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81) Maestra
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By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a prestigious London art house. By night, she's a hostess at one of the capital's notorious champagne bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She's transformed her accent and taught herself about wine and the correct use of a dessert fork, not to mention the art of discretion. She's learned to be a good girl. But when Judith is fired for uncovering a dark...
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Sir Basil Markesinis has held tenured senior posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, University of London, Leiden (in the Netherlands) and the Law School of the University of Texas at Austin where he is now Emeritus Professor of Comparative Methodology. He has also held for a number of years part-time Chairs at the Universities of Paris I (Sorbonne), Paris II (Assas), Munich (Germany), Ghent (Belgium), Siena, Genova, and Rome (Italy), the...
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"Got a half hour? Use it to paint something beautiful with these ten quick projects. The 30 Minute Artist series is for beginners and busy artists who want to achieve great paintings in just half an hour. Here, expert artist and teacher Fiona Peart helps you build skills and confidence, and loosen up your style, by producing spontaneous, lively flower paintings in thirty minutes flat. Discover quick exercises to get you started -- and then try the...
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The Creature Garden is an illustrator's step-by-step sourcebook for drawing and painting 50 real and imagined creatures in a whimsical folk-art style. With an embossed cover, striking endpapers, and extraordinary interior illustrations, this beautifully crafted book is a unique piece of art in itself.
Husband-and-wife illustrator team Harry and Zanna Goldhawk, the founders of Papio Press, teach you how to make vibrant paintings of these beautiful...
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"A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d'art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite society. But when Isabella first arrives in Boston in 1861,...
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It's a prehistoric party when readers get to draw friendly and fierce dinosaurs! With the help of colorful examples and simple text, readers are able to develop the foundations of strong artistic skills without stress. They're encouraged to draw a variety of dinosaurs, from the Tyrannosaurus Rex to the Diplodocus. Clear step-by-step instructions help readers start, but then they're able to get creative. By adding their own shading, colors, and details...
89) Drawing animals
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"Thanks to the handy tracing shapes provided in this helpful how-to guide, drawing animals has never been easier! Readers are introduced to the fun of using shapes to create cool and cute animal pals as they follow along with each set of step-by-step instructions. With colorful illustrations serving as examples for each project, readers are given the tools and structure to develop their artistic skills in a stress-free, encouraging way. They're even...
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"When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what is law enforcement doing to prevent this crime today? Due to the misleading portrayal of art crime in the entertainment industry people have the flawed belief...
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This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new "20 Ways" series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes–cat, giraffe, seal, elephant, whale and much, much more–over 900 drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on 20 Ways to Draw a Cat. This is not a step-by-step technique book--rather,...
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This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new "20 Ways" series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes - tree, tulip, shell, owl, peacock feather, mushroom, cloud, and much, much more–over 900 drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on 20 Ways to Draw a Tree. This is not a step-by-step...
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Intermediate and advanced art students receive a broad vocabulary of effects with this in-depth study of light. Topics include basics, use of light to define form and space, field effects, colored light, and many other subjects. Diagrams and paintings illustrate applications of principles to figure, still life, and landscape paintings.
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This excellent collection of historic decorative ornament contains over 3,000 examples ranging from the cultures of the Greeks and Romans through the Victorians. Among the many different kinds of objects depicted are fine line drawings of chairs, thrones, crowns, heraldic emblems, altars, armor, architecture, and scores of objects used in everyday life. 3002 black-and-white illustrations.
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"Give your readers an adventure into the world of magical creatures with this wild guide to origami. They'll learn how to fold, unfold, and pinch paper into different shapes in order to make delightful mythical creatures, such as a unicorn. Step-by-step instructions for completing each exciting project help readers with the construction of their own beautiful origami figures. On each page, there are also eye-catching illustrations demonstrating how...
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In this delightfully illustrated book Susie Wynne shows how to draw and paint a range of popular pets in watercolor - dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, horses - in step-by-step detail.
Learning how to paint your pet has great popular appeal. The Daily Mail weekend color supplement has already featured Susie Wynne's work twice and this brought in a huge postbag.
Susie specializes in painting people's pets and over the years she has perfected her drawing...
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The first guide to selling art independently. This comprehensive resource shows artists how to make a living from their art—without relying on galleries. Through interviews with a range of successful artists, readers will learn how to write about their own work, how to arrange and curate exhibits, how to work in nonprofit arts spaces, how to determine when and if to advertised artwork for sale, and how to exhibit in non-art spaces. Artists will...
99) Her right foot
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If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her?
She's in New York.
She's holding a torch.
And she's taking one step forward.
But why?
In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, uniquely American in its frank tone and honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue....
She's in New York.
She's holding a torch.
And she's taking one step forward.
But why?
In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, uniquely American in its frank tone and honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue....
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One of the founders of modern calligraphy, Edward Johnston regarded lettering, writing, and illuminating as not only desirable ends in themselves but also as practical avenues to mastery of typography, decoration, and design. In this classic, profusely illustrated guide, he distilled his expertise into a series of easy-to-follow lessons that will benefit any student of calligraphy, book design, or art. Part I is devoted to writing and illuminating....
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