Book review: Mixed Media Explorations
October 19, 2006 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Home & Living
Beryl Taylor’s beautiful work is unlike any other! Her techniques are clearly presented, and somehow you just end up believing her, that you could do stuff like this too! One of the most valuable parts of the book for me is where she shows how she breaks down a very complicated-looking design into quite manageable elements.Even if you don’t want to work with fabric and paper, the visual aspects of this book are worth the time to read it!
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] Beryl Taylor is not a quilter, but her mixed-media work really inspired me to go way beyond the quilted fabric tradition. See entries from other fans, at “And Sew On,” “Altered Antiquity,” “Arte Es Vida,” “Quliting and Patchwork,” “A Little Imagination,” and “Layers upon Layers,” just to name a few! Obviously, Taylor has struck a chord with creative people who want to try different ways of putting artwork together. I think her modular approach, as previously exmplified for me by Maggie Grey, of “Workshop on the Web” fame, has great appeal. [...]