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Beginning Pastel: Tips & techniques for learning to draw & paint in pastel

PAUL PIGRAM - WALTER FOSTER PUB
Format: Print book

Beginning Pastel is the perfect resource for artists just getting started in this colorful medium.Beginning Pastel guides beginning artists through an exploration of pastel techniques and step-by-step projects for a comprehensive and approachable overview of this colorful medium. From choosing...
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Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

Claire Wilcox - Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A linen sheet, smooth with age. A box of buttons, mother-of-pearl and plastic, metal and glass, rattling and untethered. A hundred-year-old pin, forgotten in a hem. Fragile silks and fugitive dyes, fans and crinolines, and the faint mark on leather from a buckle now lost.Claire Wilcox has worked...
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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Austin Kleon - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books - Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined - Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock...
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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

David Weigel - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts -- and has divided listeners ever since.The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping...
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How to Record and Mix Great Vocals

CRAIG ANDERTON - HAL LEONARD
Format: Paperback

(Musician's Guide Home Recordg) . Vocals tell the story that make the all-important connection between singer and listener, but recording a vocal isn't as simple as just putting a mic in front of someone and hoping for the best. This book written in a clear, practical, non-intimidating...
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Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt

John Miller - Grossman's Guitar Workshop
Format: Paperback

When John Hurt was rediscovered in 1963, he was presented with a very rare opportunity to expand and re-write his musical legacy, late in life. And he did just that, recording over seventy songs previously unrecorded by him, adding to the repertoire of thirteen titles he had recorded in 1928....
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Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury

Carolyn Burke - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art.New York, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz,...
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Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton

PHILIP NORMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation.For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos,...
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Hip Hop Decoded: From Its Ancient Origins to Its Modern Day Matrix

Black Dot - MOME Media Inc.
Format: Paperback

Walk with me as I uncover this conspiracy as well as many others involving the culture of Hip Hop. We'll look at Hip Hop from its early days when B-Boys and B-Girls represented for the love of the art form, to what it has become today. But make no mistake about it; this is not a book...
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The Sketch Encyclopedia: Over 900 drawing projects

3DTotal Publishing - 3DTotal Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A book like no other, The Sketch Encyclopedia is an ideal art resource for anyone wanting to take their first steps into sketching or drawing. With over 1,000 drawing projects, each broken down into four key steps for practicing your skills, there is enough to keep you sketching for years!...
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