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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The best-selling My First Series"
- now brighter bolder & better! All the colours in the rainbow come alive in " My First
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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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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. ...

When the authors started assembling suitable illustrations for this new publication they knew a great deal about many existing images but both were absolutely delighted when offers of new material came in from various sources. Virtually all the systems which survived after 1945
- & even some pre-war ones
- are seen in colour. The systems are featured in order of closure & every effort has been made to include previously unpublished images. The work of the major early colour photographers is also recognised. Wherever possible the authors have selected images depicting the fascinating range of car types in each fleet. They also set out to show trams in a rich variety of settings including bustling city centres suburban streets windy hillsides leafy suburbs industrial neighbourhoods rural backwaters steep gradients & cross-country reserved tracks.

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Snap is every child's much-loved first card game & these large colourful & high quality cards will delight very young children. Match as many colours & shapes as you can to win the game. The cards are durable & robust to survive repeated use. Snap is an easy & fun game which is a great way for young children to develop important sorting matching & reading skills. ...

I will bring those girls home. A series of kidnappings of Amish teenage girls hits too close to home for FBI agent Emma Colton. Dark violence has touched the simple Amish community neighbouring her home town
- & shes determined to stop it. But she has a strong yet forbidden attraction to Paradise Ridges most eligible widower carpenter Caleb Troyer. He doesnt expect to love again but protecting Emma is second nature as she fights to restore the peace in his home
- & in his heart. But the closer she comes to finding his sister the closer danger comes to finding them...

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