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Clare Curtis Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
This beautiful calendar showcases 12 artworks by printmaker Clare Curtis. After studying illustration and printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, then spending some time in London developing a career in illustration, Clarereturned to her home town of Felixstowe in Suffolk to pursue her love of printmaking. Chiefly a lino cutter but also producing lithographs and screen prints, her work reflects her love of British twentieth-century art and design, as well as plants and gardens. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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Wall Art Made Easy: Ready to Frame Vintage Audubon Prints Volume 2: 30 Beautiful Illustrations to Transform Your Home
Wall Art Made Easy: Ready to Frame Vintage Audubon Prints Volume 2 features thirty more beautiful illustrations of birds in their natural habitats that John James Audubon (1785-1851), American ornithologist, naturalist and painter was best known for.
Within these pages, you will find vibrant full color images such as the Purple Finch, Goldfinch, Bunting Meadow Lark, Thrush, Heron, Blue Hummingbird, Kingfisher, Warbler, Gannet, and Linnet as well as many more beautiful bird illustrations.
So, if you’re a fan of Audubon or love vintage images of American birds in general, you’re sure to find some that you’ll love to want to display on your walls in all their glory.
You can keep the book intact because you receive free access to download each image shown in the book. This gives you the ability to resize the image if you want to and print on the paper of your choice.
Easily transform your home décor using Wall Art Made Easy: Ready to Frame Vintage Audubon Prints Volume 2, the far cheaper alternative to buying expensive prints!
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Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints: The Complete Graphic Work
This catalog raisonné offers the first public account of these important works and the first in-depth study of the role of printed images and print processes in Marshall’s work as a whole.One of the most important American contemporary artists, Kerry James Marshall is known for artworks that address the ‘crisis of under-representation’ of the black figure in the pictorial traditions of the Western world, from museums to comic books. His work has been widely celebrated in major museum retrospectives such as Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff (Antwerp, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Madrid) in 2014 and Mastry (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles) in 2017, and through numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997.
Best known as a painter, Marshall has throughout his career also produced a vast graphic oeuvre that has been seldom seen and rarely documented. An assiduous worker, he spent his youth acquiring time-honored skills of art – drawing and painting, but also wood engraving and printing. By his midtwenties, he recalls, ‘I could paint in egg tempera.… I was good at printmaking. I could do woodcuts, etchings, aquatints. I knew all of those techniques.’
Most of his prints have been produced not in professional print workshops, but by the artist, working alone in his studio. They range from images the size of postcards to his 50-foot-long, 12 panel woodcut Untitled (1998–99), to iterations of his ongoing magnum opus, Rythm Mastr. And while some have entered prominent museum collections, many exist only in private collections or the artist’s archive and are unknown to the public.
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Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking
The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver Iain McNab in 1925. Situated in London’s Pimlico district, the school played a key role in the story of modern British printmaking between the wars. The Grosvenor School artists received critical acclaim in their time that continued until the late 1930s under the influence of Claude Flight who pioneered a revolutionary method of making the simple linocut to dynamic and colourful effect. Cyril Power, a lecturer in architecture at the school, and Sybil Andrews, the School Secretary, were two of Flight’s star students. Whilst incorporating the avant-garde values of Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism, the Grosvenor School printmakers brought their own unique interpretation of the contemporary world to the medium of linocut in images that are strikingly familiar to this day. They are included in the print collections of the world’s major museums, including the British Museum, the MoMA in New York and the Australian National Gallery.Cutting Edge, which accompanies an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, illustrates over 120 linocuts, drawings and posters by Grosvenor School artists; its thematic layout focuses on the key components which made up their dynamic and rhythmic visual imagery. For the first time, three Australian printmakers, Dorrit Black, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme – who played a major part in the Grosvenor School story – are included in a major museum exhibition outside of Australia.
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100 Posters That Changed The World
A collection of the world’s most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters from Johannes Gutenberg to Barack Obama.
Classic posters from the last 300 years and the stories behind them.
Posters have always been designed to seek an immediate response. From the time when paper was first affordable, the poster has been used to provoke a direct reaction, whether a public appeal, a legal threat, a call to arms, or the offer of entertainment. Newspapers might have the advantage of ubiquity in spreading
the word, but a poster could be tightly targeted by its location.
Organized chronologically, 100 Posters That Changed the World charts the history of poster design from their earliest forms as a means of information communication to the more subtle visual communication of the 21st century.
