Download or read book Splash 20 written by Rachel Rubin Wolf and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While any subject can be developed with a variety of compositional strategies, in most cases, it is not the subject but the composition of the work that gives a painting its originality and appeal. How you compose your painting determines the way people will view it and how they will be affected by it emotionally. This special 20th edition features the best watercolor paintings selected from an international call for entries, along with instructive, insightful commentary on the theme of Creative Compositions and a special gallery of cover art from the past 19 editions. • 128 stunning watercolor paintings by 120+ accomplished artists • Artists speak to artists, with captions revealing their inspirations and techniques, allowing readers to appreciate the work on a deeper level • Themed chapters include cityscapes, animals, interiors, still lifes, portraits, landscapes, seascapes and more A brilliant representation of contemporary watercolor, this book continues the proud tradition that has made Splash the longest-running "best of watercolor" competition series.

Download or read book This Drawing Pad Belongs to My Secret Book of Scribblings and Sketches written by Big Dreams Art Supplies and published by Big Dreams Art Supplies. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sketchbook written by Andy Happy Merry and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cute Rhino Sketchbook - Cute Animal Sketchbook (Volume 11) size (8.5" x 11") 110 pages perfect for colored pencils, crayons, and watercolor paints matte cover finish Perfect gift ! for Adults, Kids, Artists, Students, Art Classes, Teacher gifts, Birthday and Christmas Gifts, School Gifts.

Download or read book Everyday Sketching and Drawing written by Steven B. Reddy and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers an easy-to-follow, 5-step formula, which teaches beginner-friendly techniques for learning the skills necessary to make drawing and sketching an everyday habit. For those who have always wanted to or tried and failed to learn to draw it provides simple step-by-step instruction, plus easy-to-follow practice exercises, and provides the motivation and inspiration readers need to be successful. For those who already draw, Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers another technique to add to their drawing arsenal. Why do so many adults come to view drawing as difficult or fraught with anxiety? Traditional art instruction is often bogged down with jargon, rules, and admonishments that unintentionally stifle the joy of drawing for its own sake. Steven Reddy's new and easy approach to drawing instructs sketchers to document their unique and compelling lives in realistic yet playful sketches that record the places, spaces, and objects that help define them as individuals. He reminds artists to slow down, notice, and attend to the sketch-worthy scenes and subjects that are unstaged and always there in our everyday lives. He offers a versatile technique that can lead to a skill that fills sketchbooks with the visual details that differentiate one life from another. This approach is a meditative, relaxing alternative to academic concerns about perspective, proportion, and accuracy. Reddy encourages artists to capture in whimsical but detail-specific illustrations their unique, subjective interpretation of their visual surroundings. Steven Reddy's drawing method produces extremely detailed and realistic scenes of objects and scenes in everyday life in a relatively short period of time (60 minutes to 3 hours or more, depending on the sketcher's preference). Modifying a technique utilized by Old Master oil painters, the drawings pass through 5 clearly articulated stages where each step focuses on one visual concept at a time.

Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming September 2019 Box Set written by Barbara White Daille and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships imbued with the traditional values so important to you: home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: AFTER THE RODEO Heroes of Shelter Creek by Claire McEwen Former bull rider Jace Hendricks needs biologist Vivian Reed off his ranch, fast—or he risks losing custody of his nieces and nephew. So why is Vivian’s optimism winning over the kids…and Jace? THE RANCHER’S FAMILY The Hitching Post Hotel by Barbara White Daille Wes Daniels is fine on his own. He has his ranch and his children—he doesn’t need anything else. But the local matchmaker has other plans! Now Wes is suspicious about why Cara Leonetti keeps calling on him… SAFE IN HIS ARMS Butterfly Harbor Stories by Anna J. Stewart Army vet Kendall Davidson has found the peace she’s been searching for until loud newcomers Hunter MacBride and his niece arrive with love and laughter to share, making her question what kind of life she’s truly looking for. THEIR FOREVER HOME by Syndi Powell Can a popular home reno contest allow Cassie Lowman and John Robison their chance to shine and fall for each other with so much—personally and professionally—on the line? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

Download or read book Gifts of Art The Met s 150th Anniversary written by Max Hollein and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of the institution’s 150th year, this publication celebrates the 203 collectors who committed more than 2,500 works of art to The Met for the sesquicentennial. These meaningful additions change the ways in which we think about the Museum’s holdings and deepen the stories The Met can tell about all the works in the collection. Highlights featured in this volume include an imposing stone head from an Egyptian sarcophagus; an opulent horse armor commissioned by King Philip IV of Spain; a Tibetan war mask; an early American daguerreotype; Sir Edward Burne-Jones’s enigmatic watercolor; an early twentieth-century Japanese bamboo shrine cabinet; poignant photographs made by Robert Frank for his iconic series The Americans; the Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera’s 1949 tondo Iberic; Steve Miller’s 1961 Gibson guitar; important works by Georg Baselitz; art from the Iranian Saqqakhana school; the vibrant bark painting of Aboriginal Australian artist Nonggirrnga Marawili; and recent creations by artists such as Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Robert Gober, and Wangechi Mutu.

