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B3334. 100 Flowers / Yang O-shi
100 Flowers: Chinese Techniques for Painting Flowers by Yang O-shi. 240pp. 8.25"x12". Paper
Victoria Pittman has taught a popular flower painting class for many years at the summer calligraphy conference. Her flowers are made with a few strokes - ideal for envelopes, cards and small calligraphic pieces. As a resource for that class, she highly recommends this book: "This is a particularly good book, with many great examples and great illustrations." It provides sequential steps for painting 100 different flowers, from simple to fairly complex, along with finished paintings. Does not cover the basics of watercolor, just painting these flowers.
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B3175. Rethinking Acrylics / Patti Brady
Rethinking Acrylics: Radical Solutions for Exploiting the World’s Most Versatile Medium by Patti Brady. 2008. 160pp. 11" x 9.25". Hardcover Hidden Spiral.
Acrylic can mimic oil paint, watercolor, gouache, and encaustic; it can be applied in subtle transparent washes or troweled as a heavy thick impasto; it can be as transparent as glass or as dense and black as tar. Covers the most popular techniques for acrylic, making them accessible through a variety of mini-demonstrations followed by full demonstrations that show how to transform those techniques into finished paintings.
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B3178. Watercolor Tricks & Techniques / Johnson
A used copy of this manual recommended by Sheila Waters..
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B3179. Painting Techniques by Eliz. Tate
The North Light Illustrated Book of Painting Techniques by Elizabeth Tate. 1986. 208pp. 9"x9". Hardcover $29.95. JNB Sale $19.95
Illustrations and clear instructions for 45 painting techniques as they apply to watercolor, pastel, tempera, gouache, acrylic and oil. The second half of the books shows you how to apply these techniques to specific subjects, such as animals, buildings, landscapes, skies & clouds, water, and weather effects,
Recommended by Sheila Waters for her Calligraphy Connection 2009 Class
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B3191. Painted Garden / Woodin
The Painted Garden: A Year in Words and Watercolors by Mary Woodin. 7" x 8". Hardcover $17.95. Sale
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This beautifully illustrated personal sketchbook is a collection of touching watercolors, intimate musings, and thoughtful philosophies, with space for recording planting, harvesting, and blooming notes. Includes garden quotes, useful tips, and advice from British gardening experts as Mary Russell Mitford, C.W. Earle, Vita Sackville-West, and Louise Beebe Wilder. A great gift book for you and others who like Sara Midda’s In & Out of the Garden or South of France.
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B3194. Sweet Life: Reflections on Home and Garden
The Sweet Life: Reflections on Home and Garden by Lauren Stoddard. 1999. 96pp. 5.75 in x 7.5 in. Hardcover
Laura Stoddard’s whimsical watercolors are a combination of Sara Midda and Edward Gorey. Small, engaging, and a little quirky. They are also witty quotation books. Stoddard’s droll sense of humor is delightful.
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B3195. All For Love / Stoddard
All For Love by Laura Stoddard. 2007. 96pp. 5.75" x 7.5". Hardcover.
Laura Stoddard’s whimsical watercolors are a combination of Sara Midda and Edward Gorey. Small, engaging, and a little quirky. They are also witty quotation books. Stoddard’s droll sense of humor is delightful.
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B3158. Image Transfer Workshop / McElroy & Wilson
Image Transfer Workshop: Mixed-Media Techniques for Successful Transfers by Darlene Olivia McElroy and Sandra Duran Wilson. 2009. 128pp. 8-1/4x10-7/8". Paper $24.95.
Introduces you to as many as 35 transfer techniques, complete with finished art examples. Includes step-by-step instructions, ways to combine multiple transfer processes, tips for troubleshooting (and making the most of creative accidents!). Transfers can be used in calligraphy, fine art, mixed media/collage, and craft projects.
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B3166. Painted Paper (Paperback) / Golden
Painted Paper: Techniques & Projects for Handmade Books & Cards by Alisa Golden. 2008. 176pp. 8.5" x 10". Paper $17.95. JNB Price $16.95
Alisa Golden shows how to paint paper using water-based media--primarily acrylic inks, gesso and paste. She first provides advice on paper/ink/paint choices, and introduces the tools needed to complete the projects. Every following chapter showcases multiple methods of painting techniques: washes, stencils, masking, gesso resist, paste papers (an entire chapter!), layered inks, and more. After working your way through the techniques presented, you will have a wealth of beautiful papers -- and in the final chapter, Alisa shows exactly how to use these great papers. Color photos and diagrams illustrate book/paper projects designed specifically to transform your newly painted papers into: an origami envelope, an accordion-folded album, and a decorative box, and much more! Packed with painting techniques and book projects, this title will keep your creative fires ablaze.
Chapters: Papers, Colors, and Tools; Acrylic Inks; Gesso & Stencils; Masking; Paints & Paste; Books and Projects.
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B3044. Art Expose/Judy Melvin
Art Expose: A Collection of Techniques for Creative Expression by Judy Melvin. 2008. 20pp. 8.25"x8.25". Paper.
Judy has put her workshop notes into book form. It's a book of how to make beautiful artwork using the techniques for creative expression that she teaches. Full color. Includes:
Sumi Ink & Sink Art, Sumi Ink & TECH Ink, Gesso, Pastels & Stencils, Bleach & Pastels, and Walnut Ink.
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