As printing became cheaper, posters were used for more than just promoting the capture of local villains or announcing government decrees. Advertisements took over, citing up-and-coming events, auctions, public meetings, political rallies, sports games, lectures and theatrical performances.
The technological leaps from engraving to aquatints to lithography, chromolithography and the offset press, all had their impact on what could be advertised by poster, and the art form took off spectacularly in the late 19th century with the influence of Lautrec and the Paris nightclubs. From then on, the poster became a sophisticated means of visual communication.
In the West it was used to sell products – in the East it was used to sell regimes and control behaviour.
Along with historic moments in poster evolution, 100 Posters That Changed the World charts the most impactful designs of the last 300 years – images that communicate a message whether commercial or political, images that sell a film, a musical, a cause or used for decoration, inspiration, motivation and affirmation. The affirmation for teenagers in the 1970s that Farah Fawcett was looking at you.
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Art and Craft of Wood Engraving
This practical book is a step-by-step guide to the process of wood engraving. With a strong emphasis on drawing a design, it explains the range of mark-making, texture and tonal subtleties that are so unique to this form of relief printmaking. It provides inspiration on a range of subjects, as well as close examination of the effects that can be achieved.Read more
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Printed in North Korea: The Art of Everyday Life in the DPRK
Never-before-seen North Korea – a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda
This incredible collection of prints dating from the 1950s to the twenty-first century is the only one of its kind in or outside North Korea. Depicting the everyday lives of the country’s train conductors, steelworkers, weavers, farmers, scientists, and fishermen, these unique lino-cut and woodblock prints are a fascinating way to explore the culture of this still virtually unknown country. Together, they are an unparalleled testament to the talent of North Korea’s artists and the unique social, cultural, and political conditions in which they work.
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Christmas Scrapbook Paper: Cozy Elegant Winter Scrapbook Paper 20 patterned double sided sheets. 8.5″ x 11″
This Christmas patterned paper pack is designed to inspire your creativity to make winter crafts and paper ornaments for your Holiday home.
The scrapbooking paper comes in the book. It contains 20 double sided sheets with 20 unique designs. Sheets are double sided.
- Elegant double-sided paper pack – Great for scrapbooking project, card making, paper ornaments, Holiday home decorating, Christmas kids crafts, Christmas tree origami, paper Christmas ornaments or any other paper Christmas decorations to make at home and paper crafting projects.
- Set includes 20 assorted double sided patterned paper with 20 unique Christmas floral theme designs.
- The product measures 8.5 x 11 inches.
- High quality sheets are printed on 60#(100 GSM) interior stock.
- Beautiful summer beach theme included variety of designs such as Christmas flora, Christmas trees, snowflakes, Christmas bows, Christmas ornaments, winter gnomes, snow houses, gifts, candles,
- Variety of beautiful Elegant Christmas colors included golden, white, pink on dark navy blue, ruby red and emerald green background.
- Designed in USA
★ Please note, sheets are not perforated. You would need to use crafting knife or scissors to remove patterned sheet from the pack.
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Bridget Riley: The Complete Prints: 1962-2020
Bridget Riley has made screenprints throughout her career, extending the principles of her paintings into a new, reproducible medium. Bringing together the complete, updated inventory of this substantial body of work, this volume explores Riley’s development as a printmaker and her relationship to the screenprint medium.Newly revised, updated and designed, this catalogue raisonné richly illustrates Bridget Riley’s graphic work in a larger, enhanced format. Alongside a full-colour inventory of the prints are updated essays by Lynn MacRitchie and Craig Hartley and an additional essay by Robert Kudielka, which provide a greater context for Riley’s work. This revised volume, a co-publication with The Bridget Riley Art Foundation, also benefits from supplemental material including an artist biography and selected solo and group exhibition history.
Published by Thames & Hudson and the Bridget Riley Art Foundation
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Edvard Munch: love and angst (British Museum)
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques.Munch’s early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925) was marked by sickness and poverty. His first works centred on the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the deaths of his mother and teenage sister when he was growing up, as well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply religious father disapproved. Encouraged by his encounters with a Bohemian society of artists, writers and poets, he developed a visual landscape that was a radical deviation from the slick society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then so much in vogue. His efforts attracted considerable attention and much criticism, and he practised with little financial success as a painter for ten years before he started to gain his reputation as a profoundly innovative printmaker.
Written by a team of acknowledged experts, and with an interview by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, this book will shed new light on the production of some of Munch’s most remarkable works.
