The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

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Using a “tough love approach” to pursuing a career in the visual arts, Jackie Battenfield expands on her highly successful classes and workshops to provide a comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists. Providing real-life examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Battenfield offers readily applicable advice on all aspects of the job. Along with tips on planning and assessment, she presents strategies for self-management, including mar... More >>

The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings & Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp,1942-44

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A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terezin from 1942 to 1944; less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures (60 color illustrations) we see their daily misery, courage, hopes and fears.... More >>

I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings & Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp,1942-44

Disneywar: Library Edition

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"When You Wish Upon a Star," "Whistle While You Work," "The Happiest Place on Earth"—these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation and nephew of founder Walt Disney, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves through the entertainment industry, corporate boardrooms, theme pa... More >>

Disneywar: Library Edition

Designing with Type: A Basic Course in Typography

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The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new images make this perennial best-seller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, www.designingwithtype.com, where students and teachers can examine hundreds of design solutions and explore a world of typographic information. First... More >>

Designing with Type: A Basic Course in Typography

Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back the shades of secrecy that have long shrouded the uppe... More >>

Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists

• ISBN13: 9780486200828
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Includes clear directions for drawing horses, dogs, cats, lions, cattle, deer, and more. Covers muscles, skeleton, and surface features. An enlarged edition of the basic work in the field. 288 illustrations.... More >>

An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists

Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach

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EXPLORING ART offers a thematic and global approach to teaching art appreciation. It balances Western and non-Western approaches to art, unlike competing books, which concentrate much more on Western art, artists, and historical styles. This global approach acknowledges the diverse backgrounds of today's art students, and explores the similarities that unite culture, as well as difference or distinctions. In doing so, EXPLORING ART ultimately reveals the universalit... More >>

Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach

Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers

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Today's digital cameras provide image data files allowing large-format output at high resolution. At the same time, printing technology has moved forward at an equally fast pace bringing us new inkjet systems capable of printing in high precision at a very fine resolution, providing an amazing tonality range and longtime stability of inks. Moreover, these systems are now affordable to the serious photographer. In the hands of knowledgeable and experienced photograp... More >>

Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers

The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium

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Many artists are intimidated by perspective. However, creating an illusion of depth in your work is actually far easier than colour or design when explained correctly. With this book, readers will learn how to create perspective on a flat surface using a variety of mediums. Starting simple, the book covers the theory behind perspective and gradually introduces more and more challenging subjects. Before long, readers will be taking on such complex scenes as stairways... More >>

The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium

The Catholic Study Bible: New American Bible

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The Catholic Study Bible was designed for advanced students of the Scriptures by today's top Catholic scholars. A nearly 600-page Reading Guide is linked to the biblical text by means of marginal references to specific pages in the Guide. Other features include: reference articles on key issues of Bible study, a glossary of specialized terms, the complete Sunday and weekday lectionaries, full color New Oxford Bible Maps, and a 70-page, select NAB concordance.... More >>

The Catholic Study Bible: New American Bible

The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head

• ISBN13: 9780823003594
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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 technique, showing how to analyze form, light, and shadow; use dark pencil, white pencil, and toned paper ... More >>

The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head

The Forger's Spell

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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art. It was an almost perfect crime. For seven years a no-account painter named Han van Meegeren managed to pass off his paintings as those of one of the most beloved and admired ... More >>

The Forger's Spell

102 Facts and Photos About Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Epcot

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This will feature frequent updates, at least every two weeks, with the facts expanding from simple ones to more in-depth explorations of the Parks. Thanks for all your support!

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A big thanks goes to all who bought this little book. I hope you enjoy the second edition.

This is not your typical Walt Disney World guidebook. Thi... More >>

102 Facts and Photos About Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Epcot

The Calligrapher's Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them

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An instruction book for all levels of calligraphy. Lettering styles range from classic Roman to elegant contemporary. The author explains tools and materials layout basics numerals and punctuation illumination and ornamentation and tips for left-handed writers. 256 pages.... More >>

The Calligrapher's Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them

The Americans

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Previously published in 1959, Frank's most famous and influential photography book contained a series of deceptively simple photos that he took on a trip through America in 1955 and 1956. These pictures of everyday people still speak to us today, 40 years and several generations later.Amazon.com Review
Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and... More >>

The Americans

Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner

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Based upon the author’s own successful workshops, Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner helps new artists create competent, often eloquent drawings. A series of progressive lessons demonstrates such essential skills as recording edges, creating dimension, adding accuracy, developing value, balancing compositional elements, and drawing the human face, both frontal and profile views. Step by step, readers learn how to create a reasonable likeness of an object ... More >>

Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner

Perspective Made Easy

• ISBN13: 9780486404738
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Perspective is easy; yet, surprisingly few artists know the simple rules that make it so. Now they can remedy that situation with this step-by-step book, the first devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective. Using over 250 simple line drawings, the author leads the reader through every important concept. 256 illustrations.
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Perspective Made Easy

ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know As You Pursue Your Art Career

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Find Out What They Didn't Teach You in Art School The most comprehensive guide of its kind, Art/Work gives artists of every level the tools they need to make it in an art world so competitive one dealer likens it to "The Sopranos, except nobody gets killed." Whether you're an art school grad looking for a gallery, a mid-career artist managing a busy studio, or someone just thinking about becoming a professional artist, this indispensable resource will hel... More >>

ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know As You Pursue Your Art Career

German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse

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The artists associated with German Expressionism in the early decades of the twentieth century took up printmaking with a dedication and fervor virtually unparalleled in the history of the genre. The woodcut, with its coarse gouges and jagged lines, is the preeminent Expressionist medium, but the movement also revolutionized etching and lithography, to alternately vibrant and stark effect. This graphic impulse can be traced from the formation of the artist group Die... More >>

German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse

How to Draw What You See

• Product Details: Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill; 35th Anniversary edition edition (September 1, 1996)
• Language: English, ISBN-10: 0823023753, ISBN-13: 978-0823023752
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches, Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill’s best-seller list—and it has remained there ever since. “I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them—realistically,” wrote Rudy de Reyna in his introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned to draw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, using de Reyna’s methods. How to Draw What You See shows artists how to... More >>

How to Draw What You See

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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Edwards uses the latest in brain research to explain how anyone can learn to draw more accurately and creatively. This edition contains a new illustrated section in color, several fully revised chapters, new sample drawings, and a new section on handwriting.... More >>

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain