The joyful feeling of creating art is at your fingertips with Drawing for Joy.In Drawing for Joy, author and illustrator Stephanie Peterson Jones offers beginning artists a low-stress way to build a s
A selection of the best writing by the most important--and thunderously outspoken--art and culture critic of our time, including approximately 125 never-before-seen pages from the unfinished second vo
Scholars of engineering, business, art, medicine, and other fields explore methods and technologies for teaching creative problem solving in higher education. They discuss the context of higher educat
Pyrography, the art of woodburning, is fully explored in this guide for beginners and experts alike. Providing details on the four essential pyrography ingredients—temperature, speed of stroke,
Use the Internet to teach visual arts and refine students' critical thinking skills. Based on the Discipline-Based Art Education program, a proven art instruction program that teaches everything from
Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the "best" houses, while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this
Designed to spark the imagination and encourage skill development, a single-volume compilation of the popular children's activity series explores and introduces dozens of masterpieces and the artists
This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, m
The classic guide to oratorical skill offers discussion of the methods of informal reasoning, an aesthetic evaluation of prose style, and observations on the emotions and character.
The Everything Art Handbook is an all-inclusive, go-to resource for artists of any skill level.A refreshing, accessible compendium of materials and techniques, The Everything Art Handbook is the perfe
Harper Connelly, a woman with the ability to uncover the final location of a recently deceased individual and to share their last moments, aided by her stepbrother Tolliver, uses her skill to find the
The ultimate in fashion accessories, tattoos are capable of reflecting both their owner''s style and interests as well as advertising the talent of the artist involved. With tremendous skill and visio
Focuses on the intricate skill of creating Japanese Netsuke. Including step-by-step instructions accompanied by many colour photographs, this title is suitable for carvers of various abilities, from t
Find Your Future in Art introduces 8 high-interest art and design careers via reader-friendly profiles and sidebar features that inspire extended learning, online research, and critical thinking skill
A book that anyone who is an artist, embroiderer, textile artist or simply a lover of beautiful books will want to own. The embroidery of Jane E Hall is breathtaking, and in this gorgeous book she combines her love of butterflies with her outstanding talent as a textile artist to produce three-dimensional renditions of exquisitely worked butterflies that are almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Using the finest of silk threads and needles, Jane lovingly creates her butterflies' wings using the tiniest of stitches worked on to silk. They are then carefully cut away and the edges strengthened with hair-fine wire before being attached to the bodies, carefully crafted from air-drying modelling medium and brushed with whisper-fine threads to resemble hairs. The butterflies are then placed within a setting of silk leaves and flowers, all made with the same painstaking attention to detail and expert skill as the butterflies themselves. This book provides a fascinating introduction to
With continual themes of perfection of technique and building to the limits of one’s skill, this authoritative resource provides in-depth instruction for mastering the craft of cabinetmaking. A
