Product Description: For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Mineral surveyors job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines...read more

This compendium, the best work from Patricia Carter's three previous books on illumination, shows exquisite designs in watercolour and gouache to enhance calligraphy, texts and a host of other decorative items.

Product Description: Beginning in December of 1941, the San Francisco Bay area was fully involved in the changes brought about by World War II. Although these are not battle stories, they are war stories, set on the home front during those days after Pearl Harbor when life changed for soldier and civilian alike...read more

Product Description: Before lead pencils were invented, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci drew on specially prepared paper with slender rods of solid silver. The resulting line, created by a thin coating of silver being deposited on the surface of the paper, is fine and delicate, with a faint pearly sheen, and should not smudge or rub out...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This guide uses flowers, butterflies, snowflakes, medieval illuminations and many other sources of inspiration to create illuminated designs. It shows how to apply them to a host of decorative items, including writing paper, greeting cards, gift cards, paperweights, boxes, address books, diaries, bookplates, bookmarks, menus and calligraphic texts...read more

Product Description: Book by Patricia Carter

Product Description: Patricia Carter has again created a stunning collection of decorative design ideas, this time to illuminate lettering. There are nine complete alphabets offered, including Parchment, Classical Collection and Entwined Roses.

Introduces useful materials and techniques, discusses design, color, and gilding, and shows examples of ornamental borders featuring flowers, grasses, ferns, banners, ribbons, ropework, and stylized leaves