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Mixed Media for Cloth: Laminating with Paper and Metal Leaf
A comprehensive guide to adding all kinds of papers and composition metal leaf to fabrics. All of the basics are described in detail, including:
Appropriate fabric choices based on your desired end result
How to choose papers that will be effective
Advice on adhesives and fusible web
Distinctions between processes based on whether fabric is sheer or tightly woven
Sourcing the best composition metal leaf
Best practices (with examples) to ensure success
How to add multiple layers to build depth and complexity
Troubleshooting when something goes wrong
Tips, tricks, and new ideas
Creative Strength Training
Discover a Deeper Connection to Your Artist Self!
Artists and athletes alike benefit from strength training. Building creative stamina takes encouragement, mentoring, and regular practice. In Creative Strength Training, you'll discover powerful strategies that combine writing and hands-on art-making to overcome creative stumbling blocks, develop a unique voice and make creating art a regular habit.
Overcome resistance while dismantling "the Committee" (that group of inner critics).
Explore 10 exercises for making art that stands apart as uniquely yours.
Receive support and inspiration from contributing artists who share how each chapter has improved their practice and helped them evolve.
Begin a fresh approach to your creative practice. Begin building stamina today with Creative Strength Training!
Collaborate with Mother Nature: Botanical Printing with the Heat Press
My new book is a guide to using a classic heat press to create botanical prints from foliage and flowers.
What to look for in an affordable press
Why is a press advantageous?
How to set up the studio
Factoring in the all important components of time, temperature and moisture
Chemicals and colors
Enhancing your prints with transfers, India or walnut ink, and metal or foil leafing
Tips and tricks to make the press a success!
Featured artists who are already rocking the press world!
Full appendix with recipes and resources
110 pages
Full color
The Best of Both Worlds: Enhanced Botanical Printing
Direct printing with leaves and flowers has a large and dedicated following. Whether you’re a seasoned botanical artist or just eager to get started, this highly anticipated guide will be a welcome addition to your library.
The first chapters of the book cover basics – choosing plants, papers and fabrics – plus information on chemicals used to secure and enhance color permanently, so that prints are stable. Jane covers the basics of layering bundles of prints for steaming, and also discusses the construction of several convenient and inexpensive steaming options. Mordants, modifiers & barriers? All described in easy to understand terms so that generating prints is safe, efficient and beautiful!
In the second half of the book the fun begins. Lust after color? Long to add texture and pattern to make your prints distinctive? You won’t be disappointed. Techniques Jane shares include:
creating patterned resists to build background interest
using carriers to transfer color and also pattern to the print
employing photocopy transfers & pre-printed silk as additional means of embellishment
soy wax pastes, Inktense blocks & other methods for adding color and pattern
an entire chapter on embellishment ideas, including metal leaf, chemical guar gum pastes & hand coloring
Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design for Fabric
When Complex Cloth was published in 1996, it quickly became the bible of surface design for fiber artists. In the years since, the world of surface design has significantly expanded: now fiber artists, art-to-wear designers, and art quilters have a much broader range of surface design products to choose from, and there are a wealth of technique combinations that can be used to create art cloth.
Art Cloth picks up where Complex Cloth left off, showing how to layer processes with the latest products to create stunning cloth for use in a variety of fiber art. Following Jane's techniques with step-by-step photography, you will learn to create art cloth using dyes, color removing agents, paints, and foils combined through processes that include silk-screen printing, stamping, stenciling, and hand-painting.
In addition to detailed step-by-step wet-media surface design techniques, Jane demonstrates how the use of color and design contribute to successful layering. She guides and inspires artists to take their art cloth to the next level through sidebars with design tips and exercises that support the technical information.
Finally, each technique chapter concludes with project ideas for the skills learned, so anyone working through the book can literally build layers on cloth as each chapter is completed.
Improvisational Screen Printing
90 PAGES, FULL COLOR, REPRESENTING THE WORK OF 30 ARTISTS.
This 2002 self-published classic is the one book I have been asked to update over the past ten years. So here it is. Descriptions of a dozen surfaces, both permanent and impermanent, that can be used to print design elements using a standard wood or aluminum frame silk screen, which is available at any art supply. Processes include glue, wax, flour paste, water-based crayon, and thickened dye on the screen. Permanent processes include house paint, spray paint and the use of Thermofax screens. The book is loaded with tips and variations.
The appeal of these processes is their low-tech availability. Anyone can acquire a screen or two, read a chapter in this book, and get started immediately. The full color gallery inspires with works from more than 30 artists who have used these techniques successfully and have graciously shared their work.