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The Blacksmithing Instructors Guide - Sixteen lesson plans with teaching advice (Paperback): David Harries The Blacksmithing Instructors Guide - Sixteen lesson plans with teaching advice (Paperback)
David Harries
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blacksmithing skills are greatly in demand in many rural areas, for making agricultural implements and other metal tools. This book is designed to help skilled blacksmiths who have little or no teaching experience to train others in forge work techniques, using easily obtainable equipment and scrap metal to produce tools such as hoes, sickles, hammers and axes.

Drawing: Cartooning 1 - Learn the basics of cartooning (Paperback, Revised Edition): Jack Keely, Carson Van Osten Drawing: Cartooning 1 - Learn the basics of cartooning (Paperback, Revised Edition)
Jack Keely, Carson Van Osten
R220 R185 Discovery Miles 1 850 Save R35 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Learn to Paint Portraits Quickly (Hardcover): Hazel Soan Learn to Paint Portraits Quickly (Hardcover)
Hazel Soan 1
R349 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R19 (5%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan delivers a concise and approachable guide to portrait painting, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.Whether you are using watercolour, oils or acrylic, Learn to Paint Portraits Quickly explains the key elements of catching a likeness in portrait painting in a mixture of mediums. The book is filled with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step exercises that can be digested in a short period of time, and written in an accessible way for all artists to learn about portraiture.The key elements of portraiture covered in this concise book include: *Finding the likeness *Creating form - the light and shade *The facial features *Painting the hair *Skin tone and colouring *The body, clothing and backgroundIllustrated with Hazel's magnificent, colourful paintings, and with practical advice and demonstrations throughout, this book is the perfect tool to help beginners master portrait painting - quickly.

Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts - Dark Arts (Paperback): 3DTotal Publishing Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts - Dark Arts (Paperback)
3DTotal Publishing
R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Sketching and drawing are fundamental to creating great art; the simple doodle is often where the artist first brings their ideas and concepts to life. In Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts, we have gathered together fifty talented traditional and digital artists to showcase work from their sketchbooks, share inspiration, and give insight into how they create imaginative and dark illustrations. Featuring a range of artwork and artists from many fields, from concept design and animation to illustration and comic art, Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts is a collection of beautifully macabre sketches with plenty of useful tips and creative insights an invaluable resource that will inspire artists of all abilities.

The Art of Caricaturing - Making Comics (Paperback): Mitchell Smith The Art of Caricaturing - Making Comics (Paperback)
Mitchell Smith
R251 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R16 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Art of Caricaturing by Mitchell Smith, has many tips for wannabe cartoonists. Pen lines and material, expression, exaggeration, comic figures, action, shading and shadows, technique, lettering and animals are some of the chapters included in this book.

Introduccion Al Color (English, Spanish, Paperback): Blanca Fernandez Quesada, Jose Maria Gonzalez Cuasante Introduccion Al Color (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Blanca Fernandez Quesada, Jose Maria Gonzalez Cuasante
R1,070 Discovery Miles 10 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Elaborado por un equipo de profesionales del color y de la ensenanza, este libro va dirigido fundamentalmente a los alumnos de arte de un nivel medio-alto. Alumnos de distintas escuelas que no se conforman con una simple descripcion de los fenomenos, y que demandan unas explicaciones convincentes de los mismos. Con esta intencion como premisa, se elaborado un manual sobre el color, descriptivo en los capitulos esenciales, reflexivo y conectado estrechamente con las disciplinas afines de las que se alimenta y a las que tambien remite. Contiene fundamentos teoricos y fisicos del color, de optica, de historia y simbologia en el uso del color, asi como fundamentos de armonia y las ultimas tecnicas y soportes digitales para imagen.

Watercolor (Paperback): John Pike Watercolor (Paperback)
John Pike
R927 R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Save R190 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From one of America's favorite artists comes one of the most popular watercolor books ever written. Drawing upon a lifetime of perfecting the craft he loves, Pike provides artists at all levels of expertise with information on everything from choosing a brush to producing a variety of washes. Abundantly illustrated with 166 paintings.

