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Colour mixing is a key skill for the botanical artist. In this practical guide, Jackie Isard explains how to observe and use colour accurately. She shows artists how to make informed choices when selecting pigments, as well as how to learn about colour mixing and its application. Detailed instruction and advice are given on understanding colour and pigments. The author explains how to 'see' colour and tricky mixes, from greens and reds to the difficult botanical greys. Includes advanced colour application techniques - colour enhancement, shadow colours and colour temperature transition. Finally, step-by-step guides illustrate how to paint with layers, how to use underlaying colours to enhance, and colour and fine detailing.

Ballet is a detailed guide to creative practice and performance. Compiled by ten leading practitioners, each chapter focuses on an aspect of ballet as a performing art. Together they outline a journey from the underpinning principles of ballet, through an appreciation of different styles and schooling, into the dance studio for practice in class and beyond. With additional insights from highly acclaimed dancers, choreographers and teachers, this practical guide offers advice on fundamental and advanced training and creative development. As well as providing information from dance science research into training well-being, this book supports the individual dancer in their artistic growth, offering strategies for exploration and discovery. Topics include: principles, styles and schooling of classical ballet; fundamental technique and advanced expression; developing versatility and creative thinking; advice on injury management, nutrition and lifestyle; choreography and music and, finally, best practice in the rehearsal studio is covered. ''A wonderfully accessible and comprehensive resource about the individual disciplines involved in ballet.¿ Leanne Benjamin OBE, former Principal of The Royal Ballet and international coach

This superior Manuscript Notebook is designed to inspire all musicians to compose. It contains 240 pages of high-quality 120gsm white paper, ideal for ink or pencil. The sewn binding allows for lie-flat pages, a page-finder ribbon helps you keep your place, and the elastic closure and pen loop provide ease of use. Each page presents twelve 6mm staves, designed with optimal spacing and line weight, plus an increased left-hand margin to allow for instrumentation indications.

Memoir meets photo book in this inspiring story of a photographer's search for one of Africa's most rare and magnificent animals.

A major new volume on Isamu Noguchi's skyviewing sculptures, which also addresses the theme of space, and our place in the universe.

Guitar Scales for Beginners: Here''s the Perfect Guide if You Want to Become a Guitar Pro and Play Solos Effortlessly Would you like to:Take your guitar playing to the next level?Be better at improvisation and playing solos?Enhance your creativity through music theory?If you are just entering into the world of guitar, it is likely that you''ve heard a thing or two about scales. Unfortunately, many new guitarists shudder when they hear the word "scale". Music theory can certainly seem intimidating if you don''t know where to start! This book will help you understand that learning scales is not difficult or tedious. In fact, scales can be tons of fun if you know how to use them to make music. Plus, scales help guitarists build strength, technique, and hand coordination. Knowing scales will also allow you to solo andimprovise with ease!Here''s what this book can teach you:Guitar Scales 101: What they are, how to practice, and why it''s so important that you learn scales (hint: creativity and improvisation)Understanding the Fretboard: How to identify the fretboard''s numbered frets and learn musical notes and their names on the fretboard, plus the chromatic scaleIntervals and Keys: Understanding what an interval is with examples from many different popular songs, with exercises that will help you finally get the right keysThe Most Important Scales and Modes: Learning how to play major and minor scales, learning different patterns and positions, plus the pentatonic scale and exotic scales (Oriental, Japanese, Hungarian...)Practice Makes Perfect: Ascending and descending exercises, how to practice on one string, tricks for changing direction, how to use nursery rhymes and singing to get better at scales, tips and tricks for improvisationIf you''re ready to take your guitar playing to a new creative and professional level, it''s time to learn the scales! This book is a perfect guide for beginners-you will learn everything you need to know in a simple and practical way!

