The Art of Chip Carving teaches crafters of all levels how to create 15 decorative rosette patterns. Chip carving is that art of forming intricate geometric patterns by carefully cutting away small triangles of wood to slowly create the full project. Tatiana Baldina's incredibly detailed instructions, with photographs accompanying every step, will allow even a complete beginner through the process of recreating her patterns, while more experienced carvers will relish the opportunity to try out new designs. The projects can be used to decorate all manner of objects, from boxes to plates and wall panels to furniture. The book also contains a comprehensive introduction to the art, including choosing the appropriate tools and materials and instructions for all the different cutting techniques you'll need.

For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through The Artist's Way: a workbook and companion to the international bestseller. In this elegantly redesigned and user-friendly volume you'll find: - More than 110 Artist's Way tasks - More than 50 Artist's Way check-ins - Insights into the creative process - New ideas for Morning Pages and Artist's Dates The Artist's Way Workbook is an indispensable book for anyone following the path to creativity laid out in The Artist's Way.

A unique Scottish colouring book suitable for adults as well as children featuring 20 of the country's most iconic places, including: Edinburgh Castle * Forth Rail Bridge * St Andrews * HMS Discovery, Dundee * Balmoral castle * Loch Ness/Urquart Castle * Dunrobin * Castle, Stromness, Orkney * Skara Brae * Callanish standing stones * Lews Castle, Lewis * Highland Games * Eilean Donan * Duart Castle, Mull * Tobermory, Skye * Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow * Caerlaverlock Castle * Abbotsford House * Melrose Abbey * Rosslyn Chapel * Falkirk Wheel * Stirling Castle * Edinburgh Christmas Market Eilidh Muldoon's 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.

Color cats in scenes around the world!

Experience the soothing power of adult coloring with these intricate animal tangles created by New York Times bestselling illustrator and master of the abstract Zen style Angela Porter! Zentangle is a fun and relaxing art form that has emerged in the last decade. Its free-form style, abstract images, and repetitive patterns all unite to create elaborate and soothing illustrations. This method has been said to increase mindfulness and aid in relaxation while simultaneously expressing creativity an ideal remedy for stress. Animals and nature are believed to have similar antistress properties. Combining this idea with the Zen style, bestselling illustrator Angela Porter takes you on a relaxing journey through the wilderness in this breathtaking collection that will help you de-stress and decompress. Featured are forty-nine beautiful designs for you to color and decorate each weaving together intricate swirling patterns and other geometric shapes to form some of your favorite members of the animal kingdom. As an added bonus, the pages are perforated and printed on one side, making it simple for you to remove and display your finished masterpieces. Instead of wasting your time with generic designs, color on the wild side with Angela Porter's Zen Doodle Animal Tangles. Whether you love cats, dogs, fish, birds, or even bears, this coloring book has them all. It's great for animal lovers and colorists alike!

Deepen your relationship with God with this prompted prayer journal that invites you to a quiet place of prayer, reflection and calming coloring. Thoughtful prayer prompts accompany specially selected Scripture verses on prayer that have been designed for you to color. The ample lined pages provide space to express your heartfelt prayers and thanksgiving to God.

Take this perfectly portable little adult colouring book along wherever you go, and you'll always be ready to colour whenever inspiration strikes! Inside you'll find dozens of cute woodland and underwater critters including owls, birds, butterflies, hedgehogs, foxes, turtles, seahorses and more.Each adorable animal is just waiting to be filled with your favorite watercolours, coloured pencils, felt tip pens, crayons, gel pens or crayons. Color Animals Coloring Book includes helpful advice on choosing colours, with suggested colour palettes and fully coloured examples to inspire your imagination.With a lay-flat, top-edge binding, this book is small enough to colour anywhere, but big enough for creative fun. Printed on one side only of archival-grade, acid-free, 200-year paper, each perforated page detaches easily for gifting or display.

Experienced potter Henry Leighton has spent years creating potteries and ceramic objects of his own and for others: this is his practical, all-encompassing guide, complete with step-by-step illustrations. A brilliant introduction to making pottery by hand, this book introduces the reader at first to the philosophy and notions of design possessed by every good potter. When is making quality earthenware an art form, and when it is simple manufacture of a product? What distinguishes ordinary pottery from porcelain? The book delves into the materials and clay necessary, and the methods and distinctions in crafting. Important qualities such as the porosity and plasticity of clay, and the various kinds of clay useful for making quality earthenware, are discussed. We're also instructed how, and in what proportions, we should mix clay to achieve an ideal consistency for either earthenware or porcelain.

Welcome to the evolution of adult coloring! New York Times bestselling illustrator Marty Noble has added a new dimension to the coloring craze: mazes! Cut out some of the stress from your daily life in this fun and innovative new series as you color and navigate your way through the hidden twists and turns of these elaborate labyrinths. Created for the artist and inspired by art nouveau, Marty Noble's Mindful Mazes: Art Nouveau Animals features forty-four black-and-white illustrations of sinuous animal scenes for you to decorate and immerse in color. However, the true fun lies within: cleverly disguised in each of these beautiful outlines is a complex, underlying maze for colorists to solve, if they so choose. These intricate puzzles add another way to easily access and practice mindfulness, and diminish some of the anxiety in your life. This book includes an answer key for the mazes as well as perforated pages printed on one side so colorists can easily remove and display their masterpieces! So grab your colored pencils and a copy of Marty Noble's Mindful Mazes: Art Nouveau Animals and find the end of stress and the beginning of relaxation!

This title gives a clear, thorough and practical account of firing, but goes further and explains the techniques and ideas behind this magical stage of making. It highlights commonly-overlooked details that can lead to disastrous results and shares tips to help you achieve the best from your kiln. With over 100 photos, it also profiles leading makers and shows how their use of kilns contributes to their unique and beautiful work. Whether read from cover to cover by the novice or used as a reference book by the more experienced, this book will be your handbook to successful and confident firing.