Simple Printmaking

Create unique, handmade wall art, cards, bags, gift wrap, scarves, pillows, dishes, and moreTechniques for printing on paper, fabric, and glassware with stencils, carved foam and plastic blocks, screenprinting, and moreExplores the key printmaking techniques, including monoprinting, screenprinting, and relief printingMore than 30 easy-to-make home printing projectsLearn to print on paper, fabric, and glass with simple techniques and everyday materials that can be found around the house. More than 30 projects show the process clearly with step-by-step illustrations and offer inspiration for the many uses of printmaking. The techniques found in this book can be used to decorate cards, t-shirts, handbags, lampshades, easy fit tags, tea towels, glassware, and more.

With vibrant cut-paper collages, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner presents an adaptation of a folktale from Zimbabwe that celebrates the importance of appreciating one's own inner beauty. Full color.

Bring out your child’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 artful activities in this completely revised and updated edition Art making is a wonderful way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening their fine motor skills and developing self-confidence. The Artful Parent has all the tools and information you need to encourage creative activities for ages one to eight. From setting up a studio space in your home to finding the best art materials for children, this book gives you all the information you need to get started. You’ll learn how to: * Pick the best materials for your child’s age and learn to make your very own * Prepare art activities to ease children through transitions, engage the most energetic of kids, entertain small groups, and more * Encourage artful living through everyday activities * Foster a love of creativity in your family

"Collage remains an exciting medium for stampers. And that's what makes this...so inviting. It's a rose-and-dandelion hillside of unexpectedly beautiful projects that range from Chinatown Boxes to Collage Paper Dolls to Frayed Fabric Collage. A materials list and full instructions accompany each project, after a helpful introductory section on techniques, composition and other preliminaries. Excellent gallery art...provides inspiration. As an avid beginner or knowledgeable stamper, you'll find this... ideal for a weekend of creativity."--"Rubber Stamp Madness."

Draw, stamp, screen print, and more to create gorgeous art cloth! Intentional Printing walks you through a two-part approach to fabric design. Author Lynn Krawczyk starts by showing you how to develop your own distinct printing style by first identifying the colors, themes, and processes that speak to you and then using those ideas repeatedly to explore your furthest possibilities. At the same time, Lynn urges you to think beyond simply printing fabric and consider how the finished cloth will be used. She demonstrates a variety of printing, stamping, painting, and color techniques, encouraging you to identify what draws you back again and again and to push your personal themes as far as possible. Using examples of her work, Lynn then shows how she adapts her own preferred imagery to projects, explaining what works and what does not. You emerge with a solid knowledge of basic printing techniques, an understanding of how to apply them for maximum impact, and an appreciation of your own personal creative voice.

Be inspired by this vast range of experimental printing ideas. Printmaking has been part of the artist's arsenal for centuries. Goya, Du¿ rer, M. C. Escher, Rembrandt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Picasso, Lichtenstein, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol and Pierre Bonnard - to name but a few - were advocates. The scope of printmaking is vast. The Printing Ideas Book explores the different processes available to artists - such as screenprinting, etching, lithography, risography, collagraphy, linocut, cyanotypes, woodcut, aquatint, monoprints, digital printing, drypoint and engraving - from a new and exciting angle. To celebrate the art of printmaking, this book is filled to the brim with experimental, arresting and beautiful examples of printing from all over the world.