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Watercolours of a vanished world an artists journal

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Explains how to make fluid lines, marks and more advanced tonal shifts. Advises on techniques that give depth and texture to compositions. Gives extensive guidance on good printing technique using a press and hand burnishing methods. Includes chapters on still life, interiors, landscapes, portraits and figures, and animals. Showcases examples from leading wood engravers

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From 1957 to 1987, the LP was king of New Zealand recorded music and cover art from those decades provides a fascinating window into tje culture of the time. Award-winning journalist Steve Braunias has been amassing old LPs for years, and documents with his deadpan eye a first top 100 LP covers.

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This book provides a compelling artistic insight into this fascinating, diverse and inspirational region;unaccountably neglected by artists and sadly associated more with conflict and devastation than with its natural beauty.

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New Zealands birds as you have never seen them before. World renowned artist Ray Ching has created a truly unique celebration of New Zealands birds and landscapes. Magical, humorous and beautiful, this is the imagined story of Aesops visit to Aotearoa New Zealand, described by its creator, Ray Ching, as an Antipodean Fantasy.

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Learn to draw 100 extraordinary dragons in a few easy steps.

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Learn to draw 100 different manga figures, from superheroes to super-cute pets.

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If you have ever wanted to learn to draw but lacked the confidence to start, then Drawing for the Absolute Beginner is the book for you.

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Drawing the Natural World is a practical and comprehensive guide for artists of all abilities to celebrate through art the beauty of the flora and fauna that make up our planet.

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This fantastic book showcases the prestigious Embroiderers Guilds huge collection of embroidered birds through the ages. Featuring photographs taken especially for the book, items are shown in full along with detail images that show off the stunning birds at their best.

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This practical new paperback edition explains the full process of etching, covering traditional techniques in depth and introducing modern ideas when they add to mark-making capabilities.

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The first dedicated celebration of Futura's work, aka Lenny McGurr, from the 1980s until today, including backstage images of the artist at work through the decades and his artworks

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"Hiapo is the barkcloth of Niue, made from the ata (mulberry tree) and used at important events, such as a hair-cutting ceremony. The designs that embellish this fabric come from nature and the people of Niue, rich motifs of the environment and culture. Cora-Allan Wickliffe has documented the patterns of hiapo so that the wonder of this artform can be passed on to new generations."--Back cover.

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Draw 28 amazingly cute kawaii-style characters in just 8 easy stages.

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This book explains the technique which is now acclaimed and practiced widely in the West. Its popular success is partly because the process is entirely non-toxic and environmentally friendly, but also because it allies the certainties of woodcut with the nuance of watercolor. In so doing, it has opened up a whole new landscape for contemporary printmakers.

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For more than five decades Kees Bruin has established a unique visionary identity within the framework of New Zealand realism that is enthusiastically commissioned and collected internationally. His three overlapping categories are photo-realism, super-realism and what he terms 'visionary-realism'.

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Kelcy Taratoa: Who Am I ... Episode 001 is a bilingual English and Te Reo publication written by Warren Feeney and translated by Heni Jacob (Ngati Raukawa). It traverses the artist's life from growing up in the suburbs of Levin to Te Haka a Te Tupere, the artist's wharenui at Rangiwaea marae in Tauranga Harbour.

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