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Author : Spike Bucklow
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Alchemy of Paint written by Spike Bucklow and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at how pigments were created, used, and revered in the Middle Ages.
Author : Eva Marie Magill-Oliver
Publisher : Quarry Books
ISBN 13 : 1631595962
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Paint Alchemy written by Eva Marie Magill-Oliver and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience wonder and excitement as you mindfully take your painting technique to the next level: It’s Paint Alchemy. Part of the new Alchemy series, Paint Alchemy explores how to build a painting practice. Whether you’re a novice or an experienced painter, you’ll learn how to create freely by combining a foundation in solid techniques and design principles with an open approach that stays focused on the moment, rather than the end result. You will learn how to prepare your art space, work with intention, and move between action and observation, responding to the work along the way. Paint Alchemy will help you cultivate a full perspective on the process: from developing ideas in a sketchbook to crystalizing your vision. As you work through the exercises, you’ll gain a better understanding of color theory, mark making, representational form, abstraction, and composition. Mindfulness, experimentation, and reflection will give way to wonder as your paintings develop.
Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415921138
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (211 download)
Download or read book What Painting is written by James Elkins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.
Author : Annie Sloan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781855858862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Paint Alchemy written by Annie Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, artists have mixed pigments and secret ingredients together to create textured paint with particular sheen and luminosity. Achieve that same wizardry by unlocking the secrets of paint alchemy. Mix and transform your own paints to invent colors just for you and your home--at a fraction of the cost of store-bought cans. More than 50 unique recipes, each illustrated with a swatch showing the finished paint and enchanting interior photographs, demystify the complex principles of paint formulation. Special sections offer information on how to grind pigments, basic rules for safe handling of materials, organic pigments, and how to give your paint distinct characteristics--more or less intensity, for example--as well as exciting ideas for alternative recipes and inspirational suggestions for devising unusual paint effects. Concoct a batch of Mellow Silk, Translucent Veil, Gold Varnish, or any of the other brews, and stir up some magic in your home.
Author : Dennis Pottenger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000377474
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo written by Dennis Pottenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers a depth psychological analysis of the art and life of Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist painter. The book uses Varo’s paintings in a revolutionary way: to critique the patriarchal underpinnings of Jungian psychology, alchemy, and Surrealism, illuminating how Varo used painting to address cultural complexes that silence female expression. The book focuses on how the practice of alchemical psychology, through the power of imagination and the archetypal Feminine, can lead to healing and transformation for individuals and culture. Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers the first in-depth psychological treatment of the role alchemy played in the friendship between Varo and Leonora Carrington—a connection that led to paintings that protest the pitfalls of patriarchy. This unique book will be of great interest for academics, scholars, and post-graduate students in the fields of analytical psychology, art history, Surrealism, cultural criticism, and Jungian studies.
Author : Spike Bucklow
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780236247
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Red written by Spike Bucklow and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood, rust, lava, wine—the flush of passion and the glow of approaching night—no color arrests our attention more than the color red. Today it is the flag of danger and seduction, of spirit and revolution, but throughout nearly all of human history it has held a special place in our aesthetics. In this book, Spike Bucklow brings us into the heart of this fiery hue to better understand the unique powers it has had over us. Bucklow takes us from a thirty-four-thousand-year-old shaman burial dress to the iPhone screen, exploring the myriad of purposes we have put red to as well as the materials from which we have looked to harvest it. And we have looked for it everywhere, from insects to tree resin to tar to excitable gasses. Bucklow also details how our pursuit of the color drove medieval alchemy and modern chemistry alike, and he shows us red’s many symbolic uses, its association with earth, blood, and fire, its coloring of caves and the throne rooms of goddesses, as well as national flags, fire trucks, power grids, and stoplights. The result is a material and cultural history that makes one see this color afresh, beating with vibrancy, a crucial part of the human visual world.
Author : Max Doerner
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156577168
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting, with Notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters written by Max Doerner and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1984 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic book on the craft of painting including technique and materials.
