Product Description

This large format, full-colour, inspirational book is about how artists use their collections to make artwork. The gallery-style format allows readers to see what artists collect, and the resulting spectacular artwork they make from it. The book features the collections and the artwork of 33 major mixed-media artists. The artwork will include journals, assemblages, altered books, as well as jewellery pieces and detailed descriptions of the materials and techniques used, plus tips and insights into using unusual materials and collections. Mixed-media artists are naturally collectors. They are fascinated by the stuff of life and they are always looking for the right elements to add to their collages and journals. This book offers a juicy combination, sort of a walk through an artist-filled flea market, and a gallery of the pieces created using these collections with tips and insights on collecting and creating, and how they go hand in hand.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168208 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

About the Author
Lynne Perrella is an artist, author and workshop instructor. She has written two books for Quarry - Artists Journals & Sketchbooks and Alphabetica. She contributes articles to a variety of magazines and her work has appeared in various books on mixed media.

Customer Reviews

i love this book
i accept the comments made earlier but this is a beautiful book, it is very interesting and although not a 'project' book it is very inspirational and full of beautiful objects that are highly covetable with examples of high quality art made from scrap and found objects, other artists do feature and after borrowing it from a library , i am here to purchase my own copy.

not the best i've seen
i have other collage based books where lynne perrella features, i enjoyed looking at her work and thought this would be a obvious buy, although in all honesty its not a very useful book? i really don't see the purpose in it? it just tell you different things that she collects and that you should collect, there isn't really anything that you can learn from this book, just seems to have a collection of photos of things she has in her art draws at home? wouldn't really recommend this as there isn't anything to learn from it