Description

• Develop your sense of composition and learn new approaches to abstract design.
• Experiment with texture effects, collage, inclusions, and encaustic.
• Learn how to use the latest new products to achieve magical effects.
• See how to use digital imagery, including how to do transfers with wax.
• Be inspired by the work of a wide variety of cutting-edge, mixed-media artists and experimental painters.

“This is a reference book that I will return to often for inspiration and instructive ideas. I look forward to using it in workshops and highly recommend it.” – Amy Mimu Rubin, FiberMixedMedia.com

Contents:

• Chapter 1: Getting Started.
• Chapter 2: How to compose.
• Chapter 3: Approaches to Abstract Design.
• Chapter 4: Experiments in Texture.
• Chapter 5: Layering Paint and Found Images.
• Chapter 6: Combining Words and Paint.
• Chapter 7: Working with Encaustic Materials.
• Chapter 8: Using Digital Photographs in Mixed-Media Paintings.
• Chapter 9: Gallery of Special Projects.
  • Contributing Artists.
  • Resources.
  • About the Author.
  • Acknowledgements.

This book is packed with images in colour to clearly show the various projects as well as different mediums (like gesso, beeswax etc.) and their applications.

** Although this video refers to Ann Baldwin’s video series, her book Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic, is based on the same processes and shows some of the images also featured in the book.

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