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Experience spiritual calm with the first adult colouring book to
focus on the Rosary as you colour and reflect on the traditional
Catholic prayer. Renowned artist Daniel Mitsui provides exquisitely
detailed illustrations of the Glorious, Joyful, and Sorrowful
Mysteries, suitable for meditative colouring and for reflecting on
the lives of Jesus and the Blessed Mother. Just as repetition of
the Hail Mary during the Rosary can create a contemplative
awareness of its mysteries, careful attention to colouring these
captivating illustrations can open your heart to a deeper awareness
of the Rosary's truths. This unique colouring book contains thirty
illustrations -- fifteen full-page drawings of the mysteries of the
Rosary, each one beautifully bordered by traditional images of
animals and flowers; twelve vignettes featuring prophets,
evangelists, and Fathers of the Church; and three larger drawings
with the artist's commentary. It also contains descriptive copy
written by the author for the three sets of Mysteries.
Expand your colour confidence with a comprehensive dictionary of
colour combinations! Colour combinations are made simple with this
helpful reference that includes endless amounts of colour palettes
for artists to perfect their colour selection every time.
From bestselling author Johanna Basford, a stunning new coloring
book that invites artists to explore the great indoors Through her
bestselling coloring books and distinctive illustrations, Johanna
Basford's beautiful forests, ocean depths, and hidden magical
kingdoms have enchanted millions of people around the world. In
this newest work, Basford takes her audience indoors, inviting them
to explore the wonders of the worlds within. Hidden within every
illustration in Rooms of Wonder is a secret key and a locked door.
Find the key, unlock the door and continue to the next room.
Discover a busy craft studio, a wizard's workshop, a mouth-watering
ice cream parlour and an opulent banquet hall. With hidden
treasures, curious spaces and a few enchanted interiors, all you
need to do is unlock the first door and begin your magical journey.
From young love to heartbreak, the fourth book in Christopher
Hart's bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series focuses on
the hugely popular Romance genre. The newest addition to
Christopher Hart's bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series
takes on one of the most popular styles in Japanese cartoons:
Romance. It provides an overview of romance subgenres and teaches
every aspect of drawing anime romance, from common male and female
character types to the dramatic--and funny--situations they find
themselves in. Hart covers the complete arc of romantic anime
stories--bliss, arguing, breaking up, and getting back
together--and explains how to draw the anime head and body, match
poses to the characters' personalities, craft emotional
expressions, design standout features, draw couples that click, and
create a romantic setting. Fans will welcome this deep dive into
the genre, and newcomers will be drawn in by the dynamic artwork
that is a hallmark of Christopher Hart's anime and manga titles.
For Rene Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through
paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte
probed the limits of our perception-what we see and cannot see, the
nature of representation-as a philosophical system for presenting
ideas, and explored perspective as a method of visual
argumentation. This book makes the claim that Magritte's painting
is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself, and
the process of how we see and experience things in the world,
including paintings as things.
This publication accompanied a 2018 exhibition by the British
painter and printmaker Christopher Le Brun. The body of work
explored here develops his long-standing interest in the 'double' -
conceptual and embodied duality. The arresting diptychs and single
paintings provide a direct continuation of his series of prints
Composer (2017), which explores the musical form of distinct yet
related movements and the essentially layered structure of both
painting and music. Working directly on the woodcut proofs, these
new oil paintings extend Le Brun's lifelong preoccupation with
colour - in his words, 'experiencing rather than seeing a property
of the world we delight in for itself' - and represent radical
experiments in the juxtaposition of colour, tone, transparency and
form. The book features an essay by exhibition curator Anna
Dempster exploring dualities across a number of disciplines.
Alleviate anxiety and soothe all stress with The Little Book of
Calm Colouring. The international and Sunday Times bestseller from
David Sinden and Victoria Kay is the perfectly-formed antidote to a
busy life. Beautifully hand-illustrated and thoughtfully designed
to be the perfect size for portability, you can now take colouring
art therapy with you wherever you go. With beautiful anti-stress
designs on quality paper, this gorgeous colouring book will help
your creativity flourish. Take a short relaxing breather from your
day to colour the calming images and feel inspired by the poignant
quotations that accompany each elegant artwork.
If you have always wanted to learn to draw but lack the confidence
to start, Drawing for the Absolute Beginner is the book for you.