Tratado de Pintura (English, Spanish, Paperback): Leonardo Da Vinci Tratado de Pintura (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Leonardo Da Vinci
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aunque el Tratado de pintura de Leonardo da Vinci no fue impreso hasta el siglo XVIII, los fragmentarios manuscritos que para componerlo reunieron sus primeros escritores habian circulado profusamente por Europa y suscitado la admirada curiosidad de artistas y eruditos. El Tratado es obra de las empresas imposibles de Leonardo, un fracaso mas de los que, por muy dispares caminos, se cebaron en su empeno de refundir todas las formulaciones empiricas y todos los topicos conceptuosos del Renacimiento y ordenarlos en una sistema universal. Toda edicion del Tratado debe entenderselas con la dificultad de evocar esta vision y ese fracaso, seleccionando y combinando textos y dibujos, dificultad que no habia sido salvada con acierto en las publicaciones existentes en lengua castellana. La version que presentamos viene, pues, a cumplir una implazable exigencia de la bibliografia artistica espanola.

The Power of Color - Five Centuries of European Painting (Hardcover): Marcia B. Hall The Power of Color - Five Centuries of European Painting (Hardcover)
Marcia B. Hall
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Revealing the power of color as physical medium, a key to interpretation, and a mediator of social and political change This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting. Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the materials of painting remained remarkably unchanged, but innovations in their use flourished. Technical discoveries facilitated new visual effects, political conditions prompted innovations, and economic changes shaped artists' strategies, especially as trade became global. Marcia Hall explores how Michelangelo radically broke with his contemporaries' harmonizing use of color in favor of a highly saturated approach; how the robust art market and demand for affordable pictures in 17th-century Netherlands helped popularize subtly colored landscape paintings; how politics and color became entangled during the French Revolution; and how modern artists liberated color from representation as their own role transformed from manipulators of pigments to visionaries celebrated for their individual expression. Using insights from recent conservation studies, Hall captivates readers with fascinating details and developments in magnificent examples-from Botticelli and Titian to Van Gogh and Kandinsky-to weave an engaging analysis. Her insistence on the importance of examining technique and material to understand artistic meaning gives readers the tools to look at these paintings with fresh eyes.

This Is My Time Coloring Book - Express Your Creative Abilities With This Small Size Adult Coloring Book During Spare Moments... This Is My Time Coloring Book - Express Your Creative Abilities With This Small Size Adult Coloring Book During Spare Moments of Your Busy Day (Paperback)
Michael Dale, Crayzeebird Press
R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Basic Blacksmithing - An Introduction to Toolmaking (Paperback, UK ed.): David Harries, Bernhard Heer Basic Blacksmithing - An Introduction to Toolmaking (Paperback, UK ed.)
David Harries, Bernhard Heer
R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The blacksmith plays a key role in making and repairing tools and other items needed in rural areas, but the essential role of the blacksmith in rural communities has been increasingly ignored.;In the past, blacksmiths were trained through apprenticeship, which formed part of the traditional education system. Nowadays, even in schools which aim to give vocational training, blacksmithing as a skill is often ignored, or taught at an inappropriate level. Part of the reason for this is the limited range of books available to teachers and blacksmiths. This book aims to fill the gap by providing resource material for practising blacksmiths and teachers.;Starting with only an anvil, a pair of bellows and a few basic tools, almost all the tools needed by a blacksmith can be made from commonly found materials. This book gives step-by-step instructions and explains the techniques involved in basic blacksmithing. Each stage is clearly illustrated.;All the designs are based on those used by rural blacksmiths in Zimbabwe and Malawi. The main sources of raw material chosen are scrap vehicle parts or scrap from construction sites. Where possible more than one method of making an item is shown and

Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing (Hardcover): S Brooker Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing (Hardcover)
S Brooker
R837 R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Save R221 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This beginner's guide to drawing in graphite pencil uses step-by-step exercises to teach fundamental methods for rendering all aspects of the natural landscape, with additional lessons on using charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, and other media. Following in the footsteps of author, artist, and art instructor Suzanne Brooker's previous title The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, this book pairs the most universally-pursued topic for artists (drawing) with the popular subject matter of the natural landscape. Brooker breaks down landscapes into their various elements--including the earth, water, air, and trees--to convey how the fundamentals of drawing are applied to capture each aspect. Using the graphite pencil as her baseline instrument, Brooker provides you with step-by-step lessons that help you improve your rendering skills and re-create the beauty of the world outdoors. Examples from art history and contemporary masters supplement these lessons. The end result is a drawing instruction book that provides artists with everything they need to render landscapes no matter their skill level.

