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    The Art and Adventure of Making Rubbings
    The Art and Adventure of Making Rubbings
    The Art and Adventure of Making Rubbings
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    The Art and Adventure of Making Rubbings

    By Virginia Wade Ames

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    Experience the surprise and excitement of discovery as you watch invisible details of Nature or historical artifacts come to life! Did you ever run the flat side of a pencil over paper and watch the image of Lincoln magically appear from the penny underneath? If so, you made a RUBBING! Using the easy-to-follow steps and ideas revealed in The Art and Adventure of Making Rubbings, kids and adults can explore an exciting new world of texture and detail.

    With this book’s guidance, you’ll discover ...

    * Ways to create artistic compositions with your rubbings
    * Beauty and hidden treasures uncovered from junk, discards, and natural objects
    * Inspiration and suggestions to use rubbings for educational and practical purposes

    Artist, art teacher and writer Virginia Wade Ames shares a lifetime of her unique discoveries made through rubbing interesting objects found in unusual places. Travel with her to the beach, the forest, through ancient doorways, into old ore boxes, skeletons of weird cacti, and secrets exposed in the stone of an Assyrian king. It is a visual adventure that will open your eyes, heart and mind to the amazing world around us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVirginia Wade Ames
    Release dateMar 23, 2016
    ISBN9781310434570
    The Art and Adventure of Making Rubbings
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    Virginia Wade Ames

    Centenarian Virginia Wade Ames has led a life of creativity, using the arts to express her love of life, people, and beauty. While rearing her family, needle, thread, fabric, and food were her media. Friends and neighbors became the players on her stage as she and her husband choreographed social gatherings with unsung heroes, characters of the times, movers, shakers, and invisible makers of history.With children educated and off on their own, she perfected her passions for silkscreen printing, watercolor, acrylic, and pastel painting. When a friend ran for office, her elegant paper hat-making events successfully threw his hat into the ring.Ames is a cultural catalyst, not only bringing interesting people together but also seeing potentials for bringing about good—her work to get the Torpedo Factory Center for the Arts established in Alexandria is a prime example.In her “retirement” to Arizona she has enriched lives with her artful teaching at the University of Arizona’s lifelong learning SAGE/OLLI society. As macular degeneration began taking its visual toll on her artist’s eye she turned her energies to word craft. At ninety-nine, she has four more manuscripts ready for publication and four great-grandchildren who will especially enjoy them. Her genteel wit and seasoned thoughts on how to treat each other can touch us all.

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      The Art and Adventure of Making Rubbings - Virginia Wade Ames

      The Art & Adventure of Making Rubbings

      Virginia Wade Ames

      Copyright 2016 by Virginia Wade Ames

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      I dedicate this fun book to explorers, young and old, who want to open their eyes to new textures and details in

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