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Ink Nash Wanikshaash( my name is) Say'yepum Ah-toot-wy Stacey
Speedis. I am a 35 year- young Native woman here on the Yakama
Indian Reservation who has fallen over, or stumbled many times on
the rough trail of life. My book is an autiobiography that I have
started down in Sante Fe, New Mexico while I was attending the
Institute of American Indian Arts in 1996- 97. I am an artist of
many talents who is very traditional to our way of life. I am a
single mother of two wondreful children who I would do anything
for. My children look up to me as the strongest person in the world
who is passing on our culture which was passed down to me by my
elders. My family here on the Yakama reservation of the lower
Yakima valley of Washington, and our family on the Umatilla
Reservation know that I love them all very much.....except...
You'll have to read my book. Payu kw'axla(thank you), SASSpeedis
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Learn to draw the cutest kawaii pictures in easy-to-follow steps!
Kawaii is a Japanese term that means adorable or cute. In drawing,
it describes a simplified style with rounded shapes, representing
characters, animals, food, or any object that has a cute, childlike
look. In this fun and colourful book, young (and young-at-heart)
artists can unlock the secrets of kawaii drawing, from getting the
right proportions to creating personality with different facial
expressions and adding depth with layers of colour. Once you've
learned the basic tips of how to draw kawaii style, there are 80
step-by-step sequences showing you exactly how to draw a wide range
of cute pictures, starting with simple shapes and progressing to
add details and colours. At each step, the part to be traced is
indicated in blue. The part drawn in the previous step appears in
black, while dotted lines mean you have to erase these parts for
the final drawing. Each sequence is entirely visual, with no
complicated instructions to read, so it really is easy to create
your own kawaii drawings straight away. All you need is paper and
some pens! Split into 4 sweet sections, the tutorials cover food
and drink, cats and kittens, unicorns and other adorable animals,
and cute characters, with simple step-by-steps. This adorable
value-packed book will provide hours of fun, creativity and, of
course, cuteness!
Cinema in India is an entertainment medium that is interwoven into
society and culture at large. It is clearly evident that continuous
struggle and conflict at the personal as well as societal levels is
depicted in cinema in India. It has become a reflection of society
both in negative and positive ways. Hence, cinema has become an
influential factor and one of the largest mass communication
mediums in the nation. Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian
Cinema is an essential reference source that discusses cultural and
societal issues including caste, gender, oppression, and social
movements through cinema and particularly in specific language
cinema and culture. Featuring research on topics such as Bollywood,
film studies, and gender equality, this book is ideally designed
for researchers, academicians, film studies students, and industry
professionals seeking coverage on various aspects of regional
cinema in India.
This pocket-size drawing journal is packed with just as much
clever, creative fun as the original bestselling 642 Things to
Draw. All 642 drawing prompts inside invite doodlers to draw teeny
tiny things-from 'a keyhole' and 'a marble' to 'an atom' and 'your
house, from space.' Sure to keep creative folks inspired on the go,
or wherever the doodle bug strikes!
A step-by-step guide on how to create personal and contemporary
linocut prints. A linocut is a relief print created by carving a
design into a printing block. It is the uncut surface, not the
carved away areas, that gives you your image when you roll it with
ink, lay paper on top then apply pressure to produce a print. With
18 easy-to-follow projects that can be adapted to suit your own
ideas, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall guides you through the
whole process - from the drawing to the carving to the inking to
the printing - of creating your own beautiful prints and handmade
cards whether you are working from your kitchen table or a more
advanced studio set-up. By taking inspiration from everyday life,
Sam helps you to build your confidence with observational drawing.
Featuring step-by-step projects, the book demonstrates a range of
skills with low-cost materials to produce simple linocuts,
reduction linocuts and colourful multi-block prints. You will also
learn more experimental techniques such as combining monoprint,
chine colle, jigsaw linocuts and rainbow rolls and pick up handy
tips on subjects such as 'noise' and editioning your prints.
Beautifully illustrated with photographs of Sam's own drawings and
linocuts, and featuring the work of 5 talented printmakers, Linocut
is an essential guide to linocut printmaking. Packed with creative
and practical advice to guide and encourage you, whether you're
just starting out, returning to the craft or looking to expand your
printmaking skills.
