How to Become a Balloon Artist and Make Up to $100,000 a Year Prosper 1987 Submitter: This book has recently been weeded from a public library. It probably should have been weeded a decade ago–or two. Surprisingly enough its last checkout
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Copy Machine Art
Copier Creations: Using Copy Machines to Make Decals, Silhouettes, Flip Books, Films, and Much More! Fleischman 1993 Submitter: With all the free or low-cost publishing and photo editing programs in existence, why would we want to encourage children to make
Hanimations
Hanimations Mariotti 1988 Submitter: The purpose of the book isn’t exactly clear. It doesn’t explain how to create Hanimations for yourself. It’s not a story about these creatures. It’s just…pictures of this guy’s painted hands? And in some pictures, an unusual
Careers for Artistic Types
Careers for Artistic Types Kaplan 1991 Submitter: Sure this has to be completely out of date! For the Graphic Designer they do happen to mention that learning to use a computer will be helpful in the upcoming years. That alone
Bread Sculpture – NSFW!
Bread sculpture : the edible art Wiseman 1975 Submitter: [This was found in a] small academic library. As a for-profit, so we’re even more at risk of legal action or the like if someone finds content in our collection offensive. I’ve
Draw Who?
Draw 50 Famous Stars Ames 1982 Submitter: This was in the kids’ section of our library, because what kid doesn’t want to know how to draw such relevant celebrities as Burt Reynolds, Walter Matthau, and Ed Asner? Not pictured are
Crap from Scrap
Art from Scrap Reed and Orze 1974 Submitter: A book about arts and crafts using recycled materials is always in demand. This one is clearly geared toward art teachers, and many of the pieces were made by students. A few items
Good Clean Fun – Soap Carving!
Soap Sculpture Gaba 1969 Submitter: Okay, first off, I always thought soap-carving was something of a joke–something that you hear about, but in which nobody ever actually engaged. I think the only real reference to soap-carving I ever saw was