Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136205
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Over 1,700 charming images from rare sources: animals, children playing, couples embracing, men and women working, the human profile, much more. Attention-getting cuts for ads, newsletters, brochures, and art and craft projects.
Big Book of Silhouettes
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136205
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Over 1,700 charming images from rare sources: animals, children playing, couples embracing, men and women working, the human profile, much more. Attention-getting cuts for ads, newsletters, brochures, and art and craft projects.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136205
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Over 1,700 charming images from rare sources: animals, children playing, couples embracing, men and women working, the human profile, much more. Attention-getting cuts for ads, newsletters, brochures, and art and craft projects.
Silhouette Designs for Artists and Craftspeople
Author: Rico Prosperoso
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486284522
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Choose from 153 decorative silhouette motifs: lovely ladies with elaborate headdresses, graceful wood sprites, ships in full sail, floral vignettes, a Chinese dragon, and much more. Suitable for professional and amateur uses, these designs come in a variety of sizes and will answer virtually any need for distinctive, royalty-free art.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486284522
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Choose from 153 decorative silhouette motifs: lovely ladies with elaborate headdresses, graceful wood sprites, ships in full sail, floral vignettes, a Chinese dragon, and much more. Suitable for professional and amateur uses, these designs come in a variety of sizes and will answer virtually any need for distinctive, royalty-free art.
Easy-to-Cut Silhouette Designs
Author: Betty Christy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048625061X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Twnety-nine charming, traditional silhouette designs that are so easy to use even children can join the fun! Designs include youngsters playing, leprechauns and fairies, butterflies, birds, florals, and many more. Perfect for framing, decoupage, and other craft projects. Instructions included.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048625061X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Twnety-nine charming, traditional silhouette designs that are so easy to use even children can join the fun! Designs include youngsters playing, leprechauns and fairies, butterflies, birds, florals, and many more. Perfect for framing, decoupage, and other craft projects. Instructions included.
Old-fashioned Silhouettes
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Dover Pictorial Archives
ISBN: 9780486274447
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The silhouettes in this splendid collection, selected from archives of late 19th- and early 20th-century graphic arts, offer designers and artists nearly 1000 designs ideal for illustrating a vast array of subjects: the human profile and figure, coiffed and dressed in many different ways; familiar animals, flowers and birds; trains, planes, automobiles, ships and many more.
Publisher: Dover Pictorial Archives
ISBN: 9780486274447
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The silhouettes in this splendid collection, selected from archives of late 19th- and early 20th-century graphic arts, offer designers and artists nearly 1000 designs ideal for illustrating a vast array of subjects: the human profile and figure, coiffed and dressed in many different ways; familiar animals, flowers and birds; trains, planes, automobiles, ships and many more.
Mastering Silhouettes
Author: Charles Burns
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811701495
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Silhouettes are an increasingly popular form of capturing portraits with a history that goes back hundreds of years. In this unique how-to book, silhouette artist Charles Burns teaches the basic techniques needed for making silhouettes: learning the proportions of a profile, tracing a shadow, reducing an image, drawing and cutting freely, and his own 'natural waves' technique. You'll learn to create scissor-cut portraits, painted silhouettes, hollow-cut silhouettes, silhouettes painted on glass, caricatures, and more, as well as how to use color, appliqué, and three-dimensional effects in creative and innovative ways and how to mount and display your creations."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811701495
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Silhouettes are an increasingly popular form of capturing portraits with a history that goes back hundreds of years. In this unique how-to book, silhouette artist Charles Burns teaches the basic techniques needed for making silhouettes: learning the proportions of a profile, tracing a shadow, reducing an image, drawing and cutting freely, and his own 'natural waves' technique. You'll learn to create scissor-cut portraits, painted silhouettes, hollow-cut silhouettes, silhouettes painted on glass, caricatures, and more, as well as how to use color, appliqué, and three-dimensional effects in creative and innovative ways and how to mount and display your creations."--Page 4 of cover.
Russian Silhouettes
Author: Genna Sosonko
Publisher: New In Chess,Csi
ISBN: 9789056912932
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a respected trainer who became a world-class chess grandmaster after leaving Leningrad and moving to Holland in 1972, Genna Sosonko observes the golden age Soviet chess from a privileged dual perspective. Combining an insider's nostalgia with the detachment of a critical observer, he has produced unforgettable portraits of the heroes of this bygone era: Tal, Botvinnik, Geller, Polugaevsky, and the legendary trainer Zak are some of his subjects. This New Editon has two brand new stories. Delightful --The Washington Post.
Publisher: New In Chess,Csi
ISBN: 9789056912932
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a respected trainer who became a world-class chess grandmaster after leaving Leningrad and moving to Holland in 1972, Genna Sosonko observes the golden age Soviet chess from a privileged dual perspective. Combining an insider's nostalgia with the detachment of a critical observer, he has produced unforgettable portraits of the heroes of this bygone era: Tal, Botvinnik, Geller, Polugaevsky, and the legendary trainer Zak are some of his subjects. This New Editon has two brand new stories. Delightful --The Washington Post.
