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by Philip Graham Ryken (Author)What does God say about the arts? Can you be a Christian and an artist? How do the arts impact your church? The creation sings to us with the visual beauty of God's handiwork. But what of man-made art? Much of it is devoid of sacred beauty and is often rejected by Christians. Christian artists struggle to find acceptance within the church. If all of life is to be viewed as "under the lordship of Christ," can we rediscover what God's plan is for the arts? Philip ...
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by Patricia MacLachlan (Author), Hadley Hooper (Illustrator)If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper. A Neal Porter BookAuthor Biography...
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by Alex Grey (Author), Allyson Grey (With)How Alex Grey's visionary art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness - Includes over 200 reproductions of Grey's artwork - Contains spectacular photos of Grey's collaboration with the cult band TOOL plus his worldwide live-painting performances - Offers Grey's reflections on how art evolves consciousness with a new symbology of the Networked Self - Winner of the 2013 Nautilus Silver Book Award in Photography and Art Reveali...
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by Timothy Brook (Author)In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global. A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us,...
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by Joseph Roesch (Author)This lavishly illustrated, large-format, hardcover edition by Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions, and should serve as a reminder to answer Our Lady's call as it captures the mysterious beauty of this tiny village in Portugal. With over 70 full color and black & white stunning images, this is a wonderful keepsake to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Fatima for a lifetime.Front JacketOne hundred years ago, three y...
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by John Muir Laws (Author)John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves.Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine, and drawing becomes the vehicle for seeing. As Laws writes, "To draw feathers, you must understand how feathers grow, overlap, and insert into the body. To create the body, you must have an understanding of the bird's ske...
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by Jean Picker Firstenberg (Author), James Hindman (Author), Patty Jenkins (Preface by)For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America's great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals as Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Gregory Peck, Meryl Streep, Les Moonves, Patty Jenkins, David Lynch, Jane Fonda, Edward James Olmos, Shonda Rhimes, James L. Brooks, Michael Nesmith, Sir Howard Stringer, and ...
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by Robyn Chachula (Author)Unexpected Afghans presents 29 innovative interpretations of a favorite at-home essential. From best-selling author Robyn Chachula comes an in-depth look into crocheting traditional afghans using contemporary techniques, colors and patterns. Expert designers including Kristin Omdahl, Kathy Merrick, Kimberly McAlindin, and many more, provide an abundance of fresh patterns and projects that are perfect for new and advanced crocheters as they start out beginner-friendly...
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by William P. Baldwin (Editor)Hidden initials, lotuses and lyres. These motifs--and many more--can be found in the ironwork gates, balconies and fences that grace the city of Charleston.Charleston writer and photographer William P. Baldwin presents the city's ironwork creations with an artist's attention to detail, pointing out the oldest balcony on BroadStreet, the blossom and peacock scrolls of city hall and many more hidden treasures waiting to be found on a casualstroll through the street...
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by Jessica Abel (Author), Matt Madden (Author)A gold mine of essential information for every aspiring comics artist. Highly recommended. --Scott McCloud Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is a course on comic creation - for college classes or for independent study - that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered - each complete with homework, extra credit activities and supplem...
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by Tom Killion (Author), Gary Snyder (With)Gold Medal Winner, California Book AwardsWinner, NCIBA Book of the Year AwardWinner, Northern California Book Reviewers Recognition AwardA show-stopping collaboration between artist Tom Killion & poet Gary Snyder with writings by Robinson Jeffers, Robert Hass, Jaime de Angulo, and more.Previously published as California's Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History, this volume captures the beauty of the California coast from Mendocino, P...
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by James Sturm (Author), Andrew Arnold (Author), Alexis Frederick-Frost (Author)In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how - well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon, near-death by drowning, and into her very own adventure Like the princess, young readers will discover that they alread...
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by Yuyi Morales (Author), Tim O'Meara (Photographer)A 2015 Caldecott Honor BookA 2015 Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award Distinguished author/illustrator Yuyi Morales illuminates Frida's life and work in this elegant and fascinating book, Viva Frida. Frida Kahlo, one of the world's most famous and unusual artists is revered around the world. Her life was filled with laughter, love, and tragedy, all of which influenced what she painted on her canvases. A Neal Porter BookAuthor BiographyYuyi Moral...
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by Jessica Abel (Author), Matt Madden (Author)A new course of material to accompany First Second's widely acclaimed 2008 comics textbook. In their hotly anticipated follow-up to 2008's comics textbook Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, School of Visual Arts cartooning professors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel bring their expertise to bear on the second semester of a course of study for the budding cartoonist. Covering advanced topics such as story composition, coloring, and file formatting, ...
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by Marc Harshman (Author), Leuyen Pham (Illustrator), Anna Egan Smucker (Author)In Bear Run, Pennsylvania, a home unlike any other perches atop a waterfall. The water's tune plays differently in each of its sunlight-dappled rooms; the structure itself blends effortlessly into the rock and forest behind it. This is Fallingwater, a masterpiece equally informed by meticulous research and unbounded imagination, designed by the lauded American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. This book guides young r...
