Art & Photography

A beautiful and inspirational guide to making your animal portraits and artworks leap to life. Learn to accurately and sympathetically (read more)

A beautiful and inspirational guide to making your animal portraits and artworks leap to life. Learn to accurately and sympathetically depict the animals which inspire you, capturing that elusive glint of life in their eyes and the textures in their fur and musculature. With instructions for using charcoal, inks, watercolours, oil paints and pastels, this book is a must for all animal lovers. (hide)

This practical and stimulating book introduces and showcases a wide range of motoring art styles. Recognizing the importance of drawing (read more)

This practical and stimulating book introduces and showcases a wide range of motoring art styles. Recognizing the importance of drawing and research, it explains the key components of a successful painting, looking particularly at light, perspective, drawing ellipses and the vehicle itself. Including over 150 finished paintings with full descriptions of how they were conceived and carried out, this beautiful book is sure to inspire both artist and buyers alike, and gives a unique insight into the work of a leading motoring artist.

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Stocked 1.3.14: Drawing Cute Animals in Colored Pencil offers simple step-by-step drawing instructions that help you to learn how (read more)

Stocked 1.3.14: Drawing Cute Animals in Colored Pencil offers simple step-by-step drawing instructions that help you to learn how to draw your favorite animals. Adorable animals like rabbits, squirrels, deer, and pigs come alive with vibrant color and beautiful detail. Using colored pencils learn tips and techniques to easily draw an elephant, polar bear, lion, alpaca, hippopotamus, and several others.

The instructions are simple to follow, but detailed enough so anyone can easily achieve great success in replicating each figure. Author Ai Akikusa loves animals and she shares interesting details about each animal in each section. Enjoy Drawing Cute Animals in Colored Pencil as a guidebook to animals and drawing in color! (hide)

Are we still 'United in Diversity'? Forty-five artists from across Europe share their powerful illustrations of the European Union's (read more)

Are we still 'United in Diversity'? Forty-five artists from across Europe share their powerful illustrations of the European Union's shared past and our unsure future. From Brexit bees to wall-jumping bulls, Drawing Europe Together is a unique collection portraying the European community . .

. with or without Britain. This is a passionate and heartfelt exploration of Europe and what it means to many of the people who live and work within its borders. (hide)

This book is aimed at helping budding interior designers learn how todraw professional looking interior designs. It is accessible, (read more)

This book is aimed at helping budding interior designers learn how todraw professional looking interior designs. It is accessible, beautifully illustrated and practical. Guidance is given ondrawing perspective, floor plans, drawing furniture and renditions ofrooms.

Filled with sketches and drawings, this is the ideal guide toproducing successful drawings of interior designs. (hide)

This revised 15th anniversary edition of the bestselling beginning drawing book updates art and text examples to include new student (read more)

This revised 15th anniversary edition of the bestselling beginning drawing book updates art and text examples to include new student pieces, up-to-date materials, and additional sections on drawing in 3D and travel sketching, along with refreshed and contemporary design. Based on author and art instructor Claire Watson Garcia's successful courses and workshops for beginning and aspiring artists, Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner applies a positive, accepting tone to a progressive series of lessons in sketching and rendering. (hide)

This comprehensive guide shows you how to master perspective in a clear and accessible way, from simple box diagrams through to complex (read more)

This comprehensive guide shows you how to master perspective in a clear and accessible way, from simple box diagrams through to complex scenes. The book begins with a fascinating history of perspective in art, in which the author explores every type from zero to multiple-point, using numerous clear diagrams and drawings. Going beyond buildings and landscapes, he explains how to apply perspective when drawing people, animals, boats, reflections and more, and provides expert advice on drawing curved objects and inclined planes.

There's also a useful run-down of common mistakes and an inspirational chapter on moving beyond a rigid application of the rules to draw freely and instinctively. Pub Date:31/10/2016 (hide)

Learn to draw anything you see! Discover the artists' "secrets" that make drawing accessible for everyone. Sarah Parks shares with (read more)

Learn to draw anything you see! Discover the artists' "secrets" that make drawing accessible for everyone. Sarah Parks shares with you her favorite materials and the basic techniques that make it possible. Follow along as she guides you through 20+ demonstrations: You'll learn how to strip a composition down to its basics before learning to build it back up into the masterpiece you've long imagined creating.

Everything is covered, from the simple shapes of a composition, to the block-in of your drawing, to shading and proportions. You may be new to the world of drawing, but soon you'll be able to draw anything! * Get 3-D effects in your drawings * Develop your artist's eye by learning to refine the overall shape, structure and features of the subjects around you * Draw dynamic figures and gain a better understanding of their basic structure 20+ step-by-step demonstrations cover everything from still life to people to animals and more! (hide)

What does your dream garden look like? Why not sketch it! Dream, Draw, Design My Garden is the perfect inspirational sketchbook, (read more)

What does your dream garden look like? Why not sketch it! Dream, Draw, Design My Garden is the perfect inspirational sketchbook, idea book and guided journal for anyone wanting to draw and design their own landscape, yard, or garden! Enojy the stimulating ideas and prompts for patterns, colors, details and design elements to help dreamers get motivated and get started. This playful book is meant to be a visual guide, not a technical handbook, so you can create until your garden is full and flourishing righ on the pages! James Hobbs, whose quick sketching techniques were featured in The Art of Urban Sketching and the best selling Sketch Your World, will guide both experienced and amateur sketchers. The unfinished quality of his line drawings leave room for the reader to imagine how they would use it themselves, through different color interpretations or redrawing for their own purposes.

Whether you dream of an English rose garden, a desert rock garden, or a beautiful pondscape, Dream, Draw, Design My Gardenwill let your creativity grow! (hide)

Created in collaboration with Dronestegram, the world-leading drone photography website, and Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, a highly renowned (read more)

Created in collaboration with Dronestegram, the world-leading drone photography website, and Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, a highly renowned photography editor, Dronescapes is the first book to bring together the very best photographs taken by quadcopters around the globe. It grants us the thrilling opportunity to see our planet from entirely new vantage points, whether this is a bird's-eye view of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, a photograph taken inches away from an eagle in mid-flight, or a vertiginous shot taken above Mexico's Tamul Waterfalls. There are extended commentaries on how individual images were created, profiles on notable photographers and a separate user guide containing key advice on how to use your drone.

An introduction also discusses how the arrival of drone photography signals a major shift in the history of aerial photography. Dronescapes is a landmark publication at the cutting edge of contemporary photography, taking the medium - for once, literally - to newfound, dizzying heights.
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