Product Description: Create the cutest versions of your favorite dogs in just a few simple steps with this easy to use needle felting book.   Whether you adore dachshunds or dalmatians, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to make charming miniatures of them with a felting needle and some raw wool in this easy how to needle felt guide...read more

Product Description: Frances McNaughton shows how to make adorable sugar dogs for cake decorating using sugarpaste and a few simple tools and techniques. First we learn about the materials and tools that are needed. Then it is straight on to making twenty popular breeds of dog including a border collie, dachshund, bichon rise, bassett hound, dalmatian, King Charles Spaniel, poodle, shitzu, St Bernard and yorkshire terrier...read more

When Cajun artist George Rodrigue began his series of Blue Dog paintings in 1984, he had no idea that they would consume the greater part of his life for over two decades, and that the mysterious Blue Dog—inspired by his studio dog–turned-model, Tiffany, and the Cajun loup-garou folk legend—would become a wildly popular international icon as well. Blue Dog Speaks is the first book to prominently emphasize Rodrigue’s painting titles, one of the most important elements in the creation of a Blue Dog painting, alongside the works. Rodrigue uses Blue Dog painting titles to provide insight—whether humorous or nostalgic or sad—into the human condition.In an introduction, Rodrigue reveals how an idea that originated in childhood tales has now grown far beyond; his Blue Dogs have moved beyond Louisiana into formerly uncharted territory and now express larger concepts about contemporary life. His newer titles—such as Right Place Wrong Time and Tiffany Remembers the ’70s—along with other, more abstract ones such as All by Myself with My Happiness capture this shift in style and content.But most of all, there are the paintings themselves, magnificently displayed, their titles inviting us to ask “What is this dog all about?” and “What is the artist trying to say?” Even though the definitive answers remain a mystery, the titles provide a clue… 

Product Description: There is nothing happier than a happy dog” reads one of the observations in this humorous and heartwarming look at the everyday interactions between man and man’s best friend. Renown illustrator Mark Ulriksen combines his handwritten observations with his intricate paintings of dogs from over 20 years of his career...read more

Product Description: Beginning artists will learn to draw their favorite pets step-by-step.

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: With so many adorable dogs to choose from—from a cute cocker spaniel to a friendly-looking Rottweiler—every child will be able to draw his or her favorite puppy. The variety helps build skills, as youngsters master the art of depicting bodies small and tall, long hair and short, pointy ears and floppy, and faces of every conceivable shape...read more

Product Description: Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal...read more

Product Description: Cute crafts and adorable dogs—what could be more irresistible? From a Golden Retriever and French Bulldog to the beloved mutt, these 35 paper pups are appealing and fun to create. They're made using kirigami, an art similar to origami: just photocopy the full-size templates and follow the simple steps to transform a flat shape into a dimensional animal! In addition to the dogs, accessories include a fire hydrant, doghouse, and a collection of collars to adorn your paper pet...read more

Product Description: The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This book is the first comprehensive history of early modern Spanish dogs and it evaluates how two of Spain’s most celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this period, the artist Diego Velázquez and the author Miguel de Cervantes, radically question humankind’s sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning...read more

Product Description: Paul Apps shares his skills so you can produce your own paintings of dogs and puppies. Learn from a master artist how to bring life, character and personality to your depictions of man's best friend.

Product Description: Dogs come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Readers will learn the basics of drawing a variety of breeds, including the long-haired Yorkshire terrier and the large German shepherd. Easy-to-follow directions with picture guides help readers sketch, shade, and add color to each dog drawing...read more

Product Description: Old English sheep dogs, German Shepherds and  Malamutes are just a few of the fun-loving, furry  breeds that anyone can create by following these  sketches. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.

Product Description: ''Information accompanies step-by-step instructions on how to draw dogs. The text level and subject matter is intended for students in grades 3 through 7''--Provided by publisher.Title: DogsAuthor: Eppard, Jon/ Porter, Steve (ILT)Publisher: Bellwether MediaPublication Date: 2012/08/01Number of Pages: 24Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 201201722...read more

Product Description: As the saying goes, dogs are man's best friend. Since the Stone Age, our canine companions have been illustrated, described, dramatized, and eulogized in one form or another. Dogs in Books celebrates the role of dogs in literature, featuring more than thirty famous dogs, from Tintin's white Wire Fox Terrier Snowy, to Lassie, Toto, and Snoopy, as well as dogs from Shakespeare, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, and many more well-known authors...read more

The author's woodcuts illustrate the predicaments, pleasures, and appetites that make up his dog's life