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Travel Sketching in Mixed Media volume 4
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English
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Sketchbooks are a great way to tell the story of your travels through themes and montages. Marc provides examples from his personal sketchbooks for single-page storytelling inspiration. Then, learn how to make a travel log of your trip by thinking like a documentary filmmaker.
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Travel Sketching in Mixed Media volume 3
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English
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See how to add color and life to your line drawings as Marc layers color washes onto simple sketches. You'll learn to use watercolor by breaking scenes into shapes, charging-in with color and utilizing the wet-in-wet technique to grow a wash of color.
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Travel Sketching in Mixed Media volume 1
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English
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Meet your instructor Marc Taro Holmes and learn how to create beautiful sketches while traveling. He'll review the basic materials you need to start your adventure. Then, practice the single-line sketch for simplicity and speed. Marc will also show you how to add in darks for contrast.
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Travel Sketching in Mixed Media volume 6
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English
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Take your skills up a notch and begin watercolor sketching! Begin to see basic shapes and how they interact with each other. Follow Marc's direction for painting in the negative space to let the focal points pop, and then learn how to charge-in the fine details to finish off a watercolor sketch.
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Travel Sketching in Mixed Media volume 5
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English
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Don't be intimidated by perspective sketches. Marc demonstrates his solutions for helping break down perspective through neutralizing the angle and simplifying the details for easy visualization. Then learn how to approximate perspective on a city street with a single-line drawing.
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Travel Sketching in Mixed Media volume 7
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English
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Follow Marc's direction to work with multiple layers of watercolor to achieve a professional look to your painting. Planning the composition from the start will allow you to add midtones on dry paint for a gorgeous result. Finally, learn how to add details and finishing touches to bring your pieces together.
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Travel Sketching in Mixed Media volume 2
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English
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Learn Marc's "drawing like a painter" technique and use a brush pen to indicate light and dark areas on a street scene. Then, see how to translate this technique to a variety of shapes and sketches from statues to more complex scenes, like town squares, using water-soluble ink.
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Mixed Media Assemblage volume 4
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English
Description
Here is where the real fun begins! In this segment Heather will show you lots of different ways to attach your relics and found objects to the surface of your quilt so that they are both attractive and stable. With each new addition, she'll help you understand how, when and where to add visual interest and when to leave things as simple as possible. To add extras visual interest, she'll use some bits and pieces of specialty fabrics, trims, ribbons...
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Mixed Media Assemblage volume 1
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English
Description
In this segment Heather will show you lots of different items that can be used in a quilted assemblage. She will help you understand what types of items would be easy to use and what types of items may be too difficult. Next she'll talk about different types of glues and when and how to use them. She'll also take you on a quick walk through of the various methods she uses to artfully attach the pieces and parts to the surface of her quilt. The segment...
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Mixed Media Assemblage volume 5
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English
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In this final segment Heather will go over various ways of finishing the edge of your quilt and discuss the possibility of finishing the surface of the quilt with a clear coat finish. Then she'll offer up a few different ideas and ways of hanging your finished work. Whether it's done with coiled wire or a model airplane propeller, she'll help you discover a hanging apparatus to bring a perfect finish to your quilted assemblage.
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Mixed Media Assemblage volume 3
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English
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Once you have a good idea of what items you are going to include and where they are likely to be placed, you're ready to put together a quilted base to hold all the bits of your story. Here, Heather will show you what and how to layer and quilt to build a quilted base that is strong enough to hold all of the items you plan to use but also easy enough to stitch through. Heather will help you with stitching choices, thread colors and types and what...
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Mixed Media Assemblage volume 2
Language
English
Description
Before beginning an assemblage piece it is important to bring all of the elements you hope to use together and play with their arrangement for a while. In this segment, Heather will show you how to lay out your base fabric and play with the arrangement of your selected items. Using the elements and principles of design, she will help you build a composition that is pleasing to the eye and tells a coherent story.
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