This comprehensive guide to painting with oils draws on the expertise of four respected artists and includes a rich variety of styles and techniques. Easy to follow instructions show how to master methods such as wet on wet, scumbling, sgraffito, glazing, and using water-mixable oils to create landscapes, seascapes, skies, still life, and flowers. Thirteen demonstrations and over 300 step-by-st…
The cousins discover a mysterious stranger sneaking into the local dump. When bikes, toasters, and other items disappear all over town, they begin to suspect he might be up to no good. But when these items show up again, fixed and freshly painted, Jeff, David and Claire are confused. What kind of thief repairs and returns his stolen goods?
When a girl's face appears, then disappears, outside a window of their spooky old schoolhouse, the cousins think they've seen a ghost. More strange clues-piano music lilting through empty halls, a secret passageway, and an old portrait that looks like the girl from the window-make Jeff, David, and Claire begin to wonder: Is their school just spooky, or could it be...haunted?
When a camper disappear from the dangerous lookout at Skull Cliff, the cousins wonder if it is the old town curse at work. Then the police discover a ransom note, and everyone is in search of a kidnapper. But Jeff, David, and Claire can't make the clues fit. Was the bossy boy from the city kidnapped, or did something even spookier take place on Skull Cliff?
We live on spinning planet called earth. Earth belongs to a family of nine amazing planets that orbit the sun. Learn all about our solar system - the sun, planets, comets, and asteroids - and about space exploration in this book full of facts and photographs.