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365 Days of Art is an inspiring journal designed to help readers and budding artists nurture their creativity and explore their feelings through the medium of art. Featuring an activity for every day of the year, from simple tasks like drawing shapes and lines to more considered tutorials such as calligraphy writing and shading, each task is designed to expand your creative skills and spark the artist within.
With helpful hints and tips as well as more considered tasks to help build your creative confidence, 365 Days of Art is a beautiful keepsake as well as well as a powerful tool for positive change.
Part of the "Coloring Books for the Soul" series, a dazzlingly
beautiful adult coloring book, filled with magical, mystical
imagery that celebrates the major and minor arcana of the tarot-a
creative and inspiring invitation to nourish our souls and
reconnect with our spirit. The Enchanted Tarot coloring book
features the award-winning illustrations from Amy Zerner and Monte
Farber's bestselling, classic tarot deck. Drawn in Amy's iconic
tapestry collage art style, each illustration is a work of art that
takes reads on a soothing, meditative journey to a world of myth
and majesty, beauty and illumination. The forty line drawings are
accompanied by text that guides colorists through each suit of the
deck, introducing all the key players of the major and minor
arcana, from The Fool to The Magician to The Empress. Gorgeously
packaged with a vibrant four-color cover by the artist and filled
with fresh, modern illustrations suitable for framing, The
Enchanted Tarot is an ideal way to unwind and create beauty in our
lives.
Part of the "Coloring Books for the Soul" series, a majestic adult
coloring book packed with original art and evocative wisdom words,
featuring stunning imagery that celebrates the animals, both real
and imagined, that we revere across cultures-a creative and
inspiring invitation to nourish our souls and reconnect with our
spirit. Filled with forty dazzling drawings sure to inspire the
imagination, readers can color away their stress and anxiety while
nourishing their souls with this intriguing coloring book that pays
homage to our most revered animals. Lydia Hess's illustrations are
accompanied by beautifully lettered wisdom words that can be
colored and embellished as well-adding a further level of
engagement and magic for readers. Gorgeously packaged with a
vibrant four-color cover by the artist and filled with fresh,
modern illustrations suitable for framing, Sacred Animals is an
ideal way to unwind and create beauty in our lives.
A unique Scottish colouring book suitable for adults as well as
children featuring 23 of the festival city's most iconic places,
including: Edinburgh Castle * Victoria Street * Grassmarket * St
Giles * National Museum of Scotland * The Mound and Ramsay Gardens
* Calton Hill * Old Town * Usher Hall * Balmoral Hotel * Scott
Monument and Princes Street Gardens * West Register House *
Holyrood Palace * HMS Britannia * Ocean Terminal & Botanic
Gardens * New Town * Dean Village * Arthur's Seat * Scottish
Parliament * Zoo * Greyfriars Bobby * The Shore, Leith * The
Meadows. Eilidh Muldoon's illustrations are ideal for all levels of
colouring - plenty of intricate detail for those who like a
colouring challenge, yet simple enough for those with less patience
to create beautiful colour artwork in a short time.
This comprehensive drawing manual is an invaluable guide for
beginners, improvers, and established draftsmen. It contains
hundreds of examples as well as step-by-step examples for artists
to follow in order to build up their confidence and skills. All the
major subject areas are covered, from simple object drawing and
still life, to landscape drawing, portraiture, and figures. The
book also explores the wider challenges of drawing facing all
aspiring artists, such as how to break down visual information,
recognize form, and apply perspective. Author Barrington Barber is
a renowned authority on teaching drawing and a practicing
artist.
From the moment she sees Noelle, the beautiful ballerina doll in the toy store window, Ilyana knows that Noelle is the Christmas present she wants more than anything in the world. But Noelle has a dream of her own: to be a real ballerina, performing on stage for adoring fans. When the Imperial Ballet Company chooses Noelle to be the doll that Clara, the little girl in The Nutcracker, finds under the Christmas tree, it seems that Noelle’s dream is the one that will come true. Then, an unexpected setback makes Noelle realize that maybe, for a doll, being loved by one little girl is the best dream of all.
Step inside beautiful gardens and take some time for yourself to
relax among the bees and butterflies. From the publisher of the
hugely successful Creative Colouring series. Get ready to ramble
through some of the most beautiful garden spaces and make them
burst with colour. Fill in fragrant climbers, doodle next to
dahlias and add some stunning details to nature's most exquisite
insect, the butterfly. Immerse yourself in the fauna and flora of
our favourite landscapes and colour in gorgeous plants to attract
bees to every page. Specifically designed to encourage relaxation
and foster an atmosphere of peace and calm, these beautiful
illustrations inspired by the natural world will help you switch
off from your worries and let your inner artist free. The Colour
Yourself Calm series celebrates the natural world and will help you
to forget your stresses, as you fill the pages with beautiful
colours. The only limit is your imagination. Also available: Colour
Yourself Calm: Fabulous Forests and Wild Flowers.
This early work is a fascinating read for any sewing enthusiast or
historian. Its 166 pages are extensively illustrated with diagrams,
drawings and photographs forming a complete how-to guide to
embroidery that is thoroughly recommended for the shelf of all
handicraft lovers. Contents Include: Foreword; Acknowledgement;
List of Plates; Introduction; Simple stitches; More complicated
stitches; Simple designing; Filling stitches; Designing with cut
paper; Some special techniques; Finishings; Some more ways of using
embroidery. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating
back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork.
A menagerie of exotic beasts from the No.1 bestselling colouring
book illustrator Millie Marotta. The ultimate Millie Marotta
colouring book brings together her favourite illustrations from all
her books: Animal Kingdom, Tropical Wonderland, Wild Savannah,
Curious Creatures and Beautiful Birds and Treetop Treasures.
Featuring 120 illustrations, the book invites colourists to lend
their palette to wondrous wildlife from habitats across the world.
Among the wildlife waiting to be brought to life with colour are
tropical parrots, African lions, sea anemones and an Arctic whale.
With 8.5 million books sold, Millie Marotta is one of the most
popular colouring book illustrators in the world. This is an
essential edition for all Millie Marotta fans, and for those
looking to discover her much-loved illustrations for the first
time.
Featuring iconic animals from red deer, golden eagles and Highland
cows to red squirrels, pine martens and salmon as well as the
plants, trees and flowers which thrive in mountain, forest, moor
and seashore, this book is the ideal way to explore Scotland's
amazing range of flora and fauna. Many of the illustrations show
the animals and plants in their natural habitats, so you can
appreciate the extraordinary beauty of Scotland's landscapes too.
Celebrate your friends! Welcome to the special and heartwarming
world of Notebook Doodles Best Friends! This fun and playful
coloring book for 'tweens is filled with 32 friendship-themed
designs of adorable animals and sweet sentiments from talented
artist Jess Volinski. With uplifting art activities for young
girls, Jess also includes instructions on basic coloring
techniques, fully colored examples, and charming quotes to go with
every design. Watercolors, colored pencils, markers, crayons, and
gel pens will all look stunning on archival-grade, acid-free,
200-year paper. Each one-sided page is perforated, so when it's
finished, it can easily be removed to hang up or give as a gift.
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