Table of Contents
Foreword by the directors of the British Museum and the Munch Museum; Sponsor’s foreword • Introduction • 1. Transfigured continent: Impressions from Munch’s Europe • 2. The inner soul of an artist: Munch’s background and the development of his Frieze of Life • 3. Munch and the world of printmaking • 4. Munch and the theatre in Paris • 5. ‘Is art influenced by too much business?’: Cultural capital and the market for Munch • 6. Plates, stones and blocks: Munch’s printing matrices • Reflections on Edvard Munch: an interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard • Checklist of works in the exhibition • Chronology; Checklist of exhibited items; Notes; Selected bibliography; Prints by Munch in UK public collections; Acknowledgments; Picture credits; List of contributors; Index
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Dick Bruna: The Illustrators: 0
‘For millions of children, Dick Bruna’s books are the first they will encounter. They don’t know how lucky they are’ Michael BondThis latest instalment in The Illustrators on Dutch artist Dick Bruna (1927–2017) takes readers behind the scenes of the creation of some of the world’s most endearing children’s characters. Offering a deeper appreciation of the artistry and skills behind the international icon Miffy, fellow illustrator Bruce Ingman also reveals Bruna’s lesser-known work, including his striking book and poster designs. A glimpse into his studio in Utrecht reveals a man of many media, including drawing, painting, collage and photography. All the elements of Bruna’s extensive body of work, spanning book covers, posters, stamps and merchandise, are given due significance in this illuminating study of his reputation and success. By the time of Bruna’s retirement, Miffy had become an industry in her own right and Bruna an international star far beyond the sphere of children’s books. Ingman shows us how the simple complexity of Bruna’s work appeals to children, artists and designers alike, capturing the imagination across ages and artistic disciplines.
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Angela Harding: October Owl (Foiled Journal): October October Foiled Journal (Flame Tree Notebooks)
A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.
BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.
PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.
THE ARTIST. Angela Harding is a fine art painter and illustrator based in Rutland, UK. She specialises in lino prints and her work is inspired by British birds and the countryside.
THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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Adult Jigsaw Louis Comfort Tiffany: Displaying Peacock: 1000 piece jigsaw (1000-piece jigsaws) (1000-piece Jigsaw Puzzles)
Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, featuring Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Peacock (stained glass), 19th century. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Now includes an A4 poster for reference.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts. Throughout his career he forged a unique style that combined excellent craftsmanship with a love of nature forms and brilliant colour. Though he worked with a multitude of mediums, he is best known for his work in stained glass. This beautiful design pairs Tiffany’s most famous medium with his favourite motif: the peacock. Peacock feathers featured countless times in both his personal life and his professional career. Renowned for their beauty, peacocks have both religious and secular appeal, making them the ideal design motif for Tiffany’s ecclesiastical commissions.
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Notebook with A-Z Tabs: A5 Lined Journal Organizer with A-Z Tabs Printed | Calming Blue Watercolor Design
This A-Z index notebook is ideal for storing any referencing data. This notebook’s alphabetical parts will make it easy to find the information you need.
When we are searching for precise details in a notebook, this happens often. Finding such knowledge requires time. We’ve flipped through a lot of pages but can’t seem to find them. It’s really aggravating, as well as a waste of time.
As a result, we’ll need a notebook with alphabetical sections.
This type of book would undoubtedly serve as an effective knowledge organizer. It’s ideal for keeping track of details that can be organized into alphabetical parts.
There are no prompts in this alphabetical notebook. You are free to fill it with whatever details you want. It all depends on what you want to do. Each page also has a large number of rooms to choose from.
However, if you’re searching for an alphabetical notebook with prompts (such as address books or password books), this notebook may not be for you.
Please bear in mind that while prompts work well with basic details, they don’t always work well with rooms that need additional information. So, whether or not this book is right for you depends on your goals and personal preferences.
Summarizing the book specification:
- Size: A5 – 5.85″ x 8.30″
- Amount of pages: 110 pages
- Type: soft cover, matted
- Design: smart-and-simple cover design, white paper sheet
- Interior: lined pages with A-Z sections printed respectively, 4 pages for each letter section
- Perfect gift for anyone who are looking for an alphabetical lined notebook.
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Notebook: Notebook for dog lovers, Cute dog notebook for gifts, dog notebook for kids
The perfect notebook for the dog-lover in your life!
Are you searching for that perfect gift or new school notebook for your journaling friend or favorite little student? This notebook is bound to put a smile on any dog-lover’s face. The colorful, fun cover has been professionally designed with the writer in mind: a great place for note-taking, list making, jotting down thoughts or taking course notes, this notebook is meant for dog-lovers of all ages. Great for kids to take to class or for Grandma to keep track of her phone numbers, cause who doesn’t need a notebook?
