David Stark Design

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David Stark is one of New York’s most creative and sought-after event designers. This book explores forty of Stark’s elaborate yet eco-friendly events—corporate, non-profit, and private—with 200 exquisite photographs and descriptive text. Organized according to the designer’s quirky phraseology—“Animate the Inanimate” “Don't Take It So Seriously . . . At the End of the Day, It's a Party” “From Many Little Things Make One Big Thing” "It's Not ... More >>

David Stark Design

Art Models: Life Nudes for Drawing Painting and Sculpting

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This affordable soft cover version of the popular hardcover art reference puts you in the studio with eleven professional art models in over a hundred beautifully photographed full color poses.
-Hone your skills
-Practice new techniques
-Try new materials
-Find inspiration
-Study a variety of models in fine detail.

Classic poses with a contemporary flair demonstrated by decidedly modern models (detailed previews at the publisher's w... More >>

Art Models: Life Nudes for Drawing Painting and Sculpting

Sculpting Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Create Three-Dimensional Artworks

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Art students and ambitious amateur artists who turn to this volume will find detailed training for creating original and distinctive works of sculpture. Karin Hessenberg, an experienced sculptor, opens with extensive advice on setting up the workplace and assembling tools and equipment. She begins instruction with a how-to course on clay modeling that includes five separate projects, four of which culminate with kiln firing. The book's second major section presents ... More >>

Sculpting Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Create Three-Dimensional Artworks

Making Mobiles

• ISBN13: 9780764324741
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When observing an especially beautiful mobile, beginning artists often think, Wow, I want to make one like THAT! If you have stood under a mobile by Alexander Calder and entertained such thoughts, this book will help you make one like that. This guide provides practical and encouraging step-by-step instructions for making horizontally balanced mobiles. From assembling the materials and tools through the designing, fabricating, assembly, painting, and hanging stages,... More >>

Making Mobiles

Tom Wolfe Carves Wood Spirits and Walking Sticks

• ISBN13: 9780887404412
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Legend has it that the forest of the world are inhabited by elusive creatures known as "Wood Spirits." Tom Wolfe finds them everywhere and brings them to life in this delightful new instructional book. Using found wood such as driftwood, roots, and old beams from dilapidated barns, he leads the reader through the carving of wondrous, fanciful faces, that are both enchanting and beautiful. On a smaller scale, Tom also finds the Wood Spirits in walking sticks, creatin... More >>

Tom Wolfe Carves Wood Spirits and Walking Sticks

Story of the Statue of Liberty

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Describes the creation of the huge statue given by France to the United States and its erection in New York Harbor as a symbol of liberty.... More >>

Story of the Statue of Liberty

Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture

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With an engaging text by renowned Michelangelo scholar William E. Wallace, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture brings together in one exquisite volume the powerful sculptures, the awe-inspiring paintings, and the classical architectural works of one of the greatest artists of all time. Including everything from his sculptures Pietàs and David to his beautiful paintings of the Sistine Chapel and the Doni Tondo, the book provides an opportuni... More >>

Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture

Polymer Clay Surface Design Recipes: 100 Mixed-Media Techniques Plus Project Ideas

• ISBN13: 9781592531714
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Regardless of your level of experience with polymer clay, the techniques and recipes for creating for combining clay with other media will inspire you to create unique surface designs. In addition to covering basic polymer clay techniques, tools, and materials, this book teaches you to use unique surface embellishments in your work. Styled as a recipe, each illustrated surface design is shown with complete instructions for replicating the design and is accompanied b... More >>

Polymer Clay Surface Design Recipes: 100 Mixed-Media Techniques Plus Project Ideas

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

• ISBN13: 9780140447187
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Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith; a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal court. Inn-keepers and prostitutes, kings and cardinals, artists and sold... More >>

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Mosaic Art and Style: Designs for Living Environments

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Mosaic Art and Style, a stunning follow-up to The Art of Mosaic Design, is a celebration of how mosaics can be integrated into our lives. Author JoAnn Locktov explores our fascination with mosaic art and illustrates how artists have crafted architectural installations as well as decorative and functional objects that have added immeasurably to living environments. Readers will enjoy seeing how mosaic art can be applied to every surface imaginable with a panoply of m... More >>

