CraftWinter2024

48 | Mixed Media | OTHER CRAFTS The Art of Kintsugi: Learning the Japa- nese Craft of Beautiful Repair. Alexandra Kitty. This is the only comprehensive step-by- step guide in English to kintsugi—the ancient Japanese art form of "jw part of an item’s beauty. Readers learn the art through a range of projects, both traditional and modern. • 8" x 8" (203 x 203 mm) • 85 images • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-6054-1 • HC • $27.99 / £25.99 / 38.99 CAD Whimsical Wire: 26 Delightful Projects to Create In grid Moras. Create decorative art with floral wire. Detailed photographs and easy-to- follow diagrams show you how to make 26 wire designs and airy sculptures with easy-to-find floral wire and simple techniques. • 81/2"x81/2" (215 x 215mm) •50+color photos and illustrations • 80pp. •978-0-7643-6322-1• softcover •$16.99US / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Building Architectural Models. Guy & Patricia DeMarco. A primer for the design, construction, and presentation of the three-dimensional model from conceptual drawings. The process begins with the construction of a cube and tetrahedron, and moves on to encompass manufactured modules, a com- mercial building, a single story house, and a city rowhouse • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 64 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-1071-3 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Wall Art: 14 Stunning Feature Wall Projects to Transform Your Home. Patricia Moffett, Clare Baggaley. Opens a new surface to crafters. Apply your creativity large scale, using your favorite mediums or a new one, to give your space big impact. These 14 projects, some easy and some more challenging, use a wildly creative range of techniques including manipulated paper, found-object repurposing, laser cutting, casting, stickers, origami, and even cardboard taxidermy. • 8 1/2" x 10" (215 x 254 mm) • 300 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0- 7643-6210-1 • softcover • $24.99 US / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD MODEL BUILDING The Stencil Graffiti Manual C 215 (Christian Guémy). This info-packed manual walks through the creative possibilities of stencil graffiti and street art, with detailed how-tos, hundreds of photos, and over a dozen interviews with top stencil artists around the world. Includes three ready-to-use stencils. • 7" x 9" (177 x 228 mm) • 246 color and b/w images • 152 pp. • 978-0-7643-6327-6 • hardcover • $29.99 US / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Mixed-Media Adventures with Kristy Rice: A Noncoloring Book K risty Rice, introduction by Amy Tangerine. A wonderful new twist to the standard coloring book: watercolor art is waiting for you to add the "lines" • 8" x 10" (255 x 205mm) • 74 color images •96 pp. •978-0-7643-6450-1•PB•$21.99US / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD Dream Catchers: Homemade Mobiles, Wall Hangings, and Jewelry. Charline Fabregues. Dream catchers have become an essential item in decoration, but they remain highly symbolic. With this book, you can create 16 dream catchers, mobiles, wall hang- ings, and jewelry from materials such as lace, ribbons, beads, origami-made butterflies, leather feathers, pendants, and driftwood • 9" x 9" (228 x 228mm) •294 color images •80 pp. • 978-0-7643-5738-1 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 24.99 CAD Model Boat Building: The Lobster Boat. Steve Rogers & Patricia Staby-Rogers. Using the lines of boats built before 1940 by Alvin Beal, Steve takes the modeler step-by-step through the process of building an authentic scale model lobster boat. In more than 250 color photographs, he begins with the sculpting of the builder’s model, upon which are laid the ribs and hull of the boat, and continues through the building of accessories and the painting of the boat • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 250+ color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-88740-642-3 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Model Boat Building: The Spritsail Skiff. Steve Rogers & Patricia Staby-Rogers. With beautiful color photographs, helpful drawings, and a wealth of knowledge that comes from years of craftsman- ship, Steve Rogers leads the reader through the building of a model of the North Carolina spritsail skiff. The model is in one-inch scale and is built in much the same way as the actual boat was. Clear step-by-step directions are given for everything from the jigs to the sails • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 250+ color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-88740-534-1 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Model Boat Building: The Skipjack. Steve Rogers & Patricia Staby-Rogers. Steve Rogers offers a guide for building a model skipjack, leading the craftsperson step-by-step through the process. The result is a beautiful boat in full sail. The model is in 1?2" scale, based on a skipjack that is 45 feet on deck with a 15 foot beam. Drawings, patterns, jigs, and accessories are all detailed • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •390 color photos, drawings, designs •96pp. • 978-0-88740-937-0 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Model Boat Building: The Menhaden Steam- er. Steve Rogers and Patricia Staby Rogers. A step- by-step guide to building a classic working boat: the menhaden steamer. Modeler Steve Rogers guides the reader through the complete process—hull master to rigging—for building a 1?2-inch scale, 56-inch model of this wonderful fishing boat. The result will be a work of art • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) •100 color illustrations &detailed plans •64 pp. • 978-0-7643-1070-6•PB•$14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95CAD Model Boat Building Made Simple. Steve Rogers. Using drawings and step-by-step color photographs and captions, the process of building a model boat is easily understood and followed. The materials needed can be bought at hobby shops, lumber yards, and hardware stores. The tools are basic. Even the novice model builder can complete a fine model—a simple, yet elegant skiff—incor- porating many of the original construction techniques • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • Color photos and drawings • 64 pp. • 978-0-88740-388-0 • PB • $15.99 / £14.99 / 22.99 CAD Ship Model Building, 3E. Gene Johnson. The most complete instructions for model shipbuilding. Features a typical whaling vessel, river and harbor ferryboats, working plans for a clipper ship, Gloucester fisherman, harbor tugboat, dragger, and “ironclads” Monitor and Merrimac. More than 1,000 diagrams. The book is unusual in its attention to minute and authentic detail, supplying more than a thousand diagrams. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) •17b/wphotos, 22 illustrations, 6plans, & 157 plates of drawings • 320 pp. • 978-0-87033-369-9 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Ships in Bottles, 2E. Guy DeMarco. Revised and expanded 2nd edition. Five projects explained clearly, step-by-step through drawings and black- and-white and color photographs. Woven into the instructions is historical background that gives the ships and bottles greater interest and authenticity. The modeler is led slowly through the steps to create this legendary art form • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 38 b/w photos, 16 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-0999-1•PB•$14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95CAD A Beginner’s Guide to Mosaics: Four Deco- rative Projects. Alexandra Carron. From the basics of mosaic materials to the most sophisticat- ed techniques, step by step you will produce four original and elegant objects (a vase, colorful table, springtime mirror, and decorative tiles) assisted by your own crafting coach. Beginner’s how-to book with techniques for cutting, patterning, grouting, and finishing • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 196 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-4096-3 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Fused Glass Mosaics: Master Class Techniques with Martin Cheek. Martin Cheek. A practical mental tool kit to assist you in making your own mosaics. Over 300 color images and an engaging text will inspire ideas of color, background, and style. Make a subtle mosaic by using analogous colors or a piece inspired by your favorite artist. For the sea- soned mosaicist • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 345 b/w & color images • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-3933-2 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Mastering Mosaics: 19 Artists, 19 Projects. Rayna Clark. Learn proven techniques and success- ful methods of creating mosaic art from 19 different artists. Patient professionals give informative, spe- cific, and even moving accounts of their personal mosaic strategies • 81/2"x11" (215x279mm) •534 color photos&drawings •192pp. •978-0-7643-4362- 9 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Mosaic Art Today. Jeffrey B. Snyder. Mo- saic Art Today. Jeffrey B. Snyder. Over 50 contemporary, mosaic artists reveal the di- versity of materials used and forms created in this ever-growing field. Using tesserae, stone, pebbles, ceramics, found objects, and other materials, these artists “paint” intricate and beautiful images. • 11"x81/2" (279x216 mm) •200+color photos •256pp. •978-0-7643-4001-7•HC•$50.00 / £45.99 / 73.00 CAD MOSAICS Fundamentals of Model Boat Building. John Into & Nancy Price. Learn the skills necessary to successfully create an accurate model boat from scratch, including structural elements, paper mod- el renderings, measuring hull features, and creating mechanical drawings. The detailed text guides readers to make a model Chesapeake Bay “Dead- rise” workboat. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 182 color photos, 43b/wdrawings •160pp. •978-0-7643- 3105-3 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Gel Plate Printing for Mixed-Media Art. Robyn McClendon Add a simple gel plate to your mixed-me- dia tools to elevate your work! If you focus on mixed-me- dia art, collage, or art journaling, you may be overlook- ing a way to increase your work's expressiveness and power: the gel plate. Acclaimed artist Robyn McClendon offers more than 20 specific techniques and guides you in combining them for unlimited ways to express your creativity. • 81/2" x 11" (216 x 279mm) •2mylar stencils & over 350 color images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-6694-9 • hardcover • $34.99 US / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Art in a Box: 30 Creative Projects in Mixed-Media Assemblage. Marlis Maehrle. This compelling art form is based on how you choose and arrange items in a “box” (term used loosely!) to create a visual message. With 30 in- triguing projects to get you started, it teaches techniques for arranging, organizing, mounting, and creating narratives. A gallery of expert artists’ works offer inspiration • 83/4"x101/2" (220x265 mm) • 320 color images & patterns • 176 pp. • 978- 0-7643-5841-8 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD MIXED MEDIA