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Awaken your inner artist! The owner of New York City’s #1 art school for all ages and levels shows how we can all ignite our creative spark. In her more than 10 years of teaching art to people from all walks of life, Rebecca Schweiger has honed her ability to bring out students’ creative spirit, regardless of their skill level or age. In Release Your Creativity, Rebecca teaches everyone how to create meaningful works of art with 15 step-by-step painting and mixed-media projects designed to get their creative juices flowing—no previous art experience required. These hands-on projects, coupled with inspiration and encouragement, help beginners explore and develop their individuality. The goal is to foster each artist’s singular point of view, so that each finished project is a unique expression of the person who made it. With her warm approach and nurturing sensibility, Rebecca Schweiger will show you the thrill of putting paint on canvas and the freedom of releasing your distinctive vision.

Thread painting adds dimension to quilting that cannot be achieved with fabric and appliqué alone. Thread painting is an exciting avenue for immortalizing these images in a lasting, tangible memory. Plus, it can add texture, character, and a bit of spark to your quilting. It is not necessary to be an accomplished artist or even an advanced embroiderer or quilter to be successful with this technique. Results are effective almost immediately at a beginner level. Through Nancy's tulle sandwich method, a minimal amount of effort and practice is all it takes to achieve lovely results. This technique allows the flexibility to design and create in any size and configuration desired. Not only can it be used in wallhangings, but also on vests and jackets, greeting cards, crazy quilt embellishment, pillows, memory books, and much more. Design elements taken from wallpaper can be transferred to pillowcases, dust ruffles, tablecloths, or napkins. The possibilities are endless.

Create art that's more attractive, interesting and eye-catching!Even if your perspective is accurate, your subject realistic and colors vibrant, a weak composition - predictable, repetitious or monotonous - means a weak painting.The Simple Secret to Better Painting ensures that your compositions work every time. It's an insightful artistic philosophy that boils down the many technical principles of composition into a single master rule that's easy to remember and apply: Never make any two intervals the same.You can make every painting more interesting, dynamic and technically sound by varying intervals of distance, length and space, as well as intervals of value and color. The rule also applies to balance, shape and the location of your painting's focal point.Greg Albert illustrates these lessons with eye-opening examples from both beginning and professional artists, including Frank Webb, Tony Couch, Kevin Macpherson, Charles Reid, Tony Van Hasselt and more.You'll discover that the ONE RULE is the only rule of composition you need to immediately improve your work - the moment your brush touches the canvas.

Capture Your Favorite Images on Fabric! If you have a passion for unique textiles, you'll love these easy-to-master methods for creating vivid, picturesque images on silk, cotton, and other fine fabrics. Using minimal equipment, water-soluble products, and a range of surprisingly easy techniques, you can create one-of-a-kind fabrics with gorgeous results. Inside, find: · Methods for creating beautiful pictorial scenes and artistic renditions on fabric with dyes, paints, stencils, resists, and more · Six simple projects that walk you step-by-step through each technique, plus inspiring, close-up photos of Ginny's imaginative creations · Innovative ideas for adding realistic details with a range of embellishments · Complete, in-depth information on choosing the right supplies and fabrics for optimal results Whether you use your original fabrics in quilts, clothing, or accessories for home decor, Fabric Painting will give you the ability to showcase your personal style.

? Contains exciting lessons in achieving elaborate embroidered and embellished looks with a simple sewing machine and a home computer and printer

Get nose to bloom with one of the most beloved subjects of painters for generations of artists with Expressive Flower Painting and master pedals, stems, colors, and more. It's almost always one of the first things someone tries to paint--center, petals, stem, voila! Expressive Flower Painting's exercises have a loose, free, contemporary style the likes of which you'd see in galleries, in shops, and even on clothing and home design goods. It's not intimidating, and yet the paintings are colorful, immediate, and joyful and speak to the artist's desire to play, be loose, and to create freely. Lynn Whipple paints wildly and in small to large formats with a combination of acrylic paint, charcoal, and colorful soft pastel. Expressive Flower Painting presents a range of creative painting exercises that help readers develop vibrant nature paintings. This exciting book is an in-depth expansion of Lynn's class called Big Bold Bloom Wild Painting, with additional content.Expressive Flower Painting covers mark making, layering techniques, how to do "spin drawings," color methods, painted backgrounds, working from life, and how to successfully combine a wide variety of media for the maximum effect.

Now in paperback, this work aims to introduce oil techniques simply and easily to the amateur artist who has no previous experience. There are practical hints to accompany the step-by-step text.

From simple landscapes that use only one or two kinds of stitches to fully realized raised and 3-D embroideries: use your needle and thread just like a brush and paint! This exciting and unique approach to producing exquisite embroidered pictures borrows freely from many areas of needlecrafts, including stumpwork and quilting techniques like trapunto. Packed with tips for designing and executing your own stitched "paintings," as well as 20 projects such as a Spanish Garden and Duck Pond. Inspiring!

Now in paperback, this work aims to introduce oil techniques simply and easily to the amateur artist who has no previous experience. There are practical hints to accompany the step-by-step text.