Mosaic Art and Style: Designs for Living Environments

Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure

• ISBN13: 9780486250069
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Covers modelling from casts, live models; measurements; frameworks; scale of proportions; compositions; reliefs, drapery, medals, etc. 107 full-page photographic plates. 27 other photographs. 175 drawings and diagrams.... More >>

Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure

Modeling the Figure in Clay

• ISBN13: 9780823030965
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For thirty years, Modeling the Figure in Clay has been an indispensable anatomical resource for people who think, see, and understand form best in the round: sculptors. In the thirtieth anniversary edition of this classic work, master sculptor Bruno Lucchesi invites you on a guided tour of the human form. Follow him as he creates a figure in clay—literally from the inside out—starting with the skeleton, laying on the muscles to show male and female anatomy, and ... More >>

Modeling the Figure in Clay

Origami Flowers: Popular Blossoms and Creative Bouquets

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This special book tells you how to turn ordinary, square origami paper into pentagons, hexagons and octagons, and then by using radial creases, into intricate flowers with five, six and eight petals or even doubled numbers of folded petals. With this book, you can make colorful, fancy potted flowers and ikebana out of store-bought origami paper by adding stems and leaves as shown. Paper, scissors, and imagination are all you need to decorate your home with blooming ... More >>

Origami Flowers: Popular Blossoms and Creative Bouquets

Sculpting the Figure in Clay: An Artistic and Technical Journey to Understanding the Creative and Dynamic Forces in Figurative Sculpture

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A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SCULPTING THE HUMAN FIGURE IN CLAY

In Sculpting the Figure in Clay,acclaimed portrait bust sculptor and author Peter Rubino teaches a master class in the essentials of figurative sculpture. In this intensive, all-inclusive guide, he introduces students to a natural, straightforward geometry that will help them become masters at forming figures in clay. Rubino’s unique approach utilizes a geometric system consisting of blocks, simple... More >>

Sculpting the Figure in Clay: An Artistic and Technical Journey to Understanding the Creative and Dynamic Forces in Figurative Sculpture

Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu

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"They're Not Pets, Susan," says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight. A lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, "Dreaming of Packing it All In." A tiny man makes his way back to a tiny car, with a tiny shopping bag: "Shopping for one again." Another office worker sits atop a gigantic engagement ring and gazes into the distance; the caption reads, simply: "No." Thes... More >>

Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu

Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni

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An art book, a history book, and a reference book showcasing more than 1,100 pots. There isn't a more complete southwestern pottery guide.... More >>

Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni

Carving the Human Face: Capturing Character and Expression in Wood

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Chronicling the stages in creating a realistic human face from wood and packed with detailed images of finished carvings, this reference offers a wealth of technical how-to information for woodworkers and artists. Helpful guidance includes advice on handling tools, tips for working wood to resemble the shape of skin and muscles, and hints on carving realistic hats and headdresses. More than 20 diagrams that explain facial anatomy and how it relates to carving mas... More >>

Carving the Human Face: Capturing Character and Expression in Wood

500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form

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It’s an absolutely unequalled photographic gallery: no other book has ever presented such a varied, captivating collection of contemporary ceramics based on the human form. The works range from representational to abstract, from artful realism to provocative surrealism, and many of them come from leaders in the field such as Judy Fox, Kurt Weiser, and Andy Nasisse. Kay Yourist has produced female forms that are smooth, minimalist vessels with only the slightest hi... More >>

500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form

Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd

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The Chinati Foundation is widely considered one of the world’s most important destinations for experiencing large-scale contemporary art. It was founded by Donald Judd (1928–1994), whose specific ambition was to preserve and present a select number of permanent installations that were inextricably linked to the surrounding landscape. Chinati is located on 340 acres of desert on the site of former Fort D.A. Russell in Marfa, Texas. Construction and installation at... More >>

Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd

Stickwork

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Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. With a dazzling variety of forms seamlessly intertwined with their context, his sculptures evoke fantastical images of nests, cocoons, cones, castles, and beehives. Over the last twenty-five years, Dougherty has built more than two hundred works throughout the United States, Europ... More >>

Stickwork

David Smith Invents

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Abstract Expressionist artist David Smith (1906–1965) was one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century, yet few publications dedicated to his creative output currently exist. A painter-sculptor in the tradition of Matisse and Picasso, he focused on welded steel sculptures while simultaneously working inventively in two dimensions, in paint, ink, or tempera. David Smith Invents is the first book to focus on the output in all media of the artist'... More >>

David Smith Invents

The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals

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The techniques of metal colouring, bronzing and patination are assuming a new importance in contemporary fine metalwork and design. Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe have assembled and tested the recipes included in this book, which is the most comprehensive work on the subject currently available, an essential reference and sourcebook for practitioners and all those involved in sculpture, architecture, design and the decorative arts. It brings together hundreds of re... More >>

The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals

Metal Clay Jewelry: Projects. Techniques. Inspirations.

