Take your art in a bold new direction-go gouache! In Creative Gouache, artist Ruth Wilshaw shares her step-by-step techniques for creating brilliantly vibrant effects with this easy-to-master medium, a perfect companion for transparent watercolor. In this comprehensive guide to gouache, you'll: Get an overview of essential materials and surfaces. Learn basic handling and coloring-mixing techniques, including layering, creating blends, and adjusting opacity, plus troubleshooting tips for common challenges, such as dealing with shifts in color and value from wet to dry. Explore how to paint fun, simple motifs, flowers, butterflies, landscapes, and lettering. Discover fun gouache techniques, such as adding texture and painting gradients and blends. Learn how to incorporate other mediums with gouache, including paint pens, colored pencil, and watercolor. Use what you learn to create inspiring projects such as dimensional artwork, clay decor pieces, and cheerful banners. See what you can create with gorgeous, wall-to-wall color with Creative Gouache! Perfect for creative beginners, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

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.

Soothe Yourself With These Creative Drawing Pages and Coloring Pages for AdultsNeed some time to unwind? These mandala art activities provide a relaxing mindfulness for beginners experience for calming adult fun! Mindfulness activities for the stressed adult. Each page has wonderful designs with relaxing patterns to boost your mindfulness throughout the day. Soothe yourself and get creative with these step by step mandala drawing pages. Part drawing book and part coloring book, this anxiety-reducing restorative art therapy experience is the perfect drawing book for adults who can't draw! Art therapy in a drawing book. Get relaxed and mindful with these mandala coloring pages packed with mindfulness activities for all artistic levels. Drawing and Coloring for Calm is a fun, creative, and approachable mindfulness art book for everyone. Beginners to drawing need no training or skills. The step by step process is easy and accessible to all-if you can hold a pencil, you can draw! Inside, you'll find: Step-by-step mandala drawing instructions for mandala art creations A design library to spark creativity in how you approach adult fun Cute coloring pages to encourage creativity, relaxation, and mindfulness activities If you're looking for fun gifts for adults or enjoyed coloring books like Mandalas, or Mindful Mandalas, you'll love Drawing and Coloring for Calm.