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Learn to create modern quilts more quickly and easily than ever with this popular method, featuring thirteen projects and twenty-five bonus ideas.
Do you believe rules were meant to be broken? If so, this improvisational quilt-as-you-go technique is for you. Instead of dealing with precise paper patterns and cutting measurements, you'll learn how to piece fabric onto small, manageable batting blocks. Let your creative juices flow as you quilt directly...
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With comprehensive instruction and artist tips and tricks, Beginning Acrylic is the perfect resource for aspiring painters just getting started in this colorful medium.
Beginning Acrylic teaches aspiring artists everything they need to know to get started painting in acrylic. From showing how to choose the right paper, brushes, and paints to basic painting tips and techniques, this beginner's guide to acrylic painting is bursting with valuable exercises...
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Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a diverse assortment of animals drawn in classic cartoon styles, “Draw Like an Artist: 100 Cartoon Animals” is a must-have drawing and visual reference book.
For student and aspiring artists, illustrators, character designers, and more, this modern step-by-step drawing guidebook demonstrates fundamental art concepts like proportion and anatomy as you learn to draw a wide array of cartoon-style animals...
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"A Brush with God is a guide to painting icons and using them in prayer. Written with warmth and energy, it describes the history of icons and examines why they've been spiritual tools for so many centuries. From a uniquely western perspective, the book guides artists-from novices to professionals-through the process of icon painting, using traditional techniques but employing contemporary materials. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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Drawing Workshop for Kids is for art educators, parents, teachers, and caregivers looking for an alternative to the rigid, conservative idea of "realistic" drawing projects for kids, with 25+ projects that build confidence and create independent and flexible thinking. Help kids build confidence and find their own creative voice through this collection of 25+ invitations for drawing. In Drawing Workshop for Kids, art educator Samara Caughey, founder...
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Zenspiration dangles are unique patterns that add interest and texture to any design. Gifted calligrapher and designer Joanne Fink shares her fun and relaxing techniques for adding dangle patterns to your drawings. Joanne demystifies the patterning process, and shows how simple it is to create richly textured dangles by breaking down the design into component parts. Whether you like to journal, draw, or doodle, you'll find intriguing ideas here for...
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Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for...
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With Kamo's fun, simple approach, there's room for everyone at the art table. Grab a piece of paper or a digital sketchpad. In three easy steps, you can go from a squiggle to a silly Santa Claus, or from a few lines to a fluffy-maned lion. It's that simple! Kamo's only rule? Have fun! Her funny, feel-good drawings and doodles have earned her a worldwide reputation. With this all-in-one beginner's guide, her simple step-by-step instructions inspire...
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Techniques, step-by-step photos, and simple projects for new knitters-both adults and kids!
Covering all the essential techniques, including basic garter and stocking stitch, casting on and casting off, and increasing and decreasing-all clearly explained using step-by-step photographs and simple instructions-this book is a treasure trove for beginning knitters. Alison Dupernex's designs have a timeless appeal that will delight knitters of all ages,...
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Explore all the possibilities you have when you work with fabric panels with this guide. Learn to Quilt with Panels takes quilters on a creative journey showing them step by step how to use panels in quilts or as design elements simply by cutting them apart and incorporating them into quilt setting. This book shows options the quilter may not have thought of and also teaches how to start with an idea, then graph and design it, actually do the math,...
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A modern approach to stitching, layering, tracing, and drawing with thread from an authority on embroidery arts.
Ringquist shows you a modern approach to stitching, layering, tracing, and drawing with thread. From choosing your thread (and it doesn't have to be floss!) to tracing patterns and hand-stitching eyelets, you'll find tips and project ideas that will set you off on experiments of your own.
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This technique-driven book follows the entire process of clothing construction, including a section on the sewing machine and other tools/materials used, information on working with patterns and fitting, laying out the pattern pieces, cutting and marking, and on through every step of construction to the final button. Large, detailed photos guide you from start to finish and help give you a visual basis for learning.
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Curator and writer Lori Zimmer investigates the rise in popularity of spray paint and the explosion of mural festivals around the world, and she provides an intimate look at the work of some of the world's leading artists, who use spray for myriad reasons and styles. Complete with DIY tricks to fine-tune your spray skills, find out why spray paint has risen to become the hot medium around the globe.--
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"Learn how to make projects that look like knitting but are worked like crochet! Tunisian crochet produces a fabric that is similar to a knit but is worked on a hook. It combines the best of knitting and crochet, creating a dense, durable fabric. Tunisian Crochet Stitch Dictionary is a must-have crochet book that's an essential resource for anyone in the crochet and knitting community! Featuring 150 of the most popular and most used Tunisian crochet...
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Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru to thousands across the globe, this unique guide serves up a hearty helping of inspiration. For aspiring artists who want to draw and paint but just can't seem to find time in the day, Gregory offers 5– to 10–minute exercises for every skill level that fit into any schedule—whether on a plane, in a meeting, or at the breakfast table—along...
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