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Polymer clay and jewellry artists are experimenting with metal clay more than ever, but there are few books on the market to show them how to use this exciting new medium. This book's highlights include: 19 fashionable step-by-step projects, including a variety of styles provided by both the author and talented contributing artists; an easy, skill-building approach that thoroughly teaches readers the basics and then explains a new technique with each project; and, a... More >>

Metal Clay Jewelry: Projects. Techniques. Inspirations.

Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation

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"Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation" is an up-to-the-minute survey of current global developments in contemporary sculpture and its close relative, installation. This vast medium of sculpture continues to be a central pillar of artistic practice, and "Vitamin 3-D" presents the outstanding artists who are engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the medium. "Vitamin 3-D" follows the success of "Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting", "Vi... More >>

Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation

Sandcastles Made Simple: Step-by-Step Instructions, Tips, and Tricks for Building Sensational Sand Creations

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A crenellated turret here, a winding, arched staircase there, maybe even a giant turtle—fantasy is at the heart of every sandcastle. Summer after summer, both children and adults make valiant efforts to infuse their sandy structures with inspiration, but the results are generally disappointing.  With Sandcastles Made Simple—now available in an extremely affordable paperback edition—Lucinda Wierenga, a renowned sand sculptor, puts a permanent end to less-than-... More >>

Sandcastles Made Simple: Step-by-Step Instructions, Tips, and Tricks for Building Sensational Sand Creations

The Complete Potter's Companion

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Second revised edition of a pottery handbook for beginner and experienced potters, providing instructions for making, decorating, glazing and firing thrown, hand-built and cast or moulded pottery, including paper clay, glazes, firings and kilns. A suppliers' list and glossary is included and gallery spreads present the work of modern potters.Amazon.com Review
Revised and updated, this classic potter's volume explains everything from preparation through fi... More >>

The Complete Potter's Companion

Gemstone Buying Guide, Second Edition: How to Evaluate, Identify, Select & Care for Colored Gems

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Buying colour gems is a challenge. To make a wise choice, you must be able to judge their colour, flaws, transparency and brilliancy. This guide will show you how. Written for both consumers and professionals, it is easy to read, has over 200 colour photographs and gives practical pointers on how to buy the best stone for the money. Whether you are interested in jade, opal, ruby, topaz, spinel, garnet, tourmaline or some other coloured gem, you will find this guide ... More >>

Gemstone Buying Guide, Second Edition: How to Evaluate, Identify, Select & Care for Colored Gems

Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art

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Robert J. Lang, one of the worlds foremost origami artists and scientists, presents the never-before-described mathematical and geometric principles that allow anyone to design original origami, something once restricted to an elite few. From the theoretical underpinnings to detailed step-by-step folding sequences, this book takes a modern look at the centuries-old art of origami.... More >>

Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art

Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook

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In this volume, Maggy Howarth shares her practical experience, artistic enthusiasm and the fruits of her travels and research, which have uncovered much new information on this little-known art. Both beautiful and durable, pebble mosaics are a wonderful addition to gardens, patios and public spaces. This is a complete sourcebook for enthusiasts and landscape designers - an accessible and illustrated guide for creating basic to advanced projects from start to finish.... More >>

Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook

Chihuly: 365 Days

• Marvel at four decades of award-winning organic sculptures by American glass sculptor Dale Chihuly
• A vivid chronicle of his life's work, this extraordinary album includes more than 500 colorful pictures, selected by the artist himself and most never before published
• Quotations, descriptions and short texts on his most important pieces accompany each image
• One of only a handful of Americans granted a solo exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and co-founder of the renowned Pilchuck Glass School outside Seattle, Washington, his creations range from intimate smaller pieces to room-sized outdoor installations.
• Hardcover, 744 pages. 9.5" x 6.5"

