Paper to Petal: 75 Whimsical Paper Flowers to Craft by Hand Author: Visit Amazon's Rebecca Thuss Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0385345054 | Format: EPUB
Paper to Petal: 75 Whimsical Paper Flowers to Craft by Hand Description
About the Author
THUSS + FARRELL are husband and wife team Rebecca Thuss and Patrick Farrell, a photography and design duo who have worked together since 1991. In addition to still-life, portraiture, and travel and lifestyle photography, their work together encompasses a wide variety of creative disciplines, including set design, furniture design, crafting, creative direction, and graphic design. Their clients include Chronicle Books, Landor Associates, Procter & Gamble, Corcoran, Daniel Boulud, Per Se, Random House, Abrams: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, EMG, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Keri Levitt Communications, Bonpoint, and the New York Times. Rebecca and Patrick live in Upstate New York with their daughter, Poet.
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Potter Craft (August 27, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385345054
- ISBN-13: 978-0385345057
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.8 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I love paper arts and either dabble or dive into them depending on my schedule, need to indulge, budget, etc, and I've been committing a greater-than-average amount of time into paper arts booka for the last year. I've got a bookcase of some really cute books, some informative, and some works or art that I will never master. This book has it all, and then some. Photos, text, templates, bound in a really thick book. Not the usual craft book.
There is a section devoted to the "examples" they have made for clients, all 75 flowers are magical. The next section describes the materials used to make paper flowers. The fact that they don't force any brand is a plus, if you aren't new to paper arts, you already have most of the materials, except, perhaps, for the stems and centers. The skills section is vital unless you are an expert in creating paper flowers. It is really useful that they have picture and text intermixed and that they break down flowers to their smallest parts. (center, stamen, stem, petal, etc) Each technique is introduced "contextually". So many helpful images of action and steps. Different means of shaping for different paper and a focus on creating rounded, organic forms. Because that is what nature is, correct? Organic, rounded flowers, no matter what colors you use are going to look amazingly real, just like all of the examples in the book, over something straight, flat, and fake. There is none of that in this guide. Not in the images or the writing, or even their style, it is really natural, beautiful and likeable.
The how-to section gives you just that for each one of those 75 flowers, broken down to their visual individual parts, and marks the skill level of each one. They are using a scale, of 1,2 or 3,; 1(basic techniques) to 3 (advanced techniques).
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