Water Paper Paint: Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media
10 best books like Water Paper Paint: Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media (Heather Smith Jones): Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery: Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More, Art at the Speed of Life: motivation + inspiration for making mixed-media art every day, Journal Spilling: Mixed-Media Techniques for Free Expression, Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media, Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic, Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art, Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sonheim, Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures, Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages
| Author | Suzanne Simanaitis |
| ISBN | 1581808798 |
Indulge your creative cravings Are you passionately curious? Let "Kaleidoscope" open new doors of creativity as you explore dozens of stories, exercises and instructive projects, all designed to feed, encourage and sometimes flex your creative muscle.Between the beautiful pages of "Kaleidoscope,"...
| Author | Karen Michel |
| ISBN | 1592531776 |
A wide range of techniques borrowed from both traditional and digital art has recently begun to blend into one art form, known as altered art. The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery is the only book currently on the market that provides fascinating tips and creative ideas solely focused on this new form...
| Author | Pam Carriker |
| ISBN | 1596682612 |
Need high-energy inspiration when your life gets crazy and your art keeps getting pushed to the back burner? Offering terrific mixed-media art projects, as well as tips for getting organized and inspired, Art at the Speed of Life is a treasure chest of ideas for the artist whose creative goals sometimes...
| Author | Diana Trout |
| ISBN | 1600613195 |
Go ahead--make a mess!There are no lines to stay inside of here. You're free to quiet your inner critic and spill color (as well as your thoughts) all over the page. Author Diana Trout offers a double-dose of encouragement for you to try out new techniques, to ask yourself new questions and to see how safe...
| Author | Sarah Ahearn Bellemare |
| ISBN | 1592536867 |
More inspirational guide than step-by-step workbook, Painted Pages is about helping you to find your own unique way, in the everyday, to be creative and make art. With specific how-to techniques and creative prompts on using an artist's sketchbook in a new way, these pages provide a gentle push to help...
| Author | Ann Baldwin |
| ISBN | 1592534562 |
It's rare to find a mixed media art book in the library. The one other one I've found doesn't have a style I like--too loud and eclectic. However, Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists fits my interests just right. I love the more mute style, often with nature subjects. I went to a local art exhibition...
| Author | Jennie Hinchcliff |
| ISBN | 1592535372 |
“What is a good mail day?” A good mail day is a day when, instead of just bills, catalogs, and advertisements, your postal carrier delivers artful, beautiful, personal mail from friends and acquaintances all over the world. Mail art is a collaborative art form with a long and fascinating history...
| Author | Carla Sonheim |
| ISBN | 1592538053 |
Rediscover a more child-like approach to creating with Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals! Through fun and creative exercises, Carla Sonheim teaches you to draw a variety of fun animals and creatures, including:
- Dogs
- Birds
- Elephants
- Fish
-...
| Author | Cathy Johnson |
| ISBN | 1440308683 |
Discover the Joy of Art Journaling
An artist's journal is a powerful creative tool, offering you a safe place to experiment, explore, consider and improve. Artist's Journal Workshop provides all the guidance, structure and inspiration you need to create a meaningful art-journaling practice....
| Author | Susan Schwake |
| ISBN | 1592537650 |
Art Lab for Kids is a refreshing source of wonderful ideas for creating fine art with children. This step-by-step book offers 52 fun and creative art projects set into weekly lessons, beginning with drawing, moving through painting and printmaking, and then building to paper collage and mixed media....
Unfurling, A Mixed-Media Workshop with Misty Mawn: Inspiration and Techniques for Self-Expression through Art
| Author | Misty Mawn |
| ISBN | 1592536883 |
Unfurling is a creative workshop in book form, offering a unique mix of motivation and technique exercises to get your creative juices flowing. Written by Misty Mawn, these pages will inspire anyone who wishes to open up more to the process of making art. The book begins with art exercises in drawing...