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Dale Chihuly is renowned as the most prolific living artist working in glass, with hugely popular exhibitions in major museums around the world. Chihuly: 365 Days is a richly illustrated photo survey of his entire four-decade career, with more than 500 pictures showing all facets of his work—from intimate smaller pieces to the tremendous outdoor installations that have thrilled millions of visitors. There are also personal photos of the artist; of “Team chihuly”... More >>

Chihuly: 365 Days

The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects: Techniques and Projects Featuring Transfers, Stamps, Stencils, Inks, Paints, Mediums, and More

• ISBN13: 9780823013623
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Polymer clay has grown and grown and grown in popularity since the publication of Donna Kato’s best-selling The Art of Polymer Clay in 1997. And there have been so many technical advances, too. Now poly-diva Donna Kato presents an all-new look at one of crafters’ all-time favorite mediums. Donna Kato’s Polymer Clay Innovations begins with the essentials of polymer clay, including its working properties, plus tools, curing, safety recommendations, and color ble... More >>

The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects: Techniques and Projects Featuring Transfers, Stamps, Stencils, Inks, Paints, Mediums, and More

Modeling the Head in Clay

• ISBN13: 9780823030996
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Creative techniques step-by-step. This book offers the reader an opportunity to watch one of our foremost contemporary sculptors at work, to see not just highlights of the creative process, but every step from beginning to end.

In order to recreate the immediacy of an actual workshop situation, Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of roughing in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, so that the reader can... More >>

Modeling the Head in Clay

How to Make Clay Characters

• ISBN13: 9780891347217
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Detailed instructions help the reader to create little characters, from "Grandpa" to "Saint Nick".... More >>

How to Make Clay Characters

Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay: How to Create Stunning Wildlife Art Using Patterns and My Easy-to-Make, No-Mess Paper Mache Recipe

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If you've always wanted to create life-like animal sculptures, but you thought it would be "too hard" or "too expensive," you're in for a very pleasant surprise. This book contains step-by-step instructions and over 250 photos to guide you through the enjoyable process of making realistic animal sculptures in a whole new way. Jonni Good's easy techniques help you create stunning wildlife art without the mess usually associated with papier mache - and the pattern... More >>

Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay: How to Create Stunning Wildlife Art Using Patterns and My Easy-to-Make, No-Mess Paper Mache Recipe

Polymer Clay Techniques Book

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You can achieve great results with polymer clay! With the 50+ techniques in this book, you can create polymer clay buttons or boxes or anything in between. Starting with the very basics (such as rolling, baking and gluing), Sue then moves on to more advanced methods: marbling, texturing, millefiori, bead-making, faux-stone effects and more. Feature spreads show exciting ways to combine techniques. You'll find this a comprehensive guide to the medium, complete... More >>

Polymer Clay Techniques Book

Time

• ISBN13: 9780810971462
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In this first paperback edition of his enormously successful Time, internationally acclaimed artist Andy Goldsworthy presents a wealth of work that uses time itself as a medium: on a Scottish hillside a huge rectangle of compacted snow becomes ever more visible as the surrounding snowfall melts away; clay walls dry out and crack, revealing new forms embedded within them; a sculpture of re-formed icicles catches the morning sunshine. This spectacular collection of co... More >>

Time

Origami Extravaganza: Folding Paper, a Book, and a Box

• ISBN13: 9780804832427
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While there are several origami books on the market, many are out-of-date, most are either too hard or too easy, few offer traditional projects, and fewer still provide all the elements needed to create, store, and display beautiful orgami pieces.

The kit contains:
* A 96-page book with complete instructions for 45 different projects
* 160 7x 7-inch sheets of folding paper in an array of color including patterned and foil sheets
* A sturdy box that d... More >>

Origami Extravaganza: Folding Paper, a Book, and a Box

Carl Warner's Food Landscapes

• ISBN13: 9780810989931
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In recent years, Carl Warner’s photographs have been unofficially circulating on the Internet and in mass e-mailings, to the pleasure of thou­sands upon thousands of viewers. Now, these images and many new ones are collected in one volume.   In the spirit of Play with Your Food, Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes is a colorful and fantastically imaginative collection of landscapes constructed entirely from fruits and vegetables, cheeses, breads, fish, meat, and... More >>

Carl Warner's Food Landscapes

Garden Mosaics: 25 Step-by-step Projects for Your Outdoor Room

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Discover the beauty of Garden Mosaics Inside Garden Mosaics Made Easy you’ll find 25 fabulous projects that show you just how easy it is to enhance the natural beauty of your home and garden with simple and elegant mosaics. Using stone, tile, china and broken and shaped glass, you can create gorgeous garden art, from stepping stones and butterfly feeders to wind chimes and more!
• Learn a variety of mosaic methods, including groutless techniques

