Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic Ann Baldwin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Getting started -- How to compose -- Approaches to abstract design -- Experiments in texture -- Layering paint and found images -- Combining words and paint -- Working with encaustic -- Using digital photographs in mixed-media paintings -- Gallery of special projects.

A workshop-style book, oriented to the wide community of crafters and artists including those interested in paint, surface design, mixed media, and collage, which explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction, texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text, and adding digital imagery.