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Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s’ artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta’s diverse body of work. Although...

This extremely useful guide features the human head in every conceivable pose and illumination, from bright light to gentle shade. Renggli offers dramatic drawings of all age groups—from children to senior citizens—and provides advice on proportion, foreshortening, and other aspects of head construction. 75 illustrations.

¿Quieres descubrir cómo dominar el coloreado en tu tiempo libre y disfrutar más esta actividad relajante? Ahora puedes. Presentamos: El libro Para Colorear Para Grandes y Adultos: Una Fácil y Rápida Guía Para Dominar el Coloreado y Aliviar el Estrés, Relajarse Y Tener Salud, Hoy....

The elegant pen-strokes and visual harmony of Chinese writing, known as hànzì, have long been admired in the west. Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and valuable art form, and with the increasing economic and cultural power of China, its writing is becoming more widely appreciated and understood....

Learn how to draw a simple NW Coast Native wolf from Haida artist Sondra Simone Segundo. Examples of Sondra's most popular hand painted tribal shoe art are featured throughout the book. Be on the look out for more NW COAST NATIVE FORMLINE ART MADE EASY books/art curriculum. Let's Draw Whale, Eagle, Raven, Hummingbird, Frog and more!

The final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling.Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series,...

**Written by best-selling author and hand letterer Abbey Sy, The Complete Photo Guide to Hand Lettering and Calligraphy covers the basics and beyond for creative lettering techniques.  ** The book begins with an overview of tools and materials, both traditional (pointed pen and fountain...

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. Shishkin studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for four years. After that, he attended the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860 and graduated...

A captivating, step-by-step guide that teaches artists to draw and paint exact duplicates of common objects, rendered in the trompe l'oeil, hyperrealistic style of artist Mark Crilley's popular YouTube video series. Are You Up to the Challenge? With just watercolors, colored pencils,...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled erotic. Fragonard has been bracketed with Watteau...

Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers...

Learn to Draw . . . the Draw 50 Way!   For more than forty years, the bestselling Draw 50 series has shown artists of all levels how to create everything from puppies to ships, horses to skyscrapers, and aliens to race cars. This addition to the series shows how to render sixty of Lee J. Ames’s...

The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—is soon to be an Amazon...

Attention-getting typefaces (italic, cursive) in dazzling variety—most in upper- and lowercase, many with vignettes or punctuation marks.