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Learn to paint outstanding fashion watercolors with expert guidance
from a leading fashion illustrator. Watercolor is a wonderful
medium for figure and fashion as it creates loose, impressionistic
results that capture the essence of a look without getting too
bogged down in the details. In this complete course, professional
fashion illustrator Francesco Lo Iacono shows you how to master
creating delicate, beautiful fashion illustrations. The book begins
with the best tools and materials, from paints and brushes to
pencils, paper and more. You'll then explore simple watercolor
techniques such as washes, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and using the
white of the paper. Francesco then goes on to teach you about
lighting and shading, which can have a dramatic effect on your
work. And finally in the front section, you'll learn about colour,
how to create palettes, how to mix colours and achieving a range of
skin tones. Once you've covered these fundamentals, Francesco
explores the key elements of illustrating fashion, with guidance on
how to approach both male and female faces, a wide variety of hair
types and styles, different male and female poses, and how to draw
and paint garments, reflecting tailoring, drapery, volume, texture
and patterns. Twenty step-by-step projects then take these building
blocks and show you how to use them to create beautiful fashion
watercolors, starting with easier subjects and building in
complexity as your confidence grows. You'll begin by painting
handbags and shoes without models before starting to introduce
figures. The range of subjects included covers all angles, from
full figures front on and in profile to close-up make-up and beauty
illustrations. You'll also learn how to create dynamic compositions
for editorial fashion illustration. Finally, Francesco covers the
best ways to digitize and retouch your work, how to incorporate
other media alongside your watercolors, how to work live at fashion
events and how to take everything you've learned to develop your
own personal style of fashion illustration. Francesco's clients
include fashion brands Dior, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton - and with
this book you'll have all the tools you need to become an A-list
fashion illustrator too.
North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear
weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian
allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has
struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un's
regime now appears to be close, however. Sung Chull Kim, Michael D.
Cohen, and the volume contributors contend that the time to prevent
North Korea from achieving this capability is virtually over;
scholars and policymakers must turn their attention to how to deter
a nuclear North Korea. The United States, South Korea, and Japan
must also come to terms with the fact that North Korea will be able
to deter them with its nuclear arsenal. How will the erratic Kim
Jong-un behave when North Korea develops the capability to hit
medium- and long-range targets with nuclear weapons? How will and
should the United States, South Korea, Japan, and China respond,
and what will this mean for regional stability in the short term
and long term? The international group of authors in this volume
address these questions and offer a timely analysis of the
consequences of an operational North Korean nuclear capability for
international security.
Challenging monolithic modern narratives about 'Chinese science',
Daniel Patrick Morgan examines the astral sciences in China c.221
BCE-750 CE as a study in the disunities of scientific cultures and
the narratives by which ancients and moderns alike have fought to
instil them with a sense of unity. The book focuses on four
unifying 'legends' recounted by contemporary subjects: the first
two, redolent of antiquity, are the 'observing of signs' and
'granting of seasons' by ancient sage kings; and the other two,
redolent of modernity, involve the pursuit of 'accuracy' and
historical 'accumulation' to this end. Juxtaposing legend with the
messy realities of practice, Morgan reveals how such narratives
were told, imagined, and re-imagined in response to evolving
tensions. He argues that, whether or not 'empiricism' and
'progress' are real, we must consider the real effects of such
narratives as believed in and acted upon in the history of
astronomy in China.
This book examines the role of medieval authors in writing the
history of ancient science. It features essays that explore the
content, structure, and ideas behind technical writings on medieval
Chinese state history. In particular, it looks at the Ten Treatises
of the current History of Sui, which provide insights into the
writing on the history of such fields as astronomy, astrology,
omenology, economics, law, geography, metrology, and library
science. Three treatises are known to have been written by Li
Chunfeng, one of the most important mathematicians, astronomers,
and astrologers in Chinese history. The book not only opens a new
window on the figure of Li Chunfeng by exploring what his writings
as a historian of science tell us about him as a scientist and vice
versa, it also discusses how and on what basis the individual
treatises were written. The essays address such themes as (1) the
recycling of sources and the question of reliability and
objectivity in premodern history-writing; (2) the tug of war
between conservatism and innovation; (3) the imposition of the
author's voice, worldview, and personal and professional history in
writing a history of a field of technical expertise in a state
history; (4) the degree to which modern historians are compelled to
speak to their own milieu and ideological beliefs.
North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear
weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian
allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has
struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un's
regime now appears to be close, however. Sung Chull Kim, Michael D.
Cohen, and the volume contributors contend that the time to prevent
North Korea from achieving this capability is virtually over;
scholars and policymakers must turn their attention to how to deter
a nuclear North Korea. The United States, South Korea, and Japan
must also come to terms with the fact that North Korea will be able
to deter them with its nuclear arsenal. How will the erratic Kim
Jong-un behave when North Korea develops the capability to hit
medium- and long-range targets with nuclear weapons? How will and
should the United States, South Korea, Japan, and China respond,
and what will this mean for regional stability in the short term
and long term? The international group of authors in this volume
address these questions and offer a timely analysis of the
consequences of an operational North Korean nuclear capability for
international security.
