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  • Silk Screen Color Printing - Presenting a New Addition to the Graphic Arts-Serigraphy - A Demonstration and Explanation of the Process of Making 'Multiple Original' Color Prints

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Composition

    The Anatomy of Picture Making

    Series series Dover Art Instruction
    Difficult to grasp and harder still to achieve, composition is a chief concern of artists at every level. This clear and focused introduction exposes the compositional devices that underlie successful artworks. Its many examples reduce pictures to their basic formal elements, offering a concise treatment of an oft-neglected topic.Author Harry Sternberg, whose works appear in major museums ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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  • 101 Things to Learn in Art School

    by Kit White ...
    Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be anything.” The second thing? “Learn to draw.” With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Why Math Isn't an Awful Nerd

    Series series Quick & Dirty Tips
    In "Why Math isn't an Awful Nerd" Jason Marshall, the guy behind the incredibly popular Math Dude's Quick and Dirty Tips podcast, shows readers how insanely easy and downright elegant math can be. Marshall focuses on perfect squares and patterns (hint: they're called perfect squares for a reason), and clearly—and most importantly concisely—explains step-by-step how numbers work. Multiple games and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Clothing of Books

    An Essay

    by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    A deeply personal reflection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake that explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer.How do you clothe a book? Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Drawing on The Dominant Eye

    Decoding the Way We Perceive, Create, and Learn

    by Betty Edwards ...
    A fascinating follow-up to the beloved bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain--with new insights about creativity and our unique way of seeing the world around usMillions of readers have embraced art teacher Betty Edwards's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, from art students and teachers to established artists, corporate trainers, and more--all discovering a bold new way of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Drawing Perspective Methods for Artists

    85 Methods for Creating Spatial Illusion in Art

    Learn how to create the illusion of three-dimensional space in your drawingsIt is as mundane as it is astounding: placed in the right way, a couple of lines on paper create three-dimensional space. To be more exact, the illusion of space.The interest in three-dimensional drawing may initially arise from the intention to depict visible reality. However, the creation of depth is a fascinating ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Funforms, A New Way to Understand Math

    Funforms is a new math symbol system. Unlike Roman Numerals, it is iconic and ideographic. It makes the continuity between whole numbers and fractions easily understood. It is a binary tally mark place order system. It is a math second language, giving the learner the opportunity to review what s/he learned before s/he had fully developed critical thinking skills. Try it, you'll like it! ... Read more

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  • Mondrian

    Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), who can be assigned to the school of classical modernism, was born in Amersfort, Netherlands. After studying in Amsterdam, he started his artist´s career in the impressionist style as a figure and landscape painter. His works from these years showed the influence of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) and of Fauvism, a French school from the beginning of the 20th century. When ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blank Canvas

    Inviting the Muse

    The Blank Canvas offers solid advice for everyone who struggles with artist's block or other problems of creative expression, including: drawing subject matter from unexpected sources, mining one's daily visual responses for images, overcoming self-doubt and criticism, making choices when torn between several ideas, and getting started on assignments. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Henry Moore: On Being a Sculptor

    by Henry Moore ...
    Series Book 2 - Artist's Writings
    Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was arguably the most influential British sculptor of the twentieth century. Brought up in Castleford in Yorkshire, Moore ended his life completing commissions for large-scale public sculptures in countries around the world. The scale of Moore's success in later life has tended to obscure the radical nature of his achievement. Rejecting the influence of his teachers ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Portraits and Persons

    Portraits have for centuries been one of the most important art forms. But what do portraits tell us? What do they mean? And what makes a picture into a portrait? In this book, leading art philosopher Cynthia Freeland addresses these questions and more. As she shows, portraits have served two fundamental functions throughout the ages. Firstly, they preserve identity, bringing us closer to loved ... Read more

    $23.79 USD