May 292012
Mixed-Media Master Class with Sherrill Kahn: 50+ Surface-Design Techniques for Fabric & Paper
- CT-54238
- 9781607054238
- Brand New Item / Unopened Product
- C&T Publishing
Create along with mixed-media master Sherrill Kahn as she shows you dozens of ways to make luminous textures and surfaces on both paper and fabric. This step-by-step visual guide demonstrates exactly how to get great results using paints, inks, resists, stamps, markers, and much more. Add color and texture to collages, art quilts, or just about any creative project by exploring more than 50 fun and inventive techniques using easy-to-find supplies.
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techniques not new,
I liked the book, it’s in full color with gorgeous pictures of the authors wonderful work. Looking at art in general inspires me to go create and this book does stimulate my creative mojo….but that’s due to the pictures of the authors work, not the techniques offered.
I don’t know if my assumption is wrong, but I thought a “master class” meant it would be more advanced techniques. And by “advanced” I meant techniques you’re not use to seeing or reading about in other books/magazines. There really wasn’t more than one or two techniques out of the 50+ in the book that I wasn’t already familiar with (and those were due to a specific product she was using, not the actual technique of what she was doing with them). I’ve only been doing mixed media for a year, so I was quite shocked how “old” and “common” some of these techniques are.
For instance–the first section tells you you can use cheesecloth, paper, tissue paper, lutradur, and TAP in your collages. Anyone not know that already?
The second sections tells you can use chalk, oil, paint, markers and Inktense (the only thing I hadn’t heard of) to add color…is that new to you? Third section talks about resists… anyone not know you can use masking tape, crayons or wax for this? Then we’re on to stencils, rubbings and print making. Do you need a new book to tell you to use stencils? what about wrapping rubber bands around something and then using as a stamp? These things are talked about in every other book and magazine I get/read, it’s nothing new. Many of these techniques are actually in her earlier books, like using fun foam and rubber stamps and such.
So, while I enjoyed the artwork I did not get a single new technique out of this book.
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|New Techniques,
`Mixed-Media Master Class’ by Sherrill Kahn covers 50 or more techniques for use on paper and/or fabrics. It is a great reference book for anyone wanting to improve or change their artwork. `Mixed-Media Master Class’ is also a very good book for beginning students. Kahn shows examples of what the project looks like and then, she lists the steps on how to do the techniques. Kahn uses wonderful photography to aid the students’ learning.
Some of the techniques in `Mixed-Media Master Class’ include using resists such as petroleum jelly, using textures, stenciling, making rubbings, making and using handmade stamps, silk screening, how to use lutrador, Transfer Artist Paper (TAP), and computer-printed images.
I like Kahn’s book because no matter what level you are as an artist, there will always be able to learn more from it. It is a great book to help resolve your artist’s block!
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|Great Book!!,
I have all of Sherril Kahn’s books AND her DVD and I love them all. Her techniques are easy to follow and the results are amazing and look intricate and difficult to do, although they are not. Supplies are minimal, pretty much what all crafter’s and artists probably already have. I would recommend her books to those looking to start working in mixed media or those already established as artists.
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