Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu: Drawing, Painting, and Fanciful Adornments from Start to Finish [Paperback]

Suzi Blu (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2012

Growing out of her popular online workshops and videos, Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu takes you step by step through the process of drawing a folk art and stylized girl’s face. You will learn to create simple, balanced features and add shading with colored pencils and paint. From there, you will learn how to draw the rest of the figure and put it into a unique, textured, mixed-media background.

—Learn to design costumes and personalities for your girls and adapt them to fit your own artistic style.

—Create vivid, exciting backgrounds by layering paint, collaging with fabric, carving beeswax, distressing wood, and building up texture with mediums and pastes.

—And on the accompanying DVD-ROM, which you can play on your Mac or PC, there is a mini-workshop full of whimsical mayhem, motivation, and real-time video with Suzi Blu showing you detailed drawing and shading techniques for faces, beeswax finishes, and how to make a mixed-media art journal start to finish.

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About the Author

Known for her quirky videos and down to earth style, Suzi Blu is a leader in teaching art to women all over the world through her online school Les Petit Academy. She lives in a gypsy cottage in San Diego, California with her best pet friends Gigi Rainbow Sparkle and Finnegan Glitter Sunshine Magic. She encourages everyone to be an artist. Visit her blog at http://suziblu.typepad.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books; Pap/Dvdr edition (May 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592537693
• ISBN-13: 978-1592537693
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.6 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #52 in Books > Arts & Photography > Other Media > Mixed Media
  • #58 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Mixed-Media

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu: Drawing, Painting, and Fanciful Adornments from Start to Finish April 10, 2012

By Lesli Kenreich

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book is wonderful and full of information. The pictures are amazing. Certainly makes you want to start drawing right away-I am just learning to draw so I got some of Suzi's stamps. They are fabulous too. I am 63 and can't draw a stick figure but learning with Suzi has helped tremendously to get over my fears and try. And I'm doing pretty good-it takes practice and thats fun now. Thanks Amazon for carrying this book.

50 of 56 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer/Gifter beware July 14, 2012

By Annonymous

Format:Paperback

Anyone who has watched Suzi Blu on her Youtube account knows, but for those of you who don't, I hope that you aren't planning on using any ideas found in this book as a marketable idea. Her and her followers(minions) will come after you no matter where you are trying to sell you items stating that you are breaching her copywrite, even though it is the other artist's original artwork. This said, she will continue to report you until you close your account or the site you are on makes you remove the item. I was gifted this book and was really disappointed. I've seen similar big-headed people on vintage advertisements and the fact that Suzi Blu thinks this is original and that no one else should use the idea is astounding. Besides, can we say Bratz dolls? Which were out way before Suzi Blu's Youtube. One more thing, the school she says she teaches in her bio on the back of the book, it's just ning.com, not a brick and mortar school, and nothing special. Just thought that others like me would like to know before wasting your money and time.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Blu-tifully perfect! April 16, 2012

By Bonnie Richley

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book has captivated my heart and soul. The colors and detailed photographs pulled me in immediately but it's the nuts & bolts of how to get down to the business of creating that got me to stay. Unlike so many mixed media book authors Suzi Blu delivers on how to both inspire and to help others so inclined along the way by providing detailed suggestions/instructions with corresponding clear (emphasis on clear) images. One of the things I most liked about Suzi Blu's book is that it encourages without being cloying or overly sentimental. She delivers her message through what comes across as a natural tone (i.e., direct and encouraging) that I have found in the most sincere of teachers. Her work is beautiful and while she offers guidelines on how to create similar pieces, her authentic voice and instructions encourage others to find their own style. Her work is truly mesmerizing and I feel forever captivated and inspired. My favorite book among my vast (and mostly useless) mixed media collection. I hope this is the beginning of much more inspiration coming from Suzi Blu.