Line and wash is an exciting combination. This practical book shows you how to exploit the strength of ink with the transparency of watercolour to produce powerful and dynamic paintings. With over 170 illustrations, it covers a wide range of styles and subjects, before exploring mixed media, new surfaces and other ways to take your line and wash work to another level. Includes advice on choosing materials; exercises to hone your drawing and painting skills; gives inspiration for new approaches to line and wash and, finally, step-by-step demonstrations of ideas and projects. This book is a visual treat and an essential guide for all artists who want to try this exciting technique.

Ceramicists searching for new ways to fire their creations now have a wealth of options. Authors James Watkins and Paul Wandless, along with a group of distinguished artisans, demonstrate in detail how to build low-cost, low-tech, yet high-quality kilns and varied firing techniques. The plans range from an easy, affordable and versatile Raku Kiln to a unique wood-fuelled Downdraft Stovepipe Barrel kiln. These clever devices make it possible to produce rich surface effects from alternative reduction firing techniques. In addition to showing the basic procedures for using each kiln, easy-to-follow directions for many fast-fire methods unfold in color photographs: you'll see how to achieve terra sigillata surfaces with direct chemical application and how to do traditional crackle-glaze raku and smoke finishes.

Relax in the garden with Etch Art: Butterflies and more! Create a stunning butterfly, a vibrant garden scene, a colourful birthday card and more using the etch-art panels and etching stylus! Etch Art: Butterflies and more offers an exciting way to explore your creative side and make awesome works of art. Draw on the etch-art panels with the stylus and you'll uncover the bright paint underneath, making your pictures or patterns burst with colour! This kit contains everything you need to get started, including an etching stylus, a sixteen-page instruction book, eight patterened etch-art panels, eight plain etch-art panels and three stencils ready for you to create your own gorgeous designs.

What's Included:

- 16-page book

- 16 etch-art panels

- 3 stencils

- etching stylus

It is impossible not to have fun adding colour to this stunning collection of woodland sprites. Whether you're applying the finishing touch to a fairy in the forest or bringing a fairy in flight to life, The Fairyland Colouring Book will enthral you for hours. With over 120 charming designs to colour, this activity book is the perfect gift for the artist in your life and a fantastic source of inspiration for anyone wanting to create their own designs.

A beautifully crafted concertina colouring book featuring 15 unique colouring templates that allow you to bring the world’s great fashion runways to life.

Printed on premium weight matte paper and featuringan elastic closure, each album seamlessly unfurls to form a 10-foot (3 metre) -long panorama.

Hey, kids!

If you liked learning the basics of three-dimensional drawing from Mark Kistler in his books Draw Squad and Imagination Station, you'll love his new book, Drawing in 3-D with Mark Kistler. Featuring a fun, action-filled tale about a family of lovable characters struggling through a series of breathtaking discoveries and hilarious adventures, Drawing in 3-D with Mark Kistler is all you need -- along with a sharpened pencil, a ready imagination, and Mark Kistler's Drawing in 3-D Wacky Workbook -- to draw cool creatures and awesome objects such as:

• Atomic Androids, Big Bug-Eyed Birds, and Colossal Castles
• Daring Driving Dogs, Early Egyptian Sphinx, and Kissing Kangaroos
• Magnificent Macaroni, Peaceful Pelicans, and Zapping Zombies

...as well as your own favorite fantasies and imagined adventures!

Print Index: A Guide to Reproductions is designed to aid the user in locating illustrations of prints dating from the early eighteenth century through the mid-1970s. It contains data on and provides access to many thousands of prints by more than twenty-one hundred printmakers found in one hundred English-language monographs and exhibition and collection catalogues. The Print Index lists works alphabetically by title under the artist or artists. The entries identify the printmaker, the title of the work, the date, the print technique used, and the publications (books or catalogues) in which a reproduction of the print appears. An index references the prints by subject and title where the title is distinctive or expressive.