2011: NEW Books about Mixed Media Art

Amazon reviews: 4.9 out of 5 stars (63 customer reviews - relate to print edition)

This is the NEW KINDLE EDITION of the book which was the drawing/mixed media smash hit of 2011 in its print edition. It stayed at the top of the best selling list for MONTHS! Now available as a Kindle edition, this book will undoubtedly find a whole new set of fans

Publisher's Description: Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists offers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the readers gain new skills and confidence, allowing them to take their work to a new level.

Format: Kindle Edition | File Size: 5179 KB
Publisher: Quarry Books (January 19, 2011)

Amazon reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars (34 customer reviews) | Like (86)

This has become an enormously popular book with people who want to make mixed media art in a very short space of time. It's specifically designed for people who are trying to fit mixed media art into a busy schedule. A lot of mixed media artists regard this as their most helpful resource.

Publisher's description: Each chapter in Art at the Speed of Life includes both essays and project ideas from a variety of contributors. The projects are inspiring, yet easy to complete on a tight schedule, and include techniques such as assemblage, image transfer, and collage. A bonus seven-day journal project helps you track your work as you go. With a unique combination of time management tips and advice, inspiring essays, and projects designed to fit into busy schedules, Art at the Speed of Life will help you live your dream of making art every day.

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Interweave Press (February 15, 2011)

Amazon Reviews: 4.3 out of 5 stars (23 customer reviews) | Like (29)

This is an intriguing book - partly because of the level of innovation but also because of the age of the artist!

Publisher's 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. Poet-biographer Molly Peacock uses close-ups of these brilliant collages in The Paper Garden to track the extraordinary life of Delany, friend of Swift, Handel, Hogarth, and even Queen Charlotte and King George III.

Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (April 12, 2011)

Amazon Reviews: 4.4 out of 5 stars (31 customer reviews) | Like (79)

Surface Treatment Workshop provides you with an equally impressive amount of techniques and ideas for mixed-media surface treatments. In addition to over 45 stepped-out techniques, projects that combine the techniques into finished works of art are shown as well.

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: North Light Books (May 3, 2011)

Amazon Reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars (40 customer reviews) | Like (112)

Publisher's description: The book begins with art exercises in drawing and painting that include portraiture, contour drawing, backgrounds, layering, and working with a still life, followed by collage and image transfer techniques. The second section offers exercises and projects in stamp carving, paper pottery, sculpture, origami, paper doll making, and surface design....The last section shares a variety of approaches to visual journaling.

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Quarry Books (June 1, 2011)

Amazon reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) | Like (20)

Encaustic Mixed Media presents a plethora of unique techniques and materials and just the right amount of expertise

Publisher: North Light Books (August 25, 2011)

NEW KINDLE EDITION
Amazon Reviews: 4.9 out of 5 stars (42 customer reviews) | Like (0)

This book provides readers with a virtual art exhibit featuring thirty-six mixed-media artists whose collage, digital, assemblage, altered and repurposed art adorn the walls and pedestals of this unique gallery.

The artists answer questions, share their thoughts, talk about their work and offer instruction. In doing so the reader gets an insight into the creative process of the artists whose work is on display.

Format: Kindle Edition | File Size: 8800 KB
Print Length: 160 pages
Publisher: North Light Books; Original edition (September 20, 2011)