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Creative Haven Sea Life Dot-To-Dot Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Arkady Roytman (Author)Each of these 30 complex puzzles offers the challenge of connecting hundreds of dots to reveal surprising pictures of common and exotic sea creatures. Color the finished puzzles for even more fun Images include a clown fish, sea turtle, hermit crab, moray eel, dolphin, hammerhead shark, and more. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Sea Life Dot-to-Dot and other Creative Haven(R...

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Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering: A Visual Guide to Contemporary Styles and Designs - Hardcover

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by Bj Betts (Author), Nicholas Schonberger (Author)Covering the history and context of tattoo design, as well as offering a comprehensive instruction in hand lettering, this guide is packed with enough detail to fascinate anyone interested in tattoo design.Learn to recreate all of the most widely used techniques--from embellishing West Coast letter forms to mastering calligraphic style--with guidance from one of today's most influential tattoo artists. Each chapter also includes an account of...

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Elegant Art Nouveau Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Ted Menten (Author)Exotic flowers in full blossom, peacock feathers, dragonflies, and other floral and animal motifs take on the sinuous beauty associated with Art Nouveau in this stylish coloring book. The full-page illustrations, 63 in all, are based on classic designs of the period. Illustrations are printed on one side of the perforated pages for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Elegant Art Nouveau and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books ...

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by Arthur L. Guptill (Author)Tailored to both beginner- and intermediate-level illustrators, this highly enjoyable guide and reference was written by Arthur L. Guptill, co-founder of Watson-Guptill Publications and one of the leading art instruction authors of the twentieth century. Filled with tips, methods, and techniques on outlining, shading, stippling, portraiture, and much more, this fully illustrated introduction will help readers develop their drawing and sketching skills according to...

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An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols - Paperback

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by J. C. Cooper (Author)With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and the Great Goddess, the Pre-Columbian religions of the Western Hemisphere and the Voodoo cults of Brazil and West Africa. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.56...

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Creative Haven Deluxe Edition Animal Woodcut Designs Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Tim Foley (Author)These intricately detailed illustrations -- set against rich, dark backgrounds -- recapture the natural beauty of wild and domestic animals in the classic style of woodcut illustrations. Sixty-three stunning images to color include a giraffe, orangutan, leopard, swan, toucan, dog, pig, and many other realistically rendered creatures. Illustrations are printed on one side of perforated pages for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Wildli...

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A Year of Stone Painting: 52 Mandala Designs to Inspire Your Spirit - Paperback

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by F. Sehnaz Bac (Author)You can craft a new mandala every week for one year with this full-color guide by the author of the bestselling The Art of Stone Painting. F. Sehnaz Bac, an artist and seasoned archaeologist, presents step-by-step instructions for fifty-two projects. Her easy-to-follow guide will show you how to transform ordinary stones into inspirational works of art. The mandala -- derived from the Sanskrit word for "circle" -- represents the universe, and the symbol has long been...

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by Rene Beauclair (Editor)At the turn of the twentieth century, the Art Nouveau movement swept the world of decorative arts toward an excitingly modern direction. Inspired by both organic and geometric forms, the new trend abandoned historical styles in favor of flowing, natural forms accented by angular contours. Art Nouveau's curves and floral and animal motifs were particularly suited to adaptations in precious stones and rare metals. The elegant, royalty-free illustrations of this collect...

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by E. a. Seguy (Author)The career of E. A. Seguy spanned both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, and he was one of the few graphic artists to incorporate both styles into his work. Original portfolios of his magnificent designs -- intended as inspiration for textiles, wallpaper, and other decorative items -- are highly collectible today. These 40 full-color plates, most of them geometric patterns, are derived from one of Seguy's final portfolios. They attest to the French artist's inventiv...

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Creative Haven Deluxe Edition Celtic Nature Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Cari Buziak (Author)Flowers, leaves, seashells, birds, butterflies, and other natural ornaments offer fanciful complements to these original designs based on Celtic knotwork. Colorists will appreciate the many-faceted appeal of the 63 intricate images and their swirling, stylized patterns. Illustrations are printed on perforated pages for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Celtic Nature Designs and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an e...

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by Anders Zorn (Author), James Gurney (Foreword by)The painters' painter, Anders Zorn (1860-1920) studied at the Stockholm Royal Academy of Art and took up residence in London and Paris, where he established an international roster of high-society clients. His striking portraits rivaled those of his contemporary John Singer Sargent in their popularity. Zorn excelled at both watercolor and oil painting, and his etchings are of the highest quality. Uninhibited by the limitations of the medium, ...

