With a sense of humor and creative abandon, this guide shows how surprisingly easy it is to turn fabric, paper, stitch, and embellishment into artistic treasures to keep and share. Step-by-step instructions for making projects such as greeting cards, wall hangings, and books are provided, while the latest mixed-media products and techniques are also used, including embroidery stitches, etching, burning, metallic threads, paints, embed fibers, and found objects. Basic design principles are also employed, such as layering, highlighting motifs, and creating grids to give art depth and meaning.
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Mixed Media Explorations by Beryl Taylor is an excellent book and is highly recommended to people interested in learning more about mixed media techniques. The high quality illustrations combined with Beryls easy-to-read writing style makes Mixed Media Explorations a joy to read. This is definitely a book for people who are interested in exploring their own creativity further.-About.com
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Beryl Taylor, originally from Rotherham, England, studied art at the Manchester High School of Art. After discovering creative embroidery she continued her education with the City and Guilds textile and embroidery program and later founded the textile group Threadmill. Beryl now resides in New Jersey where she continues her role as wife, mother, and mixed-media artist.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Stunning,
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I own a fairly large number of books on the subjects of mixed media, collage, altered art and fabric embellishment. This is by far my favorite. Beryl's projects are gorgeous. Amazingly, she uses the simplest, least expensive and most readily available materials to create most of these masterpieces, such as brown paper bags, Tyvek envelopes, flower-shaped brads, price tags, etc. If you know someone who's about to get married, the wedding journal is a fabulous project that will blow away every other gift imaginable. If you never pick up a needle, a paintbrush or a tube of glue, this book is worth twice the price for eye candy alone.
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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"Inspired Designs, indeed",
By LKP (Ancram, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mixed Media Explorations (Paperback)
I have admired Beryl Taylor's artwork for a long time, and eagerly looked forward to this book. Although I don't use fabric and sewing in my mixed media artwork, I am fully inspired
with the ideas presented here and will gladly refer to this book to "jumpstart" my creativity in the studio. The beautiful detailed photography does justice to her distinctive artwork, providing lots of ideas that can be translated into paper, etc. Best of all, the artist brings contemporary verve and love of strong color to Medieval themes and motifs. A terrific book!
42 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Focus here is on FABRIC, not paper,
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My 1-star rating is actually for the description of this book and not the book itself. Let me explain...
Based on the publisher's description of this book I thought it would be about mixed media projects in the traditional sense (i.e. paper-based collages with embellishments in paint, beads, scraps of fabric, etc.) I was really surprised when I received the book to find that all of the projects in it are fabric or sewing based. Perhaps this would not have come as such a surprise had I been familiar with the author's work, but I bought this book because it was one of the "Amazon Recommends" selections suggested to me based on my previous purchases of mixed media/collage/altered art books and because of the publisher's misleading description. This is a beautiful book if you are interested in working primarily with fabrics & quilt art. The step-by-step instructions seem very thorough and there are lots of great ideas for working with fabric in inventive ways including some great tips for dying fabric and infusing fabric with paper. Bottom line: if I were running a bookstore I would shelve this with books on sewing and quilting, NOT in the mixed media/collage section. I hope this helps!
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