Author : Bonny Pierce Lhotka
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132562944
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Digital Alchemy written by Bonny Pierce Lhotka and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Digital Alchemy, acclaimed printmaker Bonny Pierce Lhotka shows how to turn your standard inkjet printer into a seemingly magical instrument capable of transforming your printed images into true works of art. Using plenty of visuals and straightforward terms, Lhotka walks you step-by-step through over a dozen projects. Forget printing on boring old paper, in Digital Alchemy, you’ll learn how to transfer and print images to a variety of surfaces including metal, wood, fabric, stone, and plastic using the techniques Lhotka’s spent years developing. If you’re a photographer looking for new ways to personalize your work or a digital artist who’s ready to take your work to the next level, you’ll find all of the tools, techniques, and inspiration you need in this book. Lhotka’s enthusiasm for experimenting with unusual printing materials and processes has led her to create new and amazing transfer techniques, including one that resembles a PolaroidTM transfer on steroids. She also shows you how to make prints using unexpected, everyday materials such as hand sanitizer and gelatin. You’ll even learn direct printing, the technique for sending your custom substrate through your printer almost as if it were paper. In Digital Alchemy, you’ll learn how to: Transfer images to metal, wood, plastic, and other materials that will not feed through an inkjet printer Print directly on metal for a fraction of the cost of using a print service Simulate a print from an expensive UV flatbed printer using an inexpensive desktop printer Use carrier sheets and paintable precoats to print on almost any surface Achieve near-lithographic quality digital prints with transfer processes to uncoated fine art paper In addition to the tutorials in the book, you can watch Lhotka in action on the included DVD-ROM, which has over 60 minutes of video footage where you’ll learn how to perform an alcohol gel transfer, transfer an image to a wooden surface, use your inkjet printer to achieve remarkable prints, and more. Simply insert the DVD-ROM into your computer's DVD drive. Note, this DVD-ROM will not work in TV DVD players.
Author : Kelli Perkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1620332558
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Stitch Alchemy written by Kelli Perkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing the versatility of paper with the dimensional qualities of cloth, this inventive handbook to crafting with "paper-cloth" provides mixed-media artists with the knowledge to easily transform their works into collaged quilts using embellishment techniques, such as painting, stitching, needlefelting, and beading. Though the technique is inexpensive and requires less space, equipment, and skill than dyeing fabrics for quilt making, readers will learn step-by-step how the use of paper-cloth--from making the paper-cloth itself; adding color and interest to the foundation with inks, stains, paints, and glazes; texturizing; implementing printmaking techniques; and more--can allow layers of complexity and textural appeal. Common projects include art quilts, art dolls, jewelry, and artist books. Perfect for artists interested in altered art, found and recycled art, needle felting, and nontraditional elements, this original resource is the first to cross the paper and cloth mediums.
Author : Gina Wilde
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 0307393550
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Alchemy of Color Knitting written by Gina Wilde and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alchemy of Color Knitting is the ultimate reference for knitters who are eager to bring richer, more complex colour to their projects. Gina Wilde, creative director of Alchemy Yarns of Transformation, begins with a concise, complete description of the fundamentals of colour theory - outlining the basics of the colour wheel and colour relationships - all explained from a knitter s point of view. With vital lessons, exercises and 25 inspiring garments to make, knitters will learn to think creatively in their colour choices and consider each colour s origins, lore and myriad meanings.
Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226036281
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Bright Earth written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums. Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113595853X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book What Painting Is written by James Elkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be transformed by the medium. In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really does in her or his studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colours will mix, and how they will look. Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, What Painting Is is like nothing you have ever read about art.
Author : Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396770
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Making Marvels written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.
Author : Daniel V. Thompson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486142035
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting written by Daniel V. Thompson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. In this volume, an internationally known authority on medieval paint technology describes these often jealously guarded recipes, lists of materials, and processes. Based upon years of study of medieval manuscripts and enlarged by laboratory analysis of medieval paintings, this book discusses carriers and grounds, binding media, pigments, coloring materials, and metals used in painting. It describes the surfaces that the medieval artist painted upon, detailing their preparation. It analyzes binding media, discussing relative merits of glair versus gums, oil glazes, and other matters. It tells how the masters obtained their colors, how they processed them, and how they applied them. It tells how metals were prepared for use in painting, how gold powders and leaf were laid on, and dozens of other techniques. Simply written, easy to read, this book will be invaluable to art historians, students of medieval painting and civilization, and historians of culture. Although it contains few fully developed recipes, it will interest any practicing artist with its discussion of methods of brightening colors and assuring permanence. "A rich feast," The Times (London). "Enables the connoisseur, artist, and collector to obtain the distilled essence of Thompson's researches in an easily read and simple form," Nature (London). "A mine of technical information for the artist," Saturday Review of Literature.
Author : Addie Hirschten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781366006851
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Alchemy of Painting written by Addie Hirschten and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you interested in developing your painting skills? Inspired by questions asked by her painting students, artist Addie Hirschten created this book to encourage your individual artistic journey. This how-to guide for painters both explains basic painting techniques and prompts you to develop your own artistic style.Topics covered included painting materials, creating an art studio, steps to painting, developing your signature style, tricks of perspective, values, composition, color mixing, color harmony, the role art will play in your life and more! The classic exercises in this book will help you develop your skills whether you wish to work abstractly or realistically. The many contributing artists share a wide variety to styles to inspire you. They include Trisha Adams, Charlene Brown, Elizabeth Chapman, Lynn Dunbar, Jessica Green, Sofiya Inger, Megan Jefferson, Dima Kroma, Pamela C. Newell, Leslie Saeta, Carrie Schmitt, and Randall David Tipton.The author, Addie Hirschten, is a contemporary impressionist painter, public speaker, and host of the podcast, "The Alchemy of Art." She teaches painting workshops around the country and with the Indianapolis Art Center.
Author : Shirley Trevena
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1906388830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Breaking the Rules of Watercolour written by Shirley Trevena and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley Trevena is a well-known and successful watercolourist, with a huge international fan base. Throughout her career she has pushed the boundaries of watercolour and is regarded as one of Britain's most innovative artists in that medium. Shirley's watercolours are visually inspiring, vibrant in colour and strong in composition This, her third book, shows how she achieves her stunning results by pushing the medium to its limits. Shirley takes the reader through 10 paintings in great detail and shares all her professional tips and painting secrets. In addition, each painting has large close-up details so the reader can really see all the brushstrokes. Shirley breaks the conventional rules of watercolour in many different ways: through her compositions, strange perspectives, fascinating textures and, above all, the strength and vibrancy of her colour combinations. In Breaking the Rules of Watercolour, Shirley explains all her painting decisions and demonstrates her techniques at every stage. In this way, she encourages all watercolourists, whatever their level, to experiment with the medium and produce exciting and challenging work of their own.
Author : Rebecca Purcell
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780688148942
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Interior Alchemy written by Rebecca Purcell and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1998-03-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are tricks for creating cutting-edge interior design from tile original style setter at New York's trendsetting ABC Carpet & Home. The recent issue of Metropolitan Home magazine featured a New York apartment furnished with beautiful finds scavenged from flea markets. America has developed a yen for the vintage. Whether covering an entire wall with a salon-style arrangement of pictures creating the "attic" look; throwing together a grand canopied bed faked with gilded molding and draperies to evoke thc "exotic"; or choosing to go "spare" by displaying carefully selected objects, including old tools, glass boxes, or botanical prints, style setter Rebecca Purcell shows how anyone can create expressive rooms that make a statement. Full-color photographs in each chapter show how these fabulous styles were produced in different homes. Chapters include do-it-yourself projects for finishing touches, including tassels, aging fabrics and metals, valances and draperies, wall washing and stenciling, picture matting, and more.
