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. ...

This kit contains everything you need to learn how to create cool craft projects! 32 pages of super-clear instructions, illustrated steps & specialist components ensure you'll be making creative craft projects in no time! This kit contains:
- 32 page book
- 6 colours of embroidery thread
- A flexihoop
- Aida
- Square fabric
- 1 x needle





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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. ...

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. ...

Create your own bag with this easy to use kit. Uses easy sewing through pre-punched holes & applique of pre-cut shapes. You can add to the design to make a unique bag or keep it simple. Ideal as it can be used by any level of crafter. Contents include: 4 Panels to create body of bag, Felt flowers & Butterfly, 2 Buttons, Plastic Needle, Metal Needle & Embroidery Thread. ...

Inspired by everything from a stripy painted beach hut or a scattering of children's beads, the colours of oriental spices, a walk through a summer flower garden, or even the shapes seen in a crumbly slice of cake, authors Gail Abbott & Jane Bolsover have designed 32 creative sewing projects for the home. Rowan fabrics are a range of lightweight cottons woven in India, designed by renowned artist Kaffe Fasset, & are available in a spectacular range of colours & patterns. Included in the range are subtle stripes, vivid spots & Madras checks, as well as sumptuous floral patterns & a beautiful range of plain shot cottons. Each project is accompanied by hand painted watercolour step-by-step illustrations, & complete making up instructions. ...