From his Great (Bamboo) Wall house to the Japan National Stadium for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games, originally planned for 2020, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma pioneered a truly sustainable approach to contemporary architecture, translating local craftsmanship and resources into a new tactile architecture. Discover the scope of his practice-...

aucht man heute ab in die U-Bahn-Schächte in vielen Ländern Osteuropas und Ländern, die einst zur UdSSR gehörten, so scheint die Zeit stehengeblieben. Die Stationen sind Chronisten der Geschichte und der Kunst einer längst verschwundenen Weltmacht, als Prestigeprojekte konzipiert, Tausende von Kilometern voneinander entfernt und unter unterschiedlichen Bedingungen in unterschiedlichen Zeiten entstanden: Von Moskau nach Baku, von Minsk über Tbilisi nach Kiev.Der Fotograf Frank Herfort stellt in diesem Band die Metrosysteme der Sowjetzeit vor. Sein Fokus liegt auf den Details, hunderte Kunstwerke hat er auf diese Weise mit der Kamera eingefangen. So setzen sich die Stationen in seinen Fotografien zu einer ganzheitlichen Darstellung sozialistischer Kunst zusammen. Diese steht nicht für sich alleine, sondern auch in Bezug zum Alltag der Menschen heute.

This new expanded edition of Cocktails of the Movies serves up over 70 of the greatest cocktails to have featured on film.

With a rising number of women throughout the world picking up their cameras and capturing their surroundings, this book explores the work of 100 women and the experiences behind their greatest images.

Explore the visually arresting typefaces that give Berlin its unique character.

Crammed full of live and off stage shots of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer from their days with The Nice, King Crimson, Arthur Brown's Crazy World and Atomic Rooster, through the ELP years, as well as documenting their solo work and other outside projects. Topped and tailed with 15,000 words by musicologist and author Laura Shenton.

The first career retrospective of leading contemporary photographer Mona Kuhn.

Drawing on his unique experience at the helm of three major British art institutions, Charles Saumarez Smith traces how art museums across the world have changed over the past eighty years.

2020 marks the 27th anniversary of the death of GG Allin, the most notorious rock n roll artist of all time. He was loved and hated, but it was clear to everyone that he knew how to create a spectacle: defecating on stage, throwing blood at the audience, self-mutilation, and violent attacks. This colouring and activity book honours the best of his unique creative expression. Draw his tattoos, colour his infamous onstage antics, engage with his unflinching takes on death, pain, and religion. Channel your rage through the page.

What Kind of Architect Are You? offers a glimpse into a vast array of professional possibilities and points out meaningful alternatives to the prevailing myth of the 'starchitect'. It provides those in search of an architect with insights into how we work and helps them to formulate expectations.

A magical journey through the arboreal world of contemporary tree house design, incorporating accommodation options, artist spaces, dining experiences, modern offices, and so much more. Perfect for your inner child!

A brand-new approach to drawing that makes it fun and accessible for everyone, based on first-hand teaching methods developed over twenty years.

This is an anthology of fantastic photography of our feathered friends. Deliberately beautiful, the images in this precious book have a strong slant towards contemporary photography - looking at more modern, unusual projects from both famous and lesser known photographers around the world. Far away from the traditional and sometimes predictable photographs of birds in the garden or treetops, these pictures present birds in a new light, whether shot in the studio, on location or using surprisingly abstract techniques.

Unlock the secrets of Paris's charm with this handy visual guidebook.

Behind the scenes, Doctor Who's original remit was to teach children about science, and in the 1960s it even had a scientific advisor. This is the first book to explore this scientific landscape from a broad spectrum of fields: from astronomy, genetics, linguistics, computing, history, and sociology to gender, media and literature studies.

Embracing your Christian identity does not make you "soft." Embracing your Black identity does not make you less Christian. Throughout American history, Black people were not given the freedom to acknowledge their suffering. A. D. Thomason believes that the Holy Spirit brings freedom and liberation as we're able to name our pain, recognize its roots in history and society, and seek healing. While many saw a confident, six-foot-five Black man, A. D. "Lumkile" Thomason lived most of his life in fear and anguish, deeply wounded by encounters with violence, abandonment, and family tragedy. Hiding behind a tough exterior, Adam earned his "Black card" but felt joyless inside. Even traveling around the globe to play professional basketball could not resolve his despair. But in the art of Jay-Z, A. D. discovered stirring honesty that gave voice to his own expressions of longing. And in the gospel of Jesus, he experienced the healing and salvation that had long evaded him. Now through what he calls "kingdom therapy," he's figuring out how to redefine the Jay-Z and Jesus that make up his blackness. A. D. uses his artistry as a poet and storyteller to share how he confessed his internalized pain and embraced the liberating joy of Christ. He writes for millennials, emerging adults, and anyone else who's ready to acknowledge the reality of racial trauma and our need to confront it. A. D.'s powerful story gives you permission to be Black, to be Christian, and to be the person God has made you to be.

Epic Iran brings together 250 fascinating objects and images to cast a rare light on 5,000 years of history, showing how civilized life emerged in Iran around 3,200 BC, and how a distinctive Iranian identity, formed 2,500 years ago, has survived until today, expressed through artistic continuities, religious affiliations and the Persian language.

This practical guide explains how to take accurate measurements, introduces key tools and takes you from simple pattern-cutting ideas to more advanced creative methods. Step-by-step illustrations show how to create and then fit basic bodice, sleeve, skirt, dress, and trouser blocks, and how to adapt these to create patterns for original designs. New material includes advice on fitting toiles and working with stretch fabrics. There is also a fully updated chapter dedicated to digital technology.New to this edition: Access to 32 instructional videos

This sumptuous book celebrates 12 country houses, occupied by the same families for at least 300 years. From State rooms to boot rooms we have interviewed and photographed these amazing homes. This book gives exclusive insight into a private world at a time of dynamic change and renewal.

First book of dog photography by Vincent Lagrange, presenting canine portraits full of tenderness and personality. Text in English and German.

Discover The Secrets of Rockabilly GuitarDiscover 100 Licks to Supercharge your Rockabilly Guitar PlayingStruggling to master the authentic Rockabilly guitar sound?With its roots in early Rock 'n' Roll, Country and Rhythm & Blues, the Rockabilly revolution is still going strong… and there's no one more qualified to teach it than Rockabilly expert Darrel Higham, whose credits include Jeff Beck, Brian Setzer and Imelda May.In this book, you'll quickly master the iconic rockabilly guitar style through 100 lead licks and essential rhythms.Capture the Style of the Rockabilly PioneersDarrel Higham shares his encyclopaedic knowledge to teach you exactly how the pioneers of this music thought and played. Want to know how your favourite player created their iconic licks? Get unparalleled insight into the playing styles of the Rockabilly legends: Eddie Cochran Scotty Moore Cliff Gallup Joe Maphis Grady Martin Brian SetzerRockabilly Signature LicksYou'll begin by learning the essential vocabulary of Rockabilly and discover classic "building block" phrases to quickly build your chops, along with just enough theory to help you create your own authentic sounding lines.Next, you'll master the essential rhythm guitar playing skills of Rockabilly so you can groove with any band.Advanced Rockabilly Soloing TechniquesAs your Rockabilly guitar skills continue to develop, the language gets more advanced as you learn intricate licks based around Rockabilly techniques like: Fast hammer-on and pull-off licks Banjo roll techniques for rhythm and lead guitar Combining guitar techniques to build solosFull-Length Rockabilly SolosTo round off your Rockabilly masterclass, you'll learn to play no less than 12 full-length Rockabilly soloing studies that demonstrate how to combine each technique into exciting, attention grabbing and musical solos.It's all here, from aggressive Rock 'n' Roll to amazing Travis picked and banjo rolled performances.Bonus 1 - Not just a "100 licks" book, 100 Rockabilly Licks for Guitar contains over a dozen full-length 12-bar blues sequences that put the licks and language into musical focus.Bonus 2- Discover the perfect Rockabilly guitar gear in the bonus, Guitars, Amps & Effects sectionHear it!100 Licks for Rockabilly Guitar contains over 100 supporting audio examples to help you get inside the music and quickly hear exactly how each lick should be played.Buy it now!