Metal Embossing: Templates and Ideas - Softcover

Miller, Mary Jane

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798988628316

Verlag: Miller Icons, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Metal Embossing: Templates and Beginner Techniques for tooling metal foil pewter is an essential resource. Russian and Greek iconographers employ countless elaborate design styles in metal. Byzantine iconography has a long history using this ancient technique. The metal used for Embossing in this case s Pewter. Our How to Book is a collection of icon templates for those devoted to traditional fine craftsmanship for Art and craft using metal. Beautifully embellished halos have been a Byzantine iconographical legacy and tradition for centuries. Books for Craft, hobby and home lovers will enjoy this introduction to the art techniques employed in metal embossing. Create your own silver halos.

The first section of the book discusses tools, supplies, and techniques. Tools and metal foil sheets are all you need to create beautiful designs. Each tool has its own character and purpose to help you press from the back to the front and flatten raised areas that get distorted. As you learn to refine the edges of your patterns, you will add a few more tools to accommodate increased skill. This book on Metal Embossing gives you a place to begin and inspires you to go further with practice. After describing the tools and supplies, I give you basic techniques, step-by-step, to teach yourself how to create borders and halos to embellish your icons. The process is simple and only requires investing hours of focused practice. After about ten hours of practice Pewter metal work, you will begin to sense and feel the amount of pressure required to make fluid designs and textures. Experimenting will bring the best results and in no time you will be skilled enough to create beautiful work for embellishing your icons with arts and crafts book. Metal Jewelry is an option as well. The importance of having a guide and inspiring images to go about Art and craft using metal is indispensable.
CONTENTS How to create art book
Introduction
Materials for the Beginner are not Expensive for Embossing Metal
Your work surface
Embossing Materials list
The Best Kind of Metal Foil for Embossing
Embossing Metal Tool descriptions
Design a sample for Metal Embossing
Begin Embossing Metal
Halos and Templates for Metal Embossing
Adding Texture
Finishing and Patina
Templates
Collection of Finished Icons
Consulting Techniques in Embossing Metal

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Mary Jane Miller is a first class teacher and Iconographer with over 25 years experience. Her collection includes more than 1,000 icons in the ancient practice of egg tempera. She speaks and consults on Byzantine style iconography in formal class settings, five day intensive silent icon painting retreats or one-on-one instruction and coaching. She has been painting/writing icons and teaching since 1995. Her collections include the Life of Christ series, The Mary Collection, In Light of Women Series, the Stations of the Cross and On Holy Ground. Some people have identified her as a mystic without a monastery, others refer to her as rebellious. Her work is always theologically provocative. Mary Jane lives in San Miguel Allende, Mexico. Contact her for consultations or advice on pewter techniques and icon painting/writing in general. Books by Mary Jane can be purchased on Lulu.com and Amazon. Support small companies like LULU. Amazon makes a substantial profit off of all artists. Unique PDFs are available upon request.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Miller Icons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798988628316
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 54
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland