This concise book contains all you'll ever need to know about perspective drawing. In twenty masterfully organized chapters, from simple to complex, the author explains the basics and not-so-basics of perspective drawing. He includes suggestions on how to make your drawings a lot simpler, drawing methods for observation and space division, a "Remember" section at the end of each chapter in which he summarizes the most important information and principles presented in that chapter, and a "Prob...

Inspired by modern masters, Use This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing is a playful introduction to contemporary drawing styles, techniques and ideas.

This sketchbook features thought-provoking prompts and eye-popping illustrations to sharpen your skills and unlock the outer limits of your imagination.

Far from a free-for-all of random exercises, this book is divided into sections covering essential aspects of drawing such as tone, composition and humour. Accessible, fun and informative, U...

The Street Art Manual is the world's first book to combine practical advice and tactical guidance for creating 11 forms of street art in public space around the world. Every type of street art is covered, including graffiti, stencilling, subvertising, large scale murals, wheat pasting, urban projections, aerial art, yarn bombing, guerrilla theatre, banner drops and projectiles.

Each technique is illustrated with step-by-step drawings and straight forward advice about what you need and how to...

From rural Japan to international icon - Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art.

Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual return home and rise to twenty-first-century super-fame.

Become a super awesome artist with this fantastic new book. Using real examples of art for inspiration, this great book features 20 exciting art challenges to help you create your own masterpieces. Channel the artistic genius within and you’ll be painting like Pollock, doodling like Duchamp and creating like Kahlo in no time!

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' * With the same disarming force,...

The complete manga, anime and video game "art school" course for beginners!

The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga & Anime offers a structured 13-week lesson plan that is typically found in professional drawing classes. With 65 detailed lessons arranged into 13 weekly topics, it's simple to learn the essentials and then progress to higher levels. You can create your own personalized learning experience as the structured lessons can be followed in sequence on a strict daily schedule or as an easy...

Collagekunstenaars zijn meesters in het definiëren van een boodschap en het vinden van de juiste manier om deze te creëren en delen. Dat doen ze door veelal bestaande beelden, teksten, kleuren en vormen opnieuw samen te stellen.

Voor het inspirerend en leerzaam boek ‘Coollage’ hebben Bart Heesen en Rob Benders Regentag - samen de Tintenkillers - een zorgvuldige selectie gemaakt, bestaande uit collages van 45 internationale collagekunstenaars die op laagdrempelige en originele wijze mond...

In de zomer van 1955 verhuisde Picasso zijn atelier naar ‘La Californie’, een belle époque-villa van begin vorige eeuw, gelegen in de heuvels rond Cannes. De grote Jugendstil ramen en het uitzicht op de tuin met cactussen, eucalyptus- en palmbomen kwamen terecht in Picasso’s schilderijen. Deze interior landscapes, zoals Picasso ze noemde, tonen onvoltooide schilderijen en sculpturen, schildersmaterialen, muziekinstrumenten en allerhande objecten die hij als rekwisieten gebruikte in zij...

Interdisciplinair onderzoek naar de Victory Boogie Woogie, met nieuwe inzichten in het ontstaan van dit kunstwerk.

Ook een Nederlandse editie verkrijgbaar: 9789089643711 Victory Boogie Woogie uitgepakt

Het laatste, onvoltooide werk van Piet Mondriaan (1872-194), de Victory Boogie Woogie is in 1998 aangekocht door de Nederlandse overheid en in permanent bruikleen gegeven aan het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Dit werk wordt gezien als één van de hoogtepunten van de abstracte, 20e-eeuwse schilderk...