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Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum

By Lotta Jansdotter

Chronicle Books
Paperback (120 pages)

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Beloved Scandinavian designer Lotta Jansdotter shows how easy it is to print patterns on all sorts of surfaces. Using stencils, rubber stamps, homemade screens, and other easy techniques, the projects and processes range from simple prints easy for beginners to more involved projects for experienced artists. Stencil leaves on the walls, stamp flowers on wrapping paper, screen-print on a skirt the sky's the limit. Beautiful photographs inspire while step-by-step instructions and illustrations explain the basics. Plus, Lotta has included eight ready-to-use stencil pages with hand-drawn patterns, so crafters can easily achieve her signature style. Our innovative format, with perforated stencil sheets and a catchall envelope at back, makes this a fantastic resource for any aspiring printer.

Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer

By Nick Paparone & Luren Jenison

North Light Books
Paperback (144 pages)

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Print Liberation is a comprehensive DIY guide to screen printing for both novice crafters as well as experienced artists. The book begins by giving readers a brief history of screen-printing while outlining the basic principles of the process including the equipment and tools needed to get started. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color photographs show readers the various methods for making great screen prints and tips on how to avoid screen-printing mistakes. Information about printing on various surfaces from wallpaper to t-shirts, cylinders and more gives readers a general understanding of the various applications for screen-printing and solid information on how to turn their screen prints into a personal art or business. Bonus sample images formatted for screen-printing are included for readers to use in their own screen prints.

The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

By Gustave Dore Dover Publications Paperback (141 pages)	List Price: $14.95 Lowest New Price: $8.84 Lowest Used Price: $7.00 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 17:49 Pacific 7 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: 135 fantastic and grotesque scenes depict the passion and grandeur of one of Dante's most highly regarded works — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise. Includes plates produced for The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. Illustrations accompanied by appropriate lines from the Longfellow translation.

Texture Effects for Rubber Stamping

By Nancy Curry

North Light Books
Paperback (128 pages)

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Top trend spotters in the craft and greeting card industry say that consumers are showing a real passion for texture. Crafters can easily satisfy that craving with this treasure trove of 40 elegant card and gift projects. It teaches plenty of texture-making techniques that utilize the magic of stamping in all its forms.

Curry is a master at creating dreamy, sophisticated and surprisingly beautiful texture effects. With enthusiasm, she teaches how to make richly textured backgrounds that look complex, but are surprisingly easy to re-create.

Step-by-step, readers will have fun combining basic stamping techniques with metallic paints, resist effects, alcohol inks, layers of acetate, watercolors, embellishments and much more!

Projects are conveniently grouped into sections that highlight the different ways texture can be created-by using visual texture, spot coloration, layered texture or adding embellishments.

Long-time rubber stampers and card makers will be inspired by all the new texturing techniques and clever variations demonstrated in this book.

:More than just cards, there are also lots of fresh ideas for turning ordinary boxes, tags, clocks and tiles into memorable gift items.

All this makes Texture Effects for Rubber Stamping an inspirational resource crafters will turn to again and again.

German Expressionist Woodcuts (Collections of Fine Art in Dover Books)

Dover Publications Paperback (128 pages)	List Price: $14.95 Lowest New Price: $9.01 Lowest Used Price: $6.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 17:49 Pacific 7 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: Over 100 works by Beckmann, Feininger, Kirchner, Kollwitz, Nolde, Marc, others. Distorted, stylized forms embody revolutionary mood of the early 20th-century. Introduction. Captions. Notes on artists.

Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast

By Hilary Stewart

University of Washington Press
Paperback (111 pages)

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Art Stamping Workshop: Create Hand-Carved Stamps for Unique Projects on Paper, Fabric, Polymer Clay and More

By Gloria Page

North Light Books
Paperback (128 pages)

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Create a signature look with stamped images you carve yourself!

Can't find that perfect stamp for a special project? Carve it yourself! Art Stamping Workshop introduces you to the world of carving and printing soft blocks to create great gifts, home décor items and personal apparel—all with a look uniquely yours.

Detailed instructions on carving tools and techniques get you started. Then learn to create 20 projects on paper, fabric and alternative surfaces, such as wood and polymer clay. Additional features include:

• Friendly step-by-step instruction for every project to get you stamping quickly
• Patterns for stamp designs used in the projects
• Lots of variation ideas for personally adapting the projects
• An inspirational gallery with works from 28 artists to motivate you to take stamping to the next level
• Tips for developing your own logo and artistic identity

Carving your own stamps gives you the freedom to use any image at any size and sets your work apart from the crowd. Discover the satisfaction that comes from printing your own images and start carving your stamps today!

The Dore Bible Illustrations

By Gustave Dore Dover Publications Paperback (241 pages)	List Price: $15.95 Lowest New Price: $8.09 Lowest Used Price: $5.24 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 17:49 Pacific 7 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus and visions of the new Jerusalem. Each of the 241 plates is accompanied by the appropriate verses from the King James version of the Bible.

101 Great Samurai Prints

By Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Dover Publications
Paperback (112 pages)

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One of the last great names in the Japanese ukiyo-e style, Kuniyoshi was an undisputed master of the warrior woodblock print — and these 18th-century illustrations represent the pinnacle of his craft. One hundred and one full-color portraits of renowned Japanese samurais pulse with movement, passion, and remarkably fine detail. Includes brief captions and a new introduction.

Harter's Picture Archive for Collage and Illustration (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Dover Publications Paperback (192 pages)	List Price: $14.95 Lowest New Price: $8.96 Lowest Used Price: $7.00 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 17:49 Pacific 7 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: Over 300 authentic, rare 19th-century engravings selected by noted collagist for artists, designers, decoupeurs. Machines, people, animals, more, printed one side of page. 25 scene plates for backgrounds. 6 collages by Harter, Satty, Singer, Evans. Introduction.

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