"Mastering Exposure" is an invaluable guide to taking better photographs using today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras. Aimed at the more experienced amateur photographer, author David Taylor's concise text explains the fundamen...

Built around the concepts of play and practice, Jo Toye embraces experimentation and innovation. Focusing on technique, line and "working small", she shares a host of unusual techniques and works with unusual materials. As many acrylic artists do, J...

Acrylic Color Explorations is as inspirational as it is instructional as Chris Cozen explores practical color basics through simple "stretching" exercises to determine the "voice" of the best colors to use in any creative situation. - Makes color the...

Not for sale in selected countries! With this latest book in the SCAD Creative Essentials series from the esteemed Savannah College of Art and Design, comics writer and instructor Mark Kneece gives aspiring comic book writers the essential tools th...

Not for sale in selected countries! A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colourful, bold, yet accessible painting methods. Watercolour sketching is a rapidly emerging technique...

Not for sale in selected countries! In the tradition of the eminently practical, top-selling guides such as "How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself", "The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted", and "Problem Solving for Oil Painters", this straig...

Lampshade maker and self-proclaimed junk shop junkie, Natalia Price-Cabrera (aka Mols & Tati-Lois) discovered a huge gap in the market when she set about making lampshades. There were so few inspiring books out there that she decided to put together...

Not for sale in selected countries! Fine-art instruction books do not usually focus on anatomy as it relates to movement, despite its great artistic significance. Written by a long-time expert on drawing and painting human anatomy, :Classic Human A...

"Mastering: Black & White Photography" is the definitive work on how to shoot black & white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras and smart phones. Aimed at the enthusiastic amateur photographer, jargon-busting text,...

Photographic portraits should not be the formal, corporate-style poses of yesteryear, which reveal nothing of the subject's emotion, personality or mood – so believe Paul Wilkinson and Sarah Plater. Theirs is a modern, fresh and vibrant approach that...