Author: Brit Hammer-Dijcks Publisher: ISBN: 9781715293277 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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CEMENT FRESCO: THE ART OF SERENDIPITY will inspire you to go with the flow in your art-making. Illustrated by scores of luscious, large size detail images, the book teaches you the art of creating cement fresco paintings.Brit takes you behind the scenes and into her studio, sharing the honest stories how the 10 artworks featured were made while giving you an entertaining private tutorial, explaining all that you need to know about cement, pigments and substrates.After reading this book you'll be ready to create your own cement fresco paintings and have a good understanding of this new medium. You might even have a different perspective on life!THIS BOOK IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK on Brit's websiteWHAT READERS ARE SAYING"'Cement Fresco: The Art of Serendipity' is a fabulous publication. I can't praise it enough on all levels of visual stimulation, technical advice, and imaginative revelations through the process of development and experiment. And it's just plain perfect for learning how to create exterior works with cement, including awesome images!!" -- Helen Nock, fine artist
Author: William McElroy Publisher: Craftsman Book Company ISBN: 9780934041287 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 326
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This complete guide explains what painters and paint contractors need to know to thrive in the paint contracting business. It's loaded with how-to information you'll use every day when preparing surfaces for coating, applying paints, bidding jobs and running your paint contracting company: Doing Professional Quality Work: Selecting the right tools, preparing all types of surfaces. Tips for repainting kitchens, bathrooms, cabinets, eaves and porches, handling new construction, getting good results from your airless spray rig, and much more Paint Problems and Their Cure: Why coatings fail, testing for blisters, chalking, poor adhesion and condensation, removing all types of stains, what to do about voids, skips, holidays, pulls, wrinkles, color changes, gloss spots, streaks, yellowing, peeling, alligatoring, powdering, chipping, checking, cracking, fish eyes, graining, roller stipple, water stains and fire damage.Using the Right Paint and Color: Avoiding paint oxidation, chalking, and fading, creating special effects, using stains, varnishes, lacquer, shellac, plastics, preservatives and primers, avoiding customer complaints about color match, tried and true color schemes for every job, cutting costs by mixing your own colors, making touch-ups blend in perfectly.Setting Up Your Business: Selecting your area and specialty, where to get start-up cash and how much you need, protecting yourself with insurance, controlling expenses, staying legal, getting top value for your advertising dollar, typical budgets for paint contractors, keeping your paperwork straight, tracking job expenses.Finding Your Gravy Train: Over 30 profitable specialty painting businesses you shouldconsider, how to sell the job, estimating areas, material quantities and labor costs for walls, overhangs, gables, molding, trim doors and windows.
Author: Philip Stein Publisher: INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO ISBN: 9780717807062 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 492
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An insightful biography of the committed and exciting life of the famed Mexican muralist, by an American artist who spent 10 years as his assistant.
Author: Sergio Delgado Moya Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477314350 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 300
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In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in it, and make sense of it via perception and emotion. Delirious Consumption focuses on the two largest cultural economies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and analyzes how their artists and writers both embraced and resisted the spirit of development and progress that defines the consumer moment in late capitalism. Sergio Delgado Moya looks specifically at the work of David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian concrete poets, Octavio Paz, and Lygia Clark to determine how each of them arrived at forms of aesthetic production balanced between high modernism and consumer culture. He finds in their works a provocative positioning vis-à-vis urban commodity capitalism, an ambivalent position that takes an assured but flexible stance against commodification, alienation, and the politics of domination and inequality that defines market economies. In Delgado Moya's view, these poets and artists appeal to uselessness, nonutility, and noncommunication—all markers of the aesthetic—while drawing on the terms proper to a world of consumption and consumer culture.
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