Transparent Art: Imaginative Techniques to Enchance Your Crafting Projects

by Angela Cartwright (Foreword), Jenny Doh (Editor)

The hottest trend in paper crafts and mixed-media, Transparent Art showcases the exciting versatility of transparencies, also known as acetate, in artwork. Discover a vast array of innovative projects with instructions on how to incorporate stamped, painted, sewn, cut, and even burned transparencies to achieve incredible results. Learn from well known artists who show how these diversely treated transparencies can be fused into a variety of artwork including ATCs, shrines, art quilts, collages, cards, journals, and much more. From simple to sophisticated, and from jewelry and altered books to scrapbook pages, purses and more, transparencies will bring an imaginative layer of creativity to your artwork!

Contributing Artists
Nina Bagley Angela Cartwright Nancy Curry Sarah Fishburn Jill Haddaway Jen Osborn Carol Owen DJ Pettitt Michelle Ward and many, many more!

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Well-known for her youthful roles in The Sound of Music and Lost in Space , Ms. Cartwright is now a mixed-media artist.

Reviews

[Shelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like all of the Somerset Studio compilations / topical collection volumes, Transparent Art is very, very light on the how-tos. It should really just be considered a "look book", where artists already fairly fluent in mixed media techniques can get ideas for using transparencies in their pieces. And when I say "transparencies", I literally mean pretty much only transparencies. While there are many other transparent or translucent materials one could include in their artwork – glass, acrylic, plexiglass, mica, vellum, shrink plastic, resin, organza, etc. – Transparent Art barely touches on any of them, favoring plain ol' office supply store transparencies (mostly home computer-printed, but editor Angela Cartwright's commercial line is also lightly shilled). Additionally, be forewarned that all of the sample art is rendered in the fairly homogeneous and distinctly recognizable vintage / shabby chic style ubiquitous in all Somerset Studio publications.

Still, this is a very pretty book, which includes lots of ideas that will definitely spark creativity while giving at least a vague idea of the process and materials that were used to create the featured works. When it was first released, it listed for something like $22.99, which I cannot say is justifiable; I bought it for $1.99 during one of Somerset Studio's big yearly clearance sales, and new copies are available for under $10 through Amazon sellers.

[Traci emerson · Rating 4 out of 5]

since i'm included in this book I am particular fond.

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can't wait to buy this book. Love the art in it.