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Rock Art! is the ultimate guide to painting eccentric art on rocks!
This book makes it possible for anyone to create extraordinary art
projects and crafts with ordinary rocks. The first part of the book
will give you tips as to how to go about picking your pebbles and
how to get started. You'll find that your finished rock art
projects can be used in practical, stylish, fun and decorative
ways. Once painted, pebbles can be used as jewellery, lucky
amulets, games, love tokens, bookends, special gifts or home and
garden decor objects! Get creative and use your rock painting art
in a variety of crafty projects.
ENTER THE ALLURING, MAGICAL, MYTHICAL WORLD OF THE FURRY KINGDOM
What Is A Furry?
A furry is an anthropomorphic being--an animal with human
characteristics. Furries have fascinated artists going back
thousands of years and as seen in the influx of animal/human
characters into popular culture, interest today is at an all time
high. And now for the first time all in one volume, you'll be able
to take the next step to the outer limits of your imagination with
the ultimate guide to drawing your own furries--Christopher Hart's
"Drawing Fantastic Furries." After a basic lesson in the
fundamentals of comparative human and animal anatomies, you'll
learn how to draw an entire menagerie of furry species, ranging
from the adorable and charming super-cute furries to the seductive
and super-popular glamorous furries to the warriors, wizards,
vampires, and demons of the furry occult and fantasy realms.
Help kids build confidence and find their own creative voice
through this collection of 25+ invitations for drawing. In Drawing
Workshop for Kids, art educator Samara Caughey, founder of the
highly praised family-centered art studio Purple Twig, shares
drawing activities that support the development of creative,
confident children ages 7 and up. All kids need to begin engaging
in the pleasure of these simple yet inspiring drawing projects are
a pencil and paper. Along the way, new materials are introduced,
giving kids the opportunity to experiment with new techniques. Each
of the three main chapters-drawing from life, drawing from images,
and inventive drawing-focuses on techniques to explore, such as
observation, mark making, shadow, line, composition, detail,
contour, and perspective. Drawing Workshop for Kids strives to
inspire children to investigate drawing and develop their own
approach to art, building creativity and confidence.
Figure drawing is the most essential - and the most difficult - of
all the skills for the artist to learn. In this manual Burne
Hogarth introduces his own system of figure drawing, which should
make it possible to visualize and accurately render the forms of
the human body from every conceivable point of view. First Hogarth
describes the forms of the human figure. Then he demonstrates his
"deep space" notion, a systematic sketching order that is the key
to drawing the figure with believable interconnection of forms and
control of foreshortening. By mastering this remarkable system,
artists should be able to draw an amazing variety of poses, actions
and gestures without a model, while maintaining the correct
relationship between forms.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Beverly Johnson's book is packed with
scores of fun exercises that will really motivate young beginner
artists who are just getting interested in drawing for animation,
comic book art, or just for pleasure. In a series of
beginner-friendly exercises, she explores how to conceptualize
wonderful, convincing characters and shows how to translate ideas
into great professional-looking drawings. The book is organized
into key chapters associated with what makes engaging,
three-dimensional characters. Read the advice, work your way
through the exercises and you will get to the end with a portfolio
bursting with wonderful creations. This book demonstrates how to
create diverse characters with strong personalities, unique
mannerisms and interests; how to understand their motivations, find
their passions and make them come alive. Split into 75
easy-to-follow and fun exercises, Bev leads the young reader
through the techniques and skills needed to create their very own
characters.
Originally published in German in 1964, Professor Gottfried Bammes'
Die Gestalt des Menschen is still considered the definitive guide
to drawing the human form. Having undergone numerous editions since
it was first published and still much in demand today, this, the
first ever English translation of the complete work, has been long
awaited. Based on the most recent German edition and faithful to
the original, it contains over 1200 photographs, diagrams and
drawings, including work by the author himself, and spans over 500
pages. Now, both new and experienced English-speaking artists and
illustrators can benefit from the vast body of knowledge
accumulated and lovingly presented by Professor Bammes in his
acclaimed work. This comprehensive guide begins with the history of
human anatomy for artists, and its influence on the development of
the artistic visualisation of the body. Bammes goes on to explore
in depth the human skeleton and musculature; the proportions of the
body; the static and dynamic laws of posture and movement; body
language; and the interrelationships of the various elements of the
body. Through his systematic and practical approach to teaching,
the reader will acquire an in-depth knowledge of anatomy and the
ways in which it can be used to express the human form in art.
