The Mixed-Media Artist Art Tips, Tricks, Secrets and Dreams by Seth Apter

By Seth Apter

Combined media or secret? Theres a mystery to figuring out the secret in the back of the hidden message in a piece of mixed-media paintings. As Seth Apter understands, should you can get to understand the artist, you'll get to understand the paintings. The combined Media Artist unlocks this secret and offers an intimate look at the hearts, souls and inventive strategies of over forty inspiring artists. wonderful self-portraits, innermost self-reflections and sensible art-making tutorials are only many of the keys youll locate right here to unlocking the door to a better figuring out of the way and why paintings is made. priceless how-tos: all through every one part, artists proportion favourite instruments, mystery components and step by step methods that transcend the who to supply the how. forty four artists proportion artistic views and intimate options: Provocative questions are replied not just in phrases, yet a number of occasions as paintings, spotlighting the forces that make the artwork and the artists what and who they're. Compelling ballot facts: solutions amassed from hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate statistical insights at the inventive neighborhood at huge. Immerse your self within the artistic phrases and works of The combined Media Artist and get to grasp the artist at the back of your individual artwork! Editorial experiences evaluation «Seth Apter has compiled this excellent e-book for North gentle Books, and no matter if you're an paintings lover or a maker...or both...you probably want to learn via it.» - Cyndi Lavin, Mixed-Media Artist.com, 2013 concerning the writer Seth Apter is a combined media artist, teacher, writer and fashion designer from ny urban. His art has been exhibited in a number of exhibitions and will be present in various books, autonomous zines, and nationwide magazines. he's the voice at the back of the heartbeat, a sequence of overseas, collaborative tasks which are the root for his first publication the heartbeat of combined Media: secrets and techniques and Passions of a hundred Artists published, published in March 2012 by means of North mild Books. His moment publication, The Mixed-Media Artist: paintings advice, tips, secrets and techniques and goals From Over forty striking Artists, was once lately published in October 2013, additionally via North mild. he's the artist in the back of workshop DVDs published in June 2012: effortless combined Media floor recommendations and straightforward combined Media options for the artwork magazine. His reside workshops were held in the course of the usa and he'll even be educating in Mexico and Australia in 2014. he's a member of CHA, a blogger for Spellbinders Paper Arts, and a stencil clothier for StencilGirl items.

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Some things require no words. Is there any art medium you have avoided using out of fear? Yes 52% No 48% Supria Karmakar When the true essence of creativity flows from me, I believe it is my muse’s creation that is being portrayed and birthed into the world. My passion is mixed-media works. Each piece I create, I see as a container for the unfolding of a story with layers of narrative that serves to delight, provide meaningful insight and/or provide the viewer a place of comfort and connection, whether it be joyous or melancholy.

ARTISTIC PROCESS: THOMAS ASHMAN Creating The Object of My Affectation So how does Thomas achieve the distressed look such as the one for his self-portrait? Some things require no words. Is there any art medium you have avoided using out of fear? Yes 52% No 48% Supria Karmakar When the true essence of creativity flows from me, I believe it is my muse’s creation that is being portrayed and birthed into the world. My passion is mixed-media works. Each piece I create, I see as a container for the unfolding of a story with layers of narrative that serves to delight, provide meaningful insight and/or provide the viewer a place of comfort and connection, whether it be joyous or melancholy.

The words have changed yet these are still not the words that are used in the final piece. I began experimenting more with the background images and thought about what to do with the words in the poem running along the right side of the page. Thomas Ashman On the edge of the crowd, but still part of it, I create in the penumbra, in the light and the darkness, needing both. In my imagination, death is elegant, and bizarre is charming. I seek to juxtapose extremes. I have a story I must tell, even if no one listens.

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