Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor
10 best books like Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor (Claudia Nice): Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You, Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice, Rendering in Pen and Ink: The Classic Book on Pen and Ink Techniques for Artists, Illustrators, Architects, and Designers, Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art, Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity, Creative Wildfire: An Introduction to Art Journaling - Basics and Beyond, Journal Spilling: Mixed-Media Techniques for Free Expression, Water Paper Paint: Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media, Botanical Illustration Course: With the Eden Project, The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds
| Author | Clare Walker Leslie |
| ISBN | 1580174930 |
Experience the splendor of nature with fresh eyes! Featuring an inspiring portfolio from Clare Walker Leslie’s nature journals, this guide offers easy-to-learn techniques for capturing the world around you in pictures and words. Encouraging you to make journaling a part of your daily routine,...
Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
| Author | Juliette Aristides |
| ISBN | 0823006581 |
Want to paint more like Manet and less like Jackson Pollock?
Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them...
Rendering in Pen and Ink: The Classic Book on Pen and Ink Techniques for Artists, Illustrators, Architects, and Designers
| Author | Arthur L. Guptill |
| ISBN | 0823045293 |
Arthur L. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular...
| Author | Ricë Freeman-Zachery |
| ISBN | 1600613225 |
How do you make room for making art?
Do you long to uncover secrets to sneaking more creative time into your day, or to making your studio the perfect place to unleash your artistic potential? Have you often wondered how successful creative types seem to manage both with ease?
In her...
| Author | Suzanne Simanaitis |
| ISBN | 1581808798 |
Indulge your creative cravings Are you passionately curious? Let "Kaleidoscope" open new doors of creativity as you explore dozens of stories, exercises and instructive projects, all designed to feed, encourage and sometimes flex your creative muscle.Between the beautiful pages of "Kaleidoscope,"...
| Author | L.K. Ludwig |
| ISBN | 1592536018 |
Art journaling is a vital activity for artists who need a place to experiment, draw, paint, document ideas, and continue an interior dialog. This lush, visual book is a must-have volume for both beginning and experienced art journalers. Each chapter presents crucial, basic information for how to...
| Author | Diana Trout |
| ISBN | 1600613195 |
Go ahead--make a mess!There are no lines to stay inside of here. You're free to quiet your inner critic and spill color (as well as your thoughts) all over the page. Author Diana Trout offers a double-dose of encouragement for you to try out new techniques, to ask yourself new questions and to see how safe...
| Author | Heather Smith Jones |
| ISBN | 1592536557 |
This book is not only for "painters" but for all types of creative individuals who want to experience and play with watercolor, whether their background is mixed-media, textile art, journaling, or paper craft. Unlike the typical watercolor textbooks, this unique, beautiful volume is a field book...
| Author | Rosie Martin |
| ISBN | 0713490748 |
This is simply the best and most complete course in botanical illustration ever produced, with each chapter a perfectly constructed and self-contained class. Created in conjunction with the internationally renowned Eden Project—home of the only jungle in captivity—it’s put together by...
The first third of the book had objective value. It had a few step-by-step bird drawing tutorials and basic bird biology, which was nice as someone who loves natural history but tends to gravitate to non-birds and has rarely drawn birds. However, the rest of the book was a waste of time for me.
I...
| Author | Sarah Simblet |
| ISBN | 0756652502 |
Following the success of Anatomy for the Artist and Sketch Book for the Artist, this latest title from the acclaimed artist Sarah Simblet investigates the extraordinary structure and variety of every type of plant-from mosses and lichens to flowers and trees-and teaches the reader how to draw them.
The...
The Polymer Clay Techniques Book
| Author | Sue Heaser |
| ISBN | 1581800088 |
Everyone can achieve great results with polymer clay. With the 50+ techniques in this book, readers can create polymer clay buttons or boxes or anything in between. Starting with the very basics (such as rolling, baking and gluing), it then moves on to more advanced methods: marbling, texturing, millefiori,...
