This comprehensive handbook is packed with practical & insightful solutions to common problems for both drawing & watercolour media. It features clearly explained techniques for a wide range of popular themes
- including landscapes buildings animals flowers still life & people. Its innovative spread design highlights common problems & provides simple & effective solutions. Its small format means the artist can take this indispensable guide wherever they go.
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This is a complete & innovative practical guide that offers artists simple solutions to common drawing & painting problems. Solutions presented through clearly annotated pictures & easy-to-follow technique demonstrations ensure that problems can be quickly corrected. Solutions provided for a wide range of the most popular subject areas: landscape flower & animal paintings. The techniques are shown throughout in all the key media: watercolour graphite & coloured pencil charcoal acrylic & gouache. ...

Breathe Life into Your Animal Drawings Wildlife artist Doug Lindstrand has spent 30+ years observing animals in nature & capturing them on paper. In this book he distills his expertise into key lessons for drawing any animal in a charming realistic style. Inside a whole herd of step-by-step exercises & demonstrations (43 to be exact!) cover a broad range of subjects & challenges including how to draw: Short long & patterned fur Mouths eyes ears & horns Various poses including seated standing & moving A diversity of animals domestic & wild--from housecats to big cats from tiny cottontails to massive African elephants. Nothing intimidating here! Starting with easy sketches youll learn to gradually refine basic shapes into lifelike dogs wolves deer sheep horses bears giraffes owls eagles geese & other magnificent creatures. With this classic & time-tested approach youll be able to draw not only the animals illustrated on these pages but any animal that touches your artistic soul. ...

Author Michael Massen presents his thorough & novel approach to drapery by first describing clothing & drapery as basic shapes & then illustrating how the mechanics of physics cause these shapes to bend fold or wrinkle in predictable ways. Expanding upon these principles the book details how to use these concepts to render all types of clothing in any medium. Fully illustrated techniques & examples from old world & contemporary masters from Raphael to Walt Disney make this book the definitive text on the subject of rendered clothing & drapery & a comprehensive resource. ...

The Artist's Way provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self. It aims to dispel the 'I'm not talented enough' conditioning that holds many people back & helps you to unleash your own inner artist. Its step-by-step approach enables you to transform your life overcome any artistic blocks you may suffer from including limiting beliefs fear sabotage jealousy & guilt & replace them with self confidence & productivity. It helps demystify the creative process by making it a part of your daily life. Whatever your artistic leanings this book will give you the tools you need to enable you to fulfil your dreams. ...

Newly available in paperback this comprehensive companion to the Arts & Crafts movement reviews its background history personalities & glorious products. The origins of the movement are identified & the inspiration of its founder William Morris craftsman poet & social reformer is celebrated. Such key exponents as Charles Rennie Mackintosh Frank Lloyd Wright & Gustav Stickley are considered in detail & information is provided on the distinguishing characteristics of each designers contribution. Illustrated with 300 meticulously researched images this is a rich & invaluable general survey & an important work of reference for the collector. ...

The Arts & Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity craftsmanship & beauty quite counter to Victorian & Edwardian industrialism. Though most famous for its architecture furniture & ornamental work between the 1890s & the 1930s the movement also produced gardens all over Britain whose designs redolent of a lost golden era had worldwide influence. These designs by luminaries such as Gertrude Jekyll & Sir Edwin Lutyens were engaging & romantic combinations of manor-house garden formalism & the naive charms of the cottage garden
- but from formally clipped topiary to rugged wild borders nothing was left to chance. Sarah Rutherford here explores the winding paths & meticulously shaped hedges the gazebos & gateways the formal terraces & the billowing border plantings that characterised the Arts & Crafts garden & directs readers & gardeners to where they can visit & be inspired by these beautiful works of art.
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Mary Greensted tells the story of the birth & development of the arts & craft movement in Britain with the help of numerous illustrations showing the buildings furniture metalwork & the people who influenced it. The movement was concerned with the revival of traditional crafts & a return to the vernacular & it had socialist ideals at its heart. This movement which flourished in the early twentieth century has not only bequeathed us with a wealth of fine objects & buildings but also a way of thinking about life & craft that continues to influence many today. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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