Silhouettes
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486237817
Category : Silhouettes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over 600 silhouettes from the 18th to 20th centuries include: profiles of full figures of men and women, children alone and in groups, scenes, birds and animals, trees, flowers, ships, alphabet, more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780486237817
Category : Silhouettes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over 600 silhouettes from the 18th to 20th centuries include: profiles of full figures of men and women, children alone and in groups, scenes, birds and animals, trees, flowers, ships, alphabet, more.
Black Out
Author: Asma Naeem
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691180588
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford".
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691180588
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford".
Painting Miniatures
Author: Pauline Denyer-Baker
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 184797841X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Miniatures are not simply small paintings: special techniques are used to achieve their unique glow and luminosity. This book explains how to paint in detail in a small format with colour and precision. It gives an introduction to the history and traditions of miniatures set by Holbein, Hilliard and Oliver. Advice is given on materials, paints, bases and framing and there are step-by-step demonstrations of stippling and hatching, watercolour and oil painting, and colour mixing. There is a focus also on portraits, still life and silhouettes. Drawing on her extensive experience, Pauline Denyer-Baker shares her passion for painting miniatures, and inspires both beginners and more experienced artists to master and enjoy this historic art form. With further advice on the importance of drawing and sketchbooks, and featuring work from leading artists with a range of styles and subjects, this is an inspirational guide aimed at all artists, particularly those interested in miniatures and portraits.Fully illustrated with 254 colour images.
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 184797841X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Miniatures are not simply small paintings: special techniques are used to achieve their unique glow and luminosity. This book explains how to paint in detail in a small format with colour and precision. It gives an introduction to the history and traditions of miniatures set by Holbein, Hilliard and Oliver. Advice is given on materials, paints, bases and framing and there are step-by-step demonstrations of stippling and hatching, watercolour and oil painting, and colour mixing. There is a focus also on portraits, still life and silhouettes. Drawing on her extensive experience, Pauline Denyer-Baker shares her passion for painting miniatures, and inspires both beginners and more experienced artists to master and enjoy this historic art form. With further advice on the importance of drawing and sketchbooks, and featuring work from leading artists with a range of styles and subjects, this is an inspirational guide aimed at all artists, particularly those interested in miniatures and portraits.Fully illustrated with 254 colour images.
The Big Book of Spooky Tales - Horror Classics Anthology
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
This unique collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales, supernatural stories & horror classics has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Get ready to be spooked and thrilled by the greatest master story-tellers: Ghost Stories: Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Horla (Guy de Maupassant) To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger) . . . The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson) The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling) The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe) The Damned Thing (Ambrose Bierce) . . . The Deserted House (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Withered Arm (Thomas Hardy) The House and the Brain (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton) The Roll-Call of the Reef (A. T. Quiller-Couch) The Open Door (Mrs. Margaret Oliphant) . . . Paranormal Psychic Stories: When the World Was Young (Jack London) Joseph—A Story (Katherine Rickford) Ligeia (Edgar Allan Poe) A Ghost (Lafcadio Hearn) The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce) Photographing Invisible Beings (William T. Stead) The Sin-Eater (Fiona Macleod) . . . Suspense Stories: The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Oblong Box (Edgar Allan Poe) A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins) The Torture by Hope (Villiers de l'Isle Adam) The Mysterious Card (Cleveland Moffett) . . . Humorous Paranormal Stories: The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange (A. Conan Doyle) Mr. Bloke's Item (Mark Twain) The Man Who Went Too Far (E. F. Benson) The Man With The Pale Eyes (Guy de Maupassant) . . .
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
This unique collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales, supernatural stories & horror classics has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Get ready to be spooked and thrilled by the greatest master story-tellers: Ghost Stories: Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Horla (Guy de Maupassant) To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger) . . . The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson) The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling) The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe) The Damned Thing (Ambrose Bierce) . . . The Deserted House (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Withered Arm (Thomas Hardy) The House and the Brain (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton) The Roll-Call of the Reef (A. T. Quiller-Couch) The Open Door (Mrs. Margaret Oliphant) . . . Paranormal Psychic Stories: When the World Was Young (Jack London) Joseph—A Story (Katherine Rickford) Ligeia (Edgar Allan Poe) A Ghost (Lafcadio Hearn) The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce) Photographing Invisible Beings (William T. Stead) The Sin-Eater (Fiona Macleod) . . . Suspense Stories: The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Oblong Box (Edgar Allan Poe) A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins) The Torture by Hope (Villiers de l'Isle Adam) The Mysterious Card (Cleveland Moffett) . . . Humorous Paranormal Stories: The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange (A. Conan Doyle) Mr. Bloke's Item (Mark Twain) The Man Who Went Too Far (E. F. Benson) The Man With The Pale Eyes (Guy de Maupassant) . . .