The Lost Battles
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Written by Jonathan Jones

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $18.99

From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine... Read more >

Pastel Painting Atelier
Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials
Written by Ellen Eagle

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.99

Revel in the luminous and vibrant qualities of pastel with Ellen Eagle’s essential course in the history, techniques, and practices of the medium. In this comprehensive yet intimate guide, Eagle explores pastel’s rich but relatively unexamined past, reveals her own personal influences and approaches, and guides you toward the discovery and...

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Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy

Written by Christopher Hart

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $16.99

The third title in a bestselling series, Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy is a complete drawing book for the beginning artist. Based on a series of lessons that begin with the five basic shapes (circle, oval, square, cylinder, and rectangle) combined with the five basic components of drawing (line, mass, perspective... Read more >

The Sketchbook Challenge
Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Achieving Your Creative Goals
Written by Sue Bleiweiss

Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $14.99

Have you ever bought a new sketchbook, opened to the first page, and thought, "Now what do I do?" Sue Bleiweiss and the talented minds behind The Sketchbook Challenge are here to help.

Imagine a supportive community of artists sharing the innermost pages of their sketchbooks and offering you tips and... Read more >

Manga for the Beginner Shoujo

Written by Christopher Hart

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $15.99

The ultimate guide to creating the most popular form of manga--shoujo!

If you’re reading this, you already love shoujo. But now you’ll be able to take the next step and actually write and draw your very own. The teen characters that populate the genre are outrageously cool, including magical girls, demon gals... Read more >

Facial Expressions
A Visual Reference for Artists
Written by Mark Simon

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $18.99

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 Facial Expression

Written by Gary Faigin

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $16.99

Artists love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organized, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a section devoted to the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust, and surprise. Each... Read more >

Drawing Fantastic Furries
The Ultimate Guide to Drawing Anthropomrphic Charaacters
Written by Christopher Hart

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $15.99

ENTER THE ALLURING, MAGICAL, MYTHICAL WORLD OF THE FURRY KINGDOM
 
What Is A Furry?
A furry is an anthropomorphic being—an animal with human characteristics. Furries have fascinated artists going back thousands of years and as seen in the influx of animal/human characters into popular culture, interest today is at an all time high... Read more >

Classical Painting Atelier
A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
Written by Juliette Aristides

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $18.99

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 with a master artist over a period of years... Read more >

Art and Culture
Critical Essays
Written by Clement Greenberg

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 1971
Price: $23.00

"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."—The New York Times Read more >