Taking a practical approach to colour

Colour: A Workshop for Artists & Designers" is an invaluable resource

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Herve Tullet has established an international reputation for his outstanding ability to create dynamic & enthralling books for young children. Already the author with Tate Publishing of the best-selling Five Senses" " Imagine" & most recently " The Scribble Book" Tullet has now created the perfect activity book to bring out the creative potential in any child. Sparkling with humour & inventiveness this is a book that is packed full of ideas. Absorbing & stimulating it will motivate each reader not only to use colour imaginatively but also to think creatively as he or she responds to the unique challenges on every page. If you are looking for something to occupy amuse & delight a child & to inspire their imagination then " The Colouring Book" is the perfect solution." ...

Bursting with pirates ships & monsters to colour in plus over 40 stickers & some special scenes
- either add stickers to recreate
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This is a handbook on how to introduce colour into clay & various methods of working with coloured clay. It briefly covers natural colour found in clays & how to use this to best advantage. It thoroughly looks at colouring your own clay through adding stains & oxides & the various methods of preparing clay & slips as well as how to blend properly & repeat results consistently. It looks at a range of making techniques using coloured clays (with specific ceramic artists as examples) including coiling & pinching with colours marbling & agate using moulds to create neriage or millefiori textural effects inlaying sprigging & slipcasting. Each technique shows how various artists put it to use with step by step sequences where needed & displays finished pieces for further inspiration. ...

A caustically funny book of games with a decidedly adult twist. Hungover? Want to look busy while you wait for your Guardian soulmate? Or maybe you just need distraction to while away your pitifully short lunchbreak? Whatever the pathetic occasion this is the book for you. It might resemble a typical child's activity book but look closer. Offering an ironic look at the stereotypes habits & challenges of modern adulthood Colouring for Grown-ups
Includes:: *A Hipster or Homeless Quiz. * The 6 steps to abandoning your hopes & dreams. *' Design a shrine' to all your unhealthy obsessions colouring page. Materials required: colouring utensils. Optional requirements: emotional maturity; financial independence; quality of life.
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Have fun learning about colours with Carlo the Cat. This is a colourful illustrated first reading book in a small board book format perfect for little hands. This title introduces children to the words for colours in a charming story with bright & appealing drawings. This is a book to read together or for more confident first readers to enjoy by themselves Carlo the Cat's granny is going to knit him a new scarf...but he has a choice to make! Have fun learning about colours with Carlo as he spots yellow flowers a red slide a violet umbrella & pink icing on a cake. Simple language & repeated vocabulary teamed with bright & appealing pictures make this an ideal first reading book for younger children. ...

Colours Aloft!" the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors. It is September 1803. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute a French flagship taken in battle. With the Peace of Armiens in ruins he must leave the safety of Falmouth. What lies ahead is the grim reality of war at close quarters
- where Bolitho who will be called upon to anticipate the overall intention of the French fleet. But the battle has also become a personal vendetta between himself & the French admiral who formerly sailed the Argonaute. Bolitho & his men are driven to a final rendezvous where no quarter is asked or given."
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This title helps your baby discover all about colors & shapes with touch & feel textures. Stroke tickle & touch the textures together with your baby & help them discover all about colors & shapes. Let their little hands roam & feel how silky the butterflies are & how bumpy the oranges feel. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly bumpy scaly silky sandy sticky & shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore & tiny minds to develop. ...

Colours of Nature is the perfect companion for anyone who is puzzled by the seemingly unpredictable behaviour of the paints on their palette as well as those who would like their watercolour paintings to look fresher & livelier. The author has tested more than 150 artists watercolour paints from six manufacturers & the results of this exhaustive testing are not only included here but also analysed with the best colours recommended in a palette section. Throughout this beautifully illustrated book Sandrine Maugy guides the reader through a world of colours & exquisite flowers & fruit explaining simple concepts & more advanced colour-mixing theory while exploring the serendipity & beauty of wet-in-wet watercolour painting. Her Harmonic Shadows theory creates a link between tone & colour making both work in harmony for better form & purer colours. ...

The next book in our acclaimed Colours series covers the Merseyside region with chapters on Liverpool Birkenhead Wallasey St Helens Southport Chester Warrington Widnes Crosville & Ribble. Its exclusively colour content spans the period from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. ...