Plaster Studio: Mixed-Media Techniques for Painting, Casting and Carving

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Discover a new world of possibilities open up through mixed media - working with plaster to create a wide variety of finished works of art. After a brief introduction explaining plaster basics, you are guided through five chapters: Painting on Plaster, Casting & Carving, Sculpture, Book Arts and Encaustic, Mixed Media & Plaster and 25 projects. Each project introduces a new way of incorporating plaster into your work, from the creation of a faux fresco painting, to ... More >>

Plaster Studio: Mixed-Media Techniques for Painting, Casting and Carving

Launching the Imagination

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Designed for courses in Creativity, Two-, Three- or Four-Dimensional Design, Launching the Imagination offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this third edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using over 600 examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Interviews of artists and designers, known as Profiles, introduce students to working processes, career choices, and criteri... More >>

Launching the Imagination

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

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Pablo Picasso's modest yet radical cardboard and sheet metal Guitar sculptures (1912 and 1914, respectively) bracket a truly incandescent period of structural, spatial and material experimentation for the artist. In October 1912, while in what he described as "the process of imagining a guitar," Picasso embraced the techniques of assemblage, collage, construction and mixed-media painting, frequently combining traditional artists' supplies--oil paint, charcoal, paste... More >>

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

Murakami Versailles

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The marvelous chambers of the Chateau de Versailles boast such overwhelming splendors of decor and craft that it might seem the height of folly to pit the works of any one artist against them. But in fact, such a collaboration turns out to be a formula for great success, when the right artist is given the reins. Jeff Koons managed it in 2008, and in 2010, Japanese Pop impresario Takashi Murakami rose to the challenge. In a grand hall sporting a vaulted ceiling thick... More >>

Murakami Versailles

The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving: Elegant Garnishes for All Occasions

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Japanese cuisine is renowned for the beauty of its presentation. Among the key elements in this presentation style are mukimono--the decorative garnishes and carvings that add the final flourish to a dish. It might be a carrot round in the shape of a plum blossom. Or a scattering of cherry blossoms plucked from a radish. Perhaps a swallow, a butterfly, a ginkgo leaf or a cluster of pine needles. Whatever the motif, it will have been created to delight the eye and th... More >>

The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving: Elegant Garnishes for All Occasions

ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting

• ISBN13: 9780470249963
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ZBrush's popularity is exploding giving more CG artists the power to create stunning digital art with a distinctively fine art feel. ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting is the must-have guide to creating highly detailed, lush, organic models using the revolutionary ZBrush software. Digital sculptor Scott Spencer guides you through the full array of ZBrush tools, including brushes, textures and detailing. With a focus on both the artistry and the te... More >>

ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting

Cool Cars and Trucks

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Whether you’d like to build an SUV, an excavator, a tanker truck, or a race car, this hands-on book will show you how. You can create street scenes such as a construction site, a fire rescue, or even a family on moving day. Children of all ages will let their imaginations run wild as they learn that there are no limits to what can be created with LEGO. And instructions are included for several of the models!... More >>

Cool Cars and Trucks

Pop Sculpture: How to Create Action Figures and Collectible Statues

• ISBN13: 9780823095223
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Sculpt toys and collectibles with modern-day tools, techniques and applications used by today’s top industry professionals
 
Ever since a 12-inch G.I. Joe took toy soldiers to a whole new level by giving them the ability to pose via moveable parts, as well as interchangeable clothing and accessories, the business of creating pop sculpture icons for the mass market was off and running. Superheroes came next, followed by TV show and movie charac... More >>

Pop Sculpture: How to Create Action Figures and Collectible Statues

Introducing ZBrush

• ISBN13: 9780470262795
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Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures

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How-tos by the master of realistic fanciful polymer figures! * More than 400 step-by-step full-color photos and 200 drawings * Innovative techniques, taught by a master * Inspiring ideas, practical information Anyone who has ever marveled over Katherine Dewey’s amazing creations has wondered, "How did she do that?" In Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay, the renowned artist reveals exactly how she makes her incredible human figures and fantasy characters--an... More >>

Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined...The Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation set... More >>

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance