Not for sale in selected countries! Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw fifty furry, scaly and feathered friends. Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee...

Not for sale in selected countries! Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how draw dozens of athletes from sports such as baseball, basketball, football, tennis and skiing. Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical...

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames's Draw 50 series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method...

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames's Draw 50 series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method...

Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the lette...

One of the preeminent chroniclers of the American West, over the past decade Robert Adams has turned his attention to the woods and shores near his home on the Oregon coast. "Sea Stories" is a sequence of three narratives that follow Adams and his wi...

In "This Day", Robert Adams observes two kinds of landscapes – that inside his home, including arrangements of nasturtium leaves and apples on the kitchen table, as well as the views outside his window and beyond. The windswept headlands, beach grass...

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is best known as one of the founders of the Impressionist movement. Although he received his artistic training in Paris, a seven-month stay in London, beginning in December of 1870, had a lasting impact on his artistic de...

The enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886-1961) was an important influence on his fellow New York artists between the 1920s and the 1940s. Graham and his circle, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning, helped redefine...

The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in recent years the genr...