Aboriginal Designs - Brossura

Pinder, Polly

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844488438 ISBN 13: 9781844488438

Casa editrice: Search Pr Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Australian Aboriginal art has existed for millennia and some of the extraordinary rock paintings are believed to be over 40,000 years old. Colours were traditionally made from a collection of earth-based pigments, and patterned and figurative images were also painted on bark, boomerangs, shields, spears, masks, vessels and didgeridoos. Body art, from the simple smearing of clay on to the skin to detailed geometric paintings, was applied with a flat stick with soft padding at the end. These designs always conformed to respected patterns and were related to spiritual matters, ancestors, animals or tracts of land, as they still are today.
With 100 specially commissioned original images, this design source book contains a wonderful selection of new illustrations inspired by the traditional art and crafts of the Aboriginal people. Illustrations can be combined with other images, or enlarged and used as the main theme for special projects, whether they are stitched designs, cards, journals, collages, mixed media or ceramic pieces, pictures, panels or paintings. These pages offer many ideas so if you thinking of new projects and you need a starting point, look no further. This wonderful source book will fire your imagination and give you all the help you need to create stunning, original works of art.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Polly Pinder is a professional designer and a lecturer on graphic design. She is the author or coauthor of several books across a variety of crafting topics, including "Eyelet Greeting Cards," "Handmade Oriental Cards," "Papercrafts for Christmas, " and books from the Design Source Books and How to Draw series.

Polly Pinder studied graphics at Leeds Art College. Her first job was with a Yorkshire newspaper, and she subsequently worked as a lecturer in graphic design at Wakefield District College. She has written and illustrated a number of books on a variety of other subjects including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when that book won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper book based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Search Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844488438
• ISBN 13: 9781844488438
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile