A Sign Painter's Sketchbook

A Sign Painter's Sketchbook
Author: Sam Liberto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-01-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733608305

Lettering art and production sketches from Noel B. Weber's 45 year sign painting career. Includes an interview with Noel B. Weber discussing his work and his involvement in the founding of the Letterheads sign painting group. With a foreword by Mark Oatis.

In Progress

In Progress
Author: Jessica Hische
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1452146683

This show-all romp through design-world darling Jessica Hische's sketchbook reveals the creative and technical process behind making award-winning hand lettering. See everything, from Hische's rough sketches to her polished finals for major clients such as Wes Anderson, NPR, and Starbucks. The result is a well of inspiration and brass tacks information for designers who want to sketch distinctive letterforms and hone their skills. With more than 250 images of her penciled sketches, this highly visual ebook is an essential—and entirely enjoyable—resource for those who practice or simply appreciate the art of hand lettering.

Urban Watercolor Sketching

Urban Watercolor Sketching
Author: Felix Scheinberger
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0770435246

A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods. Watercolor sketching is a rapidly emerging technique that enlivens sketches done in pen or pencil with the expressive washes, glazes, and luminous hues of watercolor . This lushly illustrated resource teaches artists on the go how to sketch with watercolor, rendering subjects efficiently and without inhibitions. Readers are guided through all aspects of the medium, from fundamental techniques including wet-on-wet, glazing, and washes; materials and supplies; and little known tips and tricks for getting the most out of watercolor (for example, just sprinkling a little salt on your painting creates a texture that's impossible to achieve with a brush.) A strong focus color theory provides a solid foundation for enhancing drawings with vibrant hues.

20 Ways to Draw a Tulip and 44 Other Fabulous Flowers

20 Ways to Draw a Tulip and 44 Other Fabulous Flowers
Author: Lisa Congdon
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 159253886X

The best way to learn to draw is to DRAW! And this little book is going to help you do just that. It's filled with 900 inspiring, modern drawings of tulips, roses, zinnias, and more!

Doodlers Anonymous Epic Coloring Book

Doodlers Anonymous Epic Coloring Book
Author: Rony Tako (OKAT)
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1580934633

This adult coloring book is like no other. It’s a beautiful, breathing, beating, eccentric mashup of pure hand-drawn goodness. The Doodlers Anonymous Epic Coloring Book is a compilation of offbeat illustration styles by 90 global contemporary artists bound together for your coloring pleasure. Doodlers Anonymous is the preeminent online home for creative inspiration, a vast resource of unconventional illustration art, and a platform for bringing exposure to both emerging and accomplished artists worldwide. This book is made in the USA and printed on 100lb. Finch Opaque paper stock that is certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. The book has printed inside covers and durable sewn binding, ensuring that the pages will lie flat for easy coloring.

20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature

20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature
Author: Eloise Renouf
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1610587650

DIVThis inspiring sketchbook is part of the new20 Waysseries from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes - tree, tulip, shell, owl, peacock feather, mushroom, cloud,and much, much more–over 900 drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on 20 Ways to Draw a Tree./divDIVThis is not a step-by-step technique book--rather, the stylized flowers, trees, leaves, and clouds are simplified, modernized, and reduced to the most basic elements, showing you how simple abstract shapes and forms meld to create the building blocks of any item that you want to draw. Each of the 20 interpretations provides a different, interesting approach to drawing a single item, providing loads of inspiration for your own drawing. Presented in the author’s uniquely creative style, this engaging and motivational practice book provides a new take on the world of sketching, doodling, and designing. /divDIVGet out your favorite drawing tool, and remember, there are not just20 Ways to Draw a Tree!/div

The Painted Sketch

The Painted Sketch
Author: Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The Painted Sketch is the first volume to focus on the sketches of major American artists of the period. Eleanor Jones Harvey, author and consulting curator of American Art for the Dallas Museum of Art, follows the artists from field to studio, examining the changing perception and growing public appreciation for these small works. Her study is based on much new research as well as on her close analysis of existing resources.

Queen Victoria's Sketchbook

Queen Victoria's Sketchbook
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1979
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Presents paintings and sketches by the Queen, along with a narrative text drawn in part from her journals.

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne
Author: Lawrence Gowing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1988
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Published on the occassion of the exhibition "Paul Cezanne: The Basel sketchbooks", March - June 1988.

Dead Feminists

Dead Feminists
Author: Chandler O'Leary
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1632170574

A national bestseller, this lushly illustrated book is an inclusive celebration of inspiring women who transformed the world and created social change. Dead Feminists is a gorgeously illustrated letterpress-inspired book showcasing feminist history with a vision for a better future. Based on the beloved letterpress poster series of the same name, this book brings feminist history to life, profiling 27 unforgettable forebears of the modern women’s movement such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rachel Carson, and more. Across eras and industries, passions and geographies, this collection of diverse, progressive, and perseverant women faced what looked like insurmountable odds and yet, still, they persisted. Dead Feminists, which features a foreword by Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, is an illuminating and innovative reminder that women can be extraordinary agents of change. The future is female, but in many ways so is the past. Dead Feminists takes feminist inspiration to a new level of artistry and shows how ordinary and extraordinary women have made a difference throughout history (and how you can too). Featured Feminists: Adina De Zavala Alice Paul Annie Oakley Babe Zaharias Eleanor Roosevelt Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Zimmerman Emma Goldman Fatima al-Fihri Gwendolyn Brooks Harriet Tubman Imogen Cunningham Jane Mecom Marie Curie Queen Lili’uokalani Rachel Carson Rywka Lipszyc Sadako Sasaki Sappho Sarojini Naidu Shirley Chisholm Thea Foss Virginia Woolf Washington State Suffragists