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Swissted
Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined
Written by Mike Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $40.00
“Fine art for font nerds.”—New York Magazine
“One of the most engaging homages I have ever seen.”—Steven Heller
Swissted takes rock concert posters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and remixes and reimagines them through a Swiss modernist lens. The result is some of the coolest images you’ve ever seen! The book features... Read more >
Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined
Written by Mike Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $40.00
“Fine art for font nerds.”—New York Magazine
“One of the most engaging homages I have ever seen.”—Steven Heller
Swissted takes rock concert posters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and remixes and reimagines them through a Swiss modernist lens. The result is some of the coolest images you’ve ever seen! The book features... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Cartoon Cool
How to Draw the New Retro Characters of Today's Cartoons
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $13.99
Love that Sponge Bob? Always lurking in Dexter's lab? Wishing for Fairly Odd Parents? Millions of fans watch these shows avidly, often solely for their zingy, stylized look and hip visual jokes. Now there's a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style: Cartoon Cool. Top-selling author Christopher... Read more >
How to Draw the New Retro Characters of Today's Cartoons
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $13.99
Love that Sponge Bob? Always lurking in Dexter's lab? Wishing for Fairly Odd Parents? Millions of fans watch these shows avidly, often solely for their zingy, stylized look and hip visual jokes. Now there's a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style: Cartoon Cool. Top-selling author Christopher... Read more >
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Cezanne
A Life
Written by Alex Danchev
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $40.00
A Life
Written by Alex Danchev
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $40.00
With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age...
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Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner
Written by Claire Watson Garcia
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $21.99
Based on the author’s successful courses and workshops, Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner really does start at the beginning, helping new painters find "what works" while providing information on all the necessary tools, tips, and techniques they’ll need to create a representational painting.
The chapters follow a progressive sequence... Read more >
Written by Claire Watson Garcia
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $21.99
Based on the author’s successful courses and workshops, Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner really does start at the beginning, helping new painters find "what works" while providing information on all the necessary tools, tips, and techniques they’ll need to create a representational painting.
The chapters follow a progressive sequence... Read more >
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How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself
Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
Written by Nita Engle
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $19.95
Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolor shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes... Read more >
Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
Written by Nita Engle
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $19.95
Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolor shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes... Read more >
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Draw 50 Dogs
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Beagles, German Shepherds, Collies, Golden Retrievers, Yorkies, Pugs, Malamutes, and Many More...
Written by Lee J. Ames
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
Old English sheep dogs, German Shepherds and Malamutes are just a few of the fun-loving, furry breeds that anyone can create by following these sketches.
An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. Read more >
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Beagles, German Shepherds, Collies, Golden Retrievers, Yorkies, Pugs, Malamutes, and Many More...
Written by Lee J. Ames
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
Old English sheep dogs, German Shepherds and Malamutes are just a few of the fun-loving, furry breeds that anyone can create by following these sketches.
An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Rome
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Written by Robert Hughes
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $14.99
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a... Read more >
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Written by Robert Hughes
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $14.99
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Draw 50 Famous Cartoons
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Your Favorite Classic Cartoon Characters
Written by Lee J. Ames
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
A barrel of laughs is what aspiring cartoonists of all ages will have while they learn to draw their favorite characters from the funny pages. Read more >
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Your Favorite Classic Cartoon Characters
Written by Lee J. Ames
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
A barrel of laughs is what aspiring cartoonists of all ages will have while they learn to draw their favorite characters from the funny pages. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Expressive Figure Drawing
New Materials, Concepts, and Techniques
Written by Bill Buchman
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $24.99
Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist’s education and the center of the art-making process. Bill Buchman’s Expressive Figure Drawing presents the classic fundamentals of this genre, but with a distinctly contemporary twist—celebrating freedom, expressiveness, and creativity. This unique method incorporates... Read more >
New Materials, Concepts, and Techniques
Written by Bill Buchman
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $24.99
Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist’s education and the center of the art-making process. Bill Buchman’s Expressive Figure Drawing presents the classic fundamentals of this genre, but with a distinctly contemporary twist—celebrating freedom, expressiveness, and creativity. This unique method incorporates... Read more >
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Color
A Natural History of the Palette
Written by Victoria Finlay
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $17.00
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.
For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, carmine red—still found in lipsticks and Cherry... Read more >
A Natural History of the Palette
Written by Victoria Finlay
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $17.00
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.
For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, carmine red—still found in lipsticks and Cherry... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
