Embellished Mini-Quilts by Jamie Fingal
This is a great book for eye-candy, but not one that I would recommend to someone who is looking for the basics of making art quilts. If you’ve got experience, you’ll find it a treasure trove of ideas. If you haven’t, you’ll find it beautiful and lush, but frustrating in the […]
Don’t forget that there are dozens more wonderful books to stimulate your creativity or teach you a new technique…and the best of the best are listed in The Library. You can always find an up-to-date link to The Library in the “Pages” section in the right-hand sidebar of this blog!
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Mixed Emulsions by Angela Carwright
The subtitle of this marvelous book is “Altered art techniques for photographic imagery.” And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what’s included here. Cartwright shares dozens of ways to alter your actual photos through different media and by utilizing different substrates for your work. She covers tinting with oils […]
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Have you seen Art Doll Quarterly? I’m sure if you’re a fan of art dolls, you probably have. Dolls are not an art form that ever really entered my realm or tugged at my imagination…until I saw this magazine! WOW!! The things you can make, and this is the magazine with both the […]
Altered Curiosities
by Jane Ann Wynn
Altered Curiosities is an excellent name for this book. Instead of starting with the usual list of supplies and tools that every altered art book feels obligated to include, Jane Ann Wynn jumps right into techniques. My kinda girl! Fearlessly, she plows into soldering and cutting apart small plastic animals, drilling, […]
My copy came the other day, and I had almost forgotten about it since it takes months to put each one together. One of my photos was accepted and appear in this issue:
It’s another gorgeous issue, but can I confess something? I’m a teensy bit disappointed about how tiny my image was reproduced in the […]
Mixed-Media Collage
by Holly Harrison
Starting with in-depth interviews and explorations of the work of five collage artists, this book brings you deep into their creative processes. And you know how much we like talking about the creative process here on Layers Upon Layers, especially in our artist profiles!
I found Laurinda Bedingfield’s work especially interesting, and immediately […]
Congratulations to Andie MacCowan, the winner of a free copy of the premiere issue of Life Images magazine!
You’ve already heard me blabbing about getting two of my photos into Stampington & Company’s new magazine, Life Images. Well, they’ve sent me an extra copy that I’m allowed to give away here on Layers Upon Layers!!
I’m excited, because I think you’ll love this magazine. It combines art photography with storytelling, quotations, poetry, and […]
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Mixed Media Mosaics
by Laurie Mika
Using very few tools and not even too many materials, Laurie Mika shows us how to make polymer clay tile mosaics which are simply a feast for the eyes. Well, “simply” is the wrong word. Although these are not difficult to make, the finished effect is dazzling. You would […]
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