Share Your Joy
Mixed media shareable art
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Learn how to create adorable mixed-media art to send to loved ones, friends, and even strangers via snail mail—then share in the happiness it brings.
Author Sarah J. Gardner has made it her mission to help others find their creativity and inspiration through mixed-media art. In Share Your Joy, she offers her idea for how to share joy via handmade postcards, note cards, and other items that can be mailed to anyone around the world and put a smile on their face. That’s where Sarah gets her joy, and with the techniques and step-by-step projects in this book, she will help you find it too.
Working on papers you have painted and that can be drawn and painted over (what Sarah calls “art papers”), you will learn to use collage, stenciling, found objects, watercolor and acrylic paints, and more to create art to share with others.
Included in the book are:
Step-by-step projects for making shareable art Interviews with “art swappers” who’ve sent and received art for years Inspirational prompts, quotes, and affirmations to keep your creativity levels up Suggestions for how to make inspirational journals and sketchbooks to work inside
Experience the fun and happiness of making shareable, mixed-media art with Share Your Joy!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"When you share what you create, you're sharing the joy that you experienced making it," writes art teacher Gardner in her cheerful debut on how to make mixed-media postcards, greeting cards, and other items that are easy to mail. Offering guidance on what materials work best together, she notes that fluid matte medium is great for collaging tissue paper, while the fast-drying product Art Glitter Glue ("a precision applicator") is ideal for attaching small items. She outlines eight ways to create decorative "art paper" for use in mixed media, including using a skewer tip to scribble designs in a thick coat of wet acrylic paint on cardstock, as well as drawing with a water-soluble crayon and them -n spritzing the paper to create a runny, watercolor-like effect. Instructions for nine projects show how to incorporate the art paper into a variety of items, such as "trading cards" meant to be exchanged with other artists and made from weaving together strips of art paper, and collage postcards created by gluing ripped rectangles of art paper to cardstock, adding cutouts from magazines, and then sewing the product onto a postcard. The fun projects leave plenty of room for readers to add their own flourishes while exploring a variety of techniques and approaches. Crafters will be eager to share the results.