Check out the Look Inside feature for a page sample!
Details:
– Paper: white, lined (90 GSM)
– 110 pages
– Convenient Size: 6 x 9 inches
– Cover: soft, matte finish
– Perfect bound
– Suitable for gel, ink or pencilDon’t wait to grab this dog-tastic notebook for yourself or your favourite dog-lover, order your copy now!
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Drawn From Nature: The Flowering of Irish Botanical Art
- Foreword by Dr Shirley Sherwood, OBE
- Features 220 colour illustrations
- Unique account of Irish botanical art by author, art historian, and curator, Patricia Butler
- Demonstrates the significant contributions made by Irish artists in the field of botanical art
- Glorious botanical artworks from the 17th century to the present
For centuries, artists of all disciplines have expressed delight in nature through the highly skilled and captivating medium of botanical art.
The distinguished contributions of Irish botanical artists include records of plants from 17th-century Ireland, early illustrated floras and botanical art found in the field of design. Drawn from Nature: The Flowering of Irish Botanical Art also covers the importance of botanical art to the Ordnance Survey of Ireland during the 19th century, as well as the vital plant portraits produced by Irish women. These portraits assisted generations of botanists in understanding and describing the natural world but received scant recognition.
Published for the first time, these outstanding examples of Irish botanical art, from both public and private collections, demonstrate a shared desire by botanical artists to observe, illuminate and record Ireland’s unique flora. This book finally affords them the recognition they deserve.
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The Art of the National Parks: The Art of the National Parks (59Parks)
Explore the majesty of the National Parks through the eyes of contemporary artists.This beautiful art book displays the unique beauty of each U.S. National Park. Fifty-Nine Parks collaborated with acclaimed contemporary artists and designers from around the world to create original posters that celebrate the unique beauty of each of the now 62 parks in the U.S. National Park system. The wildly successful poster art is now available as a collection for the first time in this gorgeous art book.
Inspired by classic W.P.A. posters of the 1930s, each poster is a unique and original reflection of the talent and perspective of the contemporary artist who created it, resulting in a one-of-a-kind tribute to the majesty of the national parks.
Includes art of the Top Ten Most Visited National Parks as rated by the National Park Service: (1) Great Smoky Mountains, (2) Grand Canyon, (3) Rocky Mountain, (4) Zion, (5) Yosemite, (6) Yellowstone, (7) Acadia, (8) Grand Teton, (9) Olympic, and (10) Glacier.
Filled with Facts: Includes a comprehensive history and overview of the flora, fauna, and best sights in each park.
Travel Guide: With seasonality and travel tips, Our National Treasure: The Art of the National Parks can also be used as a guide for visiting the national parks.
Gift for Nature Lovers: An ideal gift gift for armchair travelers, national park enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates contemporary art and design.
Each Book Gives Back: Sales benefit the National Park Service.“Highlights the unique beauty of each national park” -SierraClub.com
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Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting
An intensely intellectual painter, Robert Motherwell is renowned for his distinctive Abstract Expressionist style. The seminal artist permeated his gestural works with an expressionism and austerity reflective of the human psyche; at the same time his oeuvre addressed political and humanitarian themes. Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting is an in-depth exploration of his artistic practice. Leading art scholars examine the American artist’s turn from Surrealism to abstraction and analyze the major series that developed over his fifty-year career. The catalogue studies the dialogue between Motherwell’s art and the nineteenth-century French painting tradition, investigates his relationship to Spanish techniques and processes, with an emphasis on their underlying political significance, and delves into Motherwell’s use of ochre pigment, with its evocation of both deep geological time and avant-garde practices.Read more
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Large Print Christmas Coloring Book: Christmas Realistic Coloring Book for Amazing Christmas World Lovers to Color and Relax For Adults, Women, Seniors
Unleash your creativity with the Large Print Christmas Coloring Book Immerse yourself in a world of captivating designs that will both inspire and relax you.
Features:
- Variety of Abstract Designs: Explore a diverse array of abstract designs that invite you to let your imagination run wild as you fill them with color.
- Therapeutic Art: Take a break from the daily hustle and discover solace in the therapeutic art of coloring. It’s a wonderful way to unwind and destress.
- Versatile Coloring Tools: Use your favorite coloring tools, whether it’s pens, pencils, markers, or watercolors, to breathe life into these enchanting designs.
- Single-Sided Printing: Each page is printed on one side, preