This beautiful book provides a complete guide to printing with rubber stamps. Beginning with a foreword by the artist Rob Ryan and a short history of rubber stamping, it then explains the technical basics: how to cut your stamp, mask prints, make your own printing pads, clean your stamps (making more artwork as you do so!) and what equipment to use. At the heart of the book are forty inventive projects that will inspire readers to create their own...

This survey of woodcut illustration as practiced in the 1920s abounds in outstanding works by artists from around the world. Nearly 200 illustrations - rendered in two-color images as well as in an eight-page full-color insert - include landscapes and street scenes, portraits, and book illustrations by Rockwell Kent, Rudolph Ruzicka, William Zorach, Eric Gill, and other artists. Organized by country, the book reviews the work of artists from several...

La bague orne les cigares depuis plus de cent cinquante ans. Elle fut, jusqu'à la Première Guerre Mondiale, réalisée en lithographie polychrome. Les modèles, imprimés pendant cette période, apparaissent comme de véritables oeuvres d'art. Ils représentent des thèmes variés, comme la flore ou l'héraldique, ainsi que des portraits de personnalités historiques. Cet ouvrage présente près de mille huit cents modèles de la collection Van...

Whatever art you practice, chances are you're going to come across image transfer techniques. These valuable techniques allow you to reproduce a unique image from any source and apply it to a myriad of surfaces. The options are endless! Playing with Image Transfers is a beautiful and helpful resource that will teach you the four image transfer methods: Packing Tape, Solvent, Medium, and Acrylic transfers, while highlighting basic methods and offering...

Featuring over 100 unique prints, Modern Japanese Prints is a testament to the continuity of Japanese art and creativity. By far the most vitally creative group of artists working in Japan today, modern print-makers are truly international in appeal. Although they owe much of their heritage to the famous ukiyoe techniques of the past, they depart from their forebears in at least two important respects. In the first place, whereas in the ancient ukiyoe...

Detailed, illustrated instructions for selecting tools, paper, and ink; carving both linoleum and wood; and printing by hand in one color or more to achieve professional results.

Partez à la découverte de la gravure avec ce Grand Article Universalis! Il est peu d'objets d'art qui soient aussi complexes que la gravure. D'une part, la fabrication mécanique s'ajoute à la création de l'artiste; d'autre part, la gravure peut être à la fois une œuvre d'art originale et, du fait de sa reproduction à de multiples exemplaires, un moyen de communication de masse. Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en...

The invention in the late eighteenth century of lithography, or "writing on stone," reshaped the course of graphic arts. Some years later, the father of this world-changing technology, Alois Senefelder, published a description of the process. This English translation of the original German work, Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey, vividly describes Senefelder's struggles to develop and popularize the medium and the lithographic techniques...

From simple creations to advanced works of art, Origami Book will show you how to create unique and original origami toys and decorations. Here are 30+ simple projects that are a snap for beginners! There are illustrations and instructions for folding a Tulip, hat, cup, and pinwheel. There are even more difficult models such as a Tortoise, Butterfly and Boat. Step-by-step diagrams, instructions, and photographs of the finished projects will show you...

If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the swan-like necks of the women, the mysterious looks, evokes in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient. If some scenes discreetly betray lovers' games, a great number of his shungas recall that love in Japan is first and foremost erotic.