Download or read book Children s Books in Print written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Song of the Sea written by Jenn Alexander and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ocean has always been a place of freedom for Lisa Whelan, and after her newborn son passes away, she returns to her family home by the sea to seek freedom from her grief. She’s not expecting to meet anyone, and is caught off guard by the attraction she feels for Rachel, the part-owner of a local restaurant. That initial spark is dampened, however, when Lisa realizes that Rachel has a child. Rachel Murray has worked hard to build a life for herself and her son but raising Declan has not been without its challenges. Each day when Rachel picks him up from school, she says a silent prayer that he will be waiting for her in his classroom, and not in the principal’s office. Again. Her son’s behavior has grown increasingly disruptive, and Rachel is at a loss at how to help him. Despite her grief, Lisa finds herself drawn to both Rachel and Declan. She thinks she can keep her emotions at bay— keep from drowning in grief and keep from falling in love—but she finds both to be a tidal wave, washing over her, sweeping her off her feet. Lisa never intended on falling in love with anyone, and she certainly cannot allow herself to fall for someone whose son is a constant reminder of the child she lost. Or can she?

Download or read book Just Friends written by Melody Summers and published by Melody Summers. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is complicated when your best friend is your ex-boyfriend. When I broke up with Ashton a year ago I expected things to get easier. We stayed best friends, but keeping our relationship strictly just friends is a lot harder than I thought. All the old feelings are still there hiding just below the surface, and it doesn't take much to bring them out again. I know it won't work, though, so I do my best to keep them under control no matter how much I'd like to give in to them. And there are days when I really, really want to give in. On top of that I've got a major art project due while my creativity seems to have gone on permanent vacation and three overly supportive friends trying to drive me crazy with their help and advice. And now there's Dylan to complicate my life even more. He's smoking hot, smart, funny, and into me. I really like him a lot and I think he's just what I need - or at least he would be if I could manage to stop thinking about Ashton. Somehow I have to get Ashton out of my head. It's time to move on after the break up, time to live my life. It's time for more than just friends. high school romance, ya romance, teen romance, christmas romance, holiday romance, winter break, sweet romance, clean romance, romance series

Download or read book Harlequin Historical October 2019 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Marguerite Kaye and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! INVITATION TO A CORNISH CHRISTMAS by Marguerite Kaye and Bronwyn Scott (Regency) Enter Cornwall for the annual Yuletide party in these two stories! All in one festive volume. THE HIGHLANDER AND THE GOVERNESS Untamed Highlanders by Michelle Willingham (Regency) When Frances Goodson is summoned to give etiquette lessons to a handsome laird, she mustn’t get distracted by the passion in his eyes… IT’S MARRIAGE OR RUIN by Liz Tyner (Regency) Facing her mother’s threats if she doesn’t marry, painter Miss Emilie Catesby must make a choice: recklessly ruin herself, or wed jaded Lord Marcus! Look for Harlequin® Historical’s October 2019 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!

Download or read book A Grand Success written by Peter Lord and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creators of Chicken Run and the Wallace & Gromit series share the inside story of their Oscar award-winning animation company. Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and brought to life a string of unforgettable movies and television shows, including the highest-grossing stop-animated film of all time, Chicken Run. With A Grand Success!, Lord, Sproxton, and Park tell the 45-year history of Aardman. From their first short films, made on a lark on their kitchen table, to advertisements and music videos, A Grand Success! recounts the adventures and challenges of developing their own unique style, growing their business, working with famous actors, and conquering Hollywood, all while animating at 24 painstaking moves per second.

Download or read book It Started at Christmas written by Jo McNally and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was hired to design his house. Instead she created a home. Interior designer Amanda Lowery can turn Blake Randall’s crumbling castle into a Gallant Lake showplace. But helping the real estate mogul with his guarded heart and his troubled, orphaned nephew? A much bigger challenge. With demons in her own past, Amanda yearns to help them both heal. But will she find the family and safety she’s craved…or become a Christmas casualty in Blake’s latest business plan?

