(Paperback)

A beginner-friendly book from French designer and crochet teacher that gives Crochet a chic makeover. It features 38 quick and easy projects such as oversized scarves, cozy cowls, lacy shawls, decorative embellishments, bags and more. In 25 lessons, it helps beginners to steadily build their repetoire of crochet skills.

(Paperback)

An assemblage of information on the full scope of oil painting materials available now in P/R.

(Paperback)

An essential guide demonstrating the universal oil painting techniques that allow artists to expand their horizons, break out of ruts, and master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors. Gregg Kreutz reveals how connected oil painting techniques are no matter what subject an artist tackles.

(Paperback)

This guide to painting in oils examines such topics as massing values, chiaroscuro and light value, handling edges and other topics.

(Paperback)

Provides details on an array of materials available to the artist, including canvases and papers, sizes and grounds, pigments and binders, solvents and thinners, and varnishes and preservatives. This book also contains step-by-step recipes for making art materials, including made at home or the studio paints, pastels, varnishes, gessoes, and more.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Based on the author's successful courses and workshops, this title helps new painters find 'what works' while providing information on the necessary tools, tips and techniques they need to create a representational painting.

(Paperback)

A guide to portraiture and figure painting in watercolour. Suitable for beginning to intermediate artists, it guides artists through the entire portrait and figure painting process, from selecting the right materials and tools to exhibiting the finished painting.

(Paperback)

A guide to painting landscapes for beginner to intermediate pastel artists.

(Paperback)

A guide to pastel materials and techniques. The author uses traditional soft and hard pastels, as well as oil pastels and oil sticks, showing the effects produced by each in step-by-step demonstrations. Included are ways to combine pastels with water, acrylic, alkyd gels and oil paint.

(Paperback)

Using the graphic novel format, Perspective in Action features 33 easy-to-follow demonstrations to teach the major discoveries in perspective. Author and artist David Chelsea takes readers through the major perspective- related developments in history, teaching them how to re-create these same experiments by leading artists in all fields.

(Paperback)

Discusses the 'basic ingredients' and techniques used for polymer clay and jewellery-making. This book offers 20 'recipes' grouped by category: fruits, breakfast, lunch and dinner, sweets and snacks, and holiday foods.

(Paperback)

From comics to video games to contemporary fine art, the beautiful, wide-eyed girl look of shoujo manga has infiltrated pop culture and no artist's work today better exemplifies this trend than Camilla D'Errico's. In this instructional guide, she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at her character design process.

(Paperback)

A behind-the-scenes guide to the painting process of one of the most popular artists working in the growing art scene of Pop Surrealism. Painting superstar Camilla d'Errico opens up her studio and offers readers an insider scoop on the tools, techniques and inspirations she draws from to create stunningly beautiful, otherworldly works of art.

(Paperback)

Provides a complete guide to the design, sculpting and marketing of pop culture action figures, statues and collectibles. This title begins by tracing the history of toy making and collectibles and then shows how figurative sculpture is created by today's top professional technicians and artists using modern-day tools, techniques and applications.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Focuses on foundational principles of art. This book gives serious beginners to professional artists an understanding of the old masters' unparalleled approach to paint application. It includes ten step-by-step portrait demonstrations.

(Paperback)

The Realism Challenge leads artists through Mark Crilley's use of pencil, watercolour, pastel, and gouache to produce life-like, seemingly impossible drawings of common household objects like playing cards, leaves, and seashells that look just like photographs. Each lesson builds off the previous, with sidebars covering specific techniques.

(Paperback)

Contains illustrated information on the tools and techniques of ink drawing. Aimed at professional and student illustrators, architects and artists, this book reviews tonal and linear drawing, ways to depict light and shade, methods of handling object groupings, and other basics of composition.

(Paperback)

Lays out an easy-to-follow step-by-step method of blocking out the plane structure and anatomy of the posed figure. The author's approach utilises a geometric system consisting of blocks, simple shapes and guidelines, which instructs students in a new and instinctive sculptural style.

(Paperback)

This simple guide to calligraphy teach-as just the basics, allowing novices to jump right in and make their own wedding invitations, hand label envelopes, write their own placecards and explore their creative side. With the rise of 'do-it-yourselfers', there is a growing demand for a simple calligraphy guide. This book answers that call.

(Paperback)

Suitable for aspiring comic book artists, this book teaches writing, drawing and creating comic book characters. It focuses on action-adventure comics, and touches upon other genres and styles, such as romance, humour, horror and the widely influential manga style.

(Paperback)

Shows readers how to draw some of the exciting and dynamic superheroes of all time. This title features superheroes such as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the Avengers all share a common trait.

(Paperback)

"From the legendary co-creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Iron Man"--Cover.