Tile Artist's Bible

Tile Artist's Bible

Author: Jacqui Atkin

Publisher: A & C Black

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780713681963

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A collection of 200 decorative designs, which helps you bring colour and creativity to your hand-made or shop-brought tiles. This work features a photograph of the finished design, a charted diagram, instructions in the order of work and advice on alternative colour variations for every entry. It includes information on suppliers and resources.


Picturing the Bible

Picturing the Bible

Author: Jeffrey Spier

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780300116830

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and shown there November 18, 2007 - March 30, 2008.


Mosaic Artist's Technique Bible

Mosaic Artist's Technique Bible

Author: Teresa Mills

Publisher: Apple Press

Published: 2009-01-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845432812

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A complete resource of mosaic techniques and pattern ideas for creating mosaics in the home and garden. Clear step-by-step sequences show how to draw up an idea, arrange the tiles and finish designs successfully. Discover how to coordinate colour and pattern in your designs, using a wide range of materials - from traditional ceramic tiles to pebbles and shells, beads, recycled pottery and wall tiles, decorative stones, and even diamante. All tools, materials and equipment are clearly explained, and you'll find helpful hints on setting up a comfortable work area as well as essential information to make your mosaics last longer. About the author Teresa Mills has worked intensively in mosaic media and painted ceramics for a number of years. As well as producing mosaic artworks for sale and exhibition, Teresa has undertaken a number of individual commissions and her work has been sold worldwide as well as featured in books of contemporary art and design.


Mosaic Art and Style

Mosaic Art and Style

Author: JoAnn Locktov

Publisher: Quarry Books

Published: 2007-05-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781592533565

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New in Paperback! Mosaic ideas for every room Mosaic Art and Style is a celebration of how mosaics can be integrated into our environments. Author JoAnn Locktov explores our fascination with mosaic art and illustrates how artists have crafted architectural installations as well as decorative and functional objects that have added immeasurably to living spaces. Readers will enjoy seeing how mosaic art can be applied to every surface imaginable. Mosaic Art and Style tells the story of how the projects were conceived and fabricated from the artists' points of view. Locktov has forged special relationships with a multitude of artists, who have allowed her to feature their work in Mosaic Art and Style. Through these relationships, she takes the reader into the world of the artist and gives readers a behind-the-scenes pass into the artists' workshops, where she shares their personal thoughts about the creation and inspiration that imbues their work.


Making Mosaics

Making Mosaics

Author: Leslie Dierks

Publisher:

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781579905378

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"Of greatest use to beginners here is the description and step-by-step illustrations of four different assembly processes...The dozen projects will introduce first-time mosaicists to the art without...frustration: designed by professionals, each includes elaborate instructions, pattern (if appropriate), color photographs, and artists' tips..."--Booklist. "You'll never look at a shard of glass in the same way again."--Glass Craftsman. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.


Finding Beauty in a Broken World

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

Author: Terry Tempest Williams

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0375725199

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"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a memorial from the rubble of war, Williams searches for meaning and community in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. In her compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, Williams affirms a reverence for all life, and constructs a narrative of hopeful acts, taking that which is broken and creating something whole.


The Hidden and the Revealed

The Hidden and the Revealed

Author: Lilian Broca

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789652295606

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A stunning art book, but far more. In addition to glittering reproductions, details and working drawings of the ten mammoth pieces in this award-winning series about Esther of the Bible, the book features the artist's own story, illuminating her journey from war-torn Romania to Israel to Canada, what drew her to Esther and mosaics as a medium, and how she employed ancient techniques with a contemporary sensibility. An art historian provides a chapter comparing Broca's interpretation of Esther to that of such past artists as Rembrandt and Artemisia Gentileschi. The book finishes with a provocative, lyrical prose-poem written in the imagined voice of Esther by a prominent rabbi and scholar. An appendix provides the full text of Esther in beautiful calligraphed Hebrew with an accompanying English translation.


Handmade Tile

Handmade Tile

Author: Forrest Lesch-Middelton

Publisher: Quarry Books

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0760364303

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Handmade Tile is a contemporary guide for ceramic artists and anyone interested in custom tile installations—from making, designing, and decorating to designing your space and installation. No matter how many years of experience you have as a ceramic artist or how many home-improvement projects you've tackled, nothing prepares you for the unique world of ceramic tile. From concept and design, through firing and installation, ceramic tiling is one of the few places in a home where art is permanently installed as a feature of a room. In Handmade Tile, Forrest Lesch-Middelton shares everything he's learned as the founder and owner of the custom tile business FLM Ceramics and Tile. From his years as a one-man operation to his current production facility, Forrest has seen it all and helps you every step of the way. Whether you want to make your own tile, or want to use artistic and custom-made tile in your home, this book has everything you need. Key features of the book include: Making Tile: key tools, rolling, cutting, extruding Decorating: glazes, image transfer, cuerda seca, underglaze, slip Designing Your Space: tile in context, choosing your tile, codes and standards Installation: removing old tile, backing, preparing surfaces, setting, grouting Galleries and interviews with today's top workings artists in tile round out the package. Featured artists include Allison Bloom, Boris Aldridge, Disc Interiors, PV Tile, and more.


Mosaics

Mosaics

Author: Elizabeth Atkins-Hood

Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781570764936

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"Step into the imaginative and inventive world of mosaics with Elizabeth Atkins-Hood and Joy Bell. The authors' enthusiasm for mosaics comes through in every word as they show you how to create rich and fabulous mosaic art from tiles, glass, plates, paper, ornaments, photographs, jewellery, pebbles, polymer clay and found objects."--Publisher's description.