Well-known contemporary artist Jean-Paul van Boxtel introduces many innovative techniques & applications for acrylic paint whose physical composition makes it incredibly versatile. The book also deals in detail with the latest trends including gels & media. The first part of the book answers the question what is acrylic paint? & goes on to describe the various products that are available. Following on from this is a gallery section providing examples of paintings that show the wide range of styles & finishes possible using acrylic paints. The author then guides you step-by-step through sixteen workshops each of which uses a different set of materials so that the reader can learn how to create their own beautiful paintings. These include still lifes landscapes architecture portraits & abstract art. Careful attention is paid to health & safety throughout & a useful colour chart at the end of the book introduces you to the range of colours available from which you can put together your own palette. The book

Includes:: exceptional photographs taken by the author specially for this book.

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Still one of the immortals of childrens literature
- Professor Branestawms continues to amuse generations of young readers. The
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The mouth-watering new book from acclaimed author illustrator Oliver Jeffers. Henry loves books...but not like you & I. He loves to EAT books! This exciting story follows the trials & tribulations of a boy with a voracious appetite for books. Henry discovers his unusual taste by mistake one day & is soon swept up in his new-found passion
- gorging on every delicious book in sight! & better still he realises that the more books he eats the smarter he gets. Henry dreams of becoming the Incredible Book Eating Boy; the smartest boy in the world! But a book-eating diet isnt the healthiest of habits as Henry soon finds out...
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Become a food adventurer with gastronaut Stefan Gates! Does chocolate make you happier? Whats the most dangerous food on earth? How do you milk a camel? Whats the fartiest food of all? & whats really in that burger youre about to eat? Find out the answers to these questions & much much more in this seriously funny & hilariously informative book about food. It is packed full of mad recipes to cook for your friends kitchen science projects to try out at home & wild food facts this photographic cookbook will take you on a food adventure from breakfast right through to supper. Gastronuts" the BBC TV series regularly attracts over 4 million viewers. Stefan Gates is the winner of a Gourmand World Cookbook Award." ...

Alice Roberts has been travelling the world
- from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula & from Russian steppes to Amazon basin
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Into a brook dropped a worm on a hook. Bless my soul!" said a trout with a yell. " What a marvellous treat
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Matt Browning returns in this gripping new novel from bestselling author Chris Ryan. It is a long hot summer & the country is suffering an epidemic of road rage. What isnt making the news headlines though is that the SAS secret assassination squad the Increment is killing ex-soldiers. These two strands of violence become ever more tightly intertwined as Matt is drawn into an adventure that takes him to Russia & ends explosively in the UK. ...

' This is where all stories start on the edge of a dark wood...' Ever since moving to Fairwick to take up a teaching post at the local college Callie has been having vivid erotic dreams about a man made out of moonlight & shadows. Dreams she begins to fear as well as anticipate... She learns that her home
- a Victorian cottage at the edge of a wood she bought on a whim
- is supposedly haunted. & then her new
- & rather strange
- colleagues tell her a local legend about an incubus demon with a human past who was enchanted by a fairy queen...



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An Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novel The bride was a witch who solved preternatural crimes. The groom raised the dead & slew vampires for a living. It sounded like a Halloween joke but it wasnt. When Im not up my elbows in sacrificial gore Ive got serious preternatural issues to deal with. Psychotic shape-shifters duplicitous vampires & sexually deviant were-leopards. & thats just my friends. Im Anita Blake Vampire Hunter & Federal Marshall. My life is more complicated than ever caught up between obligations to the living & to the undead. Now there is a vampire serial killer preying on strippers. & Ive been called in to help the police. ...

This new title in the amazing baby (R) touch-&-feel series Incy Wincy Spider gives a well-loved nursery rhyme a modern interactive twist. Bright bold graphics & texture patches on the cover & every interior spread will capture babies attention stimulating their senses of sight & touch. Textures include flocking holofoil & satin. ...