Download or read book 361 Full Color Allover Patterns for Artists and Craftspeople written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These royalty-free full-color allover patterns include numerous subjects and styles from 15th-century through 20th-century sources — geometrics, florals and foliates, animal and nature motifs, other decorative repeat patterns.
Download or read book Magnificent Mosaics Coloring Book written by Jessica Mazurkiewicz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago, the Greeks and Romans introduced a style of design that began with simple pebbles and colored stones. Today, mosaic art is a time-honored craft treasured throughout the world. Spiraling pinwheels, exploding geometrics, undulating waves, rhythmic zig-zags, and circular pathways are just some of the intriguing motifs you'll find in this imaginative collection of thirty images. Sure to satisfy creative colorists, the showcase will also serve as a source of inspiration for designers.
Download or read book Holidays Around the World written by Joan O'Brien and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Mexico, march along the Champs-Élysées on Bastille Day, and visit Israel during Hanukkah as you circle the globe to observe 30 festivities.
Download or read book 835 Victorian Designs and Emblems written by Palm & Fechteler (New York, N.Y.) and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of royalty-free designs from a rare 1882 catalog of transferable designs for carriages and buggies includes ornamental crests, coats of arms, shields, mottos, and a wealth of other eye-catching designs — many incorporating dogs, handsome steeds, various birds, wild beasts, mythical creatures, and other eye-catching images.
Download or read book Animals written by Jim Harter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected for its visual impact and ease of use, this outstanding collection of wood engravings presents over 1,000 species of animals in extremely lifelike poses. Includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and other invertebrates.
Download or read book Inca Designs written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of hard-to-find Inca artwork, this compilation features hundreds of striking designs. The images are drawn from the collections of a 19th-century anthropologist whose expeditions to Peru yielded a remarkable store of artifacts that reside today in museums throughout Germany. Designs, paintings, and relief representations depict ancient people, animals, and rituals. Reprint of selections from Ancient Peruvian Art, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1902–03.
Download or read book Women written by Jim Harter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lush allegorical ladies, Grecian maids and Victorian maidens, Indians, Japanese, dancers, housewives, courtesans; women dancing, smiling, working, weeping, flirting — an unusually rich sourcebook of poses, costumes, clothing, everyday life. 488 illustrations.
Download or read book Food and Drink written by Jim Harter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 350 illustrations of different foods, people eating, utensils, banquets, menus, wine lists. Beautifully reproduced 19th-century line drawings depict every conceivable activity concerned with the preparation, display, and consumption of food and drink.
Download or read book 1300 Real and Fanciful Animals written by Matthäus (the Younger) Merian and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quadrupeds, snakes, mollusks and crustaceans, birds, fish, and insects depicted realistically and fancifully, plus such fantasy creatures as unicorns, dragons, and basilisks. Indispensable volume of royalty-free graphics for commercial artists.
Download or read book 2 286 Traditional Stencil Designs written by H. Roessing and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterfully executed designs in reproductions of two rare catalogs: ornamental borders, corners and frames with intricate floral and foliated patterns, architectural ornaments and design elements, religious symbols and figures, much more.
Download or read book Shoes Hats and Fashion Accessories written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVOver 1,500 detailed, royalty-free cuts from vintage publications depict Victorian footwear and millinery, beaded handbags from the early 20th century, stylish high-heeled evening shoes from the 1920s, and much more. /div
Download or read book 3 800 Early Advertising Cuts written by Deberny Type Foundry and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a nearly inexhaustible supply of copyright-free graphics filled with late 19th- and early 20th-century charm, ideal for a wide range of arts and crafts projects. Reproduced from the catalog of a famous French type foundry, it is a rich and authoritative source of advertising art of the period—filled with many delightful and arresting images not available elsewhere. An enormous array of objects, activities, and interests are depicted in finely detailed illustrations that lend themselves especially well to reproduction. Motifs include food and drink, domestic furnishings, vehicles, machines, tools and hardware, medical utensils, pharmaceuticals, farm animals and birds, as well as trades, sports, and music. Also included are fencers, golfers, insects, billiard tables, wrought-iron gates, architectural decorations, cows being milked, hunting dogs in the field, crowns and coronets, extravagantly carved breakfronts, elegant presentations of food, and much, much more. In addition, a large section is devoted to ornate banners, mortised cuts, and other line art specifically intended for typographical use. While the cuts in this collection range in style from genre realism to Art Nouveau, the images—beautifully realized in scrupulous and revealing detail—have a timeless appeal ideal for a wide variety of graphic uses.
Download or read book Vintage Advertising Art and Design written by J. N. Halsted and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume contains all the essentials for creating ads with a retro look and feel. Drawn from typographic sourcebooks as well as sign-painting manuals of the early 20th century, the contents include a wealth of borders, frames, images, and typographic elements for re-creating authentic styles of the 1890s–1920s.
Download or read book Plants written by Jim Harter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of plant species with specialized appendices on edible plants, herbs, plants used in decoration and graphic design. Inspirational, royalty-free illustrations for designers, artists, botanists, and gardeners.
Download or read book Fantastic Ornament written by A. Hauser and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abounding in cherubs, nymphs, soldiers, kings, dragons, and other flamboyant motifs, this compilation of ornamental designs was originally published in Paris during the 1840s. The extravagant images are based on a wide variety of historical examples that date back as far as the 1500s and include imaginative renderings by Watteau and Durer. Created as embellishments for walls, arms and armor, and everyday objects, these designs remain eminently useful for graphic and decorative purposes. Professional and amateur artists and designers as well as cardmakers and scrapbookers will find this compilation a practical resource of versatile and royalty-free art. This volume is the successor to Dover Publications' "Fantastic Ornament, "another modern reprint of a rare nineteenth-century publication. Dover (2013) new selection of material from "Portefeuille Historique de l'Ornement/Ornaments of the Classical Masters: Comprising Ornamental Borders, Decorations, Shields, Vases, Alphabet of Letters, Grotesque Designs, Patterns for Gold and Silver-Smiths, " A. Hauser, Paris, 1841. See every Dover book in print at www.doverpublications.com
Download or read book Traditional Korean Designs written by Madeleine Orban-Szontagh and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by authentic Korean arts and crafts dating from the 1st through the 19th centuries, these 142 bold black-and-white line drawings include abstract forms, costumed figures, birds, flowers, and landscapes in many sizes and shapes, all royalty-free.
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
