Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery |  | Author: Angela Cartwright
Publisher: Quarry Books
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Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1592533698
Dewey Decimal Number: 772
EAN: 9781592533695
ASIN: 1592533698
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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Product Description
Over 25 unique effects illustrated with process photos, finished examples, and variations. Mixed Emulsions is a follow up to Karen Michel's book, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery. Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery takes a slightly different tact, bringing traditional and digital photography front and center, showing the many ways that photographic imagery can be manipulated, not electronically, but using various art materials and techniques. The chapters explore ways to add color (paints, oil sticks, watercolors, inks), ways to add texture (embossing powders, gessos, pastes, wax), and special effects (printing on unusual substrates, imprinting, photo mosaics, using tissue, fabric, cardboard). Altered art continues to grow as an area of interest for many kinds of crafters. - A great technique book for artists looking to expand the creative possibilities for altered photography
- A gallery of artwork by other well-known artists offers further inspiration
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 Best for adventurous artists March 10, 2008
Linda T. Minton (Houston, TX)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I LOVE this book! I buy a lot of artist's books ... altered this-and-that, how-to books, etc. This one does not give much actual step-by-step instruction, which I consider an advantage. It gives you the ideas, beautiful examples, the supplies you need to achieve a similar outcome, and assumes that you have enough adventurous spirit to dive in and try it. This is one of the few books that I have read through, cover-to-cover, and can't wait to try almost every technique the author suggests.
Wonderful illustrations and examples, detailed information November 11, 2007
Jeran Walker (Presidio, Texas)
24 out of 29 found this review helpful
I preordered this book based on Angela Cartwright's previous books and website content and am very pleased. It was well worth the wait. There is a wealth of interesting and detailed information on how to alter photographs and creative ways to mount them for display. This is not a recipe book for duplicating the work shown, but rather gives you an overview of the possibilities of what can be done with materials as various as gel mediums, paints, oil pastels, gessos, embossing powders, transparent photo oil paints and colored pencils, etc. etc. This is art, not simple craft. The book is well organized, the illustrations are excellent, the text is well written. I am going to be using this book a great deal and throughly enjoy trying new materials and techniques. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in fusing hands on art materials with photography and blurring the differences between the two..
Mixin' It Up, oh, yeah, baby - your art that is - January 1, 2008
S. Fishburn (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA)
26 out of 32 found this review helpful
Yes, there has been a proliferation of books this past year on the vast and general subject of Mixed-Media. And why not? Artists and ideas abound, and the techniques showcased by one may appeal to a set group, but others may find themselves out in the cold, longing for a fresh, or at least differently skewed, approach.
Angela Cartwright is a renowned and respected black and white photographer who ups the ante of her shots by not simply hand-coloring, but layering and incorporating her photos, usually as focal centerpieces, within the larger framework of mixed-media collage. The evocatively colored images spill onto borders and wood frames, altered with a variety of methods, some of which will surely spark the imaginative fires of any artist working the genre.
She methodically (I hear she's a Virgo!) covers a plethora of techniques for use in incorporating photographic imagery into altered art, from milk stamping and encaustic to two of her specialties, mosaic and notch tooling. For each section, there is a brief overview and then a Project Launch, which, while not a traditional how-to, serves as a guiding hand to help the reader create a similar effect.
I love the inclusion of an art-full Timeline! Angela also laid out a remarkable Gallery section, which showcases (on a full page each!) the works of nearly two dozen established and emerging artists, from Anahata Katkin, Kelly Kilmer, Misty Mawn and Scott Davis Jones, to Shirley Ende-Saxe and JoFish.
Interesting, original, beautiful, well-explained, necessary April 8, 2008
Yael Bolender (Los Angeles, CA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Though I am able to make a lot of different crafts as I've been a teacher in France during several years, and author of one book released in 1999 in French, I precise, I always had problems with using photos in my crafted items, as I often had very bad surprises. That's why I bought this book, to learn, to know more about working on and around photos.
I also like to find something different and original, not always the same "how to do this or that", and I must admit I learned new things with this book, it made work my imagination, it is original, we feel the author knows her stuff very well, but there are also other artists' creations, and it is really very well explained, even for beginners.
So, I recommend this book which is, I think, useful, even absolutely necessary in any crafter's studio or home.
Yael
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great reference tool November 29, 2007
Connie Freedman
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm a new artist and find this book fascinating and inspiring. I can't wait to dive into all these wonderful techniques! It's well written, love the layout and the author has listed all the resources, which for the new and seasoned artists it's great. It's also a wonderful gift to give. One thing a friend and I have committed to doing is getting together once a month and learning these techniques. Chapter by chapter. We feel it's a great way of staying in touch in this busy world and it's something we both enjoy doing,art.
This will become a great reference tool for me for years to come.
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