Art

Spark your creativity and keep yourself organized with the beautiful pages and easy-to-follow instructions of Creative Journaling. With 52 projects, from crafting colorful pages for dot grid, junk, mixed-media, and travel journals to making your own...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and...

The blank page can be daunting, but 10 Step Drawing: Flowers offers an easy jumping-off point for any doodler to be creative. Featuring illustrated tutorials for drawing 75 irresistible flowers - from exotic wildflowers, to aquatic flora, garden...

Anyone can learn to draw with these easy instructions and fun practice ideas Drawing For Dummies makes it easy to learn the basics of drawing and even master advanced techniques. With a little instruction and practice, there's no such thing as "I just...

How to Be a Moonflower, the new book from bestselling author Katie Daisy, celebrates the magic and mystery of the world at night. Discover the world that awakens after everyone else has gone to sleep. In this lavishly illustrated book, New York...

With helpful tips and easy to follow step-by-step lessons, The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing is the perfect resource for artists looking to hone their drawing style and technique.The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing is a comprehensive guide to...

Czech artist Miroslav Sasek (1916-1980) was remarkable for his unique and pioneering approach to non-fiction picture books, illustrating daily life as if seen from a child's perspective. His bestselling This Is... series eventually totalled eighteen...

Enjoy the meditative art of watercolor with simple supplies, forty colorful illustrated lessons, and easy step-by-step instructions!For a soothing boost of creativity and whimsy, try your hand at watercolor. With a few simple steps, anyone can discover...

This is a unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity and encouraging experimentation. It contains tips for creating marketable work and increasing sales for artists of all levels. The author is among the best and most celebrated daily painters...

A new generation of women is taking the art world - online and offline - by storm. In an image-obsessed culture saturated with social media, these 40 artists are using photography and the female gaze to redefine the fields of fashion, art, advertising...

Shirley, The Life of a Botanical Adventurer is the remarkable story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, scientist, author, travel writer, gardener as well as mother and grandmother. Following the tragic death of her brilliant scientist husband, Michael Cross, in a...

'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades' The Spectator'Strikingly insightful . . . page after page of glorious anecdotes' The i Newspaper'A book...

Brusho - a highly pigmented watercolour ink powder - is a unique and exciting painting medium that is renowned for its versatility. Joanne Boon Thomas demonstrates how adding a spritz of water to Brusho results in a breathtaking and spontaneous fusion of...

Irvine Welsh reveals his writing secrets, Lewis Carroll on why he hates the sea, slow train to Stockholm, the busy world of Richard Scarry, lazy heroes of fairy tales plus Stewart Lee, Virginia Ironside and Mark Vernon.Book InformationISBN...

Learn to make beautifully textured home decor accents with inexpensive air-dry clay! The process is easy, and the results are surprisingly stylish when you follow the tips, advice, and instruction from author and clay artist-designer Radka Hostasova...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756246561Author Ashley WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

From Emma Farrarons, the bestselling author of The Mindfulness Colouring Book, comes a pocket-sized creative art therapy book to soothe anxiety and eliminate stress.In her trademark chic and sophisticated style, Emma Farrarons offers beautiful templates...

From Edouard Manet's portrait of naturalist writer Emile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh's meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of...

An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.-from the introductionContemporary artist Roni Horn...

Over the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin's austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. 'I paint with...

Break the rules--knit outside the lines!AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary takes an unexpected look at stranded colorwork with 200 new motifs. These non-traditional colorwork charts are perfect for the creative knitter looking to break away from the ordinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781086526325Author Lila LilyatFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

A step-by-step guide to making paper lithography prints. This practical book explains how to use gum arabic to transfer a photocopied image without specialised equipment. It uses both hand-drawn and photographic images to show how paper lithography (or...

Art Therapy - The Person-Centred Way is an enlarged edition of the first book published on person-centred art therapy, and includes many more exercises and ideas. It demonstrates that by bringing the person-centred facilitative approach to images...

Create ten captivating little works of art with this unique introduction to acrylic painting. Easy Acrylic Painting is an all-inclusive guide to getting started with acrylic painting for the absolute beginner, brought to you by experienced teacher...

How do you find time in your busy day to get creative? Why, with 15-minute Art Drawing, of course! Explore the pure joy of colouring pencils and markers with 15-minute projects that encourage you to explore drawing, colouring and shading in a relaxing,...

This is the third of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes...

Live the romance of the British countryside through this lavish tour of the seasons, landscapes, gardens, and great houses that epitomize British country life, as seen through the eyes of Country Life magazine.For 125 years Country Life has presented its...

Many designs that appear in today's society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and languages. With communication comes responsibility; are designers aware of the meaning and impact of their work? An image or symbol that is...

Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images and will prime readers on the intricacies of colour, texture, shadow and light as they interplay with the human form. This...

This beautifully illustrated book is the first practical step-by-step guide to using coloured pencils in botanical painting and is written by Ann Swan, one of the top exponents of the genre. Water-soluble and oil-based coloured pencils are...

Stitched Textiles: Nature is the fourth title in this successful theme-based series. It contains an extensive section on techniques, featuring step-by-step guides to machine- and hand-stitching, attaching embellishments and found objects to your work;...

Observe, draw, paint, explore and master the art of botanical illustration. Award-winning botanical artist Isik Guner shares her passion for drawing and painting living plants from around the world. Her work is both artistically accomplished and...

Internationally renowned dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a lively and authoritative look at the financial and emotional value of art throughout history. In this newly revised, updated, and generously illustrated edition Findlay draws...

Containing all three classic Pippi Longstocking adventures in one stunning edition, this book will introduce Pippi's adventurous spirit to a whole new generation of readers! Pippi is nine years old. She lives in Villa Villekulla with a horse, a...

The livre d'artiste, or 'artist's book', is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the greatest artists to work in this genre, creating his most important books over a period of eighteen years from 1932 to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530117130Author Christen HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This is a glorious 25th anniversary reissue of this classic book. Illuminating & fascinating, it covers the classic art techniques perfected by 16th and 17th century masters. These include Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Titian & Reuben, all enhanced with...

Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from...

A young woman drifts through a series of one night stands and truncated love affairs. Finding herself in a series of increasingly bizarre situations, she turns her curious and savage eye out on the foibles of the world around her. The men of this world...