This art catalogue was published to accompany the newest works of Athena Tacha at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art from September 8 to November from September 8 to November 4, 1989. There is one essay written by Thalia Gouma-Peterson titled "Chaos As Order in Athena Tacha's Work." The booklet is crisp and clean, measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 38 pages. Phhotographs abound in both black and white and color. View More...
Cover art is gorgeous and the ideas in this little booklet can easily be recreated today. It was published by the Dennison Company which brought out all types of craft books and supplies -- everything from paper flowers, to baby and wedding shower ideas and crafts. This one focuses on making flowers and beads with sealing wax. Lots of pictures and info. What's dazzling is the two page color illustration of the hues then available from Dennison -- spectacular! Booklet measures 5"x7-1/2" and has 24 clean, tightly bound pages. View More...
ITEM # 5858 THE BOOK OF PROJECTS PUB 1929 BY KLISE MFG. CO GRAND RAPIDS MI. 48 PGS 8 1/2 X 11 CARD COVER A SERIES OF DRAWINGS OF PROJECTS FOR WOOD WORKERS , WOOD SHOP HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FURNITURE MAKERS . KLISE SOLD THE PREMADE WOOD MOLDING FOR THESE PROJECTS DIRECT TO THE CRAFTSMEN OR TO THE SCHOOL IN BULK FOR THE WHOLE CLASS LAYED IN IS A TRIFOLD SHOWING THE MOLDINGS OFFERED THIS COPY CARRIES THE STICKER FROM THE ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS SHOP CABINET MAKERS EQUIMENT AND SUPPLIES 1293 E. 9 TH ST NORTH OF ST.CLAIR CLEVELAND OHIO TEXT BLOCK CLEAN AND BRIGHT , COVER SHOWS SOME S... View More...
As I write this it's the third issue I have listed on here. I bought them all at the same time and never saw another since. Among the offerings are these: The Walters Art Gallery Mummy; Robert Gilmor Jr. Baltimore Collector. A Method for Detecting False Limoges Painted Enamels; Firearms Carved by the Master H.N.; The Brummer Collection; illuminated manuscripts and a fifth century bronze ornament. Magazine measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 111 pages. There's a small crease to top front edge and two small spots on the word Baltimore at bottom of the cover. View More...
I've never seen this magazine, but if you like pottery and ceramics this magizine has a lot of info. It's also special to blend new booklets and magazines, but old ones are fun too. They also share thwir new ideas. The magazine measures 10-3/4" x 13-3/4" nd has pages from 194 to 212. There is other pages front and back.Many illustrations including a design ion color and design for jewelry. The magazine shows two relatively minor defects- a small piece of achival tape at the upper spine and a couple small brown stains at the bottom edge of the last page which get lighter and lighter. View More...
If the book arts are calling you, marbling endpapers are a beautiful craft to try. The book measures 7" x 10" and has 88 pages with 82 illustrations and 54 in color. There are also drawings to help as you go along. The booklet covers basic principles, equiment andmaterials, ox-gall and alum, paper and basic method of marbling variations, basic marbling, creative marbling and ebru, oil marbling, and marbling in the 18th century. View More...
I love art instruction items, so this one had to join the crowd in my art section. The booklet is bound in hard cover and is oversized at 9-1/2" x 11-1/2" and has 48 pages. There are no tears or chips and no names or writing other than that which appear under each drawing.The author/illustrator shares techniques for drawing but also on how to see and appreciate the beauty of the natural world. The dust jacket shows some sunning to edge at front and at back by spine and top edge. I will send it in a brand new mylar cover.Book ships for $2 media mail in the U.S. View More...
ITEM 5004 THE INSTRUCTOR POSTER PATTERNS VOL 1 AND 2 BY BESS BRUCE CLEAVELAND PUB BY F.A. OWEN 1916 AND 1920 EACH BOOK IS 17 X11 OPEN PLUS A COLOR FOLD OUT 24 X11 IN BACK B&W POSTER PATTERNS AND MOTHER GOOSE PICTURES FOR COLORING AND CUT OUT . DESIGNED FOR THE TEACHER TO MAKE COPIES FOR THE CLASS . BOTH BOOKS COMPLETE . VOL 1 HAS STAINS ALONG EDGES BUT NOT INTO PATTERNS ALL PATTERNS COPLETE AND CLEAR TO COPY
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Beautiful for tree ornaments, or for many other uses.The colors swirl and each ball is topped off with small treasures and small shells. I don't have the first book, but I do know that this one shows 15 more techniques and easy embellishments for 33 stunning ornments to paint. The book is in full color and has careful directions in 60 pages. View More...
