Art

In Geninne's Art: Birds in Watercolor, Collage, and Ink, popular Santa Fe artist Geninne Zlatkis presents a personal field guide to how she creates her charming paintings and collages of birds and nature. Brimming with inspiring examples of the artist's...

Beautifully illustrated with a covetable rose gold foil cover, Modern Calligraphy is a step-by-step workbook for those wanting to learn this super trendy form of lettering.Written by Lucy Edmonds, the founder of Quill London, the book will guide readers...

365 Days of Creativity is a thoughtful and inspiring book designed to help you carve out moments of self-expression and unlock your creative potential.Lorna Scobie shows you how to experiment, explore and let go of your artistic inhibitions, encouraging...

A new colouring book from New York Times bestselling illustrator, Kerby Rosanes, whose detailed illustrations are loved by adults and children alike.Mythic World features over 55 mythical creatures and legends to colour. Showcasing some of the best-known...

This stunning book follows the rhythm of nature through the year. Botanical Watercolours through the Seasons begins with a detailed introduction to Sandrine's ethically-sourced materials and tools, her workspace and an exploration of the key...

Learn to draw by sketching what surrounds you everyday. In Observational Sketching, author Mariko Higaki-an ISDA Gold Award-winning industrial designer based in Japan-teaches you how to practice and learn to sketch by using well-established observational...

This is a step-by-step guide with over 750 illustrations. It provides expert techniques for creating your own manga characters and stories, with more than 50 exercises and projects. This is an inspiring how-to art book on the techniques of drawing manga,...

Leading equine illustrator Jennifer Bell has revised this beautiful and ever-popular book, which is designed to assist budding artists of all ages. Its encouraging text and inspiring illustrations will help the reader understand basic horse anatomy and...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SERIES, now in English! More than 2.3 million copies sold in 23 languages!Big School of Drawing allows beginning artists to get started drawing anything and everything, from flowers and still life to animals, people, landscapes,...

The Art of Painting in Acrylic features a range of techniques and valuable instruction for working with this classic medium. This comprehensive guide offers a fresh, modern approach to painting in acrylic. Beginning with detailed information for using...

This collection of artwork from European comics master Sergio Toppi focuses on illustrations of beasts both real and imaginary presented in Toppi's inimitable pen-and-ink style. Sergio Toppi's work has been hailed as an influence by such artistic masters...

This monograph gathers and presents the largest assemblage in one volume about the life, work, and ideas of Banksy - the world's most discussed artist of recent decades. Featuring hundreds of works - Girl with Balloon, Mickey Snake, Dismaland, Love is in...

The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter to Victorian and Edwardian industrialism. Though most famous for its architecture, furniture and ornamental work, between the 1890s and the 1930s the...

Learn to draw thepopular Japanese style of anime and manga like a pro with renowned Instagram artist Yoai in this follow-up to her best-selling Chibi Art Class. In Anime Art Class, you will learn how to draw Yoai's signature cute characters, from their...

Here is the long awaited update of research on the Rufus Porter Landscape Mural School, greatly expanding the knowledge and understanding of this uniquely American folk art field of the 1820s to 1840s. The text provides detailed documentation never seen...

How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style and...

The walls of medieval churches were brightly painted with religious imagery and colourful patterns, and although often shadows of their former selves, these paintings are among the most enigmatic art to survive the Middle Ages. This beautifully...

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become...

Coins from the 18th and early 19th centuries are physically and visually intriguing. In addition to their monetary uses, they were repurposed to communicate private and public messages - from ad hoc scratchings and punch marks to full-scale re-engraving...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.'A modern...

"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times ...

The humorous and intricately designed Lewis Chessmen were discovered in 1831, one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made in Scotland. To preserve the hoard as intactly as possible in a public collection, the majority of the pieces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576875773Author Vivian MaierFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1138g

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook.In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of fabric, she created a record of her life and times. Nearly two hundred years later,...

This is an essential volume for anyone wanting to learn more about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their ethos, and offers the opportunity to study their greatest works in one beautiful collection. This impressive new book opens by looking at key...

Vic Reeves Art Book is an expedition through the mind of Jim Moir, aka the comedian, writer and artist and Vic Reeves. The first collection of his visual work in a decade, this book is a wild ride through subjects and media, ranging from sketches to...

The Beautiful History charts the fascinating story of Britain through football club badges. From Premier League giants to non-league sides, it features over 100 clubs, with each badge coming alive to reveal the story behind it, whilst also giving events...

This is a irresistible and wonderfully illustrated exploration of the history of colour in art. The history of art is inseparable from the history of colour. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of...

Drawing on the success of her breakout book Conscious Creativity, artist Philippa Stanton dares you to throw away technique and open the door to free creative movement with this hands-on workbook. Acknowledging the power of chance and experimentation,...

Explore an all-new art form in this full-length, fully rendered and fully adorable grayscale coloring book! You are going to love the results you get with the grayscale coloring pages created by cute creature expert Jane Maday. Not sure where to start?...

This extensive guide to figure drawing brings together seven books from the successful Art of Drawing series: Drawing Techniques, Heads and Faces, Sketching People, Understanding Human Form and Structure, The Nude, Drawing Hands and Feet and Clothing on...

A menagerie of exotic beasts from the No.1 bestselling colouring book illustrator Millie Marotta. The ultimate Millie Marotta colouring book brings together her favourite illustrations from all her books: Animal Kingdom, Tropical Wonderland, Wild...

Learn to draw the natural world with this inspiring and accessible guide by master-artist Giovanni Civardi. Beginning with the key drawing methods and essential materials you'll need to start your artistic journey, along with advice on drawing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404738Author Ernest NorlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Learn dynamic sketching and watercolor techniques for creating cityscapes, landscapes, figures and faces, still lifes, and more, enhancing the story you want to tell with form, line, and color. Discover incredible methods and tips for creating dramatic...

Uncover the full story of the galaxy's most heroic band of misfits. Even since the 2000s, Marvel's greatest band of intergalactic outlaws have become ever more crucial to the comic book Marvel Universe and its key storylines, ultimately inspiring their...

Draw the cutest kawaii pictures every day for a whole year and never be bored again! This fun book for the young, and young at heart, covers the widest range of kawaii motifs ever ; 365 of them no less! In the kawaii universe, everything is small and...

In Morpho: Clothing Folds and Creases, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw clothing. By connecting the underlying anatomy to clothing, as well as considering the body's posture and movement, you can learn...

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the...

How to Draw Dogs and Puppies is a step-by-step guide to drawing over 100 different breeds of dogs in pencil and pen-and-ink. Best-selling author J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of dogs with her beautiful, detailed drawing style. The book includes 40...