This book covers various methods of colouring aluminium jewellery including painting and drawing, low-tech colouring, submersion dyes, anodising, resists, digital printing and sublimation printing. Beautifully illustrated with cutting-edge work from a number of makers.
Covers various organizational structures for collaborative art projects. This book offers instructions and tips for organizing such ventures and includes interviews with organizers and participants of collaborative projects, as well as a healthy smattering of techniques including how to create books that can be added to as they travel.
Helps you in teaching key chemistry concepts through art, art history and art preservation, in order to meet the needs of colleges requiring a general education science course for non-science majors. This book covers important general chemistry topics without the requirement to know the maths.
Materials and working practices influence a painter just as much as contemporary intellectual and cultural developments. This title helps readers develop a painterly eye by learning to recognize different materials and methods of application and to appreciate how these features contribute to how a painting looks.
PANTONE, the worldwide colour authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of one hundred transformative years. This title identifies more than 200 touchstone works of art, products and fashion and carefully match them with official PANTONE palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues..
Founded in 1960, Tamarind Institute has had a major influence on printmaking in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book offers instructions for a range of fine art lithography techniques; health and safety information about materials and techniques described; and full-colour plates of lithographs created at Tamarind.
All students taking GCSE and A-level art as well as anyone trying to get into art school needs to provide course work and projects for their portfolio. This book covers the important topics and provides over 200 projects that will guide students and give them inspiration for developing their own projects.
Shows you how to use life drawing to discover the poses, features and personalities which form the basis of character and then build, develop and 'PUSH' your drawings to new heights of dramatic and visual impact for believable characters audiences can relate to.
Beginning with an account of colour fundamentals and a history of colour theory, the author explores the four dimensions of colour and their application to compositions in various media. This book serves as a useful resource for painters, photographers, interior designers and craftspeople.
The mystical shores of coastal British Columbia hold boundless inspiration and an enigmatic spiritual presence for many who live along its various coves and inlets. Over the years, the author has been creating portrayals of the beautiful and rugged shores of Vancouver Island and the coastal mainland. This book contains over eighty of her works.
Recognizes Marion Richardson's groundbreaking contribution to the freeing of the teaching of child art and her two handwriting schemes - the main one based on her observations of children's pattern paintings and the natural movement of young children's hands. In both areas of her work she changed attitudes worldwide.
A celebration of the art of the stencil. It features the 20 stencils, printed on perforated card stock that can be torn out and used, and have been created by an impressive list of international street artists, from the masters to the new kids on the block. It is suitable for artists, illustrators and those who love street art.
Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and the life force, the color red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly prized. This book discusses the origin of the red colorant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff.
Covers various aspects of forensic illustration. This book describes facial anatomy, practical methodologies and techniques, and case examples. It is suitable for both forensic artists who want to improve their skills and those who work with them in law enforcement.
The Munsell Color System stresses an understanding of what colour really is and how human beings perceive it. The system is a colour identification and notation system used by artists and designers that identifies colours by alpha numbers rather than by name.
Condensed to focus on the main art elements, this guide maintains the balance of examples from around the world coupled with the images that reflect the drawing, in a brief format. It begins with an introduction to the nature of drawing, emphasizing the development of thought processes and developing sight skills.
A handbook on 'How-to' for beginner to professional artist. It includes modelling, ceramic sculpture, bas relief, murals, hand-building, pottery wheel, mixing, recycling paper, firing, non-firing, and casting. It gives information for teachers, designers classroom, studio, K-12 and index.
A book about how to paint effectively with colour. Suitable for beginners to advanced artists, it explains how accomplished artists consistently choose perfect colours for their paintings. It also explains what great artists know about colour that most painters don't. It provides a methodology for creating 'paintings with irresistible color.
Offers information about artists' materials, practices and techniques. This title focuses on works in the collection for which scientific examination has been central to the attribution, including paintings now, or formerly, attributed to Verrocchio, Giorgione, Francesco Francia, Perugino, Rembrandt and Reynolds.
How people interact with images has undergone a change. Historically, people have played the role of spectator and interacted with the image passively. This title challenges what we think know about how images convey meaning. It explores how interactive media is changing the way that we produce and consume images.
'Artistic research' is a fresh practice in which artists act as researchers and present their findings in the form of artwork. This title comprises eighteen essays by some of the specialist authors from Britain, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland.
Teaching the importance of a standardized language to communicate colour and the factors affecting how we perceive it, this text describes the three dimensions of colour. It is ideal for students of design, art, fashion, architecture, interior design, manufacturing, colour science, and anyone else who works with or is interested in colour.
The transparency and spontaneity of watercolour makes it an ideal medium with which to interpret the qualities of light. Jacqueline demonstrates how you can capture the beauty of sunlight, lamplight, morning and evening light - and how to add soft highlights, build up atmosphere and develop unusual textures.
Explores the concepts of authorship, artistic originality, skill, craftsmanship and the creative act. This title highlights the vital role that skills from craft and industrial production play in creating some of the most innovative and highly sought-after works of art.
Features the author's projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a playful approach to creating. This title offers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. It contains ideas which introduce creativity into your art and life.