Download or read book Jake s Dragon written by Riano D. McFarland and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you’re eleven years old, it’s tough convincing people to take you seriously. When you’re an eleven-year-old savant, It’s exponentially more difficult. Since Jake’s inability to connect with others had made him somewhat of an outcast for most of his life, he’d learned to divert his energy into his artistic talent, creating mesmerizing images capable of literally paralyzing anyone who should gaze upon them. For Jake, it was normal to see and perceive things others were incapable of recognizing, but even he was caught completely off-guard when confronted with the reality that dragons not only exist, but that one of them was destined to become his very own. As the bond between Jake and his dragon evolves and deepens, it becomes increasingly difficult to explain the uncanny occurrences which seem to accompany them, all while keeping the very existence of his dragon a secret. While most people accept the logical explanations for the unusual activities surrounding them, dragoneers are not most people and they are dead set on capturing Jake’s dragon.

Download or read book American Kitsune Vol 10 written by Brandon Varnell and published by Kitsune Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WAR HAS BEGUN… Four months have passed since the war between humans and yokai began, and there seems to be no end in sight. Kevin and Lilian have been doing what they can to help, but since they’re also attending high school, taking part in a war is somewhat difficult. It’s a good thing Kevin’s boss has concocted a plan in which he and Lilian are essential. Kevin, Lilian, and Iris must travel to Los Angeles, California, and request the aid of Kuroneko, a member of the Four Saints. But wherever these three roam, trouble is sure to follow—and this time, it will take more than shonen manga antics to escape from the many dangerous and dangerously erotic situations they’re bound to run into.

Download or read book The Christmas Invitation written by Trisha Ashley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Like a nice mug of mulled wine in book form!' Good Housekeeping The #1 Christmas novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley Meg is definitely not in the Christmas mood. She’s never gone in for tinsel, baubles and mistletoe, and right now she’s still getting over an illness. Yet when she’s invited to spend the run-up to Christmas in the snowy countryside, rather than dreary London, she can’t refuse. Arriving at a warm and cosy family home in a small hilltop village, Meg soon begins to wonder what a proper Christmas might be like. But just as she’s beginning to settle in, she spots a familiar face. Lex. Despite the festive cheer, Meg suddenly wants nothing more than to get as far away from him, and their past secrets, as she can. But if she stays, could this be the year she finally discovers the magic of Christmas...? Fabulously funny, intelligent and heart-warming, Trisha Ashley’s brand-new novel is the feel-good Christmas book of the year. It even contains recipes! ‘This cosy heart-warming Christmas read will get you in the festive spirit’ Woman ‘A witty, original read’ Daily Express ‘Romance, friendship, love, humour and a generous dose of Christmas spirit – this book has it all’ Woman’s Weekly ‘A heart-warming, feel-good read.’ Choice

Download or read book The Saint and her Fool written by Cihlar & Egeler and published by epubli. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a magical Christmas Eve the impoverished Count Harro von Thorstein finds the young Princess Rosemarie wandering alone through the forest. She has come from Castle Brauneck fleeing from her golden cage in search of the love she desires and needs. Sensing a lost soul, much as himself, Harro gains the trust of the angelic child. A mystical bound of true love emerges, which holds them captive throughout their further lives. The young woman is granted with celestial strength, experiencing divine love and devotion to her belief. With sacred compassion she overcomes anguish and is lifted up to the hallowed purity of a saint.

Download or read book Last Pen Standing written by Vivian Conroy and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first title in a new cozy mystery series from Vivian Conroy... Delta Douglas and her Paper Posse are crafting connoisseurs, but will their creativity be enough to catch a killer or will this paper trail run cold? A crafty mystery full of twists and turns, Last Pen Standing is: For fans of Lauren Elliot and Essie Lang For readers of cozy mysteries and small town fiction As the new co-owner of Tundish Montana's stationery shop WANTED, Delta Douglas knows how to organize a killer crafting event. Creativity and cardstock are all she needs to move one step closer to her ultimate dream: developing her own line of crafting products. But on the night of the workshop, at the swanky hotel venue, glitter isn't the only thing found sprawled on the floor. A hotel guest is discovered dead in the bar, and amid the confusion, Delta's best friend is suspected of the crime. Enlisting the help of her Paper Posse and Spud, her canine sidekick, Delta dives into the murder mystery. But with many high-powered suspects on the line, Delta soon realizes her sleuthing may come with deadly consequences.