Nora Heysen - Light and Life by HYLTON Jane
Category: Art
Nora Heysen grew up at The Cedars near the Adelaide Hills town of Hahndorf, and was deeply influenced by her father, Hans Heysen. Nora Heysen: Light and life explores a notable career spanning seven decades, during which the artist painted some of Australia's most outstanding self-portraits, became the ...Show more
Drawing the Head and Hands & Figure Drawing by Andrew Loomis
Category: Art | Series: Andrew Loomis Ser.
At last, Andrew Loomis's two definitive guides to anatomical drawing are available in one attractive and collectible box set. Revered among artists - including the great Norman Rockwell and comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of figure drawing and clean, realist style, Loomis's hugely influenti ...Show more
Art Class: Line and Colour: Doodling Your Way to Creativity by Bobby Clark
Category: Art | Series: Art Class Ser.
"Join artist Bobby Clark for a guided art class. No experience necessary. Discover 25 drawing and painting exercises from doodling, blind drawing and continuous line portraits to shape studies, abstract floral still lifes and blot painting. This is an introduction to materials and techniques including p ...Show more
A Year of Watercolour: A Seasonal Guide to Botanical Watercolour Painting by Harriet de Winton
Category: Art
Discover more than 35 new step-by-step watercolour projects from best-selling author and artist Harriet de Winton, centred around observations of nature through spring, summer, autumn and winter. A Year of Watercolour walks readers through the creation of beautiful and evocative watercolour scenes incl ...Show more
New Exuberance: Contemporary Australian textile design by Clare Press, Shannon Brett
Category: Art
Textile design today is a vibrant boundary-blurring creative field. By nature, it cross-pollinates. Moving through disciplines - graphic, furniture and product design, fashion and the visual arts - it manifests as surface patterning, material experimentation and transfiguration, storytelling and concept ...Show more
How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself by Nita Engle
Category: Art
Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolour shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step project ...Show more
500 Patterns by Jeffrey Mayer; Todd Conover; Lauren Tagliaferro
Category: Art
A comprehensive sourcebook of over 500 patterns across six design styles, a must-have for anyone involved in textiles and the decorative arts. Delicate florals, bold stripes, geometric prints and sumptuous brocades - delve into the world of textile pattern design with this showcase of over 500 patterns. ...Show more
Hiroshige and Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed. by Rhiannon Paget
Category: Art
The Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenan ...Show more
How to Draw Almost Everything Volume 2: An Illustrated Sourcebook by Unnamed
Category: Art | Series: Almost Everything Ser.
Whether you want to draw creatures, clothing, kites, or someone doing a handstand, How to Draw Almost Everything Volume 2 is the ultimate reference for anyone who loves to draw!
Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron
Category: Art
The essential Artist's Way programme on guiding ourselves back to creativity How can we tap into the wisdom inside ourselves? LIVING THE ARTIST'S WAY is a Six-Week Artist's Way Program that explores the fourth essential Artist's Way tool of guidance. Bestselling author Julia Cameron has inspired milli ...Show more
Ceramic Glazes: The Complete Handbook by Brian Taylor
Category: Art
A feast for the eyes, this inspiring gallery of beautiful and remarkable ceramic pieces includes work from a broad range of exceptional contemporary ceramic artists, each of whom offers an inside look at their glazing process, including their special recipes and the techniques for using them. The book i ...Show more
How to Draw Almost Every Day: An Illustrated Sourcebook by Chika Miyata; Kamo
Category: Art | Series: Almost Everything Ser.
The perfect book for budding artists, How to Draw Almost Every Day challenges and inspires you to draw one simple illustration each day of the year.Don't let your artistic aspirations come to an end before they start Everyone wants to draw stylish, evocative pictures, but but between busy schedules, no ...Show more