Each of seven lessons provides background information on a masterpiece, discusses the work as a whole, and gives a detailed evaluation of the artist’s style. Special attention is given to watercolor techniques—including backruns, blending, brushwork, glazing, and impressing.

Master Strokes: Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the Techniques of the Masters

Arts & Photography

Harrison, Hazel

Painting

Sterling/Silver

It's the most invaluable resource for healing, energy, and a deep sense of well being. Meditation calms and replenishes the body, mind and spirit--and this richly illustrated, information-filled guide shows how to experience its multitude of benefits. Make a ritual of preparing the space and the body, settle into one of the comfortable, relaxing positions, and begin by mastering breath control, the calming core of meditation. Use the special ways to meditate for different times of the day, try techniques for concentrating on particular lifestyle changes, and intensify inner awareness with mantras and visualizations. And, if your image of meditation is someone sitting cross-legged with eyes shut, then these unusual forms--including some meditations to do while moving and even eating--provide a fascinating alternative. Plus: A 60-minute CD of soothing hypnotic music to relax the body and mind, and enhance meditation.

The Power of Meditation: Energize the Mind & Restore the Body

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Titmuss, Christopher

Alternative Medicine

“Twenty assignments in crafting...classic, Mexican, modern, Islamic, and Eastern—grouped to demonstrate a similarity of style....Consult this for a good sense of different designs.”—Booklist. “Offers basic techniques as well as advice for setting up a workspace...lavish mosaic guide for beginners.”—Publishers Weekly. “It is refreshing to have a mosaic “how-to” book on the market with a great selection of designs and techniques.”—Groutline.

Mosaics: Essential Techniques & Classic Projects

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Soler, Fran

Crafts & Hobbies

“As Harrison ably shows, photos can inspire, capture what won’t stay still, or serve as a personal reference file...discusses cameras and lenses, provides eight profiles of painters who rely on photography, and gives tutorials that progress from photograph to painting...this work covers oils, pastels, etc., as well as watercolors and is therefore a good first choice for general collections.” —Library Journal. “A very helpful resource for both artist and art educator.”—School Arts.

Painting Great Pictures from Photographs

A camera can instantly capture a fleeting moment in time--that shifting quality of light, the shape of a moving figure, or a flash of emotion across a face--and preserve it for artists to paint at their leisure. Make your photographs an invaluable inspiration for great paintings. A technical discussion covers cameras, lenses, viewpoints, and depth of field. Themed mini-galleries place source photographs and the paintings they motivated side by side--including a photo of Paris by night that, in the artist's hands, becomes a glittering, romantic pastel of the city. Eight in-depth profiles of painters feature a selection of their art, conversations about their working methods, and a "tutorial" that follows the progression from photograph to painting. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

Painting Great Pictures From Photographs

Study & Teaching

Making The Most Of Your Sewing Machine & Serger Accessories

With practice, it will become second nature to use a gathering foot rather than a long stitch for soft ruffles; to make and attach piping in a single step; and to add binding quickly. Go through labeled photos of the machines; then see the challenges posed by different stitches, threads, and fabrics and how to meet them with style. Perfect every technique, and try them out on our projects.

Making the Most of Your Sewing Machine & Serger Accessories

Pugh-Gannon, JoAnn

"[This book is] unique and exciting...it works beautifully."--Library Journal Hone your skills on depicting water, dramatic landscapes, the nude, still lifes, and nature--all based on celebrated works by Cotman, Constable, Monet, Bonnard, Gainsborough, Fantin-Latour, and Homer. With the masters as inspiration, even budding painters can create evocative watercolors. Each of the seven exciting lessons here focuses on a single masterpiece by a great artist, providing background information, discussions of the work as a whole, and a detailed evaluation of stylistic intricacies. An in-depth examination of the most vital watercolor techniques-including backruns, blending, body color, brushwork, dry brush, glazing, and impressing-reveals all the possibilities of this luscious medium.

"As Harrison ably shows, photos can inspire, capture what won't stay still, or serve as a personal reference file...[This is] a good first choice."--Library Journal "A very helpful resource for both artist and art educator."--School Arts A camera can instantly capture a fleeting moment in time--that shifting quality of light, a flash of emotion across a face--and preserve it for artists to paint at their leisure. Make your photographs an invaluable inspiration for great paintings with this inspirational guide. A technical discussion covers cameras, lenses, viewpoints, and depth of field. Themed mini-galleries place source photographs and the paintings they motivated side-by-side--including a photo of Paris by night that, in the artist's hands, becomes a glittering, romantic pastel of the city. Eight in-depth profiles of painters feature a selection of their art, conversations about their working methods, and a tutorial that follows the progression from photograph to painting.

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Books by Sterling/Silver

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Master Strokes: Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the Techniques of the Masters

The Power of Meditation: Energize the Mind & Restore the Body

Mosaics: Essential Techniques & Classic Projects

Painting Great Pictures from Photographs

Painting Great Pictures From Photographs

Making the Most of Your Sewing Machine & Serger Accessories

Master Strokes: Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the Techniques of the Masters

Painting Great Pictures from Photographs