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Drawing: Beginning Still Life: Learn to draw realistic still lifes step by step - 40 page step-by-step drawing book

Steven Pearce · Walter Foster Pub
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Beginning Still Life teaches aspiring artists everything they need to know to get started in drawing with graphite pencil. From choosing paper and pencils to basic pencil techniques to composition and development, this book is bursting with valuable lessons to help beginning artists master...
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The Compendium of Fantasy Art Techniques: The Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Fantasy Worlds, Mystical Characters, and the Creatures of Your Own Worst Nightmares

Rob Alexander · Barron'S
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Artists interested in graphic novels, comic book illustration, or computer game graphics will find a veritable course load of instruction in this mega-fantasy art manual. Combining the best of three of Barron's top fantasy art titles, The Compendium of Fantasy Art Techniques presents easy-to...
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James Cameron's Titanic

James Cameron · Harper Design; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

An update on a classic, the New York Times bestselling companion to James Camerons unforgettable film Titanic celebrates Foxs re-release of Titanic in 3D and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the ships tragic sinking. The original editions of James Camerons Titanic were runaway bestsellers...
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Heritage of Music

Michael Raeburn
Format: Book

This handsome new reference is an encyclopedic record of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present day. With a lively text and copious illustrations, each volume is a complete survey of the period it covers; together the four volumes present a history of Western music as
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Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

Geoff Dyer · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From a writer "whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era" (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers. As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance...
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

John Powell · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make...
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Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music

Jan Swafford · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible...
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Creative Colored Pencil: Easy and Innovative Techniques for Beautiful Painting

Gary Greene · North Light
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

New, easy & fun colored pencil techniques! In Creative Colored Pencil, you will find secrets for amazing new and never-before-seen techniques that will turn your everyday colored pencils (both traditional wax-based and water-soluble into liquid pencils! Whether you want to learn how to color...
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Painting Without Paint: Landscapes with your tablet

Matthew Palmer · Search Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Popular and innovative artist Matthew Palmer's new book shows you just how easy it is to produce fantastic landscapes on your tablet. Using clear, no-nonsense instruction and plenty of helpful, practical advice, you will quickly learn everything you need, from preparing your colors to adding...
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Perspective Made Easy: Step by Step Drawing Lessons

Robbie Lee · IMPACT
Format: Print book

Understanding perspective is within reach!With Perspective Made Easy A Step-by-Step Guide, readers of all skill levels can learn how to draw the world around them- everything from cars, rooms, and landscapes to rockets, furniture, and pants- with realistic and convincing depth. The book...
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Portraits: Discover dynamic techniques for creating lifelike heads and faces in watercolor

Peggi Habets · Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Paperback

The light and airy qualities of watercolor lend it to creating luminous portraits that are full of life. In Watercolor Made Easy: Portraits, award-winning artist Peggi Habets invites artists to learn the secrets of rendering beautiful, lifelike portraits using this sometimes tricky medium....
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Painting portraits

Everett Raymond Kinstler · Watson-Guptill Publications
Pages: 175
Format: Hardcover

The distinguished portrait painter discusses his techniques and methods of working and offers four step-by-step painting demonstrations --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined

Ron Miller · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

How have actual spaceships influenced the design of fictional ones like the Millenium Falcon and the Starship Enterprise? Did a fiction series in Collier's magazine really inspire us to create real-life space stations like Mir and the ISS? How have our depictions of space travel developed...
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Star, Branch, Spiral, Fan: Learn to Draw from Nature's Perfect Design Structures

Yellena James · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 126
Format: Flexibound

True beauty is found in nature, making this the perfect sketch book for your art inspiration!As if being responsible for dazzling sunsets and the aurora borealis were not enough, nature is also guardian to the universal principals of design. With mathematical perfection, its recurring structures...
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