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Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures - Paperback

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by Mark Nelson (Author)When artists and designers explore or create a fictional setting, the milieu must be completely fleshed out, explained, and designed. In this book, comic and gaming art veteran Mark A. Nelson explores and demonstrates his methods for fashioning visually stunning, believable environments for fantasy creatures and characters. Scores of images and step-by-step examples illustrate how variation and experimentation lead to fresh, original designs for otherworldly beings, the...

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William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books - Paperback

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by William Blake (Author), David Bindman (Introduction by)In his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology, and his methods of conveying it were integral to its meaning. There is no comparison with reading books such as Jerusalem, Americ...

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The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art - Paperback

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by David Lewis-Williams (Author)Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira, visitors are confronted with symbols, patterns, and depictions of bison, woolly mammoths, ibexes, and other animals. Since its discovery, cave art has provoked great curiosity about why it appeared when and where it did, how it was made, and what it meant to the communities that created it. David Lewis-Williams proposes that the explanation for this ...

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Bliss Flowers Coloring Book: Your Passport to Calm - Paperback

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by Lindsey Boylan (Author), Jessica Mazurkiewicz (Author)Take a coloring break anywhere with this traveling garden. Adult colorists can retreat into lovely fantasy gardens that will provide a relaxing escape from the pressures of everyday life. Blooming with more than 40 intricately rendered, sophisticated floral designs of roses, poppies, sunflowers, water lilies, and other beautiful blossoms, this compact companion (5 x 7) is perfect for artists on the go.Author BiographyHaving grown up in ...

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by David Hockney (Author)"From September 1993, I painted and drew my dogs. This took a certain amount of planning, since dogs are generally not interested in Art (I say generally only because I have now come across a singing dog). Food and love dominate their lives. I make no apologies for the apparent subject matter. These two dear little creatures are my friends. They are intelligent, loving, comical, and often bored. They watch me work; I notice the warm shapes they make together, their sa...

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Pen Drawing: An Illustrated Treatise - Paperback

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by Charles D. Maginnis (Author)Style, materials, techniques, and values are the focus of this richly illustrated guide to pen drawing. In addition to proposing solutions for practical problems, the book offers advice on architectural and decorative drawing. More than 70 drawings by assorted artists range from tranquil churchyards and bustling city streets to striking posters. Many of the images are derived from The Century Magazine, Harper's Magazine, The Architectural Review, and other illu...

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by David Hockney (Author)A stunning, lively volume charting almost fifty years of an extraordinary artist's creativity across a range of media, Hockney's Pictures is the definitive retrospective of one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century.The pieces are selected and organized thematically by David Hockney himself, tracking his lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. Including more than 300 illustrations, accompanied by quotes from the artist that illuminate the ...

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Paint with the Impressionists: A Step-By-Step Guide to Their Methods and Materials for Today's Artists - Paperback

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by Jonathan Stephenson (Author)In this approach to impressionism and its methods, the author's instruction enables amateur artists to paint like the impressionists. Paint with the Impressionists is illustrated with well-known works of art, and shows how the masters achieved their effects and how their ideas and styles can be adapted today.An introduction provides historical background to impressionism, and a section is included on artists' materials available then and now. Demonstrations show...

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by J. L. Locher (Author)M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is renowned for his ability to render the visions of his mind's eye. The visions themselves were remarkable: for Escher, the skin of the visible world was nothing more than a piece of cloth that could be cut, folded, shaped, and rearranged in marvelous ways. A superb draftsman, he portrayed these other-worldly transformations of space within the familiar borders of a sheet of paper. The resulting images have become the favorite artworks of viewe...

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Making It Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now - Hardcover

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by Linda Nochlin (Author), Aruna D'Souza (Editor)This illustrated collection of essays brings together some of art historian Linda Nochlin's most important writings on modernism and modernity from across her six-decade career. Before the publication of her seminal essay on feminism in art, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?," she had already firmly established herself as a major practitioner of a politically sophisticated and class-conscious social art history. Nochlin was part of a...

