One Painting A Day:

A 6-Week Course in Observational Painting–Creating Extraordinary Paintings from Everyday Experiences

by

Timothy Callaghan

Simply leave a comment in today’s post by June 26th, 2013 (U.S. residents only) and you could be the proud new owner of a copy of One Painting A Day.

To see a tutorial on how to paint a single value pop on over to Craftside.

More about the book One Painting A Day from Quarry books:

One Painting A Day offers you an inspiring six-week course exploring the timeless traditions of observational painting through daily experience and routine.

This motivational guide is broken up into three parts to focus on the three major traditions of observational painting: still life, landscape, and portraiture. Each of the 42 daily exercises launches a small, immediate, and responsive painting based on a theme drawn from your daily experience. You will find suggestions on technique, approach, and materials for each day, while the “weekly lessons” explore a format or a rhythm for creating content, inspiring you to make the ordinary extraordinary as you create from every day experience. This beautiful collection of contemporary paintings serves as a workbook of ideas for aspiring artists, art students, professional designers, and art lovers alike.

Timothy Callaghan is a painter who lives and works in Cleveland, OH. He received an MFA from Kent State in 2005 and a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 1999. Presently, he is a visiting professor at Oberlin College and an adjunct faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cuyahoga Community College. Callaghan has exhibited his work in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. The Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Art Association have collected his work, and he is represented by William Busta Gallery in Cleveland. Visit him online at http://www.timothycallaghan.com and http://timothycallaghan.tumblr.com.

Whether you simply love collection books filled with pretty things or you use them for inspiration for your own crafts and designs I bet you will be like me and flip through 500 Paper Objects savoring the pages over and over and over again! This book is filled with such a divers mix of designs that make you smile to scratch your head and think how long an artist must have worked to creates something so beautiful and intricate. Your library needs this book if you like things made from paper.

More about the Lark Crafts Book:

500 Paper Objects by Gene McHugh

“Paper craft is a dynamic medium that’s in the midst of a renaissance—and this entry in the very popular 500 series reveals the creative work of today’s most gifted and original artists and the limitless potential of the craft. Juried by Gene McHugh, an award-winning arts writer and well-established expert in the field, the book presents a broad range of techniques, forms, and aesthetic approaches, with magnificent examples of origami, kirigami, cutting, quilling, papier-mâché, and casting.

Gene McHugh is an arts writer whose work has appeared in Artforum and Rhizome. In 2009, he received a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for his blog, Post Internet (122909a.com), which was recently published in book form by Link Editions. McHugh is currently the Kress Fellow in Interpretive Technology at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, where he resides.”

More about the book from Lark Crafts:

” Hand-lettering techniques are a popular and visually dynamic way to add textual elements to crafts, from journals to mixed-media art. Sixteen accomplished contributors—including calligraphers, painters, collagists, card makers, fiber artists, and graphic designers—give their personal perspectives on lettering. They all offer their favorite tools, how they use them, their signature technique with step-by-step instructions and photos, and an alphabet sampler of their own font. Gorgeous gallery images of each contributor’s work are also included.

So whether you are a dog lover or paper lover or both you will surely get a kick out of making all these little Paper Pups! By the way that is my next plan is to try another of the patterns with some recycled paper, maybe a fun page from a magazine or old art catalog.

More about the book from the publisher Lark Crafts:

“Cute crafts and adorable dogs—what could be more irresistible? From a Golden Retriever and French Bulldog to the beloved mutt, these 35 paper pups are appealing and fun to create. They’re made using kirigami, an art similar to origami: just photocopy the full-size templates and follow the simple steps to transform a flat shape into a dimensional animal! In addition to the dogs, accessories include a fire hydrant, doghouse, and a collection of collars to adorn your paper pet.

Hiroshi Hayakawa is a professor of drawing and mixed-media photography at the Columbus College of Art and Design. He earned BFAs in Photography and Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design, as well as his MFA in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Hiroshi began making kirigami animal sculptures in the mid-’90s when he was asked to create table decorations for a Chinese New Year’s party. The Sherrie Gallerie in Columbus, OH represents Hiroshi’s photography. He lives in Columbus.”