Crisp, clean booklet that presents as new. No names or writing and no creasing. This is one of the prettiest art how-tos I think I ever had. But it isn't all about beauty-- the instruction is very detailed throughout.Denton discusses supplies, terminology, techniques, and hints to improve. The lessons are focused on flowers, so these are the ones you will learn to paint --white azalea, old oak tree, peace rose, calla lily, iris, petunia, cascading azalia, and two additional looks at the peace rose from different perspectives. Booklet measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 41 pages. View More...
Very nice, clean shop manual for those interested in making both utilitarian and/or decorative metal items. There are many instructive black and white photographs and drawings, plus a text which proceeds step-by-step. The booklet measures 7-3/4"x10-1/4" and has 68 pages plus back matter. Nice graphic on the front cover too. Small bit of toning to spine. Former owner's name stamped to title page. View More...
Today's auction catalogs are so gorgeous. I can't resist them all, but this one is exceptional. The catalog measures 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" with 154 pages.The text is in both Chinese and English and spotlights the private collection of Yan Yuntai and others. There are also black and white photos of the collectors with biographical material. The art is in color. View More...
Very handsome booklet with brown ink on cream paper throughout. Diane Ericson is well known as a designer and is very generous in this booklet with techniques for printing and painting on fabrics. Here's the topics covered -- tools and materials, fold and dye, rolling, spraying, finger painting, stamping, stencils, painting, brush warm-ups, making a brush, drawing, marbelizing, resist, supplies and a bibliography. Booklet measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 33 pages. Only fault is a small tear to outer edge of back cover which I repaired with almost invisible archival tape. View More...
I have a a few of these, all bought at the same time. I have one up now and this one will be there soon and then I think I mighthave two or three more. The photographs are in full color and the designs are creative. The sections are these: The Elements of Style; The Expression of Style; International Style -- the Japanese Perspective; Style -- The Spirit of Electicism; Stle -- The Art of Getting Noticed; and Visions in Contemporary Styl. The m,agazine measures 9-1/2" x 12-1/2" an has 80 glossy pages. View More...
For some unknown reason copies of this booklet are flying around cyberspace in high two, and even three, figures. It's a good instructional booklet, but it isn't rare! Here we have a very nice clean one with a small loss of top layer of paper to upper back corner -- just a snip -- but otherwise great. It measures 8-1/2"x11" and has 81 pages. No names or writing. A Stroke-by-stroke presentation of flexible-pen copperplate letters as a calligraphic alphabet. View More...
This book is especially compelling if you are an artist who works with paper.There are many examples including 25 color plates and 280 in black and white. Especially charming are the photos of Matisse at work. Check out the photo of him with a pair of scissors the size of a garden trimmer. Most of his life he worked as a painter of fine art, but during the last four years of his life he worked on the cut-outs. The book is clean and tightly bound with no creases and no names or writing. The jacket is without tears or chips. The only fault is sunning down the length of the spine, Book is very h... View More...
The crux of this booklet is the lengthy interview with Kim Abeles by Michael McMillen. Abeles is an artist creating sculpture using found objects to express her life as a citizen of Los Angeles and what the urban life means. There's also an essay and black and white and color photographs throughout. The booklet measures 8-1/2" x 10" and has 32 pristine pages. No names or writing. View More...
This is a remarkable booklet which offers many techniques to make beautiful jewelry from natural brass and designs from nature. Among the techniques taught are filigree, focal texturing, reliefing and alcohol ink, letter imprinting,texturing and riveting, sizzix embossing, bezels, toggle clasps and much more. The booklet measures 9" square and has 33 beautiful pages. View More...
This book is clean and bright with black and white and color photographs, plus some drawings and a full page of working curves for photopmacrography. The booklet measure 8" x 11-1/2" and has 95 pages.The scope of this volume includes equipment,lighting, special setups, transillumination, factors for optimum results, shape factor, working curves for photomacrography,recording two-dimensional subjects, summary of basic recommendations, and references. The first volume of this is about close-up photography. I also have volume I on Close-up Photography. View More...
I was delighted to find this booklet! Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who somehow managed to marry mathematics and art. He died in 1972 and this book appeared first in 1977 and reappeared in a revised edition ten years later. The text is divided into three parts: In Three Dimensions, Extensions of E.C. Escher; Notes on the Models; and Instructions for Assembly of Models. Topics cover geometric solids, kaleidocycles, repeating designs, surface design of kaleidocycles; coloring the designs; hexagonal kaleidocycles; square kaleidocycles and twisted kaleidocycles.The authors promise that takin... View More...
