“This is a wonderful way to start experimenting with fabric paint and all the effects you can create using different techniques.” —The Applique Society Explore a variety of fabric painting techniques and add a distinctive touch to your quilts. You’ll learn how to create sun prints and use resist techniques, as well as how to paint a Hawaiian quilt and a traditional block quilt. Try colorwashing, scrunching, and salting methods to create uniquely personal fabrics. With fun projects, basic information about color, and tips on different types of paints and supplies, the award-winning author of Snippet Sensations and other popular titles encourages you to experiment, be playful, and get creative!

Presents step-by-step instructions for creating surface designs on fabric using textile paints and printing ink, and includes tips on such techniques as stamping, silkscreen, image transfer, marbling, and Japanese shibori.

Ten years on from the first edition, Leone and Walter present this second edition of Fine Hand Quilting. The guide features tips from quilting professionals, information on materials and tools as well as three projects so that readers can start right away.

This title has an introductory section on paint mixing, the preparation of fabric, the basic principles of the painting and scraping techniques, and heat treatments. Clear step-by-step instructions and photographs explain every stage of the process.

Learn to mix virtually any skin tone in oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints with the recipes and acrylic mixing grid in Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil - Acrylic - Watercolor.

Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist. In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, which is also the name of his popular course at the University of Pennsylvania, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have taken up this challenge. Examining a wide range of texts and techniques, including the use of Google searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins this recent work to practices that date back to the early twentieth century. Writers and artists such as Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol embodied an ethos in which the construction or conception of a text was just as important as the resultant text itself. By extending this tradition into the digital realm, uncreative writing offers new ways of thinking about identity and the making of meaning.

Legendary artist Paul Strisik was not the kind of artist you'd find cooped up inside a studio. As one of the great plein air painters of his generation, Paul preferred to be outdoors using the sun to light his subjects. His years of experience in capturing that natural light are offered here in Capturing Light in Oils.