Collage, Colour and Texture in Painting

Ever since the pioneering collages of Picasso and Braque, mixed-media works have held a respected place in fine art painting. Now award-winning painter Mike Bernard offers artists a hands-on introduction to the boundless possibilities opened up by combining paint with abstract paper shapes, textured papers, newspaper clippings, fabrics, and other unusual materials. With step-by-step photographs of several works in the making, he takes the reader inside the creative process, from preliminary...