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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night: The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850 - Paperback

$46.57

by John Michael Cooper (Author)The first in-depth study of Mendelssohn's two settings of Goethe's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, in the context of scenes from Goethe's Faust and other works. This paperback edition of Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night addresses tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that centered...

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Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art - Paperback

$7.95

by J. H. Shapiro (Author), Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)"An inspiring, exciting introduction to avant-garde art and social commentary, this biography convinces young readers that art can exist, thrive and effect change outside in the real world. " --Kirkus Reviews This uplifting picture book biography about community-based Detroit artist Tyree Guyton introduces the use of recycled items in art and how one person can make a big difference in the lives of young people. Tyree Guyton, an ...

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Classic Fairy Tales Vol 1: Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by Scott Gustafson (Author)Chesley Award Winner A lavishly illustrated, enchanting collection of 10 of the best-loved fairy tales, chosen and edited by the artist, who spent more than four years creating the seventy-five oil paintings, reproduced here in full color. Belongs on every child's bookshelf. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.6 x 11.9 x 10.7 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 15, 2003

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Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces - Paperback

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by Carrie Stuart Parks (Author)Draw amazingly accurate portraits starting today Even if you're an absolute beginner, you can render strikingly realistic faces and self-portraits Instructor and FBI-trained artist Carrie Stuart Parks makes it simple with foolproof step-by-step instructions that are fun and easy to follow. You'll quickly begin to: - Master proportions and map facial features accurately - Study shapes within a composition and draw them realistically - Use value, light and shad...

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Drawing People: How to Portray the Clothed Figure - Hardcover

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by Barbara Bradley (Author)Draw Natural and Believable Clothed Figures In Drawing People, award-winning illustrator and instructor Barbara Bradley provides all the information you need to render clothed human figures with energy, detail and control. Bradley begins by teaching the basics of any drawing, including proportion, perspective and value. Next, you'll learn how to overcome the special challenges posed by clothing, including fabric folds and draping effects. Bradley illustrates how the...

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In the Garden of My Dreams: The Art of Nathalie Lété - Hardcover

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by Nathalie Lété (Author), John Derian (Foreword by)Named a Best Gift Book by InStyle Nathalie L t is the rare artist whose work is so distinctive and widely appealing that she has become a global brand, having garnered a cultlike following for her unique pop- and folk-art aesthetic. L t 's iconic work has been immortalized by companies around the world that clamor for her products and seek her out for collaborations: Anthropologie has been selling her housewares for over a decade; she has ...

Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color - Paperback

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by Kevin MacPherson (Author)These pages practically glow with Kevin Macpherson's rich and powerful paintings He shares his techniques for quickly capturing the mood of a scene in bold, direct brushstrokes, with step-by-step instructions that make it easy--simply a matter of painting the colors you see. Follow his lead and you too, can create landscapes and still lives in a vibrant, impressionistic style. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.5 x 10.9 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: ...

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by Jessica Neon Dragon Peffer (Author)How to Draw a Dragon: "Cautiously approach the dragon, offer it a piece of candy or a little sister, and draw while it happily munches away." From the artist behind the wildly popular NeonDragonArt.com, DragonArt will help you create mythical beasts that awe, delight, and disturb the sweet dreams of little ones. Armed only with your trusty pencil and ink pen, you will begin your artistic quest by conquering a super-easy dragon that even the densest of wy...

Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor - Paperback

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by Claudia Nice (Author)Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, color--a mixture of mediums and techniques--to suggest: - glass - cast iron - adobe and brick - sunrise and sunset - driftwood - leaf textures - basketry - surf and ocean waves - enamelware - rainbows - wo...

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The Artist's Guide to Drawing Realistic Animals - Paperback

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by Doug Lindstrand (Author)Breathe Life into Your Animal Drawings Wildlife artist Doug Lindstrand has spent 30+ years observing animals in nature and capturing them on paper. In this book, he distills his expertise into key lessons for drawing any animal in a charming, realistic style. Inside, a whole herd of step-by-step exercises and demonstrations (43, to be exact ) cover a broad range of subjects and challenges, including how to draw: - Short, long and patterned fur - Mouths, eyes, ears ...

