Caught in Flight Image Transfer on Driftwood tutorial by Courtney Cerruti, author of Playing With Image Transfers

I am so tickled to share this Caught in Flight Image Transfer on driftwood project by Courtney Cerruti author of the new book Playing with Image Transfers: Exploring Creative Imagery for Use in Art, Mixed Media, and Design.

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And to celebrate the launch of her new book, we have a big 3 book and goody giveaway.

Along with a copy of Courtney's new book, Playing with Image Transfers: Exploring Creative Imagery for Use in Art, Mixed Media, and Design, we have two books from the Quarry 20 Ways Series; 20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature, and our latest, 20 Ways to Draw a Tulip and 44 Other Fabulous Flowers

After all, what what goes better with a book about image transfers than 2 books filled with 900 images each!

And if 3 books wasn't enough included with these 3 new Quarry titles you will get:

-A Bulking Dummy (a sample blank book) and a MakeReady Journal

-MakeReady Wrapping Paper

-A Card Album

-Ink pads, an acrylic block and some all-purpose cleaner

-Aleene's Tacky glue and glue dots

-A Dritz measuring tape

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Now for even more eyecandy! I highly recomend taking a few moinutes to watch this awesome littele video Courtney made, showcasing a whole bunch of imagage transfer art she created and you can too!

 

Playing With Image Transfers Book Trailer from Courtney Cerruti on Vimeo.

And if all of that wasn't enough, Courtney is going to randomly pick 5 people who write a review on Amazon about her book Playing with Image Transfers to receive an Image Transfer kit she has created! 

More about the new Quarry books:

Playing with Image Transfers: Exploring Creative Imagery for Use in Art, Mixed Media, and Design

by Courtney Cerruti

Whatever art you practice, chances are you’re going to come across image transfer techniques. These valuable techniques allow you to reproduce a unique image from any source and apply it to a myriad of surfaces. The options are endless!

 

Playing with Image Transfers is a beautiful and helpful resource that will teach you the four image transfer methods: Packing Tape, Solvent, Medium, and Acrylic transfers, while highlighting basic methods and offering projects across a range of interests and applications. You’ll learn how to make beautiful items, including gift boxes, albums, sketchbook covers, wall art, accordion books, and much more. Once you’ve mastered the techniques, you’ll also explore multiple surfaces as a base for transferring – wood, fabric, paper, canvas, and book forms. A beautiful gallery will show the use of image transfers in a wide variety of high-end artistic works to get your creative juices flowing.

  

Maker extraordinaire, Courtney Cerruti sees books as objects to be read and re-purposed, candy wrappers as paper flower petals, toilet paper tubes as a menagerie of animals. She sees the potential in the discarded, history in the mundane and art in the everyday. She saves everything, makes anything and teaches from a place of passion and authenticity. Courtney believes everyone is creative and she’d rather spend an evening drinking tea and painting than doing anything else (except maybe scavenging treasures abroad).

 

Courtney teaches at the San Francisco Center for the Book, Press: Works on Paper as well as other guest locations in the SF Bay Area and online at Creativebug.com. She studied painting at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France where she had her first exhibition and hosted many book making parties! In addition to teaching, Courtney is a freelance artist. She makes something every day and works mostly doing windows, wedding installations and set design. In a previous life she did windows and display at Anthropologie as well as teaching and working at Paper Source.

www.ccerruti.com

  

20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature: A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

by Eloise Renouf

This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new 20 Ways series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of a single item, such as a tree, tulip, shell, owl, peacock feather, mushroom, cloud, or berry.–with blank space for you to draw your take on “20 Ways to Draw a Tree.”

This is not a step-by-step technique book--rather, the stylized flowers, trees, leaves, and clouds are simplified, modernized, and reduced to the most basic elements, showing you how simple abstract shapes and forms meld to create the building blocks of any item that you want to draw. Each of the 20 interpretations provides a different, interesting approach to drawing a single item, providing loads of inspiration for your own drawing. Presented in the author’s uniquely creative style, this engaging and motivational practice book provides a new take on the world of sketching, doodling, and designing.

Eloise has a keen interest in mid-century art and design that influences her design aesthetic. Imagery, textiles, children’s book illustrations, and home interiors from the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s contribute to her unique, appealing style. She currently lives in Nottingham, U.K. View her work online at http://www.etsy.com/shop/EloiseRenouf.

 

 20 Ways to Draw a Tulip and 44 Other Fabulous Flowers: A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

by Lisa Congdon

This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new 20 Ways series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes–tulips, roses, dahlias, and much, much more–over 900 drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on  20 Ways to Draw a Tulip.

  

This is not a step-by-step technique book--rather, the stylized flowers, snap dragons, and zinnias, are simplified, modernized, and reduced to the most basic elements, showing you how simple abstract shapes and forms meld to create the building blocks of any item that you want to draw. Each of the 20 interpretations provides a different, interesting approach to drawing a single item, providing loads of inspiration for your own drawing. Presented in the author’s uniquely creative style, this engaging and motivational practice book provides a new take on the world of sketching, doodling, and designing.

 

San Francisco illustrator and fine artist Lisa Congdon was raised in both upstate New York and Northern California where she grew to love the trees and animals that surrounded her. That love is now expressed through her paintings and drawings. Lisa is predominantly self taught and did not begin painting until she was 31 years old. She is also a prolific collector of old and unusual things and surrounds herself with these things in her home & studio. In 2010 she chronicled her collections in her Collection A Day 2010 Project. That project is now a book, published in March 2011. In 2012, Lisa engaged in another daily project called 365 Days of Hand Lettering. 100 of her hand lettered quotes from that project will be published by Chronicle Books in Spring of 2014.

 

In addition to illustration, Lisa periodically shows her work in galleries around the country. In 2011, she had her first major solo show at Gallery Hijinks in San Francisco and was in her first museum show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Lisa works in the Mission District of San Francisco, where she also lives with her partner, Clay Lauren Walsh, her 10 pound chihuahua, Wilfredo, and her two cats, Barry and Margaret.  She’s an avid cyclist and swimmer.

  

To learn more about Lisa in her own words, listen to this podcast of Lisa’s interview with Meighan O’Toole about her work & making art for a living. You can also read this interview with Lisa on The Great Discontent and view this short film about her artwork and life.

 

http://lisacongdon.com/

Comments

[wendy]

What a fabulous giveaway! Thanks for the chance!

[Ashley T.]

I have never tried image transferring, but those birds are so lovely that it might be my next project. Will have to look for the book! Thanks for the giveaway!

[Susan Scofield]

This is really neat! I've never done image transfers before, but I think I would like to try. My first project would probably involve old - really old - family photos for Holiday gifts. Thank you for the chance at the giveaway!

[Michelle H.]

I'm not sure what I would like to try transferring, but the possibilities are endless!

[Sandra Strait]

I'd transfer photos from my trips to the Oregon Coast.

[Alicia]

Courtney's new book has caught my attention! I want to learn what she shows in her book! I love the other books offered in this giveaway and would love to win! Thanks!

[Melissa]

Probably a family or pet photo!

[Kim McM]

Some of my kids' artwork from when they were little.

[Mary Anne]

I would love to try transferring tree pictures onto things like tiles and rocks. Great giveaway - would definitely be fun to be able to read more about doing transfers.

[Carole RB]

This is a fabulous giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity to win. For your question: I would like to transfer a butterfly image!