Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980

Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 offers the first historical survey of what critics in the seventies called "The New Color Photography." This volumes collects images by Robert Heinecken, Stephen Shore, Mitch Epstein, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Eve Sonneman, Neal Slavin, Les Krims, Joel Sternfeld, William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Jan Groover, Barbara Kasten, Jan Groover, Barbara Kasten, John Divola, John Pfahl, Richard Misrach, Harry Callahan, and Leo Rubinfien.

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Art Escapes: Daily Exercises and Inspirations for Discovering Greater Creativity and Artistic Confidence

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, Art Escapes provides the ideas and encouragement you need to discover greater creativity and artistic confidence, even when you're short on time.
Dory Kanter shows you how to :

• Experience more fun and greater confidence drawing and painting
• Express yourself and experiment everyday with an art journal
• Reinterpret daily life with simple, beautiful sketches
• Find painting inspiration in unexpected places
• Paint freely, intuitively and passionately with a simple four-step approach
• Create new forms of art, including watercolor mosaics, paper weavings and found object collages. (Publisher content)

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Knitted Socks East & West: 30 Designs Inspired by Japanese Stitch Patterns

In Knitted Socks East and West, author Judy Sumner compares knitting a sock to writing a haiku: both challenge you to create something beautiful and original within a sparse, strict format. In this, her first book, she recounts how she came to study hundreds of exquisite Japanese stitch patters and then apply her new knowledge to the sock designs showcased here.
Whether short or long, fine or bulky, simple or complex, each of the 30 designs in Knitted Socks East and West is named afer an intriguing aspect of Japanese culture. For example, the leg of the Origami crew socks appears to fold in and out; the Sumo slipper socks are named after the heavy, organic movement of the cables in their thick yarn; and the Ikebana knee socks highlight a textural floral design. Step-by-step text and easy-to-read charts are included for each design, along with illustrated directions for the Japanese stitchwork introduced in the projects.(Publisher content)
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Watercolor Tricks & Techniques: 75 New and Classic Painting Secrets

This edition of Watercolor Tricks & Techniques features new watercolor materials and applications along with fresh insights on many tried and true techniques, 15 step by step demonstrations showing techniques in action for beautiful finished paintings, 3 possibility-packed sections : liquid aids, dry helpers and indispensable tools.
If you're ready to go beyond the basics and see what watercolor can really do, this is the book for you. (Published content)
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Knitting Lingerie Style: More Than 30 Basic and Lingerie-inspired Designs

Knitting Lingerie Style includes projects  that are bold and sexy, daring us all to bare a little skin, as well as more understated and modest, with sizes ranging from petite to plus.
Designs range from the truly functional to the purely fun.
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Knitting New Mittens & Gloves: Warm and Adorn Your Hands in 28 Innovative Ways

Featuring gloves, mittens, arm warmers, mitts, and fingerless gloves, this is the second book in a new SCT Craft series that introduces innovative approaches to creating popular knitted items. Knitting New Mittens and Gloves combines traditional and untraditional techniques—as well as influences as far-flung as Gothic architecture, Estonian lace, and Wagnerian opera—in a winning collection of patterns for adults and children. From wool mittens filled with unspun fleece and arm warmers with leather laces, to cotton-mesh fingerless gloves and silk-beaded mitts to be worn as adornments, each design has an unexpected twist. (Publisher content)

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One Ball Knits Gifts: 20 Stylish Designs Made With a Single Ball, Skein, Hank, or Spool

One Ball Knits is back with fresh, modern gifts, all made with just one ball, hank, or skein of yarn. Complete with an illustrated basics section covering yarn, tools, essential techniques, and finishes like felting, embroidery, and sewing. With 20 projects there's a fun gift idea here for everyone.

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Strokes of Genius 2: The Best of Drawing Light and Shadow

Celebrate the beauty, diversity and expression of drawing with this second collection in the Strokes of Genius series—140 examples of the finest drawings being done today. Fresh from the studios and sketchpads of 100 artists, these striking creations run the gamut from highly detailed, remarkably realistic images that were months in the making, to contour drawings, journal sketches and gestures captured in mere minutes.

You'll find a vast range of mediums and combinations including charcoal, pencil, colored pencil, pastel, ink and more in an exciting mix of styles and techniques. Chapters include portraits, city and landscapes, animals, the human figure and still life—with a special focus on the power of light and shadow. Filled with strokes of poetry, precision and passion, this is a memorable collection of art as well as an inspiring survey of techniques that artists use to translate impressions to paper.
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