Art & Art Instruction
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Inkworks: Darren Quach Sketchbook Vol. 01
$19.95 Read moreInkworks is a delightful collection of mech sketches from key video game designer Darren Quach. Created to resemble an artist sketchbook, flipping through the pages will elicit the feeling of looking … [more below]
- Author: Quach, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1624650155
- Language: English
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Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
$23.00 Read moreRethinking the intimate relationship between humans and design, from primitive tools and ornamentation to the constant buzz of modern social media
The question “are we human?” is both urgent and ancien
- Author: Colomina, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 303778511X
- Language: English
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Painting Nature with Clare: Create Beautiful Gouache Motifs of the Garden, Countryside, Sea, River and Forest
$22.99 Read moreMake nature inspired masterpieces with this friendly all-in-one guide to gouache.
From ferns and flowers to seascapes and songbirds, create charming paintings alongside popular designer and illustrato- Author: Therese Gray, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1645673707
- Language: English
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Mexico: The Land of Charm
$35.00 Read moreA sumptuous clothbound compendium of modern Mexican ephemera from postage stamps to tourist guides
A Chicago Tribune 2021 holiday gift guide pick
This volume gathers a surprising and engaging sampling- Author: Casillas, Mercurio Lopez
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 8417975519
- Language: English
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Women Street Artists: 24 Contemporary Graffiti and Mural Artists from Around the World
$39.95 Read moreThe power, glory, diversity, and talent of women street artists finally gets the attention it deserves in the first book to focus solely on the female gaze writ large on urban walls and sidewalks acro… [more below]
- Author: Mattanza, Alessandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 3791388959
- Language: English
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Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World
$85.00 Read moreNoguchi’s long-adored, meditative autobiography returns to print, restored to its original specifications
“Where all we see is change I like to think sculpture may have in this a special role–as an an
- Author: Noguchi, Isamu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 3969993105
- Language: English
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Experimental Nature in Acrylics
$34.95 Read more- Author: Bailey, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1849947767
- Language: English
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Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velazquez
$50.00 Read moreA provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain
Diego Velç—™quez’s portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608-1670) has lon- Author: Pullins, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397564
- Language: English
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Learn to Paint Wildlife Quickly
$14.95 Read moreBest-selling author Hazel Soan demonstrates how to paint a variety of wildlife.
Teacher and popular author Hazel Soan distills the key elements of painting a variety of wildlife, from garden favorites- Author: Soan, Hazel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1849947260
- Language: English
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How Art Can Make You Happy: (Art Therapy Books, Art Books, Books about Happiness)
$14.95 Add to cartWhy is art magical? How can it make us happy? How Art Can Make You Happy offers the keys to unlocking a rich and rewarding source of joy in life. This easy, breezy handbook is full of insight that wil… [more below]
- Series: How
- Author: Payne, Bridget Watson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1452153221
- Language: English
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Draw Manga Faces for Expressive Characters: Learn to Draw More Than 900 Faces
$24.99 Add to cartLearn to draw the most expressive manga faces ever
Sure, drawing faces is one of the most challenging aspects of manga. But Draw Manga Faces for Expressive Characters is here to help This fantastica- Author: Aya, Hosoi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1440337284
- Language: English
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Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle
$32.50 Add to cartIn the early 1960s Italian design legend Bruno Munari published his visual case studies on shapes: Circle, Square, and, a decade later, Triangle. Using examples from ancient Greece and Egypt, as well … [more below]
- Author: Munari, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1616894121
- Language: English
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Supernatural: The Postcard Collection
$19.99 Read moreCelebrate your love of the hit show Supernatural with this stylish postcard collection.
Join the hunt and pay homage to the Winchester brothers with this set of one hundred unique collectible postcard- Series: Science Fiction Fantasy
- Author: Insight Editions
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 168383609X
- Language: English
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5-Minute Sketching — People: Super-Quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
$19.95 Add to cartSketching has become an extremely popular pastime. For example, on YouTube, “Tips to Draw Better in 6 Minutes” has 1.7 million views, and “How to Draw Better in 2 Minutes”, has 2 million views. Every
- Series: 5-Minute
- Author: Scully, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1770857583
- Language: English
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A Visual Guide to Classical Art Theory for Drawing and Painting Students
$22.50 Read moreEric Mantle presents the basics of classical theory in a clear and concise manner for all beginning drawing and painting students. His book features diagrams that illustrate every concept. Students wi
- Author: Mantle, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1935166123
- Language: English
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Singapore Sketchbook
$30.00 Read moreSingapore Sketchbook is a celebration of streets and buildings, classic scenes and marvelous architectural details. Singapore is a thriving, modern city; but a mixture of modernity and a rich heritage… [more below]
- Author: Liu, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16 2011
- ISBN10: 9814068403
- Language: English
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Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
$22.95 Read moreVenus, maiden, wife, mother, monster–women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumpti
- Author: McCormack, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393542084
- Language: English
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Rod Penner: Paintings, 1987-2022
$65.00 Read moreThe abandoned and forgotten landscapes of rural southwestern towns are the favored subjects of Rod Penner’s paintings. His deft use of contrasts in his images–despondency and hope, isolation and nost
- Author: Meisel, Louis K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1732986444
- Language: English
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Keep Your Mouth Shut: Graffiti Art & Street Culture in Chicago and Beyond
$45.00 Read moreMore than 350 photographs combine with previously untold firsthand stories to offer readers a rarely seen look into graffiti art and street culture, a subculture that has grown seemingly without bound… [more below]
- Author: Flex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366874
- Language: English
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Otherwise, It Would Be Just Another River: Ten Years of Borderland Collective’s Practice in Collaboration and Dialogue
$35.00 Read moreOn the Texan collective’s educational initiatives and artistic collaborations reflecting on the US-Mexico border
Cofounded by artist Jason Reed and educator Ryan Sprott in 2007, Borderland Collective i
- Author: Reed, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 3959055366
- Language: English
