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Experience life as only an artist can! Join the rapidly growing, international movement of artists united by a passion for drawing on location in the cities, towns and villages where they live and travel.

A revised edition of the classic pocket guide to hallmarks.

Carefully restored from an original manuscript by a team of experts (including a comic book and illustration legend), this facsimile edition completes the Loomis legacy.

From skating angels and adorable polar bears to chalet girls with cosy knitted jumpers, these new Tilda designs celebrate the winter season in style. Create mini patchwork balls and tablemats, or make a quilt with beautiful Tilda fabrics. Hanging santas, paper angels and Christmas stockings are perfect festive decorations for your home.

Over one hundred step-by-step photographs show how to create exquisite, delicately embroidered silk ribbon flowers, using a surprisingly small number of stitches.

Defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "a genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology", Steampunk has taken the world by storm, rapidly moving from literature into movies, games and fashion. This is a guide for those looking for projects to create, from robot arms to jewellery and goggles.

An introduction to design that opens the world of style to budding fashionistas. It gives step-by-step instructions on drawing figures from many points of view and in varying poses. It also explains the tricks of the trade: how to "dress" your figure; render colour, texture and print; and create accessories, hairstyles and makeup looks.

Shows you how to carve a sea-worthy old sailor and his crew. In this book, more than 100 step-by-step photos guide you in carving, painting and staining the salty Old Sea Captain and his first and second mates. It also includes patterns for making buoys, lobster traps and wooden crates to set an entire sea-faring scene.

Includes stories from zombie apocalypses to love stories that are centered on brooding, blood-sucking vampires, the occult and all things goth are immensely popular in today's media. This title helps you find all they need to know about turning a cute child into an undead one.

The best paper flower artist working today, Livia Cetti, presents a comprehensive how-to manual for creating jaw-droppingly beautiful and unbelievably realistic blooms.

Jean Haines' distinctive, expressive style is influenced by the places she's lived in and the people she's met during her life, and in this beautiful, inspiring book she takes you on an exciting journey through her world of watercolour painting.

Written for the dedicated knitter, this volume offers fine detail of how knitting works, questioning and examining how stitches can influence and shape the fabric by pulling in, pulling up, and making it stretchy or firm, thick or thin.

Beautifully illustrated and fantastically detailed, Dracopedia: The Bestiary is a modern, but no less unsettling reimagining of the ancient version. It is an A-to-Z artist's guide to animals of the legendary world. Some, like the griffin and yeti, may be familiar to you. Others may seem new and strange.

Get out your favorite drawing tool, and remember, there are not just 20 Ways to Draw a Tree!

A guide to learning to sew clothes with style, from the largest online community of sewing enthusiasts. It features 5 fully customisable sewing patterns, photography and contributions from more than 78 designers from 22 countries. It teaches readers what they need to know to design and sew an entire wardrobe of fashion-forward looks.

Novelty knitter and crocheters will love this collection of mini Christmas projects to crochet ready for the festive season.

Dave White introduces the simple but effective techniques that he uses to paint stunning, dramatic seascapes with beautiful and realistic skies.

""Reference for sewers with step-by-step instructions for fitting test garments on the body, then transferring adjustments to paper patterns before cutting out and sewing the final garment"--Provided by publisher"--

The most trusted guide to jacket tailoring on the market, Tailoring belongs on every sewer's bookshelf.

A cross stitch collection packed full of mystical cross stitch motifs, including 65 charts featuring wizards, fairies and dragons. Turn the cross stitch charts into magical gifts and keepsakes with over 40 simple project ideas.

With the help of reference photos and field sketches, this title lets readers learn to create realistic and colourful painting of landscapes ranging from expansive mountain vistas to intimate vignettes such as tree-shaded streams.

A unique source of information and inspiration for anyone interested in goldwork embroidery.

Suitable for embroiderers, this one-stop resource contains 300 of the author's most popular motifs, including nearly 30 entirely new designs. It allows you to just tear out the perforated pages, iron the reusable patterns onto fabric, grab a needle and thread and start stitching animals, flowers, letters, balloons, embellishments and more.

Known as pyrography, which literally means "e;writing with fire,"e; woodburning is a rewarding art that is practically infinite in its applications. This book shows you everything you need to get started in this fun and expressive craft. Award-winning artist and pyrographer Si Easton takes you from basic woodburning concepts to tips and techniques that encourage your creativity and help you develop your own individual style. His expert lessons teach you all of the essential techniques, from making simple marks to texturing, lettering, shading and finishing. Learn to Burn offers fourteen step-by-step projects for making decorative gifts--from coasters and picture frames to bangles, decorative plates, and door hangers--illustrated with clear how-to photographs. Each pyro project can be completed using ready-made materials that are easy to find at your local craft store. Fifty bonus patterns will allow you to unleash your creativity on hundreds of additional woodburning projects. This a book that you'll come back to again and again as you develop your expertise in an innovative art form.

Features five incredible quilt designs, each shown in two different colourways. This title includes a 'pick-and-mix' quilt gallery that gives ideas for combining favourite blocks for even more quick quilt designs.

A collection of 150 colorful crochet frames, with instructions for working around a corner. It offers instructions both as text and as charts for working in-the-round, and includes back-and-forth charts for when that method is more appropriate.

Topics covered include:Tools and equipmentCapturing facial expressionsCreating a sense of movementChoosing a subjectUsing computers

Chibis are the cute, miniature characters and creatures of Japanese comics. They appear in various genres of manga. This book covers chibis, character by character, according to the various subgenres in which they appear, including fantasy, occult, shoujo, fairy and action. It provides an introduction of chibi animals, chibi witches and vampires.