Art:

Drawing Manga Animals, Chibis, and Other Adorable Creatures

Written by J.C. Amberlyn

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $21.99

Learn the Tricks of the Trade for Drawing Irresistibly Cute Manga-Style Animals and Chibis!
 
The world of manga is filled with strange creatures and adorable sidekicks. Just about every manga hero and heroine has an animal mascot, and all the most popular ones have a cute "chibi" form. This book teaches aspiring... Read more >

Landscape Painting
Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice
Written by Mitchell Albala

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00

Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for translating nature's grandeur... Read more >

The Mural at the Waverly Inn
A Portrait of Greenwich Village Bohemians
Written by Edward Sorel

Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $15.95

The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York’s Greenwich Village since the 1920’s. But since 2006, when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter bought and refurbished the restaurant, it has also been one of the most sought after destinations in the city. And while we can’t guarantee you a reservation... Read more >

Drawing Animals Made Amazingly Easy

Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $19.95

Christopher Hart, America’s best-selling author of art instruction books, tosses all that aside to make drawing animals truly amazingly easy, by simplifying animal anatomy so that artists can get the poses they really want. What does that animal look like as it moves, bends, twists, jumps, runs? Simplified skeletons and an... Read more >

Freud at Work
Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee
Written by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $65.00

Freud at Work is a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most celebrated—and most private—artists working today. Though in his eighties, this great figurative artist continues to paint with undiminished energy and discipline.

In 120 revealing black-and-white and color photographs taken in Lucian Freud’s London studio, and in a... Read more >

Damanhur
Temples of Humankind
Text by Esperide Ananas
Photographed by Roberto Benzi
Foreword by Alex Grey

Format: Hardcover, 136 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2006
Price: $50.00

Nearly three decades ago, Italian spiritual leader Oberto Airaudi had a vision of sacred temples built inside a mountain near Turin. As artists, artisans, and builders excavated the equivalent of a five-story subterranean building, it remained a secret from even its closest neighbors. Twenty years after the project began, the Italian... Read more >

The Art of Gaman
Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946
Written by Delphine Hirasuna
Designed by Kit Hinrichs
Photographed by Terry Heffernan

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2005
Price: $35.00

In 1942, Executive Order 9066 mandated the incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Americans, including men, women, children, the elderly, and the infirm, for the duration of the war. Allowed only what they could carry, they were given just a few days to settle their affairs and report to assembly centers. Businesses were... Read more >

Drawing Cutting Edge Fusion
American Comics with a Manga Influence
Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2005
Price: $19.95

American comics once dominated the world. Now the balance of power is changing, as anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comics) have exploded into the mainstream of American culture. Drawing Cutting Edge Fusion is the first-ever tutorial that shows how to draw American-style comics with a manga influence. With this book... Read more >

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 >

Drawing Wildlife

Written by J.C. Amberlyn

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Price: $24.95

Artists and naturalists will master their ability to render lifelike depictions of a wide range of wildlife in a variety of still and action poses in this unique instructional. Amberlyn begins by offering a discourse on animal anatomy, basic animal structure and characteristics, and the animals' natural environment. Such details are... Read more >

Women Of Flowers

Written by Jack Kramer

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Price: $16.95

Jack Kramer’s Women of Flowers: A Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators was published in 1996 by Stewart, Tabori and Chang in a large format and was immediately honored with an award of excellence from the Garden Writers Association of America. Now in a mini edition, this remarkable illustrated book allows us... 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 >

Women of Hawai'i

Written by Pegge Hopper

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2002
Price: $27.95

Inspired by their power and sensuality, artist Pegge Hopper has dedicated her life'¬?s work to painting the women of Hawaii's native population. Renowned throughout the islands as well as on the mainland, Hopper shares her favorite pieces in WOMEN OF HAWAII. In a style that combines classic drawing and graphic design... Read more >

Flora
Gardens and Plants in Art and Literature
Written by Edward Lucie-Smith

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2001
Price: $19.95

Gardens are reflections of paradise, sanctuaries from the daily grind. Every culture reflects the beauty of the garden, and Flora displays wonderful images of flowers and gardens from a wide variety of societies and historical periods.



Featuring 300 gorgeous images from Renaissance masters . . . unique prints and watercolors from Japan... Read more >

Horse
From Noble Steeds to Beasts of Burden
Written by Lorraine Harrison

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2000
Price: $19.95

For horse lovers, art lovers, and collectors of unusual, beautifully illustrated books, here is the only volume on the market to offer such a large and gorgeous array of equine art.

The book is divided into eight themed chapters that explore the diverse representations of horses in art: horses depicted as... 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 >

Sex Appeal
The Art of Allure in Graphic and Advertising Design
Edited by Steven Heller

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2000
Price: $18.95

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