This comprehensive guide to painting landscapes in watercolor features the expert tuition of six renowned artists and includes a wide variety of techniques and styles. Easy to follow instructions show how to paint trees, water, seas, skies and buildings as well as mood and atmosphere, and each section is accompanied by beautiful, inspirational paintings. With nine demonstrations and over 300 st…
from the back cover: 'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a fr…
Featuring an array of adorable pets and majestic wildlife, this exceptional book offers simple, step-by-step instructions for creating dozens of incredibly lifelike animal drawings.
The book is divided into two parts: Part One provides an in-depth exploration of the nature and variety of the pleasure avid adolescent readers experience through their out-of-school reading. Part Two identifies and explains the genres teen readers most enjoy--romance, vampires, dystopian fiction, and science fiction/fantasy. The authors explore what we can learn from teens' pleasure reading an…