Transform simple copper wire into stunning works of wearable art. From best-selling author and popular artist Lora Irish learn expert techniques to create over 100 stylish DIY earring designs. With step-by-step instructions, high-quality photography, lists of materials and tools (including common household items, like medicine jars), and helpful tips and tricks, you'll be able to make dozens of beautiful copper wire earrings with unique formations and beaded details, and even a few necklaces, bracelets, key rings, and more for cohesive sets.

Making Copper Wire Earrings: More Than 150 Wire-Wrapped Designs (Fox Chapel Publishing) DIY Projects with Step-by-Step Instructions & Photos, Tools & Materials Lists, and Helpful Tips from Lora Irish

Arts & Photography

Irish, Lora S.

Graphic Design

Fox Chapel Publishing

Country landscape scenes featuring barns, churches, rustic mills, and mountain valleys are especially attractive when executed in the relief style of woodcarving. This guide features 32 patterns and step-by-step instructions for carving them. How to map out levels in a pattern, trace pattern levels onto the blank, work roughed-out levels, and carve texture for foliage and buildings are explained with accompanying illustrations to clarify each technique. Also included are ways to create three-dimensional foreground elements and dry brush finished carvings with oil paints.

Landscapes in Relief: Carving Techniques and Patterns

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Relief carving is a challenging technique that lies somewhere between two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork. Color photographs of the author’s finished carvings of wildlife subjects demonstrate the stunning capabilities of this technique. Step-by-step instructions on how to carve a bison bust, line art and shaded contour illustrations for 30 other animal images, and descriptions of the special techniques needed to render fur, antlers, and animal faces are also included.

Wildlife Carving in Relief: Carving Techniques and Patterns

Lora S. Irish, author of Great Book of Dragon Patterns and other useful reference guides for artists, proudly introduces her latest book for Fox Chapel Publishing—with more than 100 patterns of those most mystical and elusive beings called "Fairies." The folklore of fairies—sometimes referred to as faes and flutterbyes—has been passed down through the generations, and they have captured the hearts and minds of artists for centuries.
This book is brimming with tips and techniques for artists and craftspeople with any number of projects, including painting, woodworking, quilts, garden decorations, needlepoint, ceramics and more. Bring the magic of fairies to your art. Features dozens of original fairy patterns and the expert tips and techniques for successfully incorporating them into any medium or craft.
Inside, you'll find the history of fairies in legends, and clear descriptions of the various fairy types and their appearances.
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<li>Wing patterns: Including bee wings, dragonfly wings, butterfly wings, moth wings, and modern options</li>
<li>Poses: Handy tips on creating one fairy manikin and turning it into dozens of poses—it's easier than you think!</li>
<li>Outfits: Dress your fairy in the best and brightest fashions</li>
<li>Settings: From ponds to flower gardens to forest floors, you'll learn how to place your fairy in your favorite scenes and backgrounds</li>
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Great Book of Fairy Patterns: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Craftspeople (Fox Chapel Publishing)

History & Criticism

More than 100 simple, realistic floral patterns are provided in this guide for scrollers, woodcarvers, and crafters. Designs for pansies, daisies, poppies, lilies, sunflowers, roses, and irises are included for a wide variety of media from painting to graphic design. Several of the flowers have multiple designs and feature leaf and stem work to be used for accents. Finished works of art in a variety of forms are pictured and discussed to teach and inspire artists and craftspeople in any media, including painting, quilting, ceramics, and more.

Great Book of Floral Patterns: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Craftspeople

Painting

Presenting appealing and high-quality designs, this collection of tattoo artwork includes an extensive breadth of styles—including fantasy, Celtic, pagan, gothic, sacred, oriental, and mythical. Whether used individually, in combination, or as inspiration for original designs, this resource provides designs ideal for personal expression. From dancing dragons and Aztec Indians to fairies and flowers, this guidebook is a perfect companion for anyone with an interest in tattoos.

Great Book of Tattoo Designs: More Than 500 Body Art Designs

Drawing

Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc

From transferring the carving pattern to preparing the wood and evaluating the various levels of depth, every cut of the carving process is carefully illustrated and explained in this beginner's guide. Carvers will learn which tools are best for which cuts and why; how to create realistic eyes, noses, and other facial features; and how to add texture to their projects. Ten additional projects await once the first whimsical tree spirit is completed, each of which includes three styles of patterns: an outline for cutting the basic shape, a depth pattern indicating the levels of relief, and a shaded pattern indicating texture and shadow.

Relief Carving Wood Spirits: A Step-By-Step Guide for Releasing Faces in Wood (A Woodcarving Illustrated Book Series)

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