A complete and contemporary update to this best-selling resource for woodburners, reknowned artist Lora Irish reveals her secrets in this newly revised edition. Beginner and advanced pyrographers alike benefit from more than 40 original traceable line art designs, and step-by-step instructions for transferring a pyrography pattern.

Nothing beats the joy a cardboard box can bring on a rainy day. Want to fly a plane? Get a cardboard box. Want to go to space? Cardboard box. Want to build a castle and hold a jousting tournament? That's right - you need a cardboard box! Cardboard Creations is bursting full of ideas for how to turn that magical cardboard box into so many exciting playthings. In Vehicles you can build a car to race in or a rocket ship to fly to space in using the simple instructions and full colour photos. Like the humble cardboard box, this book will stretch as far as your imagination will allow. What will you build?

Bestselling author Marty Noble allows you to express your creative streak and color Day of the Dead sugar skulls! Sugar skulls, or calaveras, mark the arrival of the Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, in November. To celebrate this traditional Mexican holiday when the living honor their departed loved ones, sugar is molded into skull shapes and decorated with colors, patterns, and designs that delight, charm, and fascinate. Now, decorate your own sugar skulls within the pages of a coloring book. Designed by the bestselling coloring book artist Marty Noble, the book features forty-eight gorgeous and intricate line illustrations of both human and animal skulls. These specially crafted sugar skulls range across different aesthetic influences and complexity levels for both the amateur and advanced colorist. They are adorned with flowers, plants, patterns, wildlife, macabre imagery, and traditional Mexican art motifs that will engage your inner creativity and get your coloring juices flowing. These pages are perforated and printed on one side, allowing colorists to remove and display their finished designs easily. Whether on November 1 and 2, or throughout the year, Marty Noble's Sugar Skulls offers an absorbing and fascinating coloring experience with page after page of unique sugar skull designs!

Color Zen Coloring is a conveniently packaged, perfectly portable colouring book for adults designed to reduce stress and relax the mind. It contains a selection of amazing art activities that can be transported anywhere, making it ideal for use in waiting rooms, during your lunch break, or even as a form of therapy on a rainy weekend. Each illustration can be easily personalised with felt-tips, coloured pencils, crayons, gel pens, or watercolours.As well as being the perfect product to support the largest craft trend since loom bands, this therapeutic colouring book is the ideal travel companion for commuters wishing to unwind after a stressful day at work, allowing them to exercise their creativity and unleash their inner artist.

Cv Publications survey of crafts design and production includes interviews, articles and showcases of emerging and established practices in the UK and Ireland. The directory explores makers' studios and provides a contact list of makers and suppliers, with specialist outlets active in the chain of distribution. It also contains contributions by specialist arts writers, David Rose, Margaret MacNamidhe and Roberta Stoker.

Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors' own experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the internal and external challenges to making art in the real world, and shows how they can be overcome every day. First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic, and word-of-mouth has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity. Written by artists for artists, it offers generous and wise insight into what it feels like to sit down at your easel or keyboard, in your studio or performance space, trying to do the work you need to do. Every artist, whether a beginner or a prizewinner, a student or a teacher, faces the same fears - and this book illuminates the way through them.

This title is about connecting with your children, spending quality time and growing creatively together. It's about making a stimulating, simple environment in which their physical and mental development will be allowed to flourish at their own pace. Nature can be an endless source of fascination, creative materials and inspiration. You do not have to live in the countryside, be an experienced gardener or 'arty' to do any of the ideas presented in this title. All you need is the desire to spend meaningful time with your children and a wish that they grow up being in touch with nature.

Artist and popular workshop instructor Traci Bunkers can turn just about anything into an interesting stamp, printing block, or tool. In this book, she shows readers how to see overlooked, everyday objects in a new way, and how to "MacGyver" them into easy to use printing blocks and tools. Readers learn to create 52 print blocks and stamp tools, all from inexpensive, ordinary, and unexpected materials--string, spools, bandaids, flip flops, ear plugs, rubber bands, school erasers, and a slew of other repurposed and upcycled items. The book also shows how to use those simple tools to make gorgeous, multi-layered prints and patterns that can be used to enhance journal covers, stationery, fabrics, accessories, and more.

Hierdie boek oorbrug die gaping tussen kuns en handwerk en verduidelik maklike hand-werk-tegnieke wat enigeen kan gebruik om oorspronklike kunswerke te skep. Leer hoe om op 'n verskeidenheid oppervlakke met enigiets van die tradisionele akriel- en olieverf tot kraakvuller, sement en sand moderne blok-kuns te skep. Treffende foto's van al die voltooide projekte, vergesel van duidelike stap-vir-stap aanwysings en nabyskote, wys jou hoe en sal die sluimerende kunstenaar in jou laat ontwaak. Benewens die onweerstaanbare projekte, is daar inligting oor basiese tegnieke, kleur, tekstuur-mediums, kleefmiddels, oplosmiddels, afwerkings en verseelmiddels, asook 'n nuttige woordelys van tegnieke en apparaat. Die boek bevat die gewildste projekte uit Kitskuns, Slimkuns en Blitskuns.