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  Drawing in Pen & Ink (First Step Series)

  by Claudia Nice

  Discusses the materials and basic techniques for drawing with ink and includes step-by-step exercises.
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  Monsters

  by Peter Gray

  Step-by-step sequences explain how to draw in the unique manga style. The book includes tips on perspective, light and shade, and inking and colouring and exciting projects allow readers to put into practice the techniques learned.
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  Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain : A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence

  by Ph.D. Edwards, Betty, Betty Edwards

  Edwards uses the latest in brain research to explain how anyone can learn to draw more accurately and creatively. This edition contains a new illustrated section in color, several fully revised chapters, new sample drawings, and a new section on handwriting.
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  Classic Motorcars Coloring Book (Colouring Books)

  by Tre Tryckare Co.

  Meticulous, accurate line drawings of 46 memorable motorcars: Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, 1928 Daimler, 1930 MG, 1933 Pierce Arrow, 1941 Cadillac, Jaguar 28, many more. Rendered by noted Swedish technical firm, illustrations eminently suitable for coloring, accompanied by identifying captions. Authentic color schemes on covers.
• Watercolor FlowersDavid Easton

  

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  Watercolor Flowers

  by David Easton

  The transparent quality of watercolour makes it the ideal medium for flower painting. This book covers all aspects of watercolour techniques and contains ten individual flower projects. By exploring many different and sometimes unusual approaches to using watercolour, David Easton aims to extend the artist's range of expression and creativity when painting flower subjects. The importance of drawing and composition... (more)
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  Planet Origami

  by Steve Biddle, Megumi Biddle

  This space-age selection of fun-to-make origami projects includes full instructions for making scary aliens, a space shuttle, and more, plus 24 sheets of origami paper in red, black, gray, orange, green, yellow, silver, and gold.
• Aztec Mosaics Coloring Book (Explore Ancient Worlds Through Color)

  

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  Aztec Mosaics Coloring Book (Explore Ancient Worlds Through Color)

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  The Oxford Companion to Art

  A non-specialist introduction and work of reference to the fine arts, covering artistic endeavour through all time and throughout the world.
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  The Art of Painting step-by-step instruction and demonstration in color mixing and painting techniques selected from The Grumbacher Library

  by Walter Brooks

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  PORTRAITS IN OILS (series #15)

  by Stella Mackie

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  Cezanne's Quarry

  by Barbara Corrado Pope

  A young woman is found murdered...and the clues to her death point to her spurned lover, Paul Cézanne. In this richly atmospheric novel, a mysterious young woman named Solange Vernet arrives in Aix-en-Provence with her lover, a Darwinian scholar named Charles Westbury, and a year later is found strangled in a quarry outside the city. The young and inexperienced magistrate, Bernard Martin, finds his investigation... (more)
• Learn to Draw CartoonsEmmett Elvin

  

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  Learn to Draw Cartoons

  by Emmett Elvin

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  Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters

  by David Hockney

  David Hockney’s controversial book, now revised in paperback with thirty-two new pages of evidence Join one of the most influential artists of our time as he investigates the painting techniques of the Old Masters. Hockney’s extensive research led him to conclude that artists such as Caravaggio, Velázquez, da Vinci, and other hyperrealists actually used optics and lenses to create their masterpieces.... (more)
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  The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head

  by William Maughan

  In this innovative guide, master art instructor William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and highly accurate modeling technique of chiaroscuro (Italian for "light and dark") developed by Leonardo da Vinci during the High Renaissance. Maughan first introduces readers to the basics of this centuries-old technique, showing how to analyze form, light, and shadow; use... (more)
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  The 20th Century Art Book

  by Editors of Phaidon Press

  Following in the tradition of Phaidon's "The Art Book", this is an illustrated dictionary which presents in alphabetical order the work of 500 great artists from the 20th century. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a key work and a short text about the work of the artist.
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  The Art Book

  by Adam Butler, Susan Stirling, Claire Van Cleave

  Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Book has become a publishing phenomenon and a well-known event in the art book world. Reduced in size, making it light and highly portable, this new mini edition presents the same easy-to-use alphabetical guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors. 500 color illustrations.
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  How to Read a Painting: Lessons from the Old Masters

  by Patrick de Rynck

  Clues to the meaning of many of the masterpieces of art history lie in a rich system of symbols, themes, and motifs that often eludes modern museum-goers. The intimate knowledge of Christian theology, Greek and Roman mythology, and folklore that was so vivid in the minds of viewers during the Renaissance is rarely part of the preparation the contemporary viewer brings to a painting. This insightful, anecdotal,... (more)
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  Concerning the Spiritual in Art

  by Wassily Kandinsky

  Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. Kandinsky's provocative thoughts on color theory and the nature of art. Analysis of Picasso, Matisse, and earlier masters. 12 illustrations.
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  Alternative Photographic Processes: A Working Guide for Image Makers

  by Randall Webb

  "...amply illustrated...provides an overview of alternative printing processes, including several nearly forgotten traditional processes, such as salt printing and photo etching....takes a straightforward, how-to approach to each of these unique and often complicated processes in a series of short chapters. Each chapter provides some historical background, discusses advantages and disadvantages of the technique,... (more)
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  Painting With Watercolor, Pen & Ink

  by Claudia Nice

  Best-selling author and artist Claudia Nice shows readers how to create incredible art in watercolor, pen and ink. She makes it easy by covering all the drawing and painting basics--from materials and texture techniques to color theory and special effects. It's a one-of-a-kind course in making extraordinary art. Nice provides guidelines, advice and techniques for rendering hundreds of favorite places,... (more)