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This is a workshop-style book, oriented to the wide community of crafters and artists including those interested in paint, surface design, mixed media, and collage. The book explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction, texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text, and adding digital imagery.
About the Author
Ann Baldwin was born in London, England, and lived there until 1990 when she came to live in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband. She began painting in 1991, after being a teacher of literature all of her working life. Within 18 months she was exhibiting landscapes in local juried shows. Initially self-taught, she began studying art history, painting, color theory, drawing and design, and became known as an abstractionist, and later developed her text-and-image collages. As a full-time artist, she continues to break rules and experiment, currently with encaustic.
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105 of 106 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
I only received this yesterday and already I love it.
Inside are all sorts of mixed media techniques for paints that you can adapt according to which materials you use and what you like.
For those who like written instructions they are clear, simple and easy to follow. The visuals show a step by step process that makes it very obvious what to do.
You could reproduce every project in the book exactly as you see it, or you could use the techniques to do something entirely different.
Creative books lately seem to fall into 2 catergories; wishy washy 'dealing with not actually being creative but wanting to be' for beginners, and 'high-brow arty books that insist you have to do everything by the rules' for art students.
This is neither. It's all good cold hard facts about how things work and what you can do with them to mix them up and create original pieces of artowrk. It's a real mish-mash of getting your hands dirty and using simple products in a new way.
Inside are all sorts of mixed media techniques for paints that you can adapt according to which materials you use and what you like.
For those who like written instructions they are clear, simple and easy to follow. The visuals show a step by step process that makes it very obvious what to do.
You could reproduce every project in the book exactly as you see it, or you could use the techniques to do something entirely different.
Creative books lately seem to fall into 2 catergories; wishy washy 'dealing with not actually being creative but wanting to be' for beginners, and 'high-brow arty books that insist you have to do everything by the rules' for art students.
This is neither. It's all good cold hard facts about how things work and what you can do with them to mix them up and create original pieces of artowrk. It's a real mish-mash of getting your hands dirty and using simple products in a new way.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
This book really is a workshop! Ann Baldwin explains in great detail how to produce the effects she shows in her own works. She explains about mediums and glues, about composing, how to create different textures, layering paint and decoupage, encaustics (which I haven't tried yet!), and many more fascinating explanations. I think this book covers just about everything one might want to learn about mixed media and I find it truly inspirational. Highly recommendable.
37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
I only occassionaly do mix-media and this book certainly makes you want to do more.Easy to follow stages with good clear pictures. anyone who wishes to do mix-media can certainly do with this book. highly recomended for starter or more advanced.
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Lovely Gift
Beautiful book lovely to look at and touch. I can't put it down. Only one slight drawback the book is from America is all the contact details for supplies aren't really relevant... Read more
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Can't fault it - a real quality book
This book does exactly what it says on the front, and it does it very very well.
It's well written, well laid out, and chock full of nice colour photos. Read more
It's well written, well laid out, and chock full of nice colour photos. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Lucky L
creative paint workshop for mixed media artists
very interesting and informative book gives insperation to try different medias would recommend it even if its only to look at.
Published 3 months ago by Maggie
Lovely Book
This is an excellent guide to creating abstract or figurative mixed media paintings - full of very useful advice, tips and guidance, plus many examples of the writers stunning... Read more
Published 4 months ago by E. Edwards
Creative Paint Workshop
This book is a must for mixed media artist and students alike. The spiral binding makes it easy to photocopy individual sheets of interest or using for reference as you work. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. Michael W Scoging
Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Experimental...
DOES WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TITLE AND PURCHASE WRITE UP. EXCELLENT POST AND PACKING. A GOOD ALL ROUND BOOK FOR THE SUBJECT.
Published 7 months ago by KEN
Good for reference
I must admit that I haven't (yet) used this book as much as I thought I would, but I still think its a good buy. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Blackdogtoo
Creative Paint Workshop
A nicely presented book with file binding and easy to find workshops. There are projects to work through although these could well be used as inspiration rather than a follow... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Sylvia
Birthday present
I haven't got that much to say about this particulat book as I bought it for a friend as a birthday present. Read more
Published 12 months ago by annie
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Just love this artists work. A fantastic book for those wanting to push further and experiment with new ideas. Read more
Published 14 months ago by kaz
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