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Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs

Geoff Kersey · Search Press

Artists who work from photographic source material need to learn how to adapt and improve in order to create a successful painting. Geoff Kersey is a master of this way of working, and here he shows how it is done. Reference photographs, colour charts and preparatory sketches are shown...
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The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life

Michael Bolton · Center Street
Format: Hardcover

After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has become one the most successful musicians of our time. THE SOUL OF IT ALL is his backstage pass into his life lived thus far-into the venues, busses, limos, and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into his home and heart. His story...
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Grace: A Memoir

Grace Coddington · Random House; First Edition edition

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s...
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Painting Watercolour Sea & Sky the Easy Way

Terry Harrison · Search Press; 1 edition

This book builds on the success of Terry Harrison's Sea & Sky in Watercolour, adding six new projects and plenty of new paintings. Terry's clear, no-nonsense advice takes the mystery out of painting clouds, clear skies, sunsets, foam bursts, breaking waves, rippled water, reflections,...
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Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties

William Hackman · Other Press
Format: Hardcover

A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70sThe history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends in New York. Los Angeles was out of sight and out of mind, viewed as the apotheosis of popular culture, not a center for serious...
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Basic Drawing Techniques

Richard Box · Search Press; Reprint edition

All artists should possess good drawing skills - and anyone can learn. Richard Box clearly illustrates how to master the basics using a range of simple techniques.
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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations

Peter Evans · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

“I EITHER WRITE THE BOOK OR SELL THE JEWELS,” Ava Gardner told her coauthor, Peter Evans, “and I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.” So began the collaboration that led to this remarkably candid, wickedly sardonic memoir. Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s...
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