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Realms (Paperback)
Patrick Morgan
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R392
Discovery Miles 3 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Trinity (Paperback)
Patrick Morgan, David Kidger
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R347
Discovery Miles 3 470
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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A planet slowly rotates, one side perpetual sunlight the other
perpetual darkness. Between these two sides lies the Divide, and
the ancient city of Skala, the seat of humanity's high council.
Skala is slipping inexorably west from the divide into the harsh
desert of Hellinar and to its death. Over 1000km east, another city
is on the verge of its birth, created with the aid of two ancient
artificial intelligence cores. When one of the cores goes missing,
a series of revealing events triggers, hinting at something rotten,
and deeply linked to the founding of the new city. The loss of the
core can't be kept under wraps forever - soon a plan is put into
place - forcing the rapid completion of an advanced exploratory
vehicle that may be the only hope of a recovery. Trinity is a story
of family, forgotten history, advancing technology and a twisting
series of events. Follow a collection of rich characters on
interconnecting paths to re-discover the truth about their small,
isolationist civilisation - and something far bigger than any of
them could have imagined...
On October 18-20, 2001, the 16th Annual Conference of the Council
on U.S.-Korean Security Studies was held in Washington, DC. Created
in 1985 by retired generals Richard Stilwell of the United States
and Sun Yup Paik of the Republic of Korea, the Council's aim was to
initiate a conference that would bring together top scholars and
practitioners on the most important issues facing the two countries
and their important bilateral alliance. Since then, the Council has
successfully hosted an annual conference, alternating every other
year between meetings in Seoul and Washington. Although begun as an
idea with a relatively small scale, in 2001 the Council hosted one
of the largest meetings ever, bringing together over 50 presenters
and discussants and several hundred participants.
This book contains the compiled and edited poetry of Martha Ellen
(Handley) Moser including a biographical summary. The poems
describe pioneer life in the Oklahoma Panhandle over the time
period of 1900-1940 from a young woman's point-of-view.
Title: Annals of Woodside and Newhills: historical and
genealogical.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the
British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical
works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and
titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the
people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the
countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries,
Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Morgan,
Patrick; 1886. 278 p.; 8 . 10369.h.15.
In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the Fourth Iowa
Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few
uniforms or weapons and were more of a mob than a military unit,
but Dodge shaped them into a fighting force that won honors on the
battlefield and gained respect as one of the best regiments in the
Union Army. Promoted to the rank of Major-General, Dodge became one
of the youngest divisional, corps and departmental commanders in
the Army. A superb field general, he also organized a network of
more than 100 spies to gather military intelligence and built
railroads to supply the troops in the Western Theater. This book
covers Dodge's Civil War career and the history of the Fourth Iowa,
who fought at Pea Ridge, Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Atlanta.
Born on November 10, 1810, John Todd grew up in the rural area
surrounding Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The most formative experience
of his life was attending college in Oberlin, Ohio. A one-of-a-kind
educational institution, Oberlin College was fully integrated -
allowing men and women, black and white, to attend the same classes
- at a time when the entire country was in a racial upheaval. As a
result, Oberlin turned out a group of men and women almost devoid
of racial prejudice. It was from this pool of graduates that the
many of the founders of Tabor, Iowa, were drawn. They were
determined to found an Oberlin-like college in the westernmost
territory of the United States, so it was no surprise that this
group quickly became active in the Underground Railroad and other
abolitionist activities. This biography details the life of the
Reverend John Todd and presents the story of the Underground
Railroad Station in Tabor. With the life of Todd as a common
thread, the book explores how the station began and the noble
purposes behind its birth. From the beginning of Todd's career at
Oberlin College, the book follows him from an unsatisfying first
pastorate to the site of his life's work in Tabor, where he would
provide spiritual guidance and leadership, along with friend George
Gaston, for the settlement. With a singleness of purpose spurred on
by Todd and Gaston, the residents of Tabor joined in the
abolitionist movement through participation not only in the
Underground Railroad but in the Jim Lane Trail and Kansas Free
State Movement as well. Todd's service in the Union Army and
jubilation with the Federal victory are also discussed. Finally,
the work covers the postwar construction of the Tabor Literary
Institute, which was beset by financial and administrative
difficulties from the beginning. An appendix contains various
letters and documents pertaining to the Todd family, the
Underground Railroad and other abolitionist activities.
All along the mid-1800s Western frontier, the path of fugitive
slaves in the Underground Railroad was filled with danger. An
escapee who managed to avoid violence still was hard-pressed to
survive in a place of frequent drought and illness, where newly
settled sympathizers were often unable to give accurate
descriptions of the topography, climate, or food sources. This book
details the history and development of the Underground Railroad in
Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Topics
include lesser known escape routes into Mexico and the American
Indian nations, the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, and guerilla
warfare; escapees' use of steamboats along the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers; and the activities of John Brown, James
Montgomery, Dan Anthony, and others.
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