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Summary: WhooooooooHooooooo!!! A REAL learning experience!
Review: I pre-ordered this book, too, and eagerly awaited it's release. It is EVERTHING I hoped for and waaaaay more! I can't tell you how delighted I am with this book! I had hoped it would TEACH me new things, things to help me improve my technique, and also inspire me to new visions about what I can become/do/create.Like other starving, self-taught artists, I can't afford to attend many workshops. Yet I'm desperatly wanting to know MORE, MORE, MORE about inventive techniques for creating GOOD art. So I am often left with "book learning" to fill in the gaps, and I have to tell you there are not many out there that really TEACH technique. Most of them are "do this, then do this" to produce a *certain* piece. (Which is fine, but I WANT MORE! LOL!) In my eyes, Claudine Hellmuth is the modern master of collage, she has taken it to a whole new level, and I hoped her book would TEACH me. Her book has exceeded my wildest hopes. I flipped through it the minute I carefully RIPPED it out of the package and my little heart swelled with DREAMS and HOPE and GRATITUDE. This book is the BEST giver-of-tools to collage artists I have ever seen! Others have already enumerated the contents and the wonderful production value of this work, so I won't repeat them, but if you have a limited amount of money to spend on tools, spend it on THIS BOOK. You won't be sorry! And now, I gotta go--- I have to go MAKE STUFFFFFF!!!!!!!! :o)
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Summary: It's a great one for the beginner.
Review: I really love this book a lot because it's so easy for a non-artist student to learn collage easily. Each steps is clear and could be easy made.It's really a big help for me cause I always want to do my own collage but feel it's too hard to do. With the direction of this book, I feel that collage could be an interest, an exercise for relaxing. It's really a great one.
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Summary: Exceeds expectations
Review: I will add my praise to other reviewers. We often have expectations from life, and a book and in the case of Collage Discovery, by Claudine Hellmuth, I can say her work and her book exceeded my expectations.
The publisher should also be commended for bringing a new voice to the collage audience in a concise, well edited, tastefully illustrated compendium at an affordable price.
Claudine brings techniques together in a useful and instructive fashion, encouraging new artists and broadening the scope of the experienced. It is a pleasure to puruse.
It is a must have collage book for everyone's library shelf, but don't let it get dusty, "use it." I will!
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Summary: Exceeds expectations
Review: I will add my praise to other reviewers. We often have expectations from life, and a book and in the case of Collage Discovery, by Claudine Hellmuth, I can say her work and her book exceeded my expectations.
The publisher should also be commended for bringing a new voice to the collage audience in a concise, well edited, tastefully illustrated compendium at an affordable price.
Claudine brings techniques together in a useful and instructive fashion, encouraging new artists and broadening the scope of the experienced. It is a pleasure to puruse.
It is a must have collage book for everyone's library shelf, but don't let it get dusty, "use it." I will!
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Summary: Delightful!
Review: Since I had signed up for a workshop by Claudine Hellmuth, I was eager to have her book beforehand. I was so delighted with the book(and later with her class)....the book is filled to the brim with great ideas and illustrations for making collages. I have been an artist for over 25 years, and have seen about everything, so this book was a revelation, impressing someone who is hard to impress at this stage. Her instructions and suggestions are so clear to read, that one who had not taken the workshop could do as well as one who had. I recommend it most highly and would give it more than 5 stars if that were an option!
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This book is part eye candy, part workshop-in-a-book. Page after page is filled with Claudine's amazing collages and fresh style, along with well-written instruction that shines with her vibrant, upbeat personality. I love what I have learned in this book and how she has helped me grow as an artist. I look forward to her next book!
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Summary: Best book I have ever read
Review: This is a very well-written and inspiring book. I felt like Claudine was in the room with me, walking me through each project, I could SEE clearly everything she explained. I love project-books and this is the best I have ever read. She uses everyday items, you don't have to buy anything special to make these projects. I highly recommend this book! Can't wait for the next one!!
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Summary: This is a great beginner's book! (And advanced, too!)
Review: This is my first book on collage, and I am impressed! (Believe me, I am NOT easily impressed! :)) Collage Discovery Workshop goes through the ABC's of collage clearly and gives equally clear advice on the equipment needed to get started. I will now be able to go to my local craft store or Internet site well armed for what I need. As important, the book discusses theory of collage, helps to train a potential-collage artist's eye on scale, color, and what (should) look good. I am just thrilled with this book, and appreciate that the authors were willing to share their years of knowledge and trials and errors with the public. There are a lot of collage books out there that I have flipped through....this is one of the really good ones!
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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: When I first started playing with Altered books I was also brand new to collage. The neat thing about this book is that it has two parts - it has a techniques part and then the second half is the collage part. There are techniques for doing transfers, glazing paint, peeling paper, stamping in wax, and creating textured paint. Then in the collage part she steps us through how to build a collage - add a picture, then some words, etc. She shows us how to do those altoid tins too which is fun. Wonderful images throughout the book to inspire and the instructions are really clear and step by step. I'm looking forward to Claudine's next book and her DVD!! She's such a terrific teacher.
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