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In Bloom: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Lush Florals

Rachel Reinert · Get Creative 6
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

From the author of adult-coloring sensations Botanical Wonderland and Desert Wonderland, as well as the bestselling Color Workshop, comes a stunning guide to drawing a garden full of flowers. Rachel Reinert is the perfect artist to explain the intricacies of drawing flowers. With the straightforward,...
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Everyday Watercolor Flowers: A Modern Guide to Painting Blooms, Leaves, and Stems Step by Step

Jenna Rainey · Watson-Guptill
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Author of Everyday Watercolor and Instagram darling Jenna Rainey presents a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting botanicals from lilies to daffodils in a wide variety of styles.Artist Jenna Rainey shares easy-to-follow ways to paint a wide range of botanicals, all in her fresh, modern...
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Paint, Play, Explore: Expressive Mark-Making Techniques in Mixed Media

Rae Missigman · North Light Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Discover the marks for your most authentic art! Mixed-media artist Rae Missigman identifies herself as a "mark-maker." Ever in the forefront of her art, organic shapes and graphic marks are what give her work a sense of authenticity. With an adventurous, anything-goes attitude...
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Television: A Biography

David Thomson · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content...
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The Dog in Photography: 1839-Today

RAYMOND MERRITT · TASCHEN
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover

Dog DaysA photo tribute to our four-pawed friends In celebration of the world's favorite animal, we bring you over 400 photographs of or about dogs. With pictures from the 19th century to today, the collection includes works by Man Ray, Eric Fischl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Donna Ruskin,...
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The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA

Anthony Casillo · Chronicle Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly...
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Advanced Style: Older and Wiser

Ari Seth Cohen · powerHouse Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

This follow-up to the bestselling Advanced Style features more senior street style and inspiration from all over the globe. In this new edition Ari Seth Cohen shares his work from the past few years including some of the world's best-dressed older gentlemen. Similar in format to the original,...
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The National Parks: An American Legacy

Ian Shive · Earth Aware Editions, 2015.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From the cascading waterfalls of Yosemite to the unique geothermal features of Yellowstone, the U.S. national parks are among the most breathtaking destinations in the world. Founded to preserve such natural beauty for posterity, the national parks represent one of America's crowning...
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words

John Mayer · Methuen
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

In 1974, a group of determined, young high school actors started doing plays under the name of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, eventually taking residence in the basement of a church in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago. Thus began their unlikely journey to become one of the most prominent...
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A Craftsman's Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning

Eric Gorges · Algonquin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The host of TV's A Craftsman's Legacy makes the case that the craftsman's way--the philosophy, the skills, and the mindset--can provide a helpful blueprint for all of us in our increasingly hurried, mass-manufactured world. Today, even as so many of us spend hours in front of screens and in the virtual...
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