The Innovative Artist: Abstracts and Mixed Media

by Helen Kaminsky

Overview

Push the boundaries of abstract art with a mix of media and methods, with the guidance of expert artist Helen Kaminsky.

With this stunning book, explore the possibilities of mixed media in new and impressive ways. Helen's love of color and experimentation is carried through layers of imagery and texture with a gloriously vibrant mix of traditional and imaginative new techniques. It is the experimental combination of these methods that gives each painting its unique glowing quality. She works by building up the layers, gradually using various ways to lay down paint, veiling and lifting colors to reveal what is hidden beneath.

Discover different ways of mixing and blending paint with unusual materials, collage techniques, fun printing methods, mark-making with found objects, and original ways to incorporate homemade stencils and stamps into their work. Helen leads you through her exciting range of techniques using charcoal, gesso, oil pastels, wet and dry media, printing and mark making materials, encaustic art, collage and photo transfer.

This beautiful, practical book is a detailed guide to creating unique pictures. Along with short demonstrations and exercises, numerous examples of Helen's stunning finished artworks are included to inspire you to experiment and create their own mixed-media masterpieces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782218777
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	449,576
Product dimensions:	8.75(w) x 11.19(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Helen Kaminsky is a self-taught, flourishing artist whose diversity appeals to a wide audience of individuals. She has completed many commissioned pieces and has become of high interest to a multitude of art collectors locally and internationally. Helen has developed her style through mixed media and collage to interact with the observer and for the interpretation and creative visualization to change with each viewer’s own imagination. She is a member of the Society of All Artists and recent awards include their Artist of the Year Award for Across the Bay (Highly Commended) and Red Angel (Commended). Helen has also had work selected for the Society of Women Artists exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London. She has written for The New Artist Magazine and has also produced various articles and demos for the SAA's Paint Magazine.
Helen lives in Cheshire, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Inspiration 10

Demonstration: The Toolmaker 12

The art of the abstract 18

Colour 20

Demonstration: Rock Strata 28

Demonstration: The Meeting of the Waters 30

Composition 36

Demonstration: Playtime with Matisse 40

Design 42

Demonstration: Rocky Road 42

Interpretation 46

Demonstration: Pollen for the Bees 46

My Working Process 52

Demonstration: Cottage on a Hillside 57

Materials and tools 60

Mixing the media 72

Creating Backgrounds 74

Demonstration: New Directions 80

Demonstration: An Artist's Garden 87

Demonstration: A Different Perspective 95

Collage 100

Demonstration: Retro City 114

Veiling and Lifting 120

Demonstration: Watermelon Woman 122

Transparency 130

Printing 134

Mark-Making 144

Demonstration: Red Lilies 168

Varnishing and completing 174

Index 176

Acknowledgements