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The elegant illustrations in this colouring book were produced by
The Dream State Studio, a team of gifted illustrators from Taiwan.
The drawings are an intriguing combination of intricately drawn
patterns which form stunning pictures inside each whole drawing, so
that when the pages are looked at closely, individual designs are
visible within each sketch. For example the image on the page might
be a butterfly, but when looked at carefully, the wings are
precisely drawn lion heads, which in turn are made up of even
smaller, delicate flower motifs. There is plenty of scope for
colourers to get imaginative with this beautifully, original book.
As well as providing an antidote to the anxieties of busy life,
this title offers artists the chance to look at a kaleidoscopic
world and calm themselves as they colour in. ILLUSTRATOR: Dream
State Studio, a trademark of Totallypic, is an illustrator's agency
based in Taiwan. Since 2015 it has specialized in creating elegant,
original pictures and plates for colouring books that have enjoyed
great success in Asia.
Instagram star Jeannie Dickson has created a modern and inviting
introduction to watercolor painting that aspiring artists will turn
to again and again on their creative journey. Hello, Watercolor!
offers a fresh approach to painting watercolors with concise and
accessible information. Aspiring artists and journalers will
immediately be able to apply the techniques they learn on these
pages--including brush lettering--to more than 15 exciting
step-by-step projects, from painting origami animals, sparkling
glass shards, and beautiful alphabets to producing luscious florals
and fanciful unicorns. Among the features that make this handbook
both a valuable learning tool and source of inspiration: Projects
include a list of techniques with cross-references Each project
includes watercolors used with swatches so readers can make
substitutions easily Popular color palettes and color "recipes" for
foolproof mixing 12 monthly challenges with daily or weekly prompts
to inspire painting all year long Templates to trace and paint for
some projects Ideas to share work and connect with others (e.g.,
Instagram)
Crafting from pregnancy to your baby's first birthday! The arrival
of a new baby is not only a cause for celebration, but also the
perfect opportunity to get creative. After all, what could be
better to give to that special little person in your life than a
handmade gift? Whether you are making a gift for your own baby, or
for a friend or relative's new arrival, this book features a wide
range of craft projects to suit all skill levels and covers
numerous craft types, including stenciling, sewing, knitting, and
crochet. There are projects for all the early stages of welcoming a
baby, from pregnancy through to the first birthday, each one
created exclusively for the book by a specially selected group of
crafters from around the world. Beautiful watercolor illustrations
accompany the projects ensuring each one is easily achievable and
suitable for crafters of all levels.
Are you looking for the perfect bead-making guide to make
amazing projects with children? Look no further "Creative Kids
Photo Guide to Bead Crafts" starts with the absolute basics about
bead crafting, beginning with bead types, then gradually introduces
skills and techniques until kids are creating fantastic projects
like bubble wands, bug sculptures, and belts Amy Kopperude, author
of "Bead Bugs," will guide you and your children through projects.
With over 300 photos and clear, concise instructions in language
easily understood by grade-school kids, you're going to be creating
crafty beaded projects with your child in no time From zipper pulls
and keychains to wind chimes and backpack clips, each project lists
the skills that are needed, and projects are rated by difficulty,
so kids can learn and grow as they develop dexterity and
coordination. Your children will learn to craft beaded creations by
making simple projects and building skills by practicing the
essentials. "Creative Kids Photo Guide to Bead Crafts" provides a
sound foundation for a lifetime of creative enjoyment.
