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Koos Couture Collage: Inspiration & Techniques

This biography and illustrated guide highlights the work of master designer Koos van den Akker and provides inspiration for bold, unique sewing creations. Chronicling the designer’s 30 years in haute couture, this book follows van den Akker from his start in the Paris workrooms of Christian Dior to his rise in the fashion world and the establishment of his own Madison Avenue boutique. Included are demonstrations for duplicating several of his construction and design techniques that offer illustrated sewing instructions and intricate details for home sewers to imitate. The designs, with their richness of texture, generosity of color, and dynamic mix of fabrics, share the full scope of van den Akker’s masterful creations.

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The Adventures in Mixed Media Art: Inspiration, Techniques and Projects for Painting, Collage and More

Your artful adventure begins here!

Are you inspired by mixed-media art but don’t know how to begin to create your own? Adventures in Mixed Media Art is the ultimate guidebook for beginning your mixed-media adventure!

Starting with a few motivational readings, not only will you harness the creative energy you already have, you’ll also learn how to keep that energy flowing for years to come as you figure out what sparks your fire. Then it’s time to jump right in by creating an art journal using guided mixed-media techniques. This journal will be the ideal place to practice your hand lettering, and basic painting and collage techniques. When you’re ready, you’ll move outside the journal to create canvas paintings, collages and assemblage pieces. Along the way you’ll discover techniques for repurposing the pieces that don’t turn out exactly as planned. After you create and refine your signature style, you’ll find collaborative projects that will help you encourage others to Create Mixed Media!20 mixed-media projects from your favorite books by artists such as Dina Wakley, Mary Beth Shaw, The Journal Fodder Junkies and moreLearn techniques such as hand lettering, embossing, mark making, mixed-media portrait painting and moreUpcycle your less-than-stellar pieces into pieces you’ll be proud to display!

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Soulcollage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups

SoulCollage™ is a process through which you contact your intuition and create an incredible deck of cards which have deep personal meaning and which will help you with life’s questions.

Following the simple SoulCollage directions, your hands move fragments of cut-out magazine pictures around, fitting them together in a surprising new way and gluing them down on a card. Cards containing the images you select — or the images that select you — come straight through your Soul, bypassing the mind.

This is a multi-leveled, creative process which anyone can do. All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, glue, and images you can cut out from magazines, greeting cards, personal photos, postcards, catalogues, and calendars. It is wonderful to have other people with whom to share the process. The cards are fun to take to a friend’s house, to work with in therapy or support groups, or to keep on your coffee table.

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SoulCollage Evolving: An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery and Community

SoulCollage® is an accessible collage process with practical applications that has a growing international community. It’s easy to learn and it’s inexpensive. Best of all, it inspires individual creativity and encourages good communication in families and groups. SoulCollage® is adaptable to many contexts and groups. Anyone can enjoy the multi-leveled, creative process. All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, images you can find anywhere, and glue! When you have made some cards, you can consult them, asking important life questions and letting your cards speak your own intuitive wisdom back to you. SoulCollage® is fun to share with friends and in groups for personal enjoyment and self-discovery or to work with professionally, as a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator. Founder Seena B. Frost s first book ignited a worldwide interest in SoulCollage®, which invites anyone to be creative and undertake an adventure of self discovery. All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, images you can find anywhere, and glue! After you have made some cards, you can consult them, ask important life questions and let your cards speak your own intuitive wisdom back to you. Frost’s first book, SoulCollage®, now out of print, was a finalist for the Nautilus 2002 Book Awards for titles that contribute significantly to conscious living and positive social change. SoulCollage® has evolved into an international community of Facilitators and SoulCollagers enjoying and sharing this simple, yet profound process. SoulCollage® Evolving gives the basic instructions for how to make and do readings with SoulCollage® cards, and describes how individuals and groups are using this process with different age groups and in many socioeconomic, cultural, and religious contexts to discover their wisdom and change their world.