Art:

Facial Expressions
A Visual Reference for Artists
Written by Mark Simon

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2005
Price: $21.95

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 and women of a variety of ages, shapes, sizes... Read more >

The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head

Written by William Maughan

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2004
Price: $24.95

In this innovative guide, master art instructor William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and highly accurate modeling technique of chiaroscuro (Italian for “light and dark”) developed by Leonardo da Vinci during the High Renaissance.

Maughan first introduces readers to the basics of this centuries-old... Read more >

The Figure in Watercolor
Simple, Fast, and Focused
Written by Mel Stabin

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $19.95

Following in the footsteps of Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused is Mel Stabin’s latest: The Figure in Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused. Capturing a figure’s unique personality and multifaceted quality in watercolor is challenging—but Stabin demonstrates, step by step, how the new artist can capture the figure by painting simply, directly... Read more >

Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy

Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2000
Price: $19.95

From head to toe, the human form, in all its complexities, is visually simplified to such a degree in this remarkable workbook that even complete beginners will soon be able to draw accurate, well-proportioned faces and figures every time they try.

Avoiding complex charts of muscles and bones that are more... Read more >