Drawing for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Drawing - Paperback

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by Mark Willenbrink (Author), Mary Willenbrink (Author)This inspiring book makes drawing in a realistic style easier than you may think and more fun than you ever imagined. Authors Mark and Mary Willenbrink (Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner) cover it all--from choosing materials and the correct way to hold your pencil, to expert advice on the tricky stuff, like getting proportions and perspective right, drawing reflections, and designing strong compositions. (It's not as scary as it sound...

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Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks and Techniques for Working with the World's Most Versatile Medium - Spiral

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by Nancy Reyner (Author)Liberate Your Creativity with Acrylic Paints Acrylic Revolution is your essential, all-in-one guide for acrylic painting techniques and more. It features over 101 ways to break through the boundaries of conventional painting and re-define the creative potential of this all-purpose medium. Every page provides insight on how to use acrylic paint in ways you never thought possible to create stunning visual effects and textures. Ten complete sections detail a range of emp...

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The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium - Paperback

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by Phil Metzger (Author)Everything you need to know to put your drawings and paintings into perspective If the concept of perspective makes you think of confusing angles, fancy measuring gadgets and complicated theories, get ready for a very pleasant surprise. In this comprehensive guide, Phil Metzger demystifies perspective, presenting it simply as a matter of mimicking the way we see--like the way a distant mountain appears blue, or a road seems to narrow in the distance. The Art of Perspe...

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by Scott Gustafson (Author)Moonbeam Award Winner Once upon a time, artist Scott Gustafson set out to illustrate classic stories, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Decades later, his immediately recognizable paintings have made bestsellers of Peter Pan, The Night Before Christmas, Classic Fairy Tales, and Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose. Now he gives us Classic Bedtime Stories, a lavishly illustrated, oversized collection of some of his favorite tales. Stories such as "Sleeping Beau...

Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting - Hardcover

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by Ian Roberts (Author)Create Better Compositions by Design The path to better painting begins with Mastering Composition. This effective guide blends clear, visual instruction with 5 step-by-step demonstrations to show you how to plan and paint your best work yet. Composition is the key, and here you'll learn to design paintings with new skill and confidence. It all begins with the armature or structure of the picture plane. Every great painting has one, and you'll see through several famous...

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by Rocio Bonilla (Author), Rocio Bonilla (Illustrator)A sweet and heartwarming story centered around one simple question. Sassy and intrepid Monica loves to paint with a rainbow of colors. One day she wonders, "What color is a kiss?" She paints items and animals she knows in every color she can think of, hoping to discover the answer. Monica sees her world in every color of the rainbow, but this question nags at her. She paints and paints, hoping to discover the answer. Charming text and vibr...

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by Cathryn Falwell (Author), Cathryn Falwell (Illustrator)Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of EducationA shy young African American boy makes friends in school by letting his classmates help with his drawing of a bare winter tree.One winter day David sees a beautiful bare tree. As soon as he gets to school, this shy young boy who loves to draw begins a beautiful picture of the tree he has seen. One by one his classmates ...

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The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art - Paperback

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by Eileen Myles (Author)A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bj rk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape CodPoet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city--wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La ...

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by Chris Kraus (Author)Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In four interlinked essays, Kraus expands the argument begun in her earlier book Video Green that "the art world is interesting only insofar as it reflects the larger wor...

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Basic Human Anatomy: An Essential Visual Guide for Artists - Hardcover

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by Roberto Osti (Author), Peter Drake (Foreword by)Basic Human Anatomy teaches artists the simple yet powerful formula artists have used for centuries to draw the human figure from the inside out. A comprehensive, yet flexible and holistic approach, Roberto Osti's method of teaching anatomy is exhaustive, but never loses sight of the fact that this understanding should lead to the creation of art.A comprehensive, yet flexible and holistic approach to the human body for artists, Roberto Osti's...

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Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois - Hardcover

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by Robert Storr (Author)A must-have for the core contemporary art audience: Robert Storr's singular and long-awaited book is unprecedented in treating the full range of Louise Bourgeois's artistic achievement.In a career spanning nearly 75 years, Louise Bourgeois created a vast body of work that enriched the formal language of modern art while it expressed her intense inner struggles with unprecedented candor and unpredictable invention. Her solo 1982 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art...

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The Art of Plein Air Painting: An Essential Guide to Materials, Concepts, and Techniques for Painting Outdoors - Paperback

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by M. Stephen Doherty (Author)There is a growing interest in outdoor painting because it allows people to combine their interest in art with general outdoor activities; it connects them with social groups of artists; it involves them in an expanding market of festivals and exhibitions; and it can easily fit into a busy routine with only a few hours' commitment per week.Spring is the perfect time to go outside and experience the wonders of nature through painting, even if social distancing. Pl...