Mastering Oil Painting is the perfect resource for beginning and intermediate artists to build proficiency and expertise in the art of oil painting. With its slow drying time, oil paint allows artists to layer and blend deep, rich colors that retain their vibrancy when fully dried. Mastering Oil Painting will demonstrate how to work with this classic medium that has been a favorite of professional artists for hundreds of years. This book opens by covering the basic tools and materials for getting started in oil painting, including brushes, mediums, supports, palette knives, and palettes. On the pages that follow, artists will discover valuable information for understanding basic color theory, color mixing, and working with oil mediums, as well as how to master a range of techniques, including blending, stippling, scumbling, drybrushing, sponging, painting thickly and thinly, and others. With the information offered by an accomplished, professional painter, aspiring artists will also learn how to select subject matter, set up a balanced composition, create textures, and use reference photos, all while learning how to paint a range of subjects, such as a landscape, a still life, and a floral arrangement--step by step! With easy-to-follow instruction and breathtakingly realistic artwork to inspire, the combination of tips, techniques, and engaging oil painting lessons in Mastering Oil Painting offers a comprehensive resource for artists of all skill levels desiring to put their newfound painting knowledge to practical use by painting realistic, detailed works of art in oil, from start to finish.

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Give your glass some personality! If you're like millions of crafters, you've already experienced the pleasure of painting glasses--but now it's time to go beyond the brush and expand your techniques! Every one of these designs is perfect for the beginner, and the projects reflect a variety of styles, from luscious florals to Eastern minimalism. Etching has become simple and safe, thanks to creams and liquids that produce a frosted, permanent finish in minutes. Use them for a vine mirror or a glamorous panorama on a picture frame. Capture the light with shimmering stained glass-detailed explanations put it well within your grasp. Make a cut-and-polished beveled panel or a graceful tree lampshade. You'll find a range of witty embellishments, too, like glued-on marbles, magnets, and beads, plus cut-bottle projects. And, painters, don't worry: there are still some great ideas here for you, too! A Selection of F & W's Book Clubs.

A how-to art book for all ages and abilities. Simple art techniques for all media - drawing, watercolours and acrylics.

Quilters learn to create one-of-a-kind painted fabrics right in their own kitchen with Off-the-Shelf Fabric Painting. Fiber artist Sue Beevers shows them how, making it fun and easy. Quilters learn to create everything from simple lines and splatters to salting and sun-printing. Techniques rely on water-based paints used with readily available tools and supplies, such as oatmeal, yogurt containers, and file folders. This guide offers advice on practical color theory, helps quilters recover from mishaps, and even provides paint brand comparisons.

With a few strokes of brush and ink and the simple instructions found in Super Simple Sumi-e, you can learn the art of this traditional Asian painting and capture the spirit of many charming animals from pandas to swallows and rabbits to dragons!Creative children and curious adults will have fun learning the magic of sumi-e with the simple techniques illustrated in Super Simple Sumi-e. Learn how to make various sumi-e brush strokes and how to create animals, flowers, and bamboo with this friendly, easy-to-follow guide. Sumi-e means "ink picture" in Japanese. "Sumi" means ink and "e" means painting or picture. Since similar styles of painting with brush and ink are used throughout Asia this style of painting is often referred to as Asian brush painting.

Artists who loved The Simple Art of Chinese Brush Painting will find themselves equally enamored of this exquisite companion volume on Sumi-E, a classic, delicate Japanese style of ink painting. All the techniques to create works of outstanding beauty are here, presented by Takumasa Ono, a master and teacher of many years' experience. He begins by looking at the "Four Treasures" of Sumi-E (paper, brushes, ink, and stone), and demonstrates simple brushstrokes and traditional ways of composing the picture. Fifteen easy, yet lovely projects range from greeting cards to wall paintings, from decorated fabrics to tiles. A special feature is an "Inspirations" chapter with 100 common Western first names done in calligraphy, as well as haikus and Zen proverbs to enhance the projects.

Use BEHR PREMIUM Floor Coatings Acrylic Latex Porch and Floor Paint for painting basements, porches, floors, decks and patios and for a variety of other indoor and outdoor projects to enhance slip resistance. This texturized Low-Lustre acrylic latex paint is resistant to UV damage, scuffing, fading, cracking and peeling, and it offers improved hiding properties to provide efficient coverage. Cleans easily with warm, soapy water. Color: Simple Silhouette.

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Feelings either flow naturally, like a river, or get dammed up. If our emotions become blocked, we can become tense, unhappy, anxious, or depressed. This book offers simple techniques for using art to embrace, understand, and release our emotions so that we can experience a greater sense of well-being in our lives. In The Art of Emotional Healing, Lucia Capacchione presents the simple yet powerful methods she uses in her internationally acclaimed workshops, showing us how to reach inside and let our feelings out through drawing, painting, journal writing, collage making, sculpting, drumming, dancing, mask making, and more. No artistic talent or skill is required, only a desire to let go of self-criticism and discover how we really feel.