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Vibrant. Rich. Luscious. Dynamic. Color Passions. Color is everywhere. It's used to symbolically represent ideas and it's used to express emotions. Color can tell stories and evoke memories. In Incite 2 Color Passions, 109 artists share their zest for color through painting, collage, encaustic, art journaling, jewelry art and more. The 133 pieces of mixed-media art showcased in the second edition of Incite, The Best of Mixed Media will inspire you to add new shades and hues to your palette and...

Easy colored pencil techniques for your nature-inspired mixed-media collages! Discover the beautiful bits of nature all around you and learn unique ways to incorporate them into your mixed-media collages with the help of Colored Pencil Collage. You will learn all the basics you need to use colored pencils in your nature paintings. Then you will practice creating and arranging appealing designs and compositions. Finally, 17 collage projects demonstrate mixed-media techniques for a variety of sur...

Creative Workshops--On Demand! Do you love encaustic but not the heat or the fumes? Did you know you can achieve the encaustic-like satiny sheen, rich, deep luminosity and mysterious veiling with acrylic mediums? Sandra Duran Wilson and Kristy Conlin will show you how to create all the qualities of wax without special tools or paints! This DVD includes: * The basics--a review of supports, tools and materials, and a discussion of transparency, opacity, sheen and viscosity * Techniques galore! Lea...

This is not a class about overthinking or perfectionism. This is a workshop for developing your individual styles of journaling. You will learn how to build an art journal page from the ground up, and how to include words which inspire you again and again, and set you on your way to speaking your truth. In adddition you will experience a range of skills and ideas for creating an amazing journal page, exploring how to take your journaling from good to WOW through the use of detail. This will incl...

Do you long to cultivate more creative joy in your painting? Flowers are organic, wonderfully forgiving subjects. Each one is unique; you can't paint one wrong! Painted Blossoms will encourage you to welcome creativity with ease as you discover ways to tend the garden within. In addition to watching yourself grow through seven different stepped-out flower projects, you'll learn basic design elements, how to get unstuck from the mud, how to carve your own stamps, cut your own stencils and more. A...

Creative Workshops - On Demand! In this engaging workshop, Gina Rossi Armfield shows you step-by-step techniques for adding collage to your art journal. You'll get expert advice on using washi tape, arranging and adding ephemera, incorporating watercolor and more. * Learn dozens of tips and tricks for making collages with whatever amount of time you have, whether it's 5 minutes or 50 minutes. * Complete 3 projects with the artist: an inspiration board, a travel collage and a poetry collage. * P...

Cloth Paper Scissors Editor Jenn Mason guides you through the principles of backgrounds, middle grounds, and foregrounds as they relate to mixing monoprints and collage. First you'll learn how to make quick and easy backgrounds using acrylic and gelatin printing plates with a large array of texture tools, stencils, and hand-cut masks. Next you'll work on the middle ground as you start to build the story of your art by adding collage elements and image transfers. Finally you'll add the finishing...

This book reveals the secrets of hybrid and combination techniques. Combined techniques are often used by printmakers as tricky ways of achieving particular results, and then not fully acknowledged or detailed in the information that accompanies the print when it is exhibited. Combination printmaking has a long history, but the explosion of media now available to printmakers has opened up many new possibilities. Learning the techniques associated with creating hybrid prints is, at the moment, a...