Release your inner stylist to design and colour all of the most fashionable characters in this official Disney The Fashion Collection Colouring Book! Packed with stunning images and icons from a whole host of stylish favourites so you can create your very own couture fashion collection. From sophisticated Princesses like Belle and Tiana to fashion-forward Villains, including Cruella De Vil and Maleficent, get creative and bring each fabulous design to life! With intricate patterns and sketchbook style art, this beautiful book will keep you entertained for hours. Also available: Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Colouring Book Coming soon: Disney Hocus Pocus Colouring Book

He has a cult following among his female fans, and this is the first colouring book devoted to his likeness.

Good Vibes is a colouring book for adults that contains 30 amazing art activities involving patterning, shading and colouring. Each vibrantly detailed illustration offers an easy way to de-stress, while allowing you to unleash the artist within.Thaneeya McArdle's transcendental art explores a visual language of shape, form, line and colour, and can be easily personalised with felt- tips, coloured pencils, crayons, gel pens or watercolours.Beautifully coloured finished examples are provided, along with a handy guide to basic art techniques, from patterning and combinations to shading and colour theory.This therapeutic colouring book is printed on high-quality, extra-thick paper that won't bleed through, and all of the pages are perforated for easy removal and display.

Take your manga drawings to the next level with amazing outfits and creative costumes. It just takes two details-wrinkles and shadows. In How to Draw Clothing for Manga, you'll discover how adding a tuck here, a gather there, and hiding some areas in shadow will take your drawings from flat sketches to fantastic illustrations. What you'll find inside: Basic techniques for drawing a variety of fabric details, including pulled wrinkles, gathered folds, tucked shapes, and more! Plus, learn how to express the differences between stiff, thick fabric and soft fabric with drape. 35+ outfits shown side by side with modeled photos to easily break down exactly what to draw for a realistic finished look. From slim-fit tees to skirts that twirl, every style is covered across all genders. Practice line art to get you started mastering wrinkles and shadows before adding details to your own work. With hundreds of sample illustrations and step-by-step guidance, this is your must-have guide to drawing clothes and costumes for your manga characters. What are you waiting for? Grab your supplies and get started drawing with style!

Impressionism, an art movement pioneered by a handful of avant-garde painters based in Paris in the 1870s, gave academic oil painting a vivacity and spontaneity it had previously lacked, and remains to this day the single most popular style of art for gallery-goers and amateur painters alike. This elegantly-written book, by a professional artist and scholar, is both an instructional guide to incorporating Impressionist techniques into your own painting, and an illuminating investigation into how those first Impressionists actually painted their pictures. As such, it will fascinate both the painter and the art historian. This new book provides detailed advice on paints, brushes and canvas, as used by the original Impressionists and still widely available today. It discusses the process of making an Impressionist painting from initial vision to final completion and analyses the role of composition, light and tone, colour and paint handling. Finally, it gives an overview of the subject matter most closely associated with the Impressionists.

Following on from the success of Colourmorphia, this is the second book to feature the most striking images from Kerby Rosanes' bestselling Morphia series. A 16-page full-colour section will display some of the most spectacular artworks that have been coloured by Kerby's fans, accompanied by stylistic comments and tips so readers can create their own masterpieces. The illustrations featured in the colour section will be repeated in the black-and-white section, to give colourists an opportunity to duplicate the approach, along with other beautiful artwork from Animorphia, Imagimorphia, Mythomorphia, Geomorphia and Fantomorphia for fans to try their hand at. The perfect way to celebrate the talent of Kerby and his fans.

More than 60 of today's top lighting designers from the United States and Europe are showcased here, along with up-and-coming talents. Over 300 color photos of hundreds of funky, fun, classic, far-out, retro, and whimsical designs, including chandelier and ceiling fixtures, wall sconces, and table and floor lamps are featured. This is the ultimate shoppers' guide for anyone hunting for the unique and special. An index provides contact information for each design studio. Also, items shown have suggested retail prices in the captions. This is a must-have for professional interior designers, and an invaluable tool for any homeowner shopping for something truly fabulous.

Al Streetman takes devoted readers and beginning carvers alike back to the wonderful world of folk carving, which leaves less to "the rules" and more to the imagination! In older days, folk art was a way of transforming plain everyday objects and materials into decorative accent pieces to brighten the home. Here are 20 patterns for bird and fish, with a simplicity that makes the carving process quick and enjoyable, and the final product charming and elegant. In full-color photography, Al guides the carver step-by-step though the carving of a bird and a catfish, providing not only careful instructions for carving but also for painting and presenting each piece. The basic patterns make either wonderful learning tools or a solid foundation for more intricate carvings.

