Inspired Rug-Hooking: Turning Atlantic Canadian Life Into Art - Softcover

Fitzpatrick, Deanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155109780X ISBN 13: 9781551097800

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Working from twenty years' experience as a rug hooker, studio owner, and teacher, Deanne Fitzpatrick shares her sources of inspiration, work habits, ideas about creativity and design, and helpful guidelines for creating beautiful, expressive rugs. Practical suggestions for hooking houses, landscapes, seasons, stories, and people are accompanied by the artist's insight into tapping creativity and learning how to make art from life.

Tips for choosing colours, experimenting with texture, preparing a backing, transferring a design, and achieving realistic depictions are interspersed with passages on artistic inspiration and process. Best of all, over 80 striking colour photographs of the author's own projects and techniques provide readers with excellent reference points for turning their own experiences into magnificent rugs.

About this title

About the Author

Deanne Fitzpatrick is renowned worldwide for her stunning rugs and patterns. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and she is the author of East Coast Rug-Hooking Designs, Hook Me a Story, and Inspired Rug-Hooking. She works from her studio in downtown Amherst, Nova Scotia, and she writes and teaches on her website, hookingrugs.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 155109780X
• ISBN 13: 9781551097800
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144