Product Description: What's the best way to stretch watercolor paper? What basic materials do I need to start oil painting? How can I use color to create mood in my paintings? Readers can find answers to these questions and much more in 100 Things Every Artist Should Know...read more

The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family histroy of the Buendias

Product Description: Vincent Zhao, author of the highly successful Fantasy+ series, has penned another useful guide that will provide young designers with essential working rules for basic game design. The first volume of 101 Golden Rules for Game Designers will help aspiring designers clear away the mystery shrouding CG character creation...read more

Product Description: Long a vibrant and thriving area of visual art, fantasy painting has gained added impetus in recent years as both traditional and new fantasy artists have moved into the digital arena. With such a dizzying array of media and methods to choose from, both real-world and digital, creating spectacular fantasy art can seem to both the novice and the experienced painter a daunting prospect...read more

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark delves into the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world – artists, dealers, auction houses, and wealthy collectors. If it’s true – as so often said – that 85 percent of new contemporary art is bad, why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? The $12 Million Stuffed Shark explores money, lust, and the self-aggrandizement of possession in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work of art valuable while others are ignored. In the style of the bestselling Freakonomics, Thompson uses economic concepts to explain the unique practices employed, to great success, in the international contemporary art market. He discusses branding and marketing and how various strategies are tailored to a wealthy clientele, driving a "must-have" culture. Drawing on exclusive interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a surprising journey of discovery.

Product Description: Visit some of Europe’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of a knowledgeable tour guide. "Who can resist an art critic with attitude?" – Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Ian Binnie "It was wonderful! Julian shared his enormous knowledge of the world’s best art with a panache that is irresistible...read more

Product Description: Let your imagination take flight with 20 Ways to Draw a Butterfly and 44 Other Things with Wings. Beautifully illustrated, this inspirational sketchbook will help you learn how to draw anything with wings. From fairies, bats, and airplanes, to dragonflies, gargoyles, and angels, 20 Ways to Draw a Butterfly is perfect for illustrators, cartoonists, doodlers, and anyone who loves to sketch...read more

Product Description: Swirls, spirals, and symbols come alive with 20 Ways to Draw a Doodle. Beautifully illustrated, this inspirational sketchbook lets you draw outside the trapezoid and create beautiful designs and patterns. Explore playful polygons, zany zigzags, tweaked twizzles and twirls! Let your pencil roam freely across the page and create your own designs! 20 Ways to Draw a Doodle is perfect for illustrators, cartoonists, doodlers, and anyone who loves to sketch...read more

Looks at various insights that aim to inspire design solutions and ideas on how to capture the public's attention and leave an indelible impression of the brand. This logo anthology features logos from the commercial fields of business enterprises, food and beverage, art, and culture and media. It contains resource of ideas for graphic designers.

Product Description: The possibilities for creation are endless with 3D printing, sculpting, scanning, and milling, and new opportunities are popping up faster than artists can keep up with them. 3D Technology in Fine Art and Craft takes the mystery out of these exciting new processes by demonstrating how to navigate their digital components and showing their real world applications...read more

Product Description: Explore the Realms of Color with an Eclectic Collection of Objects A hedgehog, a steaming bowl of ramen, a bicycle, a cassette...Whether you haven't thought of colouring since you were a kid or you never leave home without an arsenal of markers, this menagerie of 50 everyday and offbeat subjects will get your creative juices flowing...read more

Product Description: Manga CharactersManga Figures' is perfect for designers looking for that Japanese pop-culture look, or for manga fans to create amazing artwork without learning to draw. Figures can be taken into any image application for modification and colouring.

Product Description: Discover all the fun things that make Hawaii special while learning your ABCs and 123c. With 64 pages to color--including 24 activities--kids can color humpback whales, aloha shirts, fish, a flower lei, dolphins, and more.

Product Description: Everyone can draw and paint, including you!Even if you have never drawn or painted before, you can start creating your own beautiful artwork. Let the Willenbrinks show you how!Beginning with materials and basic techniques, these pages will teach you everything you need to know to get started in drawing, watercolors and oil painting...read more

Product Description: This volume presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of academic poster presentations, taking into consideration the text and visuals that posters display depending on the discipline within which they are created. As the academic poster is a multimodal genre, different modal aspects have been taken into consideration when analysing it, a fact that has somehow complicated the genre analysis conducted, but has also stimulated the research work involved and, in the end, provided interesting results...read more

Product Description: Acrylic Landscape Painting by Lee Hammond

Product Description: In this workshop, Johannes Vloothuis demonstrates that getting started with acrylics is as easy as telling time. You'll learn the advantages of the acrylic medium along with color mixing so simple that you'll never have to worry about using the wrong color again...read more