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Mixed Media Self-portraits: Inspiration and Techniques (Paperback)

by Cate Coulacos Prato (Author)
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Get all the inspiration and techniques you need to partake in the hottest trend in mixed media and collage: creating artistic self-portraits. Self-portraits are not only a way for mixed media artists to learn about themselves and their art but also about each other."Mixed Media Self-Portraits" features a wide range of artists and contributors who explore creative self-portraits through exercises, essays, and gallery art, offering readers inspiration plus mixed-media, collage, and fiber-arts techniques.Essays throughout the book by a variety of mixed-media artists provide an artistic guide to personal self-discovery. Working in mixed media freed many of the artists featured to express themselves in unusual, unepresentational ways, allowing these artists to reveal even more about themselves in the process.The book guides readers through different approaches to creating self-portraits, from jumpstarting the creative process to step-by-step techniques to get ideas flowing on paper and fabric in a variety of media and forms from art quilts to assemblage to paper collage, and more. Filled to the brim with a wealth of inspiration, creative prompts, techniques and compelling artwork, this book is an artistic guide to representing yourself creatively in mixed-media work.


About the Author

Cate Prato is the features editor for Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors. It's no surprise her first book is about self-portraits: After being raised an only child, Cate doesn't consider "self" a four-letter word. Cate has pursued a career in writing, primarily features, since she was young. She lives in West Boylston, Massachusetts.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Ideas For Self Portraits Here, 27 Jul 2009
I bought this book because I liked the look of the cover, and despite a one star review that I had seen.

The book looks at how a number of artists have approached self portraits, using different media: dolls, textile art, photo transfer, collage, assemblage, paint, charcoal and digital imaging.

If you are looking for 'photographic' representations in traditional materials such as oil paint, then this book is probably not for you. If you enjoy using textiles, collage and multi-media techniques, then you should find lots of inspiring ideas to set off your own imagination.

Overall, I found the book inspirational, and containing some interesting approaches to portraits and journals for beginners and more experienced artists.
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5.0 out of 5 stars fun fun fun, 10 Jul 2009
this book is great for opening up the mind to new and exciting ways of looking at portrait art. LOVE IT!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Simple writing for simple folk, 4 Jun 2009
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Don't buy this book if you're expecting anything remotely serious. It begins with a definition of the word "self-portrait," for God's sake, and the intellectual level doesn't go up from there. It is also not for people who think that drawing and painting have anything to do with art. The book suggests tracing your mirror image and doing all sorts of things with computers. You'd think it was for children if there weren't so many pictures of silly-looking middle-aged women and references to double chins and crow's feet.
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As has been said before, this book is definitely not for the traditional artist, but if, like me, you are creative but not particularly skilled at painting and drawing, you will... Read more
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