Mixed-Media Master Class with Sherrill Kahn by Sherril Kahn (2013)

, 29 Apr 2023

This is one of those books that you want to have on our table when you start your mixed-media journey. I wish I had it on mine when I first started. Ten years have elapsed since the book was first published, but some of the techniques and content are still relevant and many of the techniques and supplies were unknown to me. 
 
This is a how-to book. I consider it good for for both mixed-media newbies or people who usually work with mixed-media but want to expand their technical repertoire. 
 
Kahn says at the beginning of the book that her aim is just to provide us with techniques so that we can try them and/or incorporate them into our artwork, and she stresses that they're just techniques to use to create pieces that will then be incorporated into our artwork, so they're not intended to create masterpieces or finished pieces on their own.   

GREAT THINGS
> Greatly photographed and edited. 
> Kahn goes through every technique, from the use of different subtracts, techniques to create resist, use of different art supplies, ways to create textures, rubbings and hand-printing techniques, you name it.
> The book reads quickly, but this is one of those books that I want to keep at hand to come and apply some of the teachings in my work.  
> Kahn has an amazing knowledge of how different paper and textile substrates work, so she's able to properly advice on how the same technique works on different materials. 
> The abstract artwork displayed on the book is gorgeous and very much my cup of tea.  
> The tutorial to make a folding book. 
> She uses inexpensive supplies most of the time, so that's great as I think this pushes us, or at least me, to try things without worrying about having this or that fancy supply. 
> The last section of her book has examples of ho Khan put together some art pieces using the techniques she describes throughout the book. They're so beautiful.
 

SO-SO
>  We live in a world bombarded with video-tutorials and some of the things presented here are already popular and well-known. 
> The text is not justified, something that always bothers me. 
> Some of the brands that Kahn mentions might be very common in the US but not elsewhere. I would have loved having a replacement mentioned, or just a generic product mentioned. 
> Thermofax machines were becoming uncommon when Kahn wrote her book and I don't think they're that common today. I have never heard for them, anyway. So, I don't think this is something that the average artist has access to.  

  

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