about using coloured craft metal – decorating it by means of embossing, cutting out designs, adding further colour, taking away colour and filling in 3D designs and much more – to customise blanks and found objects for your home. You will learn more about the metal and supporting mediums, and how to use the tools and familiarise yourself with several techniques, all of which can be applied in making more than 50 decorative and functional items.
The original projects were designed and created specifically to show-case a variety of techniques and applications, including:
- Transferring and tracing designs
- Creating texture by means of inexpensive handheld tools or manual processes
- Using an embossing machine such as the cuttlebug™ for textures, patterns and die-cuts
- Finishing techniques such as sanding, ageing and painting
- Upcycling and repurposing
- Tips and tricks to simplify processes
The projects range from beginners to advanced level and from quick ideas to masterpieces that will take longer to complete. Magnificent
photographs of the finished objects will inspire you while step-by-step instructions and photographs will help you to get started right away.
Drawing On Anxiety is a beautifully illustrated, interactive,
timely and friendly art therapy journal to draw out, draw on and
draw through in anxious times. Part memoir, part self-help and
self-care, this creative journal full of guided prompts and
grounding affirmations is a mindful, positive tool for exploring
your body's natural response to stress. Illustrator and author Kate
Sutton draws on her own personal experiences of dealing with
anxiety to create a warm and friendly journal that encourages you
to be kind to yourself, take a moment and explore your feelings
through the act of drawing. Built on art therapy principles and
filled with prompts to help you express yourself on the page, as
well as affirmations which help remind us that it will all be okay,
this diary will help give you the resilience and strength needed to
make it through those difficult moments. This book is part of the
Drawing On... series, a collection of creative guided journals
which help readers explore difficult topics including anxiety and
grief. Also available is Drawing On Grief, which explores the
delicate and difficult subject of loss, and how art therapy can
help us navigate this painful time.
Celebrated children's book illustrator Fritz Wegner (b.Vienna 15th
September 1924, d. London 15th March 2015,). Early work included
assignments for Lilliput, Dorothy L.Sayers and Enid Blyton, with
book covers for Raymond Chandler and J.D.Salinger. In the late
1950s he moved away from advertising and commercial art to focus on
children's literature. Significant titles include The Hamish
Hamilton Book of Princes and Princesses (1963), The Marvellous
Adventures and Travels of Baron Munchausen (1967), Fatipuffs and
Thinifers (Andre Maurois), to books by Alan Ahlberg, Michael Rosen
and Brian Alderson in the 1980s and '90s. He also created over
thirty stamp designs for the Royal Mail.The Fritz Wegner Archive
documents phases of his work from the 1950s to the 2000s, and
includes comprehensive images scanned from the originals kept ion
seventeen folders in his studio. The publication is authorised by
executors of the estate of the artist.
A glorious essay by Winston Churchill about one of his favourite
pastimes, painting. The prefect antidote to his 'black dog', a
depression that blighted his working life, Churchill took to
painting at the age of 40. It became a passion that was to remain
his constant companion.
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