Product Description: Discover how to create realistic drawings of dogs, cats, and horses with this easy-to-follow guide. Written and illustrated by a noted creator of art instruction books, the manual emphasizes the importance of capturing your own distinctive vision to reveal the subject's special characteristics...read more

Product Description: Written by an expert art teacher, this visual drawing dictionary offers thousands of instructive illustrations in alphabetical order — from abdomen to zodiac. Simplified for beginners and intermediate students, it presents a tremendous wealth of images: animals, people performing a variety of activities, and common and uncommon objects, including fruits and flowers, clothing, furniture, and much more...read more

Product Description: Twenty selections include humorous, touching tales about life in the shtetl that abound in accurate, affectionate characterizations and richly atmospheric details. Lovingly translated from the Yiddish with all the warmth and spirit of the originals, the stories include, among others, "Progress in Kasrilevke," "Summer Romances," "Birth," "There's No Dead," "Someone to Envy," "Three Widows," "Homesick," "On America," "A Home Away from Home," "To the Hot Springs," the title story, and "Agents," a one-act play...read more

Provides concise definitions of art terms and techniques along with a visual glossary of line drawings of the human figure in action and studies plants, animals, and objects, rendered to make clear how the subject is drawn

Discusses human anatomy in relation to geometric shapes while teaching perspective, foreshortening, balance, proportion, and techniques for drawing each part of the body

A distinguished artist offers suggestions for sketching many species of fast-moving wild animals

Step-by-step instructions for the beginning artists in drawing cowboys, Indians, stage coaches, covered wagons, and other Western scenes.

Step-by-step instructions introduce the materials and skills involved in sculpturing with clay, stone, wood, wire, and metal

Provides information on the materials and techniques required to achieve many different effects in this painting medium

Special techniques to convey facial expressions, are demonstrated as well as instruction on proportion, shading and brush strokes

Emphasizes the need to study the creature being drawn in order to become familiar with its nature and qualities

Introduces young people planning a career in cartooning to the visual and artistic aspects of drawing