How to Paint Without a Brush

STRONG SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE: Red has 187,000 Instagram followers that regularly engage with her new projects and partnerships, and her YouTube videos have had millions of views. ART + DIY: The book showcases Red''s remarkable projects and also includes a DIY section to inspire readers to make their own art from everyday materials.TIMELY SOCIAL COMMENTARY: Many of Red''s mixed-media installations use everyday materials and digital technology to explore questions that plague society today. Two of her recent projects include I Am Not a Virus, a series of accounts of Asian discrimination in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Climate is Everything, a piece that became the artwork for TIME''s April 2021 special issue on climate change.

Auteur
Red Hong Yi is a Chinese-Malaysian contemporary artist who makes work expressing her heritage and Chinese diasporic perspective. Red studied at the University of Melbourne, and her work has been exhibited at H Queens in Hong Kong, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and the Anchorage Museum in Alaska. Collectors of her work include JP Morgan Chase Bank and actor Jackie Chan. Her art has been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the New York Times. Sotheby's Institute has named her one of the 11 art world entrepreneurs you should know.

Résumé

From an internationally acclaimed artist and social media force, a visually captivating showcase of art made from everyday objectsincluding tea bags, flower petals, and eggshellswith several do-it-yourself projects

How to Paint Without a Brush introduces artist Red Hong Yi's creative processthe tools and methods she employs and the motivation behind the artist's work. Organized by artistic medium, including eggshells, matchsticks, flowers, and ink stamps made from vegetables, Red's book shares an array of creative techniques as well as stories from significant moments in her art career.

A do-it-yourself section at the back of the book provides several projects that readers can try at home to push their own creative boundaries. With its focus on non-traditional art-making methods using common household objects, this book is both timely and inspiring.

By combining years of artistic experimentation with Red Hong Yi's personal journey, How to Paint Without a Brush will capture the interests of people from all skill levelsfrom the casual hobbyist to the emerging artistin contemporary art making.