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How to Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias: Create the Futuristic Humans, Aliens, Robots, Vehicles, and Cities of Your Dreams and Nightmares - Paperback

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by Prentis Rollins (Author)DC artist Prentis Rollins shows readers how to conceptualize, draw, colorize, and digitally enhance and finish dozens of sci-fi characters, settings, and scenarios with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to the entire process.A DC Comics illustrator shows readers how to conceptualize, draw, and digitally enhance their own science fictional worlds - whether for graphic novels, comics, movies, or video games. Sci-fi imagery commands today's popular culture, from S...

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How to Draw Dogs and Puppies: A Complete Guide for Beginners - Paperback

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by J. C. Amberlyn (Author)How to Draw Dogs and Puppies is a step-by-step guide to drawing over 100 different breeds of dogs in pencil and pen-and-ink. Best-selling author J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of dogs with her beautiful, detailed drawing style. The book includes 40 easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for drawing a wide range of dogs.Art and dogs come together in this richly illustrated, in-depth guide to creating charming portraits of dogs big and small. How to Draw Dogs and P...

Beginning Drawing Atelier: An Instructional Sketchbook - Hardcover

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by Juliette Aristides (Author)Written by a well-known artist and best-selling art-instruction author with almost rock-star popularity in the contemporary world of representational art, Beginning Drawing Atelier, with its unique workbook/sketchbook approach, and high-quality paper, offers a comprehensive and contemporary twist on traditional Atelier art instruction practices.Atelier education is centered on the belief that working in a studio, not sitting in the lecture hall, is the best place...

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Everyday Sketching and Drawing: Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit - Paperback

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by Steven B. Reddy (Author), Gary Faigin (Foreword by), Stephanie Bower (Afterword by)Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers an easy-to-follow, 5-step formula, which teaches beginner-friendly techniques for learning the skills necessary to make drawing and sketching an everyday habit.For those who have always wanted to or tried and failed to learn to draw it provides simple step-by-step instruction, plus easy-to-follow practice exercises, and provides the motivation and inspiration readers nee...

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Figure Drawing Atelier: An Instructional Sketchbook - Hardcover

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by Juliette Aristides (Author)"The best way to learn about art is to make it. Discover the secrets of great figure drawing as you sketch along with past and present masters. This working artist's sketchbook guides you from beginning gestures to delicate rendering. It's your art, your tradition, your time. Take your voice and add it to the tradition as if the history of art has saved the best for now."Juliette Aristides Figure Drawing Atelier offers a comprehensive, contemporary twist to the v...

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The Art of Still Life: A Contemporary Guide to Classical Techniques, Composition, and Painting in Oil - Hardcover

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by Todd M. Casey (Author)A must-have reference book for today's artists and art students. Every artist needs to learn and master the still life.Written by a well-known artist and expert instructor, The Art of Still Life offers a comprehensive, contemporary approach to the subject that instructs artists on the foundation basics and advanced techniques they need for successful drawing and painting.In addition to Casey's stunning paintings, the work of over fifty past and present masters is incl...

West-E/Praxis II Visual Arts Sample Test 0133 - Paperback

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by Sharon A. Wynne (Author)Includes competencies/skills found on the WEST-E/PRAXIS II Visual Arts test and 112 sample-test questions. This guide, aligned specifically to standards prescribed by the Educational Testing Service, covers the sub-areas of Traditions of Art, Architecture, Design, and the Making of Artifacts; Art Criticism and Aesthetics; and The Making of Art. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.23 x 11.04 x 8.36 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2006

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Paperback

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by Betty Edwards (Author)A revised edition of the classic bestselling how to draw book. A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers and artists to come. Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, t...

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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Hardcover

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by Betty Edwards (Author)P> The ideal gift for any artist on your list-or a keepsake item of your own A revised edition of the classic drawing book that has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the United States alone.Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confide...

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Why Is Blue Dog Blue?: A Tale of Colors - Hardcover

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by George Rodrigue (Author), Bruce Goldstone (Author)Paintings of Blue Dog in many different colors, including salmon, cherry, and moss green, explain why Blue Dog had to be blue. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.5 x 10.1 x 9.1 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 01, 2002