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Lauren Wager's follow up to her bestselling Color Collective's
Palette Perfect features a fresh approach to color combinations
with entirely new palettes, organized by season. What color is
summer? Is it a cool and translucent swimming pool aquamarine,
brilliant watermelon red, or the pale pink interior of a seashell?
If these colors define summer, what color is autumn? How about
winter? And spring? In Palette Perfect, Volume 2, designer and
best-selling author Lauren Wager explores the multiple
possibilities of seasonal color applications, leading the reader
through an inspirational presentation of image pairings and color
combinations. The color palettes are portrayed in a fresh and
dynamic way that allows the reader to see how certain colors play
off each other in foreground and background, close together and
further apart. This format is a different take on color palettes
than Volume 1, and still provides the RGB and CMYK values for
artists that would like to translate the colors for web and print.
This volume--both a practical guide and inspirational book for
designers, illustrators, architects, and crafters, as well home
decoration and fashion lovers, professional or otherwise--provides
examples of color application within the worlds of contemporary
art, fashion, interiors, photography and graphic design. It is a
carefully gathered collection of color palettes and stunning images
with a touch of the unexpected, utterly successful in its aim.
The accumulation of odds and ends of bar and rod is inevitable with any lathework, but rather than throw them into an ever-growing scrap-box, why not turn them into useful little tools to simplify and speed up future work?
In this book Stan Bray describes a variety of small implements, none of which demands much material or takes more than an evening to make.
You may not see an immediate need for some of them but once made it is surprising how often they will be used. There is also the satisfaction of turning what might be wasted into something useful and the knowledge that money has been saved.
The ultimate guide to nature drawing and journaling! A potent
combination of art, science, and boundless enthusiasm, this art
instruction book from John Muir Laws (author of The Laws Guide to
Drawing Birds) is a how-to guide for becoming a better artist and a
more attentive naturalist. In straightforward text complemented by
step-by-step illustrations, dozens of exercises lead the hand and
mind through creating accurate reproductions of plants and animals
as well as landscapes, skies, and more. Laws provides clear,
practical advice for every step of the process for artists at every
level, from the basics of choosing supplies to advanced techniques.
While the book's advice will improve the skills of already
accomplished artists, the emphasis on seeing, learning, and feeling
will make this book valuable-even revelatory-to anyone interested
in the natural world, no matter how rudimentary their artistic
abilities.
The ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing, processing and using
wild clay. Potters around the world are taking to the local
landscape to dig their own wild clay, discover its unique
properties, and apply it to their craft. This guide is the ideal
starting point for anyone - from novices, improvers and experts to
educators and students - who wants to forge a closer bond between
their art and their surroundings. Testing and trial and error are
key to finding a material's best use, so the authors' tips, drawn
from long experience in the US and Japan (but which can be applied
to clays anywhere) provide an enviable head-start on this rewarding
journey. A clay might be best suited to sculpture and tile bodies,
throwing clay bodies, handbuilding and slab bodies, or simply be
applied as a glaze or slip. The specific properties of found
materials can create a diverse range of effects and surfaces, or,
even when not fired, can be adapted for use as colorful pastels or
pigments. Beautiful illustrations and helpful technical
descriptions explain the formation of various clays; how to locate,
collect and assess them; how to test their properties of shrinkage,
water absorption, texture and plasticity; the best ways to
test-fire them; and how to adapt a clay's characteristics by
blending appropriate materials. From prospecting in the field to
holding your finished product, there is helpful advice through
every stage, and a gallery of work by international potters who
have embraced the clays found around them.
The Art of Gouache contains 20 projects on how to paint with the
versatile water-soluable medium gouache, on its own as well as in
combination with collage and mark making. Packed with tips and
tricks, this book features fun practical projects on themes such as
still life, landscapes and people. With step-by-step instructions,
this is perfect for beginner or intermediate-level artists looking
for some inspiration and ideas on how to refine their technique.
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. The book is divided
into the fundamental concepts of art � colour and tone, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and space � to introduce the essential
techniques and demonstrate how they can be used in drawing the
natural world through practical projects. Further chapters cover
the anatomy of animals to ensure posture and gait can be accurately
captured, and the fundamentals of composition. There is also
introduction to the different materials and equipment that can be
used, and a guide to basics of drawing. Each of the projects in the
book includes a fully illustrated step-by-step sequence to follow,
plus helpful tips and advice. There's also background information
about the featured animals and plants to broaden the reader's
awareness of and connection with the natural world.
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