Sketchbook Explorations: For Mixed Media And Textile Artists by Shelly Rhodes

This book, Sketchbook Explorations: For Mixed Media and Textile Artists is a practical guide with a plethora of inspirational work that will help embroiderers and textile artists. If you want to make the most of your sketchbook to help inspire and inform your creative work then look no further, the artists sketchbook gives a fascinating platform to help you explore a range of mixed media techniques and textile effects. Using a mixture of paper, textiles, found objects, pencils, inks and paints, the author and artist Shelley Rhodes explains and demonstrates how your sketchbook can be a visual diary and a catalogue for your ideas that can act as a starting point for ideas and creation at its purest. No matter if you're in the studio or out on location, every part of the creative process is explored from initial inspiration to breaking through the mental barrier of a blank page. Suitable for beginners and more experienced artists, as it's the ideal companion for techniques and methods that are sure to get you using your sketchbook again.

Shelley Rhodes is a contemporary mixed media artist who combines fabric, paper and stitch with drawing, prints and digital art. Working from her studio on the
Cumbria/Lancashire border she teaches workshops covering all aspects of design, stitch, drawing, sketchbooks and mixed media work. She is a member of the prestigious Textile Study Group and has written for a variety of publications including Drawn to Stitch and Somerset Studio.

- Author: Shelly Rhodes
- Publisher: Search Press
- Pages: 144
- Illustrations: 130
- Size: 216 mm x 276 mm
- Great platform to explore a range of mixed media techniques and textiles
- Demonstrates how to use your sketchbook as a visual diary and catalogue of your ideas
- Shows how to incorporate paper, textiles, found objects, pencils, inks and paints