Arts / Painting

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

by Robert Jacobs

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future presents an international collaboration of scholars and artists who examine multiple reactions of popular culture and the arts to the advent of nuclear weapons. Featuring...

Artistic Citizenship

by Mary Schmidt Campbell & Randy Martin

This volume identifies the question of artistic citizenship to explore civic identity. Featuring contributions from experts in the field, this book is indispensable to anyone involved in arts education or the...

The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker

by Matthew Diffee & Robert Mankoff

Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world...

Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara

by Eric Scigliano

No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. And no place on earth provides a stone so capable of simulating the warmth...

Complete Printmaker

by John Ross

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel

by Nat Gertler

Graphic novel guidance from two experts in the field.

Here is a clear, beginning-to-end guide to creating a graphic novel-from developing a concept to getting it to readers. Heavily illustrated, this book explains...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Graphic Design

by Marjorie Crum

If you can dream it, you can design it.

Whether your goal is to design your own marketing materials, launch a visually compelling blog, or just have some fun creating your own CD covers, The Complete Idiot?s...

Mellencamp: Paintings and Reflections

by John Mellencamp

John Mellencamp is one if the true Renaissance men of popular music. In the public spotlight for over twenty-five years, with a string of number one hits and multiplatinum records side to his artistic talent...

Design Currency: Understand, Define, and Promote the Value of Your Design Work

by Jenn Visocky O'Grady & Ken Visocky O'Grady

The world needs beautiful design. But aesthetics are inherently subjective. In Design Currency, authors Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady show you how to frame the value of your design work in terms that your business...

Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff They Don't Teach You in Design School, But Should

by Michael Janda

It takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. Burn Your Portfolio teaches the real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwritten rules...

Designing Together: The Collaboration and Conflict Management Handbook for Creative Professionals

by Daniel M. Brown

WHAT IS THE ONE THING not taught in design school, but is an essential survival skill for practicing designers? Working with other people. And yet, in every project, collaboration with other people is often...

Invisible Connections: Dance, Choreography and Internet Communities

by Sita Popat

The first and only book to focus on dance on the Internet, Sita Popat's fascinating Invisible Connections examines how Internet and communication technologies offer dance and theatre new platforms for creating...

Creating Textures in Watercolor: A Guide to Painting 83 Textures from Grass to Glass to Tree Bark to Fur

by Cathy Johnson

Silken strands of hair. Water tumbling over rocks. Blinding reflections in glass or metal.

Cathy Johnson shows you how to create realistic textures like these and make your watercolor paintings come alive.

You'll...

Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor

by Claudia Nice

Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you...

Painting Indiana III: Heritage of Place

by Indiana Plein Air Painters Association & Indiana Landmarks

The work of T. C. Steele, William Forsyth, J. Ottis Adams, Otto Stark, and Richard Gruelle, known collectively as the Hoosier Group, established plein air ("in the open air") painting as a major art form in...

Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

by J.J. Long, Andrea Noble & Edward Welch

Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in...

Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art?

by Peter Goldie & Elisabeth Schellekens

What is conceptual art? Is it really a kind of art in its own right? Is it clever - or too clever?

Of all the different art forms it is perhaps conceptual art which at once fascinates and infuriates the most....

How to See, How to Draw: Keys to Realistic Drawing

by Claudia Nice

Imagine having the ability to draw any subject with precision, detail and expression. With Claudia's help, you can do it! In How to See, How to Draw, you will discover how to tap into your powers of observation,...

Surface Treatment Workshop: Explore 45 Mixed-Media Techniques

by Darlene Olivia McElroy & Sandra Duran-Wilson

Breaking the Surface

Pondering how to begin a new piece of art? Surface Treatment Workshop has the answer! The authors of Image Transfer Workshop are back to show you 45 stepped-out mixed-media techniques that...

Your Artist's Brain: Use the right side of your brain to draw and paint what you see - not what you think you see

by Carl Purcell

Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expression

Improving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Your Artist's Brain shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing...