These are some books that I'm actually not giving away. I know, can you believe it? I bought these for myself recently and I'm excited to have some time to look through them as well as finish up a few UFO's.
For time's sake I'm only going to give you a quick review of Jane Davila's Surface Design Essentials. I'll get to the other two as soon as I get into them a little more. No fair in reviewing a book you have not even had time to read right?
Do you get excited when you see all the design tools and supplies but you don't have a clue what to do with them? Good, that means I'm not alone. This book gives instructions and describes what to do with the supplies that many of us have in a drawer someplace because we did not know what to do with it. No, I'm not going through your drawers....I'm a psychic medium in my spare time :)
- Using Soft Body Acrylics
- Using Acrylic Mediums
- Creating Background Washes
- Using Acrylic Ink
- Stamping
- Printing
- Mono-printing-Subtractive
- Mono-printing- Additive
- Sun printing
- Stenciling
- Painting Unusual Surfaces
- Using Water-Soluble Ink Pencils
- Modifying Commercial fabric
- Making Image Transfers
So you see, I'm not so generous after all. LOL I'm off to the basement now....that is where my sewing area/design studio/stuff is :)
Smiles,
Kelly
I am glad to see that you are keeping something for yourself..... I am a visual learner too..
ReplyDeleteOh how I love inspirational books. This one sounds fantastic. Packed full of great tips. Thanks for sharing insights! I've added it to my wish list!
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Have fun!! :-)
ReplyDeleteGood for you! You need to have some fun too. These books look great. Can't wait to hear all about them and see what you create ;-D
ReplyDeleteGreen and red usually end up with a brown or a muddy gray.
ReplyDeleteHa ha... one of these days I am going to have to combine my painting and my quilting!
I love that book, looks like something I could use to learn more about fabric painting and the types of mediums I can get around here.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
It's a very cool book -- I like that it's spiral bound and lies flat.
ReplyDeleteWe have to keep inspiring ourselves in order to have fun!
ReplyDeleteHi, looks like a great book. I use my daughter (the one with colour sense) to help me with colours - I am hopeless. Regards Sam (Sandra)
ReplyDeletewoohoo prezzies for kelly
ReplyDeleteThank you for the review - have been thinking about getting this book myself. Looks good.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great book! And it's good that you keep some things for yourself!
ReplyDeleteIs the Blooming Possiblilites a book? It looks like a really cute bag on the cover. And when do you ever find the time to read??
ReplyDeleteHi Kelly, some pictures are showing up for me, and some aren't....I'm sure the quilt looks great...even if it does just look like a white rectangle with black outline (Binding maybe?!?) at this end right now! I'll use my imagination, and say that I would hang the quilt in my lounge room above my entertainment unit...so whenever anyone visits, they will see it on my wall. I'd love the win the quilt. Hugs Naomi
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