Layered Impressions


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Reveal your own uniquely beautiful layers by painting with poetry. Layered Impressions is the muse you need to marry your love of written expression and your passion for paint, revealing the colors of your true nature--the whispers from your soul. Katie Kendrick leads you into her world of impressionistic painting and shares her techniques for creating art that is as authentic and multilayered as you are. Through projects such as a mobile-like wall hanging, a soulful doll, a handmade frame or a quilted journal, you'll learn to use a variety of mediums, while learning much about yourself in the process. With Layered Impressions, there is much to explore: • Prior to painting, use writing exercises to release imagery and feelings, expanding self-awareness and providing elements you can bring into your artwork. • Taking cues from the Masters, explore different styles and find elements that work together for you. • Deepen your personal sense of community and purpose with "giving back" ideas at the end of each project. Expect the unexpected and see what lies between your own unique layers with Layered Impressions.




Crafting Impressions


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Discover the Art of Leather Embossing and Tooling with "Crafting Impressions" Unlock the secrets of leather crafting and transform ordinary pieces of leather into extraordinary works of art with "Crafting Impressions". This comprehensive guide is your ultimate resource for mastering the age-old techniques of leather embossing and tooling, presented in an accessible and engaging format. Begin your journey by exploring the rich history of leather crafting and gaining a deep understanding of the various types of leather and techniques. From selecting the right materials to setting up a functional workspace, every foundational aspect is covered to set you up for success. Dive into the essentials with clear and detailed instructions on basic tools and supplies, ensuring you are fully equipped to start your projects. With guidance on creating a dedicated crafting area and implementing crucial safety measures, you can focus on honing your craft with confidence. "Crafting Impressions" meticulously takes you through each stage of the leatherworking process, from preparing and shaping leather to transferring intricate patterns and designs. Whether you're a novice or an experienced crafter looking to refine your skills, find inspiration in chapters dedicated to basic, intermediate, and advanced techniques. Discover how to create stunning 3D effects, multi-layer embossing, and intricate pattern embossing that will elevate your leatherwork. The practical project showcases offer step-by-step instructions for crafting a variety of leather items, from simple coasters and keychains to detailed portraits and custom leather bags. Learn how to apply the perfect finishing touches with tips on sealants, polishing, and adding hardware. Additionally, the book provides invaluable insights into troubleshooting common mistakes, maintaining your tools, and even turning your passion into a thriving business. Explore pricing strategies, marketing tips, and ways to connect with a broader crafting community. "Crafting Impressions" is more than a guide—it's a gateway to a world of creativity and skill in leather crafting. Whether you're crafting for personal satisfaction or aspiring to sell your creations, this book is your indispensable companion on the path to mastery. Embark on your leather crafting adventure today and start making lasting impressions.




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Vernon Lee


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A startlingly original study, Vernon Lee adds new dimensions to the legacy of this woman of letters whose career spans the transition from the late Victorian to the modernist period. Christa Zorn draws on archival materials to discuss Lee's work in terms of British aestheticism and in the context of the Western European history of ideas.




Mandelstam's Worlds


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Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity. The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam's writings are the subject of this book, showing how engaged the poet was with the history, social movements, political ideology, and aesthetics of his time. The importance of the book also lies in showing how literature, no less than history and philosophy, enables readers to confront the huge upheaval in outlook can demand of us; thinking with poetry is to think through the moral compromise and tension felt by individuals in public and private contexts, and to create out of art experience in itself. The book further innovates by integrating a new, comprehensive discussion of the Voronezh Notebooks, one of the supreme achievements of Russian poetry. This book considers the full political dimension of works that explore the role of the poet as a figure positioned within society but outside the state, caught between an ideal of creative independence and a devotion to the original, ameliorative ideals of the revolution.




First Impressions


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Matt James, the first Black bachelor on ABC’s beloved television show, The Bachelor, shares his views on the controversial topics that defined his season and confronts matters of race, opportunity, and his biracial identity head on. When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. America fell in love with Matt—the Christian, former NFL athlete, and nonprofit CEO—who charmed millions of viewers each week. But the off-screen conversations around the show revealed the realities and inescapable challenges of being Black in America and the depth of racism that still exists. On the show, Matt could only go so far in sharing his own story with America. In First Impressions, Matt shares his views on controversial topics like race and opportunity that defined his season on The Bachelor. Matt lives at the intersection of these important issues and shares the wisdom his experience has granted him. Matt describes the joys and difficulties of being the youngest of two Black sons, raised by a single, working-class, white mother in Raleigh, North Carolina. He elaborates on the spiritual closeness and sense of duty he felt for his mother, but also the complex relationships he had with the many male figures in his life: his prejudiced, Italian grandfather, who had trouble accepting Matt as his own; his father, whose womanizing and petty crime put strain on the family; and his older brother, who was Matt’s protector in youth, but who struggled with the long shadow of their father’s legacy. Simultaneously inspirational and informative, First Impressions will leave readers with a deeper understanding of the life experiences that prepared Matt for such a divisive moment in television history.




Collage Crafts Gone Wild


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Collage projects beyond your wildest dreams! Express your unique self in wonderful and fascinating ways--with Collage Crafts Gone Wild, you will take your art to a whole new level, experimenting with new techniques and combining materials and objects in more ways than you can imagine! With Collage Crafts Gone Wild: • You'll discover 24 fierce step-by-step projects from 13 of your favorite North Light authors, including Kelly Rae Roberts, Traci Bautista and Josie Cirincione. • You'll work with unique materials like foil, plaster, leather, and molding paste (to name just a few!) alongside everyday art supplies like paint, paper, stamps and fabric. • You'll explore exciting new techniques for dyeing paper and fabric, transferring images to fabric and wood, and painting with beeswax. • You'll create meaningful and personal masterpieces, including canvases, posters, jewelry, albums, mobiles, banners and more! So go ahead and go wild--add Collage Crafts Gone Wild to your artistic library today!




Bulletin


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Fabricating Lureland


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Through the analysis of surviving archival traces, this book constructs a history of the imagination and memory of the town of Peacehaven. Built as a speculative development atop iconic chalk cliffs on the Sussex Coast and marketed as a garden city by the sea, the estate quickly attracted adverse publicity. Influential voices such as the Bloomsbury group’s Virginia and Leonard Woolf, architect and writer Clough Williams-Ellis and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England soon began to criticise it as a blot on the rolling, pastoral downland. Instead of reading and appraising Peacehaven’s story in a polarized way, this book breaks new ground by critically interpreting visual representations and commissioned photographs of the Estate and re-evaluating propositions from its inception, which aspired to secure improved public health and home ownership in direct response to the negative impact of industrialization and WWI. Focusing on the interwar period and tracing mutating agendas, the book investigates contested marketing and construction narratives through Histoire Croisée methodology and its intercrossings with memory and the imagination. By combining visual and creative research methods with oral history, multi-layered narratives of place come into focus. The study tracks the visual programme of the developer’s in-house magazine, Peacehaven Post, alongside previously underexplored blueprints, photographs, postcards and promotional guidebooks, and considers the garden city narrative as a form of social Utopia. Garden city ideals are once again evoked in debates as a potential solution to the ongoing national housing shortage, giving this research additional urgency as new large-scale redevelopment erases many of the few and fast disappearing original landmarks.