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Landscape Painting in Pastel: Techniques and Tips from a Lifetime of Painting
Elizabeth Mowry · North Light Books
Pages: 158
Format: Print book
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Capture the magic of nature in pastel!From the first ferns unfurling in spring to the flaming red foliage of fall and the snow-blanketed quiet of winter, master pastel artist and teacher Elizabeth Mowry offers both beginners and seasoned artists alike a fresh approach to creating light-filled... |
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100 things Star wars fans should know & do before they die
Dan Casey · Triumph Books
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
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Perfect for Star Wars fans who think they already know everything On May 25, 1977, the world of science fiction, film, and pop culture was changed forever with the release of Star Wars. The beginning of this epic space opera franchise would inspire an expanded universe of creativity, including... |
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Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet
Laura Jacobs · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad-in Russia, Italy,... |
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Creative Colored Pencil: Easy and Innovative Techniques for Beautiful Painting
Gary Greene · North Light
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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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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The Mandala Guidebook: How to Draw, Paint and Color Expressive Mandala Art
Kathryn Costa · North Light Books
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Relax, create and connect with mandala art. Do you love coloring mandalas? You're not alone Adult coloring books are gaining in popularity every day. Do you want to learn how to draw and color your own mandalas? In "The Mandala Guidebook, " Kathryn Costa shows you how with... |
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The Painter's Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art
Hugh Howard · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 297
Format: Hardcover
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An eloquent new look at the beginnings of the American republic--through the portraits of its first icon, George Washington, and the painters who defined him. "I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck ... no dray moves more readily... |
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The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Stefan Al · The MIT Press
Pages: 264
Format: Print book
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The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates,... |
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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
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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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Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture
Donna Gustafson · Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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This survey of historical and modern portraiture presents a fundamentally new and exciting exploration of how people view themselves, their personal relationships, and their tribes. Portraits--single, double, and group--are the focus of this fascinating volume. Encompassing work from the 18th... |
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Running a Successful Photography Business
Lisa Pritchard · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
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Running a Successful Photography Business is the definitive business bible for every professional photographer - a one-stop resource covering everything you need to know to make your business a success. This handy book contains guidance on the key areas of running your business: fine-tuning... |
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Ocmulgee National Monument
Matthew Jennings · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book
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People have called the land near the Ocmulgee River in present-day central Georgia home for a long time, perhaps as many as 17,000 years, and each successive group has left its mark on the landscape. Mississippian-era people erected the towering Great Temple Mound and other large earthworks... |
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Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music
Jan Swafford · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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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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