This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new "20 Ways "series from
Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a
fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread
features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes-cat,
giraffe, seal, elephant, whale and much, much more-over 900
drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on" 20 Ways to
Draw a Cat."This is not a step-by-step technique book--rather, the
stylized animals are simplified, modernized, and reduced to the
most basic elements, showing you how simple abstract shapes and
forms meld to create the building blocks of any item that you want
to draw. Each of the 20 interpretations provides a different,
interesting approach to drawing a single item, providing loads of
inspiration for your own drawing. Presented in the author's
uniquely creative style, this engaging and motivational practice
book provides a new take on the world of sketching, doodling, and
designing.
This encouraging workbook for creating cool patterns is the
ultimate tool for artists and designers seeking a creative boost.
Inside are 50 playful exercises that prompt users to find
inspiration in their surroundings by spotting patterns and
sketching their own. At the back, 50 professional pattern designers
are profiled in galleries of their work and share insights from
their processes. The perfect place to brainstorm new ideas and have
some creative fun, Pattern Studio is chock-full of inspiration for
pro and aspiring designers, plus anyone who loves to draw.
Providing technical studies of 47 Italian Renaissance drawings,
this text covers topics such as methology, drawings in the
Renaissance workshop and dry drawing media.
Arthur Wesley Dow taught at major American arts training
institutions for 30 years including Teachers College, Columbia
University; the Art Students League of New York; Pratt Institute;
and his own Ipswich Summer School of Art. His ideas were quite
revolutionary for the period, he taught that rather than copying
nature, art should be created by elements of the composition, like
line, mass and color. He taught many of America's leading artists
and craftspeople, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles J. Martin,
two of the Overbeck Sisters and the Byrdcliffe Colony.
An instructive book that examines the practice of drawing for
illustration through case studies and sketchbooks, written by one
of the world's foremost experts and teachers on the subject. This
essential handbook explores the subject of drawing for illustration
in-depth, with an emphasis on drawing as a skill and fundamental
language that every illustrator should master. It aims to encourage
students through examples and case studies, by showcasing the
often-unseen world of draughtsmanship that underpins the finished
graphic. From book illustration to graphic novels, caricatures to
commercial design, it draws on contemporary sketchbooks, projects
and historical examples to make the connection between the practice
of drawing from observation and drawing from imagination. Martin
Salisbury sets out by explaining the fundamentals of this exciting
discipline, before outlining the basic principles of line, tone,
composition and colour through inspiring examples. Different
approaches to drawing including anecdotal, sequential and reportage
are examined, to enable students to acquire their own personal
visual language. Interviews with illustrators also provide
invaluable insight into the creative process, as they outline their
challenges and motivations, and what drawing personally means for
them. Packed with visual inspiration, this book features detailed
analysis of works by key illustrators from past and present
including George Cruikshank, Egon Schiele, Ronald Searle and Sheila
Robinson through to Laura Carlin, Alexis Deacon and Isabelle
Arsenault, looking at the differing roles drawing plays in their
particular illustrative languages and how styles have changed over
time.
The unique, dynamic learning system that has helped thousands of
artists enhance their figure drawing abilities Dozens of updated
illustrations and all-new content, exclusive to the 3rd edition
Select pages can be scanned by your smartphone or other device to
pull up bonus video content, enhancing the learning process
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Lives of Leonardo
(Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Matteo Bandello, Paolo Giovio, Sabba Castiglione; Edited by Charles Robertson
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For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessential
Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter,
architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor, anatomist,
geometer, naturalist, poet and musician. His Last Supper in Milan
has been called the greatest painting in Western art. Illegitimate,
left-handed and homosexual, Leonardo never made a straightforward
career. But from his earliest apprenticeship with the Florentine
painter and sculptor Andrea Verrochio, his astonishing gifts were
recognised. His life led him from Florence to militaristic Milan
and back, to Rome and eventually to France, where he died in the
arms of the King, Francis I. As one of the greatest exponents of
painting of his time, Leonardo was celebrated by his fellow
Florentine Vasari (who was nevertheless responsible for covering
over the great fresco of the Battle of Anghiari with his own
painting). Vasari's carefully researched life of Leonardo remains
one of the main sources of our knowledge, and is printed here
together with the three other early biographies, and the major
account by his French editor Du Fresne. Personal reminiscences by
the novelist Bandello, and humanist Saba di Castiglione, round out
the picture, and for the first time the extremely revealing
imagined dialogue between Leonardo and the Greek sculptor Phidias,
by the painter and theorist Lomazzo, is published in English. An
introduction by the scholar Charles Robertson places these writings
and the career of Leonardo in context. Approximately 50 pages of
colour illustrations, including the major paintings and many of the
astonishing drawings, give a rich overview of Leonardo's work and
mind.
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