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Perfect for beginners but with exciting new ideas for long-time mixed-media artists, this book allows you to explore a variety of materials and techniques to find what speaks to you, all while creating colorful and exciting abstract art. In this bright and colorful book, you will be introduced to 25+ techniques for making marks in your art. Using more than 35 popular tools such as pens, acrylic markers, the Gelli Plate, stencils and much more, you will discover that all along you has had your own unique way of creating pattern, using color and drawing a line. Mark making is different from sketching a still life or painting a landscape. Here's how Rae talks about mark making in the opening of the book.
"To be a mark maker is to declare your love of all things that leave a visible imprint or outline on something. To be a mark maker is be a collector of tools, both traditional and non-conventional, tools that will become an extension of who you are as a marker of art marks. As a mark maker you will become a tinkerer. You will inspect, explore and study your tools and what they can do for you. To be a mark maker you will reinvent the way your art is created, adding and subtracting along the way, remaking something ordinary into something extraordinary. As a maker of marks you will seek to discover your own representations in art, forming and shaping your individual style of imprints along the way. You will find yourself selecting and sorting a unique set of tools that will speak to who you are as a maker of art marks."
Combining techniques, try your hand at fun projects including Pint-Sized Art, Hybrid Hoop Art and prompts for art journaling. The act of repetition or making a pattern is a meditative process approachable by anyone.
The perfect fun and relaxing art project for adults and children,
this activity pack includes everything needed for readers to make
their own Pointillist sticker masterpiece. Containing 14 sticker
sheets with over three-thousand colored circular stickers and an
18" x 32" (46 x 82.5 cm) poster "canvas" of colored outlines,
readers simply need to match the colored stickers to the outlines
found on the poster to recreate the painting. Given that
Pointillism relies on the ability of the eye and brain to blend
colored dots into a fuller range of tones, it's not necessary to
place each sticker on precisely the right outline. As a result,
every finished poster will be somewhat different- and extremely
satisfying. With a handy folder-style flap that allows for easy
storage and transportation of the artwork in progress, Dot Art:
Sticker Seurat makes the perfect activity to take on vacation or to
unwind after a busy day.
This volume takes on the challenge of representing a sound
installation by the Swiss artist Daniele Buetti, commissioned by
the Schirn Museum in Frankfurt, which transfers color theory,
meditation, and hypnosis into an artistic context. It's All in the
Mind is built around a twenty-five-minute audio performance that
takes the audience through the techniques of hypnosis. In the work,
Buetti uses techniques that rely on "color purification," conjuring
up different colors and their varying psychological effects.
Interviews with specialists in hypnosis and in Buetti's work
complement the illustrations and help explain and interpret the
work.
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