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ISBN: 1581809905

ISBN13: 9781581809909

The Art of Personal Imagery: Expressing Your Life Through Collage

Name: Not just for scrapbookers
Item: The Art of Personal Imagery: Expressing Your Life Through Collage
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By Corey Moortgat

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Book Overview

Express yourself—and celebrate your life—with collage.

The Art of Personal Imagery introduces a fresh approach to collage, one that blends traditional methods with innovative new techniques for capturing your favorite moments and most treasured memories in your artwork. Step by step, author Corey Moortgat teaches you the secrets to adding visual and emotional depth to your collage:

Commemorate special occasions by transforming mementos into clever collage elements.Add meaning to your work with written sentiments about your friends and family.Use painting and paper layering techniques to blend a glossy modern photo with vintage ephemera. Stage your own photo shoot to capture images perfect for your artwork.Find your personal symbols with creative exercises to unlock your subconscious mind.

Push yourself beyond impersonal collage! Create beautiful artwork that honors your loved ones and glows with your essence.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1581809905

ISBN13:9781581809909

Release Date:October 2007

Publisher:North Light Books

Length:128 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 8.4" x 10.8"

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Rated 5 stars
Not just for scrapbookers

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 11, 2008

And to think I almost missed this book because I thought it was just another cluttered-looking volume about scrapbooking. Shudder! This is a fantastically useful art book for anyone who wants to learn about painting great backgrounds, altering photographs, using personal symbols, and more. I highly recommend it to beginning artists and experienced painters who want to give their work a newer and more exciting look!

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Rated 5 stars
A great springboard for a beginning art journalist, and an eye opener for the experienced.

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 2, 2007

I have never heard of Corey prior to picking up this book. Her artistic style is fun and the book is eye opening. Corey comes across as a very introspective and deep thinking person and she helps the reader to explore symbolism in their own artwork and give prompts and exercises which I found enlightening. She then offers up her own creative techniques to help you create your own art journals. If you have been wanting to...

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Collage with meaning

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 20, 2007

I love this book because the author shares her process of creating meaning in her collages. I have most of the major books on this style of art because I find it fascinating. I've also taken workshops from several of the authors and produced some pretty good looking finished pieces. Curiously though the finished pieces I've created leave me cold emotionally and I now realize it's because I wasn't bringing my own meaning to...

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Rated 5 stars
I love this Book!

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 30, 2007

I just recieved this book and I have to say that I am very impressed with the overall quality of the book. The artwork itself is amazing...it is not generic like a lot of the collage work you see today. The author uses her own style and personal imagery to guide you through many of the process oriented examples in the book. I like a book that has a good balance of "how to" and inspiring eye candy. As another reviewer mentioned,...

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Rated 5 stars
expressive art journaling

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 23, 2007

I am absolutely loving this book. I can hardly wait to apply Corey's techniques to my own personal art projects. I'm not a very good writer, more of a visual artist, but her book shows you how to incorporate a little or a lot of written word. The quality of the book is excellent, spill proof cover! And the photos are all very inspiring. She encourages the reader to search for his/her own "style" and explains how to go about...

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