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How to Make Art

Author: Mel Elliott   Series: How To

Hugely popular illustrator Mel Elliott helps you unleash your inner creativity on today's pop icons, with techniques including drawing, colouring, collage and text manipulation.

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Hugely popular illustrator Mel Elliott helps you unleash your inner creativity on today's pop icons, with techniques including drawing, colouring, collage and text manipulation.

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Unleash your inner creativity (and your inner child who loves cutting and sticking) with this amazing book, which helps you colour in, cut out, print up and sew together a huge selection of today's popculture icons



'Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up' - Pablo Picasso



this isn't your usual art manual. It's for big kids everywhere everyone who loved getting covered in paint and glue at school and would secretly love to do it more often. It's also for people who love pop culture: comedy, trashy tV, great tV, pop videos, pop stars and pop music. And not only does it help you harness your inner creativity, it's also a lot of fun!



Mel Elliott, doyenne of the cool colouring book and the crazy paper doll, imparts the secrets of her expertise, giving you in-depth tutorials on how to create funky

collages, make cool wonky lettering, paint the skin tones of the stars and much, much more. With more pop culture references than you can throw a Justin Bieber CD at, this book will have you drawing, painting, cutting and colouring before you can say 'Welcome to Pawnee', using your newly learned skills and indulging your own personal tastes to create works of art to be proud of. After all, how better to learn to paint than by painting Kate Moss?

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About the Author

Mel Elliott and her husband Andy run - a unique and successful brand that designs and sells its own range of products. Recently, Mel's projects have been showcased in the Guardian and Paris Vogue as well as in high street shops such as Topshop. She is the author of Swoon (9781909396234) and Girl Crush (9781909396579).

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Hugely popular illustrator Mel Elliott helps you unleash your inner creativity on today's pop icons, with techniques including drawing, colouring, collage and text manipulation. 'Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up' - Pablo Picasso This isn't your usual art manual. It's for big kids everywhere everyone who loved getting covered in paint and glue at school and would secretly love to do it more often. It's also for people who love pop culture: comedy, trashy TV, great TV, pop videos, pop stars and pop music. And not only does it help you harness your inner creativity, it's also a lot of fun! Mel Elliott, doyenne of the cool colouring book and the crazy paper doll, imparts the secrets of her expertise, giving you in-depth tutorials on how to create funky collages, make cool wonky lettering, paint the skin tones of the stars and much, much more. With more pop culture references than you can throw a Justin Bieber CD at, this book will have you drawing, painting, cutting and colouring before you can say 'Welcome to Pawnee', using your newly learned skills and indulging your own personal tastes to create works of art to be proud of. After all, how better to learn to paint than by painting Kate Moss? Word count: 15,000

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Product Details

Publisher
Harpercollins Publishers | Portico
Published
2nd April 2015
Pages
128
ISBN
9781909396807

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