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Contains an illustrated guide to architectural drawings, including tool descriptions, modeling techniques, various perspective drawing styles, and career information.

A complete guide to using acrylic paints creatively, this book showcases talented acrylics artist Glyn Macey{u2019}s irrepressible energy and the imagination that infuses every part of his work. He shares his painting techniques and methods that transform everyday views into gorgeous and unique acrylic artworks. Readers will learn to use acrylic paints in unusual, creative, and surprising ways to create open, inviting landscapes, breathtaking seascapes,...

Discover magic! Join the vibrant, prismatic world of luminous alcohol inks. Mercurial, versatile, inexpensive, and wildly colorful, alcohol inks are one of the newest mediums to hit the art community. Pigments of Your Imagination is your essential guide for working with alcohol inks, from choosing which inks to use for each project to learning how to maximize your artistic potential with a wide variety of fascinating techniques. Using an assortment...

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...

Get-Into-it Guides encourage you to explore your interests, build your skills, and develop passions. High-interest subjects are introduced using clear, step-by-step instructions and "how to" photos that will help you learn essential skills and techniques. Then, have fun applying what you've learned to amazing projects! Get into Cartooning, Cartoonists combine pictures and words to create stories and share experiences. Using cartooning tools and materials,...

"La técnica Alexander es una manera muy eficaz de liberar la tensión muscular de su cuerpo. Le enseñará nuevos modos de sentarse, de estar de pie y de moverse para ejercer menos tensión en sus músculos, huesos y articulaciones. Siga los métodos y ejercicios que se muestran en el libro y se moverá con comodidad y facilidad, y aliviará o evitará muchos dolores y molestias frecuentes."--Publisher's website.

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...

"This book will teach your child how to draw with the easiest approach possible ... by using letters and other simple shapes. I have been teaching kids how to draw for almost ten years and this technique works! Our no-tears strategy is fun for all." -- Back cover.

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,...