Draw 50 Vehicles
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Speedboats, Spaceships, Fire Trucks, and Many More...
Written by Lee J. Ames

Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $7.99

Includes sections from two of the most popular Lee Ames titles: Draw 50 Boats, Ships, Trucks & Trains and Draw 50 Airplanes.


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Conservation Concerns
A Guide for Collectors and Curators
Written by Konstanze Bachmann

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $16.95

Written in accessible, nontechnical language, this book's twenty-three essays provide invaluable conservation guidelines for a variety of materials and media. Focusing also on proper storage techniques and environmental control, contributors offer information on emergency planning, disaster management, and identifying damages that may require professional treatment.


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New Art City
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Written by Jed Perl

Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $17.99

In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known... Read more >

Backing Into Forward
A Memoir
Written by Jules Feiffer

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $17.99

The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.

 A gifted storyteller who has delighted readers and theater audiences for decades, Jules Feiffer now turns his talents to the tale... Read more >

Portrait Painting Atelier
Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications
Written by Suzanne Brooker
Foreword by Domenic Cretara

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $18.99

The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills, especially in... Read more >

The Bauhaus Group

Written by Nicholas Fox Weber

Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $23.99

Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories... Read more >

Antoine's Alphabet

Written by Jed Perl

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $13.99

Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >

Live Through This
On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95

A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This (a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards) is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse... Read more >

Modigliani

Written by Meryle Secrest

Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $18.99

“People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards.” —Modigliani

Amedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh’s... Read more >

The Artist's Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure
A Complete Resource on Rendering Clothing and Drapery
Written by Michael Massen

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $20.99

In order to effectively draw clothing and drapery, an artist must recognize the basic shapes of clothing and how the principles of physics act upon those shapes.
            Beginning with the basic shapes of clothing and the anatomy of folds, and progressing to final rendering techniques of both sculpted and loose... Read more >