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by Joel Meyerowitz (Photographer)Aimed at children between the ages of eight and twelve, Seeing Things is a wonderful introduction to photography that asks how photographers transform ordinary things into meaningful moments. In this book, acclaimed and beloved photographer Joel Meyerowitz takes readers on a journey through the power and magic of photography: its abilities to freeze time, tell a story, combine several layers into one frame and record life's fleeting and beautiful moments. The...
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by Alice Proujansky (Author)Go Photo features 25 hands-on and creative activities inspired by photography. Aimed at children between eight and twelve years old, this playful and fun collection of projects encourages young readers to experiment with their imaginations, get messy with materials and engage with the world in new and exciting ways. Indoors or outdoors, from a half-hour to a whole day, and whether alone or with friends, family or an unsuspecting pet, there is a photo activity for ...
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by Hank Willis Thomas (Photographer), Julia Dolan (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Sara Krajewski (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal presents a survey of the artist's prolific and extraordinary interdisciplinary career, incorporating all aspects of his art, with a particular focus on the work's relationship to the photographic image and to issues of representation and perception. At the core of his practice, is his ability to parse and critically dissect the flo...
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by Maya Green (Author)"Painting is my passion. Painting is as natural for me as breathing. Having been attached to painting since childhood, I felt that the necessity to paint grows bigger year after year. I respond creatively to everything that surrounds me." This collection of original paintings by Maya Green displays her deep passion for color. Key in the works is her use of a palette knife, which allows her to apply pure color, delicate lines and perhaps most importantly, to express energ...
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by Robert M. Edsel (Author), Bret Witter (With) At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others,...
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by Adam Gamble (Author), Mark Jasper (Author), Cooper Kelly (Illustrator)Good Night Museum explores art museums, children's museums, natural history museum, science museums, history museums, aerospace museums, auto museums, firefighter museums nautical museums, wax museums, and more. Welcome to the museum This educational and enriching board book takes children on a grand tour of world-class museums. Young readers will discover everything from ancient creatures to sculptures and insects. Thi...
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by Kythera of Anevern (Author)Drawing fire-breathing beasts and mysterious, magical creatures has never been so much fun--or so easy In this 64-page how-to-draw book, fantasy artist Kythera of Anevern demonstrates how to draw dragons, fairies, ogres, merfolk, and everything in between Readers will discover in-depth tips and techniques for drawing textures such as fur, hair, scales, and teeth, as well as features like tails, wings, talons, hooves, and horns. After an introduction to the ba...
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by William F. Powell (Author)Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes features master mixes for an array of landscape colors in oil and acrylic, from skies and clouds to trees and mountains. This comprehensive artist's reference features a robust index of more than 1,500 landscape subjects that correspond to the featured color mixing swatches. Also included are a plastic color-mixing grid for measuring out paints and a handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice v...
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by Tim Chambers (Author), Ken Goldman (Author), Lance Richlin (Author)With instructions and step-by-step projects for creating an array of portaits, this all-inclusive book covers everything about portraiture in the most popular drawing and painting media. Ideal for beginning artists who would like to experiment with different media, The Art of Drawing & Painting Portraits teaches the artist how to create beautiful and realistic portraits in pencil, pastel, watercolor, oil, and acrylic. B...
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by William F. Powell (Author)1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor is the definitive color-mixing resource for oil, acrylic, and watercolor artists. This user-friendly spiral-bound book is tabbed for quick and easy reference and includes two removable color-mixing grids--one for oil or acrylic, and one for watercolor. Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 1,500 color combinations:
Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint--for example...
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by Cynthia Knox (Author), Eileen Sorg (Author), Debra Kaufman Yaun (Author)Whether you are an accomplished artist desiring to learn a new medium or a beginning artist simply wanting to play with this colorful art form, The Art of Colored Pencil Drawing features all of the basic information you need to get started in this versatile and approachable medium. *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority* From selecting and handling pencils and choosing pa...
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by David Lloyd Glover (Author)Color is a key component in art and painting and a crucial aspect of successfully completing an acrylic painting. Ideal for beginning and intermediate artists seeking to develop their acrylic painting skills, Color Mixing in Acrylic features a range of techniques and valuable instruction for working with and mixing color in this classic medium. With this comprehensive guide, artists will learn how to mix fresh, vibrant colors in acrylic for painting almost any su...
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by Patti Mollica (Author)In this essential guide, accomplished artist Patti Mollica walks you through the most important aspects of color theory as they relate to oil and acrylic painting. Regardless of your medium, a solid understanding of color and its applications is essential. Petite in size but packed with information, this fresh, contemporary take on the subject of color features step-by-step projects and practical tips and techniques to put color knowledge to effective use. From pig...
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by Robbin Cuddy (Author)Learn to Draw Dogs & Puppies includes fun, engaging content featuring the loyal and favorite canine companions children know and love. With this fun and educational drawing book, budding artists will discover just how easy it is to draw more than two-dozen breeds of dogs, ranging from small and sassy to big and burly. The book opens with a brief introduction to the tools and materials young artists need to get started, as well as several warm-up exercises. Then the...
