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"Learn to draw 150 Pacific Northwest natural wonders (plus iconic landmarks) in just a few simple steps each! Rooted in love for the PNW, this no-skills-necessary how-to-draw book will encourage users to stop and notice the beauty that surrounds them. Here you'll learn the basics of line drawing as well as facts about the ecology, plants, wildlife, and landmarks of this amazing region"--

(Hardback)

(Spiral bound)

For beginning artists of every age, kids will love the bold colours and kooky creatures, and adults will appreciate the authors freeing approach. No perfectionism here, just lots of fun!

(Paperback)

Featuring 8 beautiful watercolor flower demonstrations, Birgit O'Connor's lessons are perfect for the beginning watercolorist. She'll explain information critical to beginners such as value, shadow composition, creating shape, layering color, simplifying backgrounds, establishing focal points, masking and more.

(Paperback)

Perfect for beginners but with exciting new ideas for long-time mixed-media artists, this book allows you to explore a variety of materials and techniques to find what speaks to you, all while creating colorful and exciting abstract art.

(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)

Essays that seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse

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(Paperback)

A shaman as well as the leading Navajo modern artist, Paladin is one of the first Native American painters to move beyond traditional themes and styles. Praised by the renowned artist Marc Chagall, Paladin's brilliant and evocative paintings are admired for their exuberance, eclecticism, spirituality, and original use of symbols.

(Paperback)

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

(Hardback)

In 2005 the artists of Kaltiji Arts in the Pitjantjantjara and Yankunytatjara lands of South Australia decided to record their culture for future generations. This book documents these stories along with along with the development of Kaltjiti Arts.

(Hardback)

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Provides the reader with the information they need to know to paint with pastels, from materials to techniques to painting from photographs. This title demonstrates the varied techniques of the medium, including different types of strokes, blending, layering, underpainting and mixing media.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This book is a compilation of some of the author's paintings that were inspired by Nature's seasons. She takes you on a visual journey through the seasons using a mix of impressionistic, post-impressionistic and fluid art styles.

(Hardback)

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.

(Paperback)

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn.

(Hardback)

A dazzling inside portrait of a famous celebrity enclave.

(Hardback)

In an astonishingly dense series of photographs Willi P. Burkhardt circles Lake Lucerne, the cradle of the Swiss Confederation. In impressive panoramic shots he shows this unique landscape with its villages and towns from the bird's as well as the worm's eye view. Text in English and German.

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)