This book is jam-packed with ideas for creating your own unique ornaments. There is something for painters and crafters of all levels and age groups. Make ornaments for craft shows or bazaars, as gifts, or to decorate your own tree. The ornaments are created using a variety of products... wood, glass, metal, rusty tin, oven-bake clay, bread dough clay, cinnamon dough, paper mache, fabric and foam. Complete preparation, painting and finishing instructions, plus a color conversion chart for acrylic and glass paints so you can use any brand you like. A must-have on your creative book shelf!
There are five delicate doily patterns using sewing thread and a size 10 steel hook. The thread painting technique may be used on any doily pattern. Thread painting is a technique used in crochet to give the effect of shaded color. Sewing thread is highly reccomended because of the wide range of colors available and of the size of the thread, which makes the color changes subtle rather than drastic if regular crochet thread were used.This book is not recommended for the novice crocheter.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin’s essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Ruskin’s range was vast. He wrote over 250 works which started from art history, but expanded to cover topics ranging over science, geology, ornithology, literary criticism, the environmental effects of pollution, and mythology.
This book completes John Boardman's study of Greek vase painting in the World of Art. The author demonstrates that all the components of Greek art that were to culminate in the Classical styles of the fifth century can be traced in the development of vase painting in early Greece, from the eleventh to the sixth centuries B.C. The vases are the most prolific source for this study, as well as being invaluable documents of society, religion, trade, and colonization. The works discussed here display the Greek painter's craft at its most mathematical, its most colorful, and in its most directly narrative mode.
