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Artist's Watercolor Techniques: Discover How to Paint Landscapes, People and Still Lifes, and Develop Your Own Style

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

Whether you are just starting out with watercolor painting or want to expand your skills and raise your art to the next level, this book has all the inspiration and practical know-how you'll need.. Starting from the very basics, such as choosing the right brushes and practicing color...
 
 
30-Minute Watercolor Animals: Create Beautiful Beginner-Friendly Paintings in No Time at All

Kiley Busko - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback

Paint Stunning Animal Portraits with Ease. Take your next artistic adventure into the animal kingdom with Kiley Busko's collection of gorgeous watercolor tutorials! Designed with beginner artists in mind, these simple and speedy projects produce astonishing results in 30 minutes or less....
 
 
Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture

Aaron Betsky - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuse. As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood,...
 
 
Fifty Places to Travel Solo: Travel Experts Share the World's Greatest Solo Destinations

Chris Santella - Abrams Image
Format: Hardcover

Chris Santella and award-winning writer DC Helmuth's Fifty Places to Travel Solo provides a roadmap to the best, and safest places, for those who choose to adventure on their own.. If there's one striking travel trend in recent years, it's a massive rise in solo travel. Fifty...
 
 
Dungeons & Dragons Worlds & Realms: Adventures from Greyhawk to Faerûn and Beyond

Adam Lee - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

Celebrate fifty years of the spellbinding settings and planes of Dungeons & Dragons with this beautifully illustrated exploration of the multiverse.. "A wonderful collection. This incredible journey through the fantastical realms that inspired countless tables to roll dice together...
 
 
Housesketching: Learn to Create Energetic and Expressive Architectural Drawings

Albert Kiefer - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback

Explore creativity while learning how to draw lively, unique sketches of your favorite houses, shops, landmarks, and other buildings.. Learning to sketch can be intimidating, especially when drawing subjects like architecture that seem to rely on perfect perspective, straight lines, and complex...
 
 
Draw It Happy!: 100 Funny Animals and Fantastic Characters (Draw It!, 2)

Terry Runyan - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback

Welcome to Draw It Happy! by artist and author Terry Runyan, a supersized collection of step-by-step lessons taken from her two popular Draw 62 titles, Draw 62 Animals and Make Them Happy and Draw 62 Characters and Make Them Happy.. Presented in a compact, easy-to-carry format, an amazing...
 
 
Hendrick Motorsports 40 Years: NASCAR Racing's Greatest Team Celebrates Four Decades

Ben White - Motorbooks
Format: Hardcover

"Spanning forty years and more than three hundred victories, the contributions of countless people have built Hendrick Motorsports into the greatest team in NASCAR history. This book is made up of their stories." - Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, from the foreword. Celebrate...
 
 
American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond

Jeremy Dauber - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a highly entertaining book that examines the American obsession with horror - and what it tells us about ourselves. In American Scary, noted cultural historian and Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes the reader to the startling...
 
 
The Wellness Bucket List: 1000 Escapes and Experiences to Enrich Your Mind, Body, and Soul

Nana Luckham - Universe
Format: Hardcover

This inspirational volume on wellness showcases ideas for replenishing the mind, body, and soul and is the latest addition to the bestselling Bucket List series.. For anyone seeking calming and therapeutic wellness respites, this aspirational guide contains 1,000 travel ideas organized...