Twenty-four artists create stunning miniature art with almonds, matchsticks, test tubes, and more in this fabulous collection.From the astounding to the downright unbelievable, this little volume of mind-blowingly tiny artworks showcases the talents of twenty-four artists from around the globe. Makers, crafters, art enthusiasts, and fans of tiny works will delight in this homage to all things infinitesimally small. Replete with more than two hundred images of miniat...

Zentangle Basics introduces you to today's hottest trend in drawing meditation. Using only pencil, pen, and paper, you'll learn how to draw 25 original tangles, and discover inspiring ideas for incorporating these designs into your art. This expanded workbook edition includes an interactive bonus section where you can get started with warm-up exercises, practice tangling, and experiment with strings and shading.With benefits including stress relief, inspiration, and improve...

Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists offers readers a fun...

Comfort and relaxation are the two words that are synonymous to a bedroom. The design and arrangement of furniture and other accessories make your vision of your dream bedroom come closer than you imagined. You can give yourself that special kind of treat when you create a comfortable and personalized bedroom in your home.  How do you accomplish this on a budget, both in terms of money and space? Get real life, effective ideas from this handy eBook!

"Jaw-dropping . . . a feast for the eyes that will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers, from professional paper cutters to casual observers of the art." — Adult Books 4 Teens ( School Library Journal)There's a renaissance underway in the art form of cut paper, with an explosion of raw talent and an abundance of amazing work produced in the medium in recent years. This gorgeous volume features work from twenty-six contemporary international artists...

Learn How to Draw CaricaturesStep By Step Guide For the BeginnerTABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction:MaterialsStarting with CaricatureThe FaceMore about the FaceSectionsI. The Hair and Forehead• Drawing the Hair• Different HairstylesII. The Eyes and Eyebrows• Drawing the Eyes• Drawing the EyebrowsIII. The Nose, Cheek and Ears• Drawing the Nose• Drawing the Cheek and Ears...

Beloved comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres shares her passion for home design, a look at her homes, and the secrets she has learned over twenty-five years of renovation and decoration.Ellen DeGeneres has bought and renovated nearly a dozen homes over the last twenty-five years, and describes her real-estate and decorating adventures as "an education." She has long cared deeply about design: "I think I wanted to be an interior designer when I was thirteen."...

From the country’s most popular interior design magazine comes a stylish, in-depth look at what it takes to make any room beautiful. House Beautiful Style Essentials: What Every Room Needs is an inspiring and hardworking handbook that shows readers how to create the rooms of their dreams by revealing what “every room needs.” Chapters like “Every Room Needs a Hiding Place” provide clever ideas for storage and organization, while sections like “Every Room Needs Something Shiny” give...

Pulsing with ideas, energy and inspiration, Sketchbook Confidential offers a rare peek inside the personal sketchbooks of 40+ master artists. From colorful painted sketches to spontaneous napkin doodles, from the intensely personal to the purely whimsical, most of the work here was produced quickly and never intended for public view. It is honest and immediate, fresh and fearless.In their own words, the artists share the intentions and inspirations behind their sketching. ...

The 4th edition of Warman's Jewelry: Fine & Costume Jewelry price guide is for any jewelry lover interested in jadeite, pearls, diamonds, figurals, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, sterling silver, beads, rhinestones, avant-garde, designer, antique Victorian-Edwardian-Georgian, couture, plastics including Bakelite and Lucite, gold, and even more exceptional jewelry categories. The book features a fresh and fun redesign with more than 1,000 all-new images. Scholarly information and helpful h...

How good a painter are you? How would you like to answer" "I can paint the Girl with the Pearl Earring!" This book will guide you through the process of painting this baroque masterpiece by Vermeer.My method of teaching enables you to express your own taste and feelings about what is beautiful. After completing this painting you will see this artist's work in a whole new way.This is not a prescriptive method, but rather a series of processes which enable your self expression...

More secrets from the private sketches of 38 master artistsThe idea may be derived from anything really--a flash of sunlight, the tilt of a head, a glass on the table...but the sketch is where it all begins, the point where inspiration meets artist. Gloriously free of the need to get it "right," the sketch is where possibilities are explored, compositions are found, and visions come to life.A brilliant follow-up to the first Sketchbook Confidential...