The DC Comics Guide to Pencilling Comics
| Author | Klaus Janson |
| ISBN | 0823010287 |
America’s leading comic book publisher brings its superstar creators and classic characters to the second in an authoritative series of books on how to create comics. The art of Klaus Janson has endured in the ever-changing comic book industry for over 30 years. Now this talented artist brings that...
Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
| Author | Norman Cousins |
| ISBN | 0140139656 |
The book is interesting, but it gets repetitive as it goes on. It chronicles the author's time at UCLA medical school in the 70s and 80s building a program in psychoneuroimmunology, as part of his interest in documenting the health effects of positive emotions. Cousins is not a scientist or a medical...
One Drawing a Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media
Through 46 daily exercises which make up a complete 6-week course, you will keep your artistic skills sharp and your imaginations fertile by doing "One Drawing A Day." Each spread in the book features a beautiful drawing by one of 8 professional illustrators, with a description and comments by the illustrator...
Altered Curiosities: Assemblage Techniques & Projects
| Author | Jane Ann Wynn |
| ISBN | 1581809727 |
Discover a curious world of assemblage with projects that have a story to tell!
Step inside "Altered Curiosities," where a wisdom tooth gets its own shrine, a honeybee lights up the room and a taxidermy eye becomes the eye in the back of your head. As author Jane Wynn shares her unique approach...
| Author | Milton Glaser |
| ISBN | 1585679941 |
Milton Glaser, from the prefacing interview with Peter Mayer:
"When you look at a Vermeer and read in an art history book that the reason the work is successful is the compositional balance of yellow and blue, you are being informed of nothing. The reason you are responsive to a Vermeer is because...
The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics
| Author | Mark Chiarello |
| ISBN | 0823010309 |
Acclaimed artists Mark Chiarello and Todd Klein demystify traditional graphic storytelling in this practical guide. Chiarello explains the entire coloring process, from computer and software choice to creating color effects that give the action its maximum impact. Klein discusses whether to...
Joy of Zentangle: Drawing Your Way to Increased Creativity, Focus, and Well-Being
| Author | Suzanne McNeill |
| ISBN | 1574214276 |
Zentangle® is an easy-to-learn method of pattern drawing that reduces stress while promoting creativity. This book will introduce readers to the basic theory of Zentangle and provide instructions for drawing over 100 tangle patterns from such Certified Zentangle Teachers as Suzanne McNeill,...
The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World
| Author | Gabriel Campanario |
| ISBN | 1592537251 |
The Art of Urban Sketching is both a comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel. Authored by the founder of the nonprofit organization Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), this beautiful, 320-page volume...
Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual
| Author | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
This book was truly amazing. It is an awesome companion to the study of the Doctrine and Covenants. It contains commentary on every section. It gives historical background as to what was happening in the lives of the Prophet Joseph as well as the other saints when each section was given. Each section also...
Hubener vs. Hitler: A Biography of Helmuth Hubener, Mormon Teenage Resistance Leader
| Author | Richard Lloyd Dewey |
| ISBN | 0929753135 |
Read Three Against Hitler by Rudi Wobbe. Much MUCH better!
This book was awful! How an author could take so an intriguing subject and make it truly boring is beyond me. Don't read this book.
I found four overall issues with this book:
1. Tangents - The author's over-arching narrative...
Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists
| Author | Mark Simon |
| ISBN | 0823016714 |
All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad…look glad…look mad…madder…no, even madder…okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever. Facial Expressions includes more than 2,500 photographs of 50 faces—men...
Bioinformatics For Dummies
| Author | Jean-Michel Claverie |
| ISBN | 0470089857 |
Were you always curious about biology but were afraid to sit through long hours of dense reading? Did you like the subject when you were in high school but had other plans after you graduated? Now you can explore the human genome and analyze DNA without ever leaving your desktop! Bioinformatics For Dummies...