The author, Carole Massey, is an accomplished artist with many
years' experience of teaching and demonstrating, and even the most
hesitant of beginners will soon pick up the skills and techniques
needed to start drawing. The book is a complete drawing course,
designed to help you progress from simple techniques such as lines,
circles, squares and ellipses through to capturing landscapes,
figures and buildings. There are numerous simple step-by-step
demonstrations as well as larger projects, and outline tracings are
provided of the more complex drawings that you can transfer
straight onto your paper, if you wish to use them. Most of the
artworks in the book are created using pencil, but the author also
uses ink, ballpoint pen, pastel pencil and watersoluble pencils to
encourage you to experiment with other media too. By the end of the
book, you will have learnt all you need to know to take your
drawing skills further and become an accomplished artist in your
own right.
Originally published in 1971, Animals in Art and Thought discusses
the ways in which animals have been used by man in art and
literature. The book looks at how they have been used to symbolise
religious, social and political beliefs, as well as their pragmatic
use by hunters, sportsmen, and farmers. The book discusses these
various attitudes in a survey which ranges from prehistoric cave
art to the later Middle Ages. The book is especially concerned with
uncovering the latent, as well as the manifest meanings of animal
art, and presents a detailed examination of the literary and
archaeological monuments of the periods covered in the book. The
book discusses the themes of Creation myths of the pagan and
Christian religion, the contribution of the animal art of the
ancient contribution of the animal art of the ancient Orient to the
development of the Romanesque and gothic styles in Europe, the use
of beast fables in social or political satire, and the heroic
associations of animals in medieval chivalry.
Lucas Cranach the Elder created around 500 works during his
lifetime. With his portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp
Melanchton and as court painter to Frederick the Wise, he became
one of the most sought-after painters of the Reformation. At the
same time, Cranach was the first to translate the Italian
Renaissance tradition of the life-size nude into art north of the
Alps; his lascivious, barely veiled depiction of Venus, the goddess
of love, bears witness to this. On the occasion of the large
Cranach exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the
Austrian writer Teresa Praauer explores the work of this busy
prince of painters from A to Z. She focuses not only on Cranach's
art, but also on the society that surrounded him, the subjects he
painted, and the events that shaped his development.
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.
This book brings fresh perspectives on the works of celebrated
modernists Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington
Smith, illuminating some of the artistic and cultural parallels and
common themes between American and Australian modernism while
exploring each artist's unique contribution to international
developments of modernism. While O'Keeffe, Preston and Cossington
Smith developed highly individual styles, they are connected by
their choice of subject, their experimentation with light, colour
and form, and their commitment to presenting alternative ways of
seeing the world. Each modernised their sense of place, developing
new art forms that expressed their respective nations. In
considering the similarities and distinctions in their art, this
publication aims to bring a deeper understanding of modernism's
dispersal and reinvention as it developed beyond the metropolitan
wellspring of Europe. Through a selection of wondrous images and
engaging and enlightening essays, this book explores the distinct
contributions made by O'Keeffe, Preston and Cossington Smith to the
movement of modernism throughout their prolific careers.
This miniature notebook is a portable, hardcover little journal
with the classic art of Hiroshige. We've added a touch of gold foil
to the beautiful illustration, highlighting the rich art from this
world renowned Japanese block-print artist. Our Mini Notebooks have
120 dot-grid pages with cover illustrations by highly collectable
artists. Easy to give as gifts and easy to keep - collect them all!
120 pages dot-grid interior pages portable mini size, 127 x 89mm.
hardcover with gold foil accents
This book highlights the history of Islamic popular devotional art
and visual culture in 20th-century India, weaving the personal
narrative of the author's journey through his understanding of the
faith. It begins with an introductory exploration of how the basic
and universal image of Mecca and Medina may have been imported into
Indian popular print culture and what variants it resulted in here.
Besides providing a historical context of the pre-print culture of
popular Muslim visuality, the book also explores the impact the
1947 Partition of India may have made on the calendar art in South
Asia. A significant portion of the book focuses on the contemporary
prints of different localised images found in India and what role
these play in the users' lives, especially in the augmentation of
their popular faith and cultural practices. The volume also
compares the images published in India with some of those available
in Pakistan to reflect different socio-political trajectories.
