Monet's interpretations of shifting light and shade revolutionized modern art. Enjoy 187 of the master's finest Impressionist works, including Jerusalem Artichokes and Water Lilies, presented here for
This guide to mastering the art of pencil drawing offers clear, concise instruction on composition, outline, proportion, perspective, light and shade, and individual style. Its 66 illustrations encomp
In Amazing Artists and Designers, journey back to the 16th century to meet Artemisia Gentileschi, mistress of light and shade. Read about Coco Chanel, the orphan who grew up to change the rules of fas
This illustrated, practical record of talks and instructional advice by a member of the "Ashcan School" of American painting discusses line, tone, texture, light and shade, composition, design, space,
In this hilarious non-fiction chapter book series, a savvy cockroach shares wise tips and tricks to surviving an encounter with a charming predator who may (or may not) want to be your friend.Celeste is a cockroach, and everyone knows that cockroaches are survivors, so who better to give advice on surviving an encounter with a polite predator? Everyone also knows that taking a moonlit promenade with a deadly reticulated python (named Frank) is a very bad idea. But Celeste loves very bad ideas, and she is willing to put your life on the line to prove herself right! Need to stop a python from swallowing you head-first? Wear a lamp shade as a hat! Want to speed up a three-hundred-pound snake? Try roller skates! What's the perfect light snack for a python? A chicken! Using her superior pythonine knowledge, Celeste comes up with various strategies and solutions -- many dangerous, most absurd, but all based on the biology of pythons. Meanwhile, Frank is hatching his own plans.Rachel Poliquin
Covers every aspect of trees and how to depict them: balancing tree groups, relationship of light and shade, trees seen against the sky, lines of the branches, and much, much more. 515 illustrations.
Henry Leroux wrote busily on. The light of the table-lamp, softened and enriched by its mosaic shade, gave an appearance of added opulence to the already handsome appointments of the room. The little
These are stories of light and shade – some humorous, some deadly serious. They cover the genres of Science Fiction, Black Magic and Crime as well as humour and satire. So there is something for every
The story of the Leopard is all about camouflage and trying NOT to be eaten! It is full of colour, light and shade and texture and shows how most of us are suitably camouflaged to "fit in" to our wor
Treating the figure as a unit in the overall composition of a sketch or drawing, Braun examines single and multiple figures, the distribution of light and shade, heads, draped figures, folds, movement
IN THE DARKNESS OF WAR, THE LIGHT OF BOOKS'A wonderful novel celebrating the power of books and libraries to change people's lives' Jill Mansell'Heart-breaking and heart-lifting and always enchanting' Ruth Hogan'I devoured The Paris Library in one hungry gulp . . .charming and moving' Tatiana de Rosnay'An irresistible, compelling read' Fiona Davis'Paris and libraries. What's not to love?!' Natasha Lester'Delightful, richly detailed' Publishers' WeeklyPARIS, 1939Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and her new job at the American Library in Paris - with its thriving community of students, writers and book lovers - is a dream come true. When war is declared, the Library is determined to remain open.But then the Nazis invade Paris, and everything changes.In Occupied Paris, choices as black and white as the words on a page become a murky shade of grey - choices that will put many on the wrong side of history, and the consequences of which will echo for decades to come.MONTANA, 1983Lily is
Mixing aesthetics, architecture, arrondissements and elegance in a very Parisian way, this illustrated work on Paris aims to show the city is in all its light, shade, glamour and grandeur. From magnif
Into the Dark is the new dark and gripping crime thriller from Fiona Cummins about revenge, greed, ambition and the true cost of friendship. 'Complex. Inventive.Twisting. Unsettling.' - Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a ScandalTHE PLACE: Seawings, a beautiful Art Deco home overlooking the sweep of the bay in Midtown-on-Sea. THE CRIME: The gilded Holden family - Piper and Gray and their two teenage children, Riva and Artie - has vanished from the house without a trace.THE DETECTIVE: DS Saul Anguish, brilliant but with a dark past, treads the narrow line between light and shade. One late autumn morning, Piper's best friend arrives at Seawings to discover an eerie scene - the kettle is still warm, all the family's phones are charging on the worktop, the cars are in the garage. But the house is deserted.In fifteen-year-old Riva Holden's bedroom, scrawled across the mirror in blood, are three words: Make Them Stop. What happens next?
Courtyards have long played an important function in residential design, regulating light, shade and the use of space. With thousands of years of tradition as inspiration, contemporary architects are
