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Wire is the hottest trend in jewelry making, and 101 Wire Earrings gives wireworkers at all levels the information and inspiration to make innovative, stylish and contemporary earrings.

Suitable for artists, this guide captures facial expressions. It shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a section devoted to the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust and surprise.

In Venetian glassmaking, slender rods of molten glass are shaped, then cut to reveal detailed patterns: flowers, geometric shapes, dancing colours. This work shows how to re-create these designs in polymer clay. It reveals the process: how to work with polymer clay, the basics of planning and creating a cane and using colour effectively.

Explores geometry and tilings through the art of origami. This book provides the fundamentals of origami tessellations - including techniques to tessellation folding - as well as step-by-step instructions for 25 origami tessellation projects. It is suitable for beginners, intermediate folders, and expert origamists.

Explores the history, creation, and symbolism of gargoyle, grotesque, and chimera. This book includes two complete step-by-step projects and an additional 10 original patterns for rowdy characters, like the Crouching Imp and the Screaming Keystone Grotesque.

Suitable for those who had trouble rendering the human face, this book helps to create realistic portraits. It includes information on techniques for creating realistic hair, facial features, realistic skin and muscle, hats and head dresses. It provides tips for fixing common anatomical errors and information about proper tool use.

More than 30 original designs by an accomplished tattoo artist offer a stunning array of images to colour. Full-page illustrations include edgy, imaginative renditions of flowers, dragons, skulls, hearts, wild animals, angels, and other creatures of fantasy and nature. Perforated pages are printed on one side only for easy removal and display.

Provides pull-out tracings for five floral paintings, along with instructions for how to bring them to life with watercolour paint. This book offers guidance on how to transfer the tracings to watercolour paper, along with a section on what materials to use.

Two at once one one circular needle.

Selected from vintage thread-company leaflets, this rich treasury of popular crochet designs includes 150 patterns favored by crocheters during the first half of the 20th century. Included are designs for tablecloths, bedspreads, doilies, edgings, and other pieces. Detailed instructions guide both beginning and advanced needleworkers through each step of the crocheting process. 140 illustrations.

Beginner's Guide to Sculpting Characters in Clay is a comprehensive guide to traditional sculpting tools, materials and techniques for beginners.

Helps learn how to sculpt realistic 6"-8" figures using simple techniques. This work covers the essentials, the fundamentals of figurative modelling and how to make the tools that ensure success. It shows readers how to recreate faces and expressions, torsos, legs, and hands and feet.

Offers a discussion of the materials and processes used in eight artistic media - painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, mosaics, ceramics, glass, and metalwork. This title contains 400 full-colour illustrations, and provides insight into the creation of many of the world's greatest works of art.

This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting.

The first stroke-by-stroke guide ever produced for learning to write Naskh, one of the six major cursive Arabic scripts.

Rediscovered collection of authentic Irish crochet design from 19th-century contains 30 motifs, 12 grounds. New introductions by Mary Carolyn Waldrep. Numerous patterns. 100 photographs.

Teaches the basic techniques to get started, as well as more advanced ways to approach and create finely crafted boxes. This book offers this advice: Repeat yourself. Repetition leads to refinement and refinement leads to success. It arranges the projects by the level of difficulty, instructing you to use your imagination and ask a few questions.

Provides details on an array of materials available to the artist, including canvases and papers, sizes and grounds, pigments and binders, solvents and thinners, and varnishes and preservatives. This book also contains step-by-step recipes for making art materials, including made at home or the studio paints, pastels, varnishes, gessoes, and more.

Marquetry is a technique where different natural colors of wood veneers are carefully fit precisely together, creating a spectacular design. Using the double-bevel cut, the woodworker is led through a fully illustrated step-by-step process from the design to the finish. Four patterns ranging from simple to challenging projects are included as is an extended gallery of finished works to inspire the marquetarian in you.

Celebrate the festive season with this enchanting collection of loveable hand-sewn Christmas characters.

Thirty step-by-step demos use brightly colored progressive line art for easy-to-follow instruction. Additional demonstrations cover other fantasy creatures, such as wyverns, basilisks, and gargoyles.

With nothing more than colored yarn and simple cardboard squares, you can produce exquisitely patterned woven bands.

William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and highly accurate modelling technique of chiaroscuro, developed by Leonardo daVinci during the High Renaissance.

Classic treatment by a master teacher features 430 pencil and charcoal illustrations depicting fundamental features of human anatomy. Topics include shading, curvature, proportion, foreshortening, muscular tension, and much more.

A basic instructional guide to drawing trees. With the aid of step-by-step drawings, it explains how to use pencil, pen and ink, Conte and charcoal to achieve successful drawings of trees.