Making an Impression: Designing Creating Artful Stamps
| Author | Geninne Zlatkis |
| ISBN | 1454701250 |
Popular illustrator and stamper Geninne Zlatkis has a passion for nature and color that distinguishes her work. These 20 beautiful projects--including cards, an embellished journal and tote, and decorative wall pieces--provide the keys to Geninne's creative process and image-making process....
Creative Illustration Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Seeing, Sketching, Storytelling, and Using Found Materials
| Author | Katherine Dunn |
| ISBN | 1592536360 |
Whether you have experience drawing or are completely new to it, this exciting workshop-style book provides practical, inspiring, and creative exercises which will expand your drawing skills and provide a framework for integrating illustration with other mixed-media techniques, With a focus...
The Collage Workbook: How to Get Started and Stay Inspired
| Author | Randel Plowman |
| ISBN | 1454701994 |
Both a popular hobby and a recognized art form, collage encompasses a wide range of creative styles and techniques—explored here by the creator of the popular A Collage a Day blog. Offering step-by-step instruction, visual inspiration, and even a library of copyright-free images, this hands-on...
One Drawing a Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media
Through 46 daily exercises which make up a complete 6-week course, you will keep your artistic skills sharp and your imaginations fertile by doing "One Drawing A Day." Each spread in the book features a beautiful drawing by one of 8 professional illustrators, with a description and comments by the illustrator...
Journal Fodder 365: Daily Doses of Inspiration for the Art Addict
| Author | Eric M. Scott |
| ISBN | 1440318409 |
Art Journal Adventures!
Learn how to journal your exceptional story. Life is not always extraordinary in all its details, but it is the sum of those ordinary events that add up to extraordinary lives. The journal is no different.
With Journal Fodder 365, the Journal Fodder Junkies...
Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects
| Author | Christine Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0307586545 |
This is a book for low budgets and high ambition. Read it and you will learn how to put images of things onto other things. You will start by rolling up your sleeves. Your shirt will be stained anyways. At some point, you will harness the power of the sun.
Go ahead, look inside. You will see that...
Surface Treatment Workshop: Explore 45 Mixed-Media Techniques
| Author | Darlene Olivia McElroy |
| ISBN | 1440308241 |
Breaking the Surface
Pondering how to begin a new piece of art? Surface Treatment Workshop has the answer! The authors of Image Transfer Workshop are back to show you 45 stepped-out mixed-media techniques that will add depth and texture to your artwork. These techniques are the perfect jump-off...
Image Transfer Workshop: Mixed-media Techniques for Successful Transfers
| Author | Sandra Duran-Wilson |
| ISBN | 1600611605 |
No Fear Transfers
If you have never tried image transfers or have experienced image transfer mishaps, then Image Transfer Workshop is for you. This book presents step-by-step techniques for 35 image transfer processes, extensive tips for fixing mishaps and examples of how to combine transfers...
Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking
Explore your Creative Self with Mixed-media Maps
You don't have to be a world traveler or a professional cartographer to embark on a grand journey of self-discovery through mapmaking. Personal Geographies gives you the tools and techniques you'll need to create artful maps of your self,...
No Excuses Art Journaling: Making Time for Creativity
| Author | Gina Rossi Armfield |
| ISBN | 1440325138 |
Kiss those excuses goodbye!
"I don't have time." "I don't know what to journal about." "I can't keep the momentum going."
Sound familiar? What are your excuses for not spending time with your art journal? Get ready to cast those excuses aside because Gina Rossi Armfield'sNo Excuses...
The Book as Art: Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
| Author | Krystyna Wasserman |
| ISBN | 1568986092 |
Artists' books have emerged over the last 25 years as the quintessential contemporary art form, addressing subjects as diverse as poetry and politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers,...
Creative Lettering: Techniques Tips from Top Artists
| Author | Jenny Doh |
| ISBN | 1454704004 |
Hand-lettering techniques are a popular and visually dynamic way to add textual elements to crafts, from journals to mixed-media art. Sixteen accomplished contributors—including calligraphers, painters, collagists, card makers, fiber artists, and graphic designers—give their personal...
