Focusing on contemporary abstraction and mixed media, Acrylic Solutions contains more than 30 step-by-step lessons in layering and composition, designed to infuse your artistic practice with new life and help you express your personal vision.

In Adventures in Mixed Media, Jane Davies shows you how to use this art form to enrich your creative expression. In lessons that inspire creativity, she demonstrates a variety of techniques using paper, fabric, beads, feathers, ribbons, fusible and non-fusible fibers, and even foamcore. 144 pages.

In this engaging book, author and mixed-media artist Pam Carriker proves that art and life can co-exist productively and happily, while making daily creative outlets a reality and not just wishful thinking.

Inside Artist Trading Card Workshop, mixed-media artist Bernadette Berlin shares a spectrum of techniques for making ATCs and albums to store them in, including collage, painting, metal working, stamping, and more.

Urban-style graffiti and mixed-media arts combine to produce 25 projects that take canvas way beyond the stretcher bar. Step-by-step instructions guide readers in creating projects that include a tote bag, placemats, and canvas jewelry beads. 128 pages.

The Cardmaker's Workbook is the most complete volume on card making available — and the only book on card making that a crafter will ever need. Author - Jenn Mason. Paperback, 160 Pages.

In addition to the tips and techniques, the experts in The Cloth Paper Scissors Book elaborate on their favorite tools and mediums, including paintbrushes, adhesives, papers, waxes, found objects, and more, taking the guesswork out of achieving tricky effects. Paperback. 160 Pages.

Artists and crafters share something elemental, regardless of their chosen medium — creative energy! Crafters dabble, collaborate, muse, and make, all in their own way and on their own timeline.

Through a myriad of both practical applications and creative exercises, McDonough shows artists how to "find their magic" — the place of confidence from which they can access the vision of what they want to share with the world.

Sixty exciting doodling projects teach you how to make your own spontaneous marks, patterns, scrawls, and stylistic strikes in your art journal, on paper, or on canvas.

Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists provides a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. She offers those interested in drawing a fun way to learn and gain expertise through experimentation and play.

Be inspired by 36 mixed-media artists whose collage, digital, assemblage, altered, and repurposed art adorn the walls and pedestals of this unique book.

Whether you are a quilter, painter, rubber stamper, sewer, or paper artist, artist Chris Cozen helps you expand the horizons of your craft by sharing the magic of mixed media. Paperback. 52 pages.

Mixed Media Workshop is filled with inspiring mixed media projects from seven talented artists, all sharing their distinctive styles and techniques. It gives beginners all the tools they need to start creating unique works of art. Hardcover. 144 Pages.

Growing out of the popular online workshops and videos, Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu is your handbook for creating whimsical mixed media figures inspired by Blu's super cool "Girly Grunge" style. Author - Suzi Blu, Paperback, 128 pages.

Using her own materials and methods as a source of motivation, author and artist Sarah Ahearn Bellemare provides an inside look at her personal creative processes, sharing her favorite resources alongside tips and tricks for making art.

In Printmaking and Mixed Media, discover simple printmaking techniques and how to incorporate them into mixed media artwork on paper or fabric — no printing presses or special papers required!

If you love mixed media and you love being a part of the vibrant and thriving mixed media community, you're sure to love all the great insights found here. Author, Seth Apter. Paperback. 144 pages.

Have you ever bought a new sketchbook, opened to the first page, and thought, "Now what do I do?" Sue Bleiweiss and the talented minds behind The Sketchbook Challenge are here to help.

In addition to more than 45 stepped-out techniques, Surface Treatment Workshop includes projects that combine the techniques into finished works of art. Traditional techniques as well as new applications, such as the use of WonderUnder, and plaster-dipped gauze are explored. Paperback. 144 pages.

Listed among the top 10 home and garden books on Amazon's Best Books of 2011, Unfurling shares technique exercises to get your creative juices flowing. These pages inspire anyone who wants to open up to the process of making art.