The Bargue-Gerome Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous,
late nineteenth-century drawing course. It contains a set of almost
two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by
drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature.
Consequently it is a book that will interest artists, art students,
art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also
introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master:
Charles Bargue. The Drawing Course consists of three sections. The
first consists of plates drawn after casts, usually of antique
examples. Different parts of the body are studied in order of
difficulty, until full figures are presented. The second section
pays homage to the western school of painting, with lithographs
after exemplary drawings by Renaissance and modern masters. The
third part contains almost 60 academies, or drawings after nude
male models, all original inventions by Bargue, the lithographer.
With great care, the student is introduced to continually more
difficult problems in the close observing and recording of nature.
Charles Bargue started his career as a lithographer of drawings by
hack artists for a popular market in comic, sentimental and
soft-porn subjects. By working with Gerome, and in preparing the
plates for the course, Bargue was transformed into a spectacular
painter of single figures and intimate scenes; a master of precious
details that always remain observation and never became
self-conscious virtuosity, and colour schemes that unified his
composition in exquisite tonal harmonies. The last part of the book
is a biography of Bargue, along with a preliminary catalogue of his
paintings, accompanied by reproductions of all that have been found
and of many of those lost.
Folk Art is a colouring book for adults that contains 30 amazing
art activities involving patterning, shading and colouring. Each
vibrantly detailed, charming and international folk illustration
offers an easy way to de-stress, while allowing you to unleash the
artist within.Thaneeya McArdle's transcendental art explores a
visual language of shape, form, line and colour, and can be easily
personalised with felt- tips, coloured pencils, crayons, gel pens,
or watercolours.Beautifully coloured finished examples are
provided, along with a handy guide to basic art techniques, from
patterning and combinations to shading and colour theory.Both
traditional and contemporary artworks are included, inspired by the
living cultures of indigenous people around the world.This
therapeutic colouring book is printed on high-quality, extra-thick
paper that won't bleed through, and all of the pages are perforated
for easy removal and display.
Claim the beauty of your unique, authentic expression.
Break free of your comfort zone, sharpen your senses to perceive the
world around you and find happiness in play. On this painterly journey,
Tracy Verdugo leads you from self-doubt to self-appreciation by helping
you find your voice through a myriad of vibrantly-hued mark making,
painting and self-reflection techniques. There are no mistakes here,
only opportunities to learn and grow.
- Learn the language of your own sacred marks by painting with
personal symbology.
- Discover the inspiration that exists around you, in your home,
your community, the present moment.
- 19 step-by-step exercises use popular mixed media materials such
as pastels, acrylic paints, inks and more!
- See how to use art making to plant creative seeds and cultivate
your wildest dreams.
Turn on your Paint Mojo and make an awesome, shiny, perfectly imperfect
mark of you.
The innovative designs in silver jewelry made in Europe and North
America in the 20th century are fascinating and highly popular
today. This new book starts with the end of Victorian styles, just
before the turn of the twentieth century, and proceeds to display
and explain the relationships in Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art
Deco, Mexican, Native American, Mid-century Realistic, and Modern
Abstract styles right up to the 1990s. Beautiful color photographs
clearly show the details, makers' marks, and fine workmanship that
make each piece of jewelry fascinating to so many collectors today.
The official colouring book from The Great British Bake Off and a
must-have for amateur baking fans, cake lovers and Bake Off
enthusiasts! Colour your way through 90 beautiful illustrations by
the official Bake Off illustrator, Tom Hovey, including all your
favourite showstoppers and iconic bakes from the show. Immerse
yourself in the world of Bake Off -away with the oven gloves, pick
up those colouring pencils and unleash your artistic flair. On your
marks, get set ...
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