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  The Giving Tree

  by Shel Silverstein

  "Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk ... and the tree was happy. However, as the boy grew older, he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave... (more)
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  Falling Up

  by Shel Silverstein

  Millie McDeevit screamed a scream so loud it made her eyebrows steam. She screamed so loud her jawbone broke, her tongue caught fire, her nostrils smoked.... Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings by the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels, Danny O'Dare,... (more)
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  Creating Textures In Pen & Ink With Watercolor

  by Claudia Nice

  Using picture after picture (and handwritten instructions, for a more intimate feel), Claudia Nice teaches artists how to use dots, fine lines, brush strokes, black & white and color-a mixture of mediums and techniques to create the gleaming transparency of glass, rolling surf and ocean waves, the warmth of brick and adobe, rainbows that glimmer, sunrises and sunsets that glow, dramatic wood grain, smoothed... (more)
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  Sketching Your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink

  by Claudia Nice

  The only complete guide - for all types and levels of artists - on sketching from life in pen and ink, written by a master of the subject and presented in easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion. Claudia Nice teaches artists how to create powerful sketches of plants, skies, waterscapes, houses & buildings, animals, birds, faces & figures and more after discussing the basics of the medium from... (more)
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  Erotica II

  An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature

  This second entry offers the same beautiful and daring mix of forbidden art (paintings, lithographs, drawings, watercolors, and photographs--many by masters of the form) with excerpts from banned books (the famous and the anonymous). Over illustrations, most in color.
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  100 Artists See Satan

  100 artists showcase their conceptions of the world's all-time favorite bad boy, Satan, in this subversive response to the popular traveling exhibit ""100 Artists See God."" As the popularity of angels arises, so does their oversaturation in the art world. This is a tongue-in-cheek balancing of the cultural phenomena of angels: 100 devilish works of art, sincere, irreverent, and parodic.
• Creating Textures in Pen and Ink with WatercolorClaudia Nice, International Artist

  

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  Creating Textures in Pen and Ink with Watercolor

  by Claudia Nice, International Artist

  Using picture after picture (and handwritten instructions, for a more intimate feel), Claudia Nice teaches artists how to use dots, fine lines, brush strokes, black & white and color-a mixture of mediums and techniques to create the gleaming transparency of glass, rolling surf and ocean waves, the warmth of brick and adobe, rainbows that glimmer, sunrises and sunsets that glow, dramatic wood grain, smoothed... (more)
• THE BRITISH CHARACTERPont of Punch; Introduced By E.M. Delafield

  

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  THE BRITISH CHARACTER

  by Pont of Punch; Introduced By E.M. Delafield

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  One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media

  by Veronica Lawlor

  Through 46 daily exercises which make up a complete 6-week course, you will keep your artistic skills sharp and your imaginations fertile by doing One Drawing A Day . Each spread in the book features a beautiful drawing by one of 8 professional illustrators, with a description and comments by the illustrator as well as a companion exercise. Each exercise includes suggestions for various mediums or mixed-media... (more)
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  100 Artists See God

  by Meg Cranston

  With a mix of irreverence and sincerity, artists John Baldessari and Meg Cranston here tackle nothing less than the question of God. Acting as curators, they have invited 100 artists to respond to one of art's most enduring challenges: picturing the divine. The artists selected are those whose work the curators know and admire, those who possess the sense of humor and audacity necessary for such a project, or... (more)