Colour & complete the Christmas-themed patterns in this book & fill the festive season with creative fun.

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Part of the Paper Craft Workshop series, this work shows just how easy it can be to express yourself with the popular art form of collage. It covers subjects such as: supplies, preparations, stages of design, decorative elements, glueing techniques, using & creating transparencies, & how to protect your finished work. ...

Doodling & colouring have long been known to enhance one's thought processes & provide a relaxing yet highly creative way to free the mind. This title helps you to explore your natural creativity, providing you with some exotic patterns to colour in, however & whenever you feel inspired. ...

Details: For fans of the elegant vintage style, Vintage Patterns: Creative Colouring for Grown-ups captures a day long
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This manual demonstrates different ways to use image-editing software, along with scanners, digital cameras & printers, to develop drawings & paintings no matter what the medium. The author offers tested tools & techniques for working with multiple photographs, creating moods, working with layers, zooming in on detail, developing an abstract painting from a photograph, & more. There are examples from over 40 professional artists, including Ron Ranson, Richard Mc Daniel & Penny Soto, which illustrate a variety of mediums, styles & subjects & detail, step-by-step, ways to experiment with colour, composition, value, scale & proportion. ...

Contains more than 100 fun projects & numerous variations that can keep little hands busy using a range of materials. This title contains ideas for cards, gifts, decorations & accessories, attractive ways to jazz up a T shirt or create a costume, & recipes for fancy cakes & other edible treats. ...

An indispensable manual that explains how to make the most of the vast visual potential provided by the digital revolution. Based on core functions common to all software programs. Covers more than 50 separate topics ranging from subtle enhancements & filter effects to complex layers & montages. Provides practical advice alongside over 150 inspirational images. ...

Whether you have a single treasured objet d'art or a collection of nature finds gathered on a country walk, a family of framed

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The fully illustrated user-friendly guide by best-selling artist Barrington Barber reveals the skills required to meet the demands of drawing with a range of media. It demonstrates how we can develop our artistic abilities & respond to the world around us in a creative & absorbing way. A step by step approach teaches techniques in handling coloured pencil, crayon, pastel, ink & watercolour. The essential skills required to record a variety of subjects are taught, including perspective & composition. The most popular practical art genres are covered, from still life, landscape & drawing animals to the human figure & portraiture. ...

This stylish introduction to fashion drawing is aimed both at practicing designers who want to brush up their skills, & at wannabe designers & fashion enthusiasts who want to learn how to design, draw & illustrate fashion from scratch. User-friendly, accessible & stylish, this book is an ideal guide to the world of fashion illustration & design. Fully illustrated throughout, this book contains examples from a range of practising fashion designers & illustrators, & step-by-step illustrations showing how to get the best results. Beginning with the materials & equipment that readers will need, the book goes on to explain how to get inspiration & ideas & use a sketchbook to develop design projects, before moving on to the process of drawing fashion figures. Readers are guided through the process of drawing fashion figures, with step-by-step illustrations showing proportions, men & women, & a range of different poses (standing, sitting, walking etc). Noel Chapman is a fashion author, lecturer, consultant & designer who has designed clothes for Urban Outfitters, Tommy Hilfiger, Quiksilver & Galleries Lafayette amongst others. Judith Cheek is a fashion illustrator who trained at Central Saint Martin's School of Art & has worked for clients including M&S, the Conran Group, Viyella & Littlewoods. ...