Die Eickstedt-Sammlung Aus Suedindien - Differenzierte Wahrnehmungen Kolonialer Fotografien Und Objekte (German, Paperback):... Die Eickstedt-Sammlung Aus Suedindien - Differenzierte Wahrnehmungen Kolonialer Fotografien Und Objekte (German, Paperback)
Katja Muller
R1,658 Discovery Miles 16 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Das Buch nimmt die Eickstedt-Sammlung aus Sudindien zum Ausgangspunkt und verbindet ethnologische Forschung im Museum mit postkolonialer Kritik an der Aneignung von Objekten und Fotografien. Dabei vermittelt die Sammlung als ethnohistorische Quellen ein Bild der Gesellschaft Sudindiens in den 1920er-Jahren. Gleichzeitig stellt sich die Frage nach "anderen" Wahrnehmungen: Wer stand mit welcher Intension hinter der Kamera? Und wie interpretiert man die Fotografien und Objekte im heutigen Sudindien? Katja Muller stellt verschiedene Narrative aus Indien und Deutschland nebeneinander und macht damit deutlich, welche theoretischen Zusammenhange und praktischen Machtstrukturen zwischen Objekten, Fotografien und menschlichen Akteuren damals wie heute bestehen.

Sobre La Creatividad (English, Spanish, Paperback): David Bohm Sobre La Creatividad (English, Spanish, Paperback)
David Bohm
R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Surface Decoration (Paperback): Kevin Millward Surface Decoration (Paperback)
Kevin Millward
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A practical guide to all forms of decoration for pots and sculpture. This step-by-step guide encourages you to explore the full range of surface treatment techniques and teaches you how to obtain a professional finish to your work by suggesting an appropriate finish choice. Surface Decoration looks at all manner of surface decoration techniques, at every stage of the ceramic process and from a practical perspective explains how to achieve these effects. The book explores a variety of innovative and contemporary approaches to surface finish including sgrafitto, resist methods, sprigging, trailing, glaze layering, lustre, transfer, impressing, incising and textural methods amongst others. This is the perfect guide for any ceramic artist interested in exploring new surface decoration techniques.

Inkworks - Darren Quach Sketchbook Vol. 01 (Hardcover): Darren Quach Inkworks - Darren Quach Sketchbook Vol. 01 (Hardcover)
Darren Quach
R515 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Inkworks is a delightful collection of mech sketches from key video game designer Darren Quach. Created to resemble an artist sketchbook, flipping through the pages will elicit the feeling of looking at private, treasured drawings. A visual journal of mech development, this book will provide insight into the techniques of a talented video game concept designer.

Manga Mania Shoujo (Paperback): Christopher Hart Manga Mania Shoujo (Paperback)
Christopher Hart
R563 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R53 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The secrets and techniques of shoujo manga, the popular style of Japanese animation that is based on stories related to peer pressure, friendship, and romance, are revealed in a guide that includes information on the unique stylistic characteristics of the style and tips on drawing different character types.

Ceramics and Print (Paperback): Paul Scott Ceramics and Print (Paperback)
Paul Scott
R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This updated third edition explores new techniques in digital and 3D printing, as well as refreshing older techniques such as mono-printing. Printing has become a common part of the ceramic artist's practice and today there are more possibilities than ever before. From low-tech mono-prints to digital laser decal, it is now possible to employ a range of techniques to print on clay and vitreous surfaces. With the ongoing advancement of new technologies and more developed studio-based transfer processes artists continue to push the boundaries of the medium. In this comprehensive update of his popular Ceramics Handbook title, Paul Scott explains the historical context for contemporary printed ceramics before explaining the principles of core techniques and their application in the studio. He explores photographic processes, as well as the new opportunities presented by digital technology, including digital and 3D printing. Illustrated with brand new images of beautiful works by leading artists working in printed ceramics, Ceramics and Print is a must-read guide for artists and makers interested in this ever-developing field.

On Color (Paperback): David Kastan, Stephen Farthing On Color (Paperback)
David Kastan, Stephen Farthing
R460 R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Save R50 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing and least understood aspects of everyday experience. Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, respectively, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific. In ten lively and wide-ranging chapters, each devoted to a different color, they examine the various ways colors have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations. Each individual color becomes the focal point for a consideration of one of the extraordinary ways in which color appears and matters in our lives. Beautifully produced in full color, this book is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to this elusive topic.