Old, broken objects can become more beautiful than ever! The thought of throwing away a cherished dish or mug can be heartbreaking. If you've ever wanted to repair a treasured piece rather than tossing it in the trash--but didn't know how--the traditional Japanese art of Kintsugi ("gold repair") offers the perfect solution! A Beginner's Guide to Kintsugi teaches you the traditional Japanese techniques of pottery and glass repair based on the ancient Wabi Sabi idea that imperfections are beautiful, and visible repairs are part of the "life story" of an object. Author Michihiro Hori provides simple, safe, and inexpensive methods that you can do at home using tools and materials that are readily available online. Hori guides you through the entire process--from assembling and mixing the materials to reconstructing replacements for hopelessly shattered shards. With this book, you'll learn how to: Reinforce cracks, rebuild shattered areas, and apply the time-honored staple technique Fix broken handles so they are fully functional again Safely work with lacquer and metallic powders to achieve beautiful, visible repairs Work with a variety of repair materials from gold leaf to washi paper Repair pottery and glass using traditional techniques for stunning results As you take the time to prepare your materials and work closely with the pieces, you'll find yourself becoming attuned to the mindful philosophy at the heart of Kintsugi and the Wabi Sabi principle of appreciating old and imperfect objects. Most of all, the meditative process of Kintsugi will help you look at broken objects in a new way.

The studio glass movement has truly become international, and this gorgeous book features the works of over 175 of the top known artists, such as Dan Dailey, William Morris, Linda MacNeil, Mary Shaffer, Howard Ben Tre, Dale Chihuly, and Karen La Monte. Richard Yelle presents this new book to celebrate the advancements in studio glass production over the last 25 years. Essays by collectors and contemporary artists worldwide introduce the gallery of over 780 stunning color photographs. Collectors have played an important role in the developments shown, and this book honors their support of the artists, galleries, and museums that promote glass art.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Angela Lord invites readers to develop their own colour insights with materials and techniques, exploring colours, painting rainbows, colour clashes, complementary colours, after-images, painting the colour circle and complementary colours, enhancing colours, a new colour circle, the interplay of light and dark, sunrise and sunset, colour dynamics and composition, an overview of colour through history, watercolour painting and the Steiner Waldorf curriculum, resources, glossary and references.

Breaking the Surface

Pondering how to begin a new piece of art? "Surface Treatment Workshop" has the answer The authors of "Image Transfer Workshop" are back to show you 45 stepped-out mixed-media techniques that will add depth and texture to your artwork. These techniques are the perfect jump-off point for creating art you will love to look at, and, in some cases, touch

In this comprehensive guide, you ll find:

• 45 techniques. Exciting new applications such as the use of WonderUnder, pulled paper and plaster-dipped gauze will provide you with fresh ideas--many previously unpublished.
• Multiple variations. Each technique features swatches and descriptions to take the techniques in multiple directions with multiple mixed-media products.
• Inspirational style. Fully stepped-out projects from two artists will show you how to combine the techniques into finished works of art that can go in any artistic style.

Fall in love with watercolours and create beautiful paintings that you can be proud of! Positive, inspiring messages and quotations are the perfect subject for expressive watercolour lettering. This skill-building portfolio book for absolute beginners will teach you everything you need to know to get started with watercolour art. Talented artist Robin Pickens introduces you to all the basics of paint, brushes, palette and water, with easy-to-follow advice on opacity, blending, shading and mixing colours. She then guides you step-by-step through eight complete inspirational watercolour calligraphy projects. Each project features soft, muted patterns printed on real 90# thick and tactile watercolour paper. The pages are perforated so you can easily remove your art for gifting or display. Just Add Watercolor Happy Thoughts also provides gorgeous fully coloured finished examples to inspire your work on each design.

From the global coloring sensation, a new, dazzling compilation of colorists' favorite images from Kerby Rosanes's stupefying Worlds series. World of Color is a book of coloring challenges that showcase the internationally bestselling illustrator's astounding artistic skill through eighty pages of super-detailed artwork in Kerby's signature style. Loyal fans and newcomers alike will be entranced and enthralled as they step into his singular imagination. Featuring a full-color sixteen-page section at the beginning to display the work of some of Kerby's most talented fans, the original art in this section will demonstrate the incredible, unique approaches that colorists can try their hands at in the subsequent pages.