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Graffiti School: A Student Guide and Teacher's Manual - Paperback

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by Christoph Ganter (Author)Although the public perception of graffiti has changed radically over the last fifty years, few would have predicted that it would become the subject of this major new textbook.Christoph Ganter covers the history of informal mark-making in the public realm, from the first unauthorized characters inscribed on the ancient walls of Egypt and Pompeii to nineteenth-century Vienna, where Joseph Kyselak established himself as the father of graffiti; from New York's "Taki ...

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How to Write about Contemporary Art - Paperback

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by Gilda Williams (Author)How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style and content, from the aims and structure of a piece to its tone and language. Brimming with practical tips that range across the complete spectrum of art-writing, the second part of the book is organized around its specific...

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Studio Handbook: Lettering & Design: New Enlarged Edition - Paperback

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by Samuel Welo (Author)This beautifully designed little book reflects the elegance of the Art Deco period and will prove a useful and entertaining resource for modern typographers and graphic artists. In addition to demonstrating the appeal and effectiveness of great lettering, it abounds in material that designers can adapt -- borders, ribbons, dingbats, rules, and more. Like the 1931 first edition, it is printed in two colors and graced with a decorative Flexibound binding.Author BiographyS...

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Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3-D Animation - Paperback

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by Peter Lord (Author), Brian Sibley (Author), Nick Park (Foreword by)From the creators of the wildly successful Wallace and Gromit films and Chicken Run, here is a practical guide to making your own 3-D (or stop-action) animation, a practice whose robust presence in contemporary filmmaking continues strong. At the heart of the book is a guide to the process of 3-D animation today: a practical, fully illustrated, step-by-step description of how to create effective characters, a storyboard and...

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by Henry Chalfant (Author), Martha Cooper (Author)In 1984 the groundbreaking Subway Art brought graffiti to the world, presenting stunning photographic documentation of the burgeoning movement in New York. Thirty years later, this bible of street art has been updated with over seventy photographs not included in the original edition and new insights on an incredibly rich period for urban art and its legacy. In new introductions, authors Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant recall how they gained ...

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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent - Paperback

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by John Gillow (Author)The traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles covers, as no other volume has, the handmade textiles of West, North, East, Central, and Southern Africa, outlining the range of weaving techniques, and the different types of looms, materials, and dyes that create these sumptuous works. Nor does it neglect the cultural context of African textiles, assessing the various influ...

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by Eric Broug (Author)Building on the concept of a traditional coloring book, the Islamic Design Workbook opens up the world of intricate Islamic patterns, allowing designers and doodlers alike to learn about these works of art as they produce their own. With forty-eight Islamic geometric compositions from around the world to choose from, artists at all skill levels will relish the myriad opportunities to replicate these intricate patterns, or create their own. The workbook's clever design in...

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by Ken Hultgren (Author)This classic guide by a master animator and cartoonist -- and long time Disney artist -- is now available for the first time since its original publication in 1946. Author Ken Hultgren instructs by example in a guide that's suitable for beginners and advanced students alike.The comprehensive range of instruction covers features and expressions, animals, foreshortening, perspective, lettering, caricature, animation, and various other aspects of cartooning. All subjects ...

Creative Haven an Old-Fashioned Christmas Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Ted Menten (Author)Rediscover the nostalgic charm of the most festive of holidays with these 31 traditional designs. Adult colorists can celebrate the Christmas season all year long with vintage scenes of bustling shoppers, carolers, candy canes, and, of course, jolly St. Nick. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, An Old-Fashioned Christmas and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an esca...

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A Coloring Book, Drawings by Andy Warhol - Paperback

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by Andy Warhol (Author), Teddy Edelman (Foreword by), Arthur Edelman (Foreword by)It was 1953 when, not long after arriving in New York City, a young artist named Andy Warhol had begun to make his way in the world of commercial illustration. As Arthur Edelman, his former employer, relates in his introductory note, "In a hallway of the Empire State Building, outside a shoe manufacturer's office, stood a young man with Jackson Pollock shoes, a rumpled black suit, a portfolio, and a shock of whi...

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Art Alphabets, Monograms, and Lettering - Paperback

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by J. M. Bergling (Author), James Gurney (Foreword by)Chicago-based jewelry engraver J. M. Bergling (1866-1933) created thousands of letter styles, signets, monograms, and ciphers. A noted author on the subjects of lettering and heraldic design, Bergling created books that became standard references of his era. He assembled his first book, Art Monograms and Letters, with the hopes of inspiring other etchers, engravers, sign painters, and artisans. This volume contains selected illustrations f...