The Organic Painter

Learn to paint with tea, coffee, embroidery, flame, and more; Explore Unusual Materials and Playful Techniques to Expand your Creative Practice
Author(s): Carne Griffiths
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc, United States
Imprint: Quarry Books
ISBN-13: 9781631596087, 978-1631596087

Synopsis

Bored with the same old paints??The Organic Painter?introduces innovative techniques for using non-traditional "paint" derived from materials like coffee, tea, and alcohol, to encourage?freedom and expression!

Traditional art supplies will only take you so far! Sometimes you need to try something completely new and different. That's where The Organic Painter?comes in. With a little guidance, you'll soon be painting with everyday materials you'd never considered as an artistic medium.

This inspiring book gives you all the techniques and ideas you'll need to boost your creativity, learn natural paint-making, and?be more resourceful with your art materials. Imagine the unique things you'll make when you create natural paints from coffee, tea, embroidery and flame.

Each project in this guide book?comes with instructions on how to make the paint, and also?includes experiments and explorations for you to try. Plus, a?simple painting accompanies every featured material and combines it with?other materials or?techniques, so you'll never lack inspiration.