In Conscious Crafts: Pottery, maker Lucy Davidson reveals the
meditative nature of working with clay and its wellbeing benefits
for slowing down, creativity and mindfulness. Making is mindfulness
made practical, and pottery is a popular meditative craft. Drawing
on the traditions of hand making, Lucy has created 20 modern makes
with air dry and polymer clay - all without the need for a wheel or
kiln: imperfect pots; coasters; necklace beads; abstract earrings;
terrazzo-style bracelets; bird brooches; pinch pot tea holders;
light pull; incense holder; botanical & feather wall hangings;
festive decorations; potted herb markers; clay 'leaf' bowls; plant
hanger pots; indoor planters; miniature bunting; serving dishes;
and seaside vases. She shares the basic techniques to pottery and
shows how these can be explored and personalized for different
projects, as well as making your own clay and memories. Clean
photography, contemporary illustration and heart-affirming text are
beautifully mixed together to celebrate art of making for a
handmade future. Packed with inspiring ideas and practical
guidance, Conscious Crafts: Pottery gives you the raw skills to get
started with this fulfilling craft, and shows how the pottery
experience and the satisfaction of creating your own unique makes
can create happiness. The Conscious Crafts series places
mindfulness and well-being at the heart of making. Picking out
proven meditative crafts and bespoke authors, these practical,
contemporary guides are an inviting introduction to reconnecting
head, heart, and hands. Also available from the series: Conscious
Crafts: Quilting/Knitting/Whittling.
The 20 projects included here are easy to make and readily
customised with personal details and keepsakes, they range from the
everyday and accessible to the slightly more elaborate for the
committed steampunker.
Build your watercolor skills with confidence using this
beginner-friendly workbook which includes 25 projects on premium
watercolor paper! This easy-to-use watercolor workbook is filled
with unique and beautiful flower and nature sketches that are ready
for you to watercolor-no drawing skills required! Each page is
specially designed with simple step-by-step instructions so you can
easily and confidently paint each project and create artwork that
matches the quality of the author's example. Watercolor Workbook
features- An introduction to fundamental watercolor techniques
Easy-to-follow instructions, including suggested paint and
paintbrush materials, so you can start painting today Projects
presented on thick, premium watercolor art paper - no color
bleed-through Flower art including poppies, wild roses, sunflowers,
buttercups, dandelions, and more Artist and author Sarah Simon,
a.k.a. @themintgardener, has taught thousands of people how to
paint with watercolor. Her first book Modern Watercolor Botanicals
provides everything you need to know about t
Luxuriate in the pages of THE ANTIQUARIAN STICKER BOOK:
BIBLIOPHILIA, a compendium of over 1,000 gorgeous stickers for
lovers of the sensational series and new fans alike. The highly
anticipated sequel to the most beautiful sticker book ever created
has arrived with even more stunning sticker ephemera! Create a
collage or adorn your junk journal with evocative imagery, letter
forms, or literary quotes to add another dimension to your project.
Peel and decorate or browse and feast on the beauty of this lush
sticker book unlike any other. A treasure trove of authentic
historical prints from the ornate Victorian era can live on its
own, be used on stationery and wrapping, or create an amazing
collage. Featuring beautiful, odd, and inspiring stickers from the
past for the modern-day crafter, scrapbooker, art and book lover,
or for anyone who just loves stickers, The Antiquarian Sticker
Book: Bibliophilia has something for everyone.
Bring to life legendary creatures from around the world in this
manga-inspired adult colouring book. Camilla d'Errico adds her
signature, manga-inspired twist to creatures from myth, folklore,
and legend-as well as from her own imagination. From European
favorites such as gryphons, fauns, and centauresses, to her
particular take on the Persian manticore and the Asian kinnaris and
kirin, fans and colouring enthusiasts can embolden these fabled
creatures with their own palette and turn striking full-page
spreads with dramatic details into one-of-a-kind art.
This is a good-enough-to-eat embellishment in the crazy Decoden
style. It is a hot craft trend. It includes instructions on
whipping up your own adhesive faux cake icing. Hailing from Japan,
this craft craze began with decorating mobile phone cases with all
things cute, glitzy and sweet. Deco Den Desserts - a delightful
Threads Selects Booklet - is literally the icing on the cake,
featuring everything from hand mirrors to jewellery to trainers,
deliciously decorated with faux sweets and treats. Some
embellishments are miniature versions of real sweets that look good
enough to eat, and others are fantasy versions that look like they
are straight from a pop music video. Both versions are equally cute
and contain no calories! Deco Den Desserts shows you how to whip up
a faux cake icing and apply the dimensional fabric paint (aka
drizzle) to create drippy dessert sauces like chocolate and
strawberry sauce. So grab some icing and mini sweets and start
decorating!
OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 'You will quickly amaze and
delight yourself. Hands down the best and most life-enhancing thing
I've done in lockdown' India Knight, Sunday Times Drawing on the
Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing
instruction book. Whether you are a professional, a student, or
enjoy art as a hobby, Betty Edwards' practical step-by-step guide
will give you greater confidence in your ability, deepen your
artistic perception and provide a new way to appreciate the way you
perceive the world around you. This groundbreaking guide includes:
- Expert advice on materials to use and how to record your progress
- Specific focus on perceiving edges, spaces and relationships
within your drawings - Problem-solving techniques and guidance on
continued development of your skills Blending artistic teaching
with psychology, Betty Edwards offers a practical grounding in
drawing technique with exercises designed to help you utilise the
intuitive and creative right side of your brain, dramatically
improving your ability to draw.
A compelling activity for crafters and artists, doodlers and
colourers of all ages, each Paint by Sticker book includes
everything you need to create twelve vibrant, fuli-color
"paintings." The original images are rendered in low-poly, a
computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a
3D effect. As in paint-by-number, each template is divided into
dozens of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a
particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the
right space. Add the next, and the next, and the next--it's an
activity that's utterly absorbing, both in the pleasure of peeling
and sticking and the growing satisfaction of watching a "painting"
come to life, emerging from a flat black-and-white illustration to
a dazzling image with color, body, and spirit. Paint by Sticker:
Music Icons brings us face-to-face with Elvis, The Beatles,
Beyonce, Katy Perry, David Bowie, Cher, Prince, and other legendary
stars.
The How To Draw series takes a highly visual and practical approach
to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions and highly-detailed
illustrations for each art project. This comprehensive drawing
handbook covers all aspects of drawing historic ships, including
perspective, using photographic reference and selecting materials.
How To Draw Historical Ships features step-by-step guides to
drawing such famous ships as the Cutty Sark and the Mary Rose.
Inspirational seasonal projects, using nature finds, art and craft
and simple techniques. Kids will love making a creepy-crawly 'keep
out' spiderweb door hanger and have lots of laughs making the
walnut skiing reindeer. Kids can unplug the tech and make.... A
brilliant paper seed recipe for seed bombs in spring Design natural
tie-dye prints in summer Amazing pine cone animals in autumn
Experiments, growing crystals in winter, they will all be unique!
and much more! All you need are simple items that you can find in
the recycling, out in nature or in your craft box! It's a book that
sits neatly on any kids book shelf, packed with all year-round fun.
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.
Learn to draw beautiful flowers from the old masters with some help
from Classic Sketchbook: Botanicals. Improve your skills by
learning techniques on one page, and practicing on the next page.
Imagine learning to draw roses with Redoute, or tulips with Pieter
Brugel. Imagine learning the secrets that made their flower
paintings stand out in their eras and still stand out today.
Classic Sketchbook: Botanicals is an art book that shows you how to
create flowers that will stand the test of time by taking a close
look at the details of great floral paintings, and then coaching
you through the techniques. Each spread in this unique book is made
up of two hard working components: The left-hand page features a
close-up illustration from a noted 19th century and earlier artist,
and the right-hand page, made from quality, uncoated stock, is for
drawing. There are also coaching tips, observations, and a
demonstrative sketch on each page. As you progress through the
book, you'll get to try a variety of artists' styles, and see how
to apply them to your own personal style. Don't wait to get
started! By learning from the masters, you'll become a master
yourself.
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 twelfth adult coloring book from Sweden’s coloring book sensation, Hanna Karlzon, and the fifth in her best-selling Tales from . . . series.
With Hanna Karlzon’s newest coloring book, Tales from Atlantis, you will go on an adventure to the bottom of the sea to discover ruins, corals, sea horses, and treasures in the company of imaginative fish and mermaids. Welcome down to a realm where time has stood still, welcome to Atlantis!
Drawn in her highly regarded detailed style, coloring book enthusiasts will love getting lost in Hanna’s magical illustrations.
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