Art Nouveau Designs (Design Source Books) [Paperback]

Judy Balchin (Author)

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Product Description

Packed with beautiful Art Nouveau designs—flowers and leaves, birds and animals, figures, borders, frames, and more.

About the Author

Judy Balchin is a designer of book jackets, television titles, and craft kits and runs workshops in silk painting, glass painting, and porcelain painting. She has also contributed numerous articles to craft magazines.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Search Press (October 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0855329734
• ISBN-13: 978-0855329730
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #396,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

  #22 in	Books > Arts & Photography > Schools, Periods & Styles > Art Nouveau
  #81 in	Books > Arts & Photography > Design & Decorative Arts > Decorative Arts

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A solid resource for crafters and artisans, September 30, 2009

By	Becca Lee "The original Goth Hobbit" (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Nouveau Designs (Design Source Books) (Paperback)

Judy Balchin's "Art Nouveau Designs" uses simple, but elegantly rendered, line drawings to give the beginning user a real sense of the flow and curve of the Art Nouveau style. The patterns are uncluttered enough for easy tracing and transfer, with plenty of room for the more advanced artist to add their own embellishments. Black and white illustrations are ideal for photocopying, and can be scaled using a modern copy machine that does it automatically.

My only caveats are that the book is heavily skewed towards floral designs (about 15 pages out of the 32 page total), and that the human figures are rendered in a flatter style (see simple) than you'll find in similar motifs elsewhere, especially in reproductions of period references. That being said, this book is an excellent resource for those new to the exuberant Art Nouveau style, and a good way to get a feel for the structure underlying the works of Mucha, Mackintosh, Lalique, and many others.

Recommended for: needleworkers (embroidery and crewel), paper artists, graphic designers

Less helpful to: jewelry designers, stained glass artists, beadworkers

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent for good deeds, February 28, 2008

By	Nanc (Cranberry Township, PA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Art Nouveau Designs (Design Source Books) (Paperback)

I purchase print books for the Comfort Blanket Ministry of St. Ferdinand Church. We use the pictures for painting and marker coloring which ultimately become squares in our ministry's beautiful blankets. Keep selling these kinds of books, we'll keep buying them!