Finally, it discusses why such a vibrant visual culture continues
to thrive among South Asian Muslims despite the questions raised by
the orthodoxy on its legitimacy in Islam, and why images and
popular visual cultures are inevitable for popular piety despite
the orthodox Muslims' increasing dissociation from them. This work
is one of the first books on Indian Muslim poster art, with rare
images and simple narratives, anecdotes about rituals, ceremonies
and cultural traditions running parallel to research findings. This
second edition contains a new Afterword that discusses challenges
to religious plurality arising on account of changing political
landscapes, economic liberalisation, technology and new media, and
socio-religious developments. It will appeal to the lay reader as
well as the specialist and will be especially useful to researchers
and scholars in popular culture, media and cultural studies, visual
art and performance studies, and sociology and social anthropology.
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Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the
question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints -
or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called - by the
Jesuits and Oratorians in the new environment of increased
strictures and censorship that developed after the Council of Trent
with respect to legal canonization procedures and cultic devotion
to the saints. Ruth Noyes focuses particularly on how the new
regulations pertained to the creation of emerging cults of those
not yet canonized, the so-called Beati moderni, such as Jesuit
founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola, and Filippo Neri,
founder of the Oratorians. Centrally involved in the book is the
question of the fate and meaning of the two altarpiece paintings
commissioned by the Oratorians from Peter Paul Rubens. The
Congregation rejected his first altarpiece because it too
specifically identified Filippo Neri as a cult figure to be
venerated (before his actual canonization) and thus was caught up
in the politics of cult formation and the papacy's desire to
control such pre-canonization cults. The book demonstrates that
Rubens' second altarpiece, although less overtly depicting Neri as
a saint, was if anything more radical in the claims it made for
him. Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni offers
the first comparative study of Jesuit and Oratorian images of their
respective would-be saints, and the controversy they ignited across
Church hierarchies. It is also the first work to examine
provocative Philippine imagery and demonstrate how its bold
promotion specifically triggered the first wave of curial censure
in 1602.
All Walks of Life offers a unique opportunity to get to know the
18th-century people of Saxony, Paris, London, and St. Petersburg
through the Meissen porcelain sculpture of The Alan Shimmerman
Collection. Johann Joachim Kaendler, along with his fellow
modellers and painters at Meissen, captured glimpses of everyday
life by paying meticulous attention to the smallest details: the
carefully arranged tray of a trinket seller, the personal writing
of a love letter, the larding tools of a cook preparing a hare. The
Shimmerman Collection's focus on groups of town criers and artisans
provides a fresh look at the creation, production, and distribution
of Meissen porcelain. The publication includes the first
comprehensive scientific analysis of a major collection of Meissen
figures.
Anatomy and art combine in this incredibly detailed manga drawing
guide that offers an in-depth look at the human body. Manga artists
of every level will benefit from this essential anatomical
overview. Step-by-step instructions bring manga characters to life
and provide a clearly defined and easy-to-follow art course on the
human body. With more than 1,500 highly-detailed drawings and
useful tips from a manga artist actually working in the business,
this book is a self-contained art class in a single volume. In this
book, the body is covered head-to-toe--from various angles and
positions with versions for men, women and children all provided.
How to Create Manga: Drawing the Human Body is a must-have for
budding manga artists and an essential reference for experienced
artists looking to hone their ability to draw certain parts of
their characters with greater accuracy. Tuttle's How to Create
Manga series guides users through the process of reaching a
professional-looking final drawing through actual sketch
progressions, practical tips and common missteps to avoid. Other
books in the series include How to Create Manga: Drawing Facial
Expressions, How to Create Manga: Drawing Clothing and Accessories
and How to Create Manga: Drawing Action Scenes and Characters.
Pandemonium: An Illustrated History of Demonology presents for this
first time Satan's family tree, providing a history and analysis of
his fellow fallen angels from Asmodeus to Ziminiar. Throughout
there will be short entries on individual demons, but Pandemonium
will be more than just a visual encyclopedia. It will also focus on
the influence of figures like Beelzebub, Azazel, Lilith, and Moloch
on Western religion, literature, and art. Ranging from the earliest
scriptural references to demons in the New Testament through the
Enlightenment and Romantic eras when our devils took on a subtler
form, Pandemonium functions as a compendium of Lucifer's subjects
from Dante's The Divine Comedy to John Milton's Paradise Lost, and
all points in between. Containing rarely seen illustrations of very
old treatises on demonology as well as more well-known works by the
great masters of Western painting, this book will celebrate the art
of hell like never before!
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