Books, Arts & Photography, Other Media

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Frank Warren
My Secret: A PostSecret Book
by William Morrow (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-10-24)

Cynthia Hart
Cynthia Harts Victoriana Calendar 2009 (Wall Calendars)
by Workman Publishing Company (Calendar)

It's a jubilee! We're celebrating twenty years of bestselling success. Cynthia Hart's Victoriana Calendar is a treasure—a feast for the eyes and imagination that dazzles with its exuberance and prettiness, and evokes comforting thoughts of family, home, and tradition. These dozen luxuriant collages reflect the artist's exceptional eye for detail, layering antique paper ephemera, lavish fabrics, garlands of ribbon and lace, jewelry, and perfect cut flowers for an effect that's nostalgic, yet utterly fresh and dynamic. This special anniversary edition is packaged with a crafty gift: a scrapbooking kit with four sheets of decorative papers, thirty-five die-cut embellishments and frames, and sixty-five stickers—all decorated with Cynthia Hart's keepsake designs.

Dawn DeVries Sokol
1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations (1000 Series)
by Quarry Books (Paperback)

Over 1,000 journal pages presented in one beautiful full-color bookJournals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life.This would be the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal pages in one eye-catching, visual format, and would attract a wide swathe of artists who fully embrace or experiment with this medium.Journaling has seeped into popular culture in a big way and this collection provides a wide array of ideas, techniques and themes to inspire and inform mixed media and journaling enthusiasts.

Cate Coulacos Prato
Mixed-Media Self-Portraits: Inspiration & Techniques
by Interweave Press (Paperback)

Featuring artwork from a wide range of contributors, this resource explores creative self-portraits through fun and easy exercises and essays that instruct and inspire artists working in all media. Examples of collage, fiber arts, and mixed-media artwork offer visual inspiration while essays throughout the book act as a guide to personal and artistic self-discovery. Step-by-step techniques and creative prompts are used to direct artists through different approaches to creating self-portraits while exercises utilizing collage, drawing, photography, and stitching will jump-start the creative process and get ideas flowing on paper and fabric, encouraging artists to express themselves in new ways.

John Berger
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the "London Sunday Times" critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings ...he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

Charlie Scheips
American Fashion: Council of Fashion Designers of America
by Assouline (Hardcover)

Julia Cameron
The Artist's Way Workbook
by Tarcher (Spiral-bound)

For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through the Artist's Way program-a workbook and companion to the international bestseller. Alife-changing twelve-week program, The Artist's Way has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Now, for the first time, fans will have this elegantly designed and user-friendly volume for use in tandem with the book. The Artist's Way Workbook includes: - more than 110 Artist's Way tasks; - more than 50 Artist's Way check-ins; - a fascinating introduction to the workbook in which Cameron shares new insights into the creative process that she has culled in the decade since The Artist's Way was originally published; - new and original writings on Morning Page Journaling and the Artist's Date-two of the most vital tools set forth by Cameron in The Artist's Way. The Artist's Way Workbook is an indispensable book for anyone following the spiritual path to higher creativity laid out in The Artist's Way.

Susan Stein
Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters
by Creative Publishing international (Paperback)

A comprehensive source of all the newest and most popular fiber art techniques!This technique-driven book explores a wide range of new possibilities and materials available to fabric and journal artists. Each unique technique is presented with an inspirational, full-page photo of a fabric journal page. How-to steps with photos explore all the possible results from applying the technique. The reader can create journal pages and/or quilt blocks, which can be sewn together to make one large journal quilt, matted and framed individually, displayed on a meditation screen, or used as book pages sewn into a traditional journal format.Full-page fabric journal block to introduce each techniqueStep-by-step photos for exploring and executing the techniqueGallery showing ways to display and use the fabric journal blocksGreat value. Like two years of classes rolled into one book.Beautiful "journal page" opens each of 28 technique chaptersAll techniques are easily mastered by anyone. No ...

Susan Tuttle
Exhibition 36: Mixed Media Demonstrations + Explorations
by North Light Books (Paperback)

Within the pages of Exhibition 36, readers will enter a virtual art exhibit featuring thirty-six mixed-media artists whose collage, digital, assemblage, altered and repurposed art adorn the walls and pedestals of this unique gallery. The artists are "present" throughout the exhibit, answering questions, sharing their thoughts, talking about their work and offering instruction. The tour is structured to provide insight into the creative process of the artists whose work is on display and the reader will be delighted with the plethora of inspiration, articles, techniques and general visual candy. As a final bonus, many artists featured in the book have contributed imagery as a gift to readers for attending the exhibit to reuse in their own creations. Possesses great crossover appeal for mixed-media artists of nearly every discipline, including jewelry makers, collage artists and more. Readers will enter a "virtual tour" featuring art from a variety of contributing artists, ...

Andy Goldsworthy
Time
by Harry N. Abrams (Hardcover)

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