Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Wood Spirits and Green Men: A Design Sourcebook for Woodcarvers and Other Artists
The 40 patterns included in this guide for carving green men and wood spirits out of wood are appropriate for carvers of all skill levels. A recent term for a loose archetype—usually the head of a man within nature or a man as part of nature—the green man can be documented as early as A.D. 30 as a Roman architectural accent. The patterns show the green man in his wide range of emotions—happy, sad, miserable, or mischievous—with descriptions of how the wood spirit is anchored to nature not by the imagery of leaves and foliage but by the media on which he is depicted. The wood spirit walking stick patterns show realistic human faces that appear out of the bark or grain of the wood branches or logs in which they are being carved.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Great Book of Celtic Patterns: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Crafters
Great Book of Celtic Patterns: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Crafters Review
Calling on geometric forms found in Celtic monuments and manuscripts, this crafter’s companion presents basic design principles and step-by-step instructions for plotting out and drawing lines, twists, braids, and knots in the ancient Irish tradition. With lessons that can be applied to a multitude of arts and craftsfrom needlework and woodworking to decorative paintingthis instructional guide unravels the secrets to creating intricate Celtic knot work. Offering increasingly intricate designs with the addition of lines and new textures, artisans of any skill level will revel in the endless archive of original patterns provided in this sourcebook.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
London Art and Artists guide 9th edition
London Art and Artists guide 9th edition Review
London Art and Artists Guide 9th edition is a new edition of this successful pocket art guide which covers everything you need to know about the lively London art scene. It is written by art world insider Heather Waddell who has been writing about art for some years and been an artist herself. The guide covers 800 galleries and museums, studios, useful addresses, art schools, art magazines, art book publishers, press contacts, art materials' suppliers and a lively London section with parks, markets and restaurants. There are interviews with art dealers Matthew Flowers of Fkowerrs east, Danielle ~Arnaud, Chris Kewbank of the Special Photographers' Company and artists Grace O'Connor and Tove Gambetta de Gilham. Read more...
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Breaking Into Freelance Illustration: A Guide for Artists, Designers and Illustrators
Breaking Into Freelance Illustration: A Guide for Artists, Designers and Illustrators Review
Build Your Own Thriving Illustration Business
The boundaries between art, design and illustration are blurring, and with all the new opportunities for visual creatives, now is the perfect time to unleash your talent on the world!
Breaking Into Freelance Illustration provides a step-by-step roadmap for promoting yourself and running your creative business. You'll find up-to-date advice about best business practices, ideas for new promotional tools, answers to common questions and words of wisdom and inspiration from top illustrators.
This book shows you how to:
- Set up a home office and balance your professional and personal life
- Create a professional portfolio and promote your work online
- Search out and negotiate with potential clients
- Create your own brand and work with an agent
- Develop a fair and accurate system for pricing your work
- Network within the creative community
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artists Handbook
Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artists Handbook Review
Painter IX Creativity is a comprehensive creative guide to Corel's Painter IX Software. It explains the basics of setting up, understanding, customizing, and applying Painter to create original works, paintings, generating painterly animations, manipulating and transforming photographic images, and constructing evocative photo-collage. The projects include advanced techniques and creative strategies.
The book gives visual artists-digital designers, multimedia artists, photographers, illustrators, animators, and graphic artists-the explanations they need in order to maximize the sophisticated, creative Painter tool. The book teaches the artist how to transfer traditional art skills and techniques to the computer. It teaches the animator how to add painterly effects to their work, whether for video, TV, or the web. IT explains how photographers can transform and collage their images with natural-media tools. For Adobe Photoshop users, this book explains the expanded creative potential Painter lends to their work.
The author takes a knowledgeable and straightforward approach to this step-by-step project-based book, explaining how each tool is used, every effect achieved, and every topic thoroughly described. The book allows readers to build upon their knowledge so that beginners have the chance to become advanced users, and advanced users have an opportunity to hone their skills and adopt new techniques.
*Learn how to use the phenomenal image creation tool, Corel Painter IX, with clear, organized, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions from an internationally recognized computer artist and Painter master!
*CD-ROM includes unique custom brushes and art materials not supplied with Corel Painter IX, plus tutorial images for all projects
*A new Instructor Manual is available from the publisher
*The only Painter workbook that addresses both creativity and technical proficiency
*Teaches creative techniques that can be adapted by all visual artists as well as photographers, designers, and illustrators. Read more...
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