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Tangle Journey: Exploring the Far Reaches of Tangle Drawing, from simple strokes to color and mixed media

Beckah Krahula · Quarry Books
Format: Print book

Find the next step in your zentangle journey, with even more step-by-step techniques and beautiful inspirational drawings! An exciting and in-depth follow up to One Zentangle A Day, Beckah Krahula guides you along with her sure-footed instruction and beautiful examples as she shows you how to take...
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Perspective for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear and Easy Guide to Successful Perspective Drawing

MARK WILLENBRINK · North Light Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Perspective made simple. How to draw in a realistic style. Perspective is arguably the most important element of drawing and also one of the most difficult to master. It's what gives drawings dimension and is the key to realistic drawing. Now the best-selling authors of Drawing for the Absolute...
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Dark Girls

Bill Duke · Amistad
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of the New York Times bestselling I Dream a World and Crowns comes this full-color companion volume to the acclaimed NAACP Award-nominated documentary Dark Girls - an inspiring and breathtaking photo book that celebrates dark-skinned women.Black has never been more beautiful,...
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Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists School: Classic Techniques and Expert Tips from the Golden Age of Illustration - Featuring the work and words ... illustrators

Stephanie Plunkett · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Learn to draw from the work of amazing artists such as Albert Dorne and Norman Rockwell, the founding artists of the Famous Artists School.The artwork presented in Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists School is gleaned from the amazing collection of more than 5,000 artworks and hundreds...
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Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America 1700-1830

John R Watson · Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover

Through the instruments that comprise the historical keyboard collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation including six harpsichords, six spinets, three organs, and twenty three pianos Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America, 1700-1830;explores the keyboard culture of America...
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The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge

Manuel Lima · Princeton Architectural Press, 2014.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Our critically acclaimed bestseller Visual Complexity was the first in-depth examination of the burgeoning field of information visualization. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous historical examples of past efforts to make sense of complex systems of information. In this new companion...
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The New Colored Pencil: Create Luminous Works with Innovative Materials and Techniques

Kristy Ann Kutch · Watson-Guptill Publications
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Start coloring, relieve stress, and learn to create radiant, original works of art using colored pencils, wax pastels, and watercolor pencils.Add vibrancy to your coloring creations with instruction from best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch as she guides you through recommendations...
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Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater

Eddie Shapiro · Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pages: 364
Format: Print book

In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving...
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The Joy of Photography

Eastman Kodak Company Staff · Addison-Wesley
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback

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Photoshop CS6 For Dummies

Peter Bauer · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The bestselling guide to the leading image-editing software, Photoshop CS6, fully updated! Want picture-perfect photos, every time? Get up to speed on the most popular professional photo-editing software on the market: Photoshop. In this new edition of Photoshop CS6 For Dummies, expert...
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The Woman I Wanted to Be

Diane von Furstenberg · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

One of the most influential, admired, and colorful women of our time: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal stories from her life, about family, love, beauty and business: "It's so good, you'll want to take notes" (People) .Diane...
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The Civil War: An Illustrated History

Geoffrey C Ward · Knopf
Pages: 425
Format: Print book

The companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series, with a new preface to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary With more than 500 illustrations: rare Civil War photographs - many never before published - as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps reproduced in full color It was the greatest...
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Van Gogh: A Power Seething

Julian Bell · New Harvest
Format: Hardcover

"I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and - of the artistic life," Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. "And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there's a chance that our hopes won't be in vain." His prediction...
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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual

Lesa Snider · Pogue Press
Pages: 928
Format: Paperback

Photoshop CC is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book makes learning Photoshop as easy as possible by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program,...
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution

Bryan Shih · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, an organization that remains one of the most misunderstood of the twentieth century. But beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and behind charismatic...
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