Figura En Movimiento - Ejercicios 30 (English, Spanish, Paperback): Rafael Marfil Figura En Movimiento - Ejercicios 30 (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Rafael Marfil
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Con EJERCICIOS PARRAMC"N se ofrece al publico una coleccion abierta de titulos destinados a la practica del dibujo y la pintura. Cada volumen se dedica a un tema (paisaje, bodegon, figura, etc.) o a una tecnica (oleo, acuarela, pastel, etc.), y presenta un conjunto de ejercicios variados, desarrollados por diferentes profesores.La foto del modelo para pintar, una introduccion a cada ejercicio, un cuadro de los distintos materiales que se necesitan para su desarrollo y una secuencia de fotografias comentadas de todo el proceso constituyen el esquema de cada motivo propuesto.Una introduccion sobre el asunto objeto de cada titulo y unos consejos practicos sobre la materia que se presenta van a ser, sin duda, una de las mayores ayudas para la persona que quiera dominar el arte y la tecnica de la pintura.

Reflection on Color (Paperback): Carlos Cruz-Diez Reflection on Color (Paperback)
Carlos Cruz-Diez
R883 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R149 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The seminal writing of Carlos Cruz-Diez, best known for his experiential works exploring color and its properties Trained as a painter, Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) developed a conceptual platform for his work based on optical and chromatic phenomena, which led him to take a revolutionary new approach to his work beginning in 1959. Building on the chromatic experiments of figures like Sir Isaac Newton, the impressionists, and Josef Albers, Cruz-Diez explored the perception of color as an autonomous reality evolving in space and time, unaided by form or support, in a perpetual present. Originally published in Spanish in 1989, Reflection on Color details Cruz-Diez's theories of color and traces the aesthetic and conceptual evolution of his practice. Though the book was translated into English in Cruz-Diez's lifetime, it never saw broad distribution. In this text, Cruz-Diez explores eight of his major investigations into color phenomena, including his signature Physichromie and Chromosaturation series. Generously illustrated with examples of Cruz-Diez's work, this important text introduces Cruz-Diez's writing and thinking to a new generation of artists and scholars. Distributed for the Cruz-Diez Foundation

The Printmaking Ideas Book (Paperback): Frances Stanfield, Lucy McGeown The Printmaking Ideas Book (Paperback)
Frances Stanfield, Lucy McGeown
R360 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Whether you're discovering printmaking for the first time or you're looking for fresh ideas to reinvigorate your practice, you'll find plenty of inspiration in The Printmaking Ideas Book. From traditional methods such as screenprinting, etching and lithography to contemporary techniques such as risography and digital collage, this book is packed with new ideas, methods and tips on every page. Brimming with experimental, arresting and beautiful examples of printmaking from all over the world, it will take your creativity further and awaken new ideas.

Drawing Dog Tutorial For Kids - Understand And Practice Of Drawing Cute Dog: Cute Dog Drawing Simple (Paperback): Orlando... Drawing Dog Tutorial For Kids - Understand And Practice Of Drawing Cute Dog: Cute Dog Drawing Simple (Paperback)
Orlando Riviezzo
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sarcasm Is My Love Language - Funny Sarcastic Coloring Book For Adults (Paperback): Denise S Jackson Sarcasm Is My Love Language - Funny Sarcastic Coloring Book For Adults (Paperback)
Denise S Jackson
R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Drawing in the Digital Age: An Observational Metho d for Artists and Animators (Paperback): W. Xu Drawing in the Digital Age: An Observational Metho d for Artists and Animators (Paperback)
W. Xu
R1,028 R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Save R150 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A solid foundation for improving your drawing skills

Teaching a new observational method based on math and computer graphics principles, this book offers an innovative approach that shows you how to use both sides of your brain to make drawing easier and more accurate. Author Wei Xu, PhD, walks you through his method, which consists of scientific theories and principles to deliver real-world techniques that will improve your drawing skills. Xu's pioneering approach offers a solid foundation for both traditional and CG artists. Encourages you to use both sides of your brain for drawing with the highest efficiency possibleIntroduces an innovative method invented by the author for improving your drawing skills

If you are eager to learn how to draw, then this book is a must read.

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