Quentin Blake is one of the most celebrated illustrators in the world today, & the best person imaginable to collaborate on this sketchbook with training wheels. Full of inspirational artwork, instruction & plenty of white space reserved for the artist-to-be, the book comes with an artist-quality sketch pen & two watercolour pencils. ...

Art & design take center stage in this carefully crafted, elegant, artisanal book. This stunning autobiographical art book ...

Through witty pen-&-ink illustrations, this activity book engages readers on every page with interesting facts about the amazing celestial realm beyond Earth`s atmosphere. Activities for readers include calculating their age in Jupiter years, creating their own solar systems with fruit, & navigating their way out of a black hole maze, all while learning about planets, stars, comets, asteroids & more! ...

Drawing Parallels encourages us to look at architecture in a new way. Rather than offering conventional views of canonical buildings, Quintin Lake`s photographs explore architecture as the physical world around us, from man-made structures to natural forms. Despite the fact that these photographs come from many countries, they suggest a world we can all relate to: children playing on steps; urban underground railways; lovers embracing; entrances to houses. In seven thematic sections that deal with form, surface, space, shelter, memory, ideology & urbanity, the very notion of architecture is redefined as an inherent quality of everything we perceive in the world. Through pairings of photographs
- a clear & accessible format
- Lake suggest to us the possibility of seeing anew the places & spaces we inhabit & move through each day.

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This fantastic guide to perspective is perfect for all painting & drawing enthusiasts. Covering everything from how to paint & draw freehand from nature without losing perspective to representing spacial structure, this book is suitable for both beginners as well as more experienced artists. It applies the principles to real examples as well as theoretical exercises & covers a range of different perspectives including frontal to vanishing point, oblique to two vanishing points, views from above & curving. This book is the perfect companion to our other drawing titles the Art of Botanical Drawing & Drawing for Interior Designers. ...

THE FIRST POPULAR HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE The Mason-Dixon line-surely the most famous surveyors' line ever drawn-represents one of the greatest & most difficult scientific achievements of its time. But behind this significant triumph is a thrilling story, one that has thus far eluded both historians & surveyors. In this engrossing narrative, professional surveyor Edwin Danson takes us on a fascinating journey with Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon, two gifted & exuberant English surveyors, through the fields & forests of eighteenth-century America. Vividly describing life in the backwoods & the hardships & dangers of frontier surveying, Drawing the Line discloses for the first time in 250 years many hitherto unknown surveying methods, revealing how Mason & Dixon succeeded where the best American surveyors of the period failed. In accessible, ordinary language, Danson masterfully throws the first clear light on the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line. Set in the social & historical context of pre-Revolutionary America, this book is a spellbinding account of one of the great & historic achievements of its time. Advance Praise for Drawing the Line Drawing the Line combines a fast-moving story, a human drama, & a clear account of surveying in the era of George Washington. An intriguing interaction of politics & science.-CHARLES ROYSTER, Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University, & Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History ...

Observe. Record. Reflect. Create a visual record of your days. Informed by the author`s personal philosophy of ” Sustainable Creativity, ” this guided journal encourages creative people
- from doodlers & sketchers to fine artists & graphic designers
- to develop their artistic impulses & discover their own inspirations through observing & recording
- in pictures & words
- the ordinary objects in their lives. The book comprises prompts & ideas for things to draw, books to read, items & ideas to collect, & adventures & encounters to pursue. Illustrated with the author`s own colorful artwork & observations, Drawing Your Life provides plenty of space for readers to include their own drawings & ruminations so that it becomes not only a record of the reader`s journey but also a means for each reader to gain true insight into their own lives & motivations.



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Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, & Graphic Novels celebrates the storied transformation of the Montreal publisher whose veneration of the medium`s best cartoonists has never wavered. In 1989, when the term graphic novel was not commonly heard in the comic shop or bookstore, Chris Oliveros created a comics magazine that took the industry by storm when early issues featured Peter Bagge, Julie Doucet, Carol Tyler, Jacques Tardi, & Seth. Armed with an unparalleled editorial aesthetic, design sense, & passion for its artists, D+Q gracefully grew from a one-man operation into a wildly influential boutique publisher. D+Q is renowned for an author-friendly ethos of high production standards, creative freedom & fair business practices, with a roster including Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Chester Brown, Daniel Clowes, Tove Jansson, Shigeru Mizuki, Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, & others from around the globe. Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years is a celebration of the brilliant cartoonists whose talent & loyalty is the core of D+Q`s success as a 21st-century independent publisher. The book digs into the archives & features comics, biographies, personal reminiscences, & photographs; new work by Michael De Forge, Guy Delisle, Miriam Katin, R. Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki; essays by Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem, Sheila Heti, Deb Olin Unferth; interviews by Jeet Heer & Sean Rogers. ...

In Drawn From Paradise – The Discovery, Art & Natural History of the Birds of Paradise, David Attenborough & Errol Fuller trace the history of these birds through their depiction in European art. Birds of Paradise, one of the most colourful & beautiful families of birds, were first introduced in Europe in the sixteenth century & intrigued the Europeans. Appealing to both, bird lovers & art enthusiasts, this book showcases the beauty & drawings & paintings of these birds, facts & history, together with the people who discover & depicted them. ...

A graphic-adventure that delves into why we pursue the wild outdoors. Shivering in a cave beneath Mount Fitz Roy in Patagonia, artist & rock climber Jeremy Collins had an intense & anxious vision, ”both geographic & artistic, ” about his life & what he was doing with it. As a result, he left Argentina & commenced on a four-year journey that took him in the four cardinal directions from his home in Kansas City, north, south, east, west, to create art in the wild, climb new routes, & ”live out his own map.” Drawn: The Art of Ascent shares his exploits, his art, & what he discovered about balancing wilderness adventure with peace & home. ...