Discover how fresh and spontaneous watercolor can be!In Watercolor Simplified, Pat Weaver details the fundamental principles of good painting that will enable you to work faster and looser with more confidence. She shows you how to build a solid foundation then create fresh, beautiful work quickly. You'll learn how to:• Master the principles of good composition• Select the best color palette for your subject• Prepare,...

Start painting today - it's easier than you think.If you've ever dreamed of painting in watercolor, this is the book for you. It's designed to help you start experiencing the joy of watercolor immediately - even if you've never picked up a brush.Mark and Mary Willenbrink provide all the guidance and encouragement you need. Their painting techniques, tips and tricks help make every step you take a success, from selecting colors to designing a composition. It...

Wearing jewelry is essential to helping women developed their own style. For women wishing to create a look that's unique, the last thing they'll want to invest money in is mass produced pieces of jewelry. It's for this reason alone, learning the skills needed for making silver and costume jewelry could prove extremely beneficial. When it comes to making such pieces you need to know where to purchase the right kinds of supplies. In this book, " Silver & Costume Jewelry Making: A Complete S...

Rusting and burning, carving and spackling, tarring and flocking: These are just a few of the unique and surprising techniques author Patrica "Trish" Baldwin Seggebruch shares with you in Encaustic Mixed Media!New to encaustic? With Trish leading the way, you can start today! And if you've dabbled in encaustic before, the creative approach and new materials and techniques used in this book will blow you away!Encaustic Mixed Media includes:•

Rendering and Sketching with Markers: Looking at GlassMarkers are an amazing and very versatile tool but are sometimes under appreciated when it comes to drawing and sketching. This book is part of a series of books especially written for the e-book devices which will teach rendering and marker techniques. This book focuses on the concepts on how to use markers and how to create glass shapes using those markers. The book contains step by step examples of how to cre...

Love to paint? Want to learn? Then let's get started!The adventure begins the moment you pick up a brush. Let Jerry Yarnell show you how to make the most of it! In Painting Adventures - the fifth volume of his popular painting series - you'll learn how to create attractive landscapes with skill and confidence.Drawing upon more than thirty years of painting and teaching experience, Jerry provides you with dozens of exciting new chal...

A glimpse into the personal collections and work of 35 major artists.This large format, full-color, inspirational book is about how artists use their collections to make artwork. The gallery-style format allows readers to see what artists collect, and the resulting spectacular artwork they make from it. The book will feature the collections and the artwork of thirty-five major mixed-media artists. The artwork will include journals, assemblages, altered books, as well as jewelry pie...

There’s no question that applications like Photoshop have changed the art world forever. Master digital artists already use these tools to create masterpieces that stretch the limits of the imagination—but you don’t have to be a master to create your own digital art.Whether you’re a beginner who’s never picked up a pen or paintbrush, or a traditional artist who wants to explore everything a digital canvas might inspire, digital artist and arts educator Scott Ligon guides you and in...

Scape Martinez offers up his expertise in taking the vibrant colors of street art to the page, providing easy-to-follow guidance and demonstration of techniques that everyone can learn. With a link to downloadable, printable images, budding artists can experiment on edgy, fun items like shoes and hoodies without spending hours just drawing the outline.

Information architecture has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s and earlier conceptions of the world and the internet being different and separate have given way to a much more complex scenario in the present day. In the post-digital world that we now inhabit the digital and the physical blend easily and our activities and usage of information takes place through multiple contexts and via multiple devices and unstable, emergent choreographies. Information architecture now is steadily...

Reflecting the historic first European seismic code, this professional book focuses on seismic design, assessment and retrofitting of concrete buildings, with thorough reference to, and application of, EN-Eurocode 8. Following the publication of EN-Eurocode 8 in 2004-05, 30 countries are now introducing this European standard for seismic design, for application in parallel with existing national standards (till March 2010) and exclusively after that. Eurocode 8 is also expected to influenc...

This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era. Philosophical, historical, dramatic and poetic texts explore how animals were regarded in all aspects of ancient life, from philosophy to farming.