Art

Discover 100 wonderful and majestic creatures to draw! Whether you have your favourites already, or are looking for inspiration from a range of diverse habitats including rainforests, mountains, polar regions or the African savannah, you're bound to...

Rammellzee was an enigmatic yet key figure in the nexus of creative forces that defined New York City s heady downtown scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. In the first major monograph on the multi-hyphenate artist, his inspired vision and wildly diverse...

An inspirational workbook for complete beginners to discover and master the art of the brush. Kirsten Burke's Secrets of Brush Calligraphy is a uniquely creative and interactive book for anyone wishing to learn how to create stylish and decorative...

This book provides a simplified and practical vision of the human skeleton to help you in your drawing studies. Here you will find the most common and useful approaches to the body's underlying skeleton and bone structure, which will fuel your...

***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art...

"Hooray for clay! Projects that put clay and ceramics centre stage are invaluable - be it in architecture, public sculpture, cups and saucers on your breakfast table, passing on an understanding of the material is invaluable. Clayground Collective...

An essential handbook for studio potters working towards achieving a fantastic spectrum of colourful glazes. Colour in Glazes teaches you all the methods for achieving colour in glazes, focusing on colouring oxides in detail, including the newly...

Art and photography have played a key role in capturing and reflecting on the conditions for the Brexit referendum. Illustrated by a range of work by artists including Cornelia Parker, Wolfgang Tillmans, David Shrigley, Tacita Dean and Jeremy Deller as...

Learn to create gorgeous portraits in watercolor using easy techniques. Written and illustrated by Ana Santos, an artist and illustrator and a popular online instructor, Creative Portraits in Watercolor presents simple step-by-step demonstrations and...

From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture. Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary...

Focusing on 56 selected works from the 1970s to today, Pushing paper examines why drawing has endured as a method of making art, and explores the vital and fundamental nature of drawing through themes such as systems and process, identity, place and...

Over the past decade, tattoos have become one of the most popular forms of visual culture in the world. TTT: Tattoo is a survey of over 300 of the best international tattooers working today, including Duncan X, Tomas Tomas, Scott Campbell, the Leu family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908707321Author Elizabeth JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Kyle Craig PublishingPublisher Kyle Craig PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

The National Gallery in London houses one of the richest collections of Western European paintings in the world, ranging from the 13th to the 20th century. In this beautiful book, one hundred of the greatest works from the collection, each by a different...

The official companion guide to the first twelve episodes of the smash-hit anime series Spy x Family.Discover the secrets behind the Forger family in Spy x Family: The Official Anime Guide-Mission Report: 220409-0625. This companion guide to the first 12...

Revisit the lost art of writing with these fun prompts, worksheets, exercises-and more!-and experience the many benefits of writing by hand, including increased focus and memory, relaxation, and creative expression.Writing by hand may seem passe in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781719465342Author One Color Coloring BookFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The definitive two-way guide to the Coast to Coast Path: both eastbound and westbound routes are described in full. Real Maps: Full Ordnance Survey mapping inside (1:25,000). All accommodation is numbered and marked on the maps. 19 different itineraries:...

This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization...

Award-winning and hugely popular artist Rosie Sanders showcases the beauty of the rose in her follow up to Rosie Sanders Flowers. Over 80 stunning paintings and sketches are shown for the first time. The artist writes a personal letter on each of her...

Artworks, manuscripts, printed works and wildlife sound recordings come together in this major compendium of the greatest and strangest representations of animals on record. Eighty detailed case studies highlight celebrated works, including John James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780760383421Author F. Sehnaz BacFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint New Shoe PressPublisher New Shoe PressWeight(grams) 454g

A historic publishing event! For the first time ever, all 3,022 paintings from the world's most popular museum are collected into a striking, slipcased book and DVD-ROM set.From the Da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Vermeer's The Lacemaker, the Louvre houses many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834540Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby's'Reading it is like participating in a hugely enjoyable personal tutorial given by a cultured,...

The most extensive collection of nature printing ever assembled, featuring 43 different printing techniques. Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of a natural object such...

A unique and exciting approach to botanical illustration, this beginner guide demonstrates everything you need to know about capturing beautiful botanical specimens on paper. Each exercise guides the reader through a different aspect of botanical...

The Time Garden is a magical adventure and the best-selling debut colouring book from Korean author and artist Daria Song, now available in English for the first time. 'A pleasure from page one' -- ***** Reader review'What a wonderful book. Pure...

Spark your creativity and hone your drawing skills with this comprehensive art book for beginners-which includes interactive lessons and fun practice pages! Join master artists Katy Lipscomb and Tyler Fisher as they guide you step-by-step through the...

This is a practical and inspiring guide for acrylic artists of all levels of ability, from beginners who want to learn how to paint with acrylics to experienced artists looking for inspiration and ideas. Three well-known artists and authors share their...

A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be...

Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer...

This is a step-by-step guide to sculpting the human face. It is richly illustrated with both photographs and diagrams for creating detail. It comes from experienced sculptor and instructor Alex Irvine. Sculpting the human face presents a unique artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231446Author Dan LishFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737797920Author Dick HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A...

In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885,...

A completely new way of looking at and understanding Surrealism, with a focus on the worldwide sweep of the movement"The variety of discoveries, detailed with exceptional scholarship in a ravishing keeper of a catalogue, defeat generalization."-Peter...

If you like coloring, tangling, or lettering, you'll love to dangle! Grab a marker, with The Art of Drawing Dangles by your side, you'll be drawing beautiful designs with flourishes and flair abound.Dangles are a beautiful and whimsical new art form for...

If you love dogs and you love to color, get ready for hours of relaxing creativity. Talented artist Brenda Abdoyan presents 32 dog-gone cute designs for you to bring to life with beautiful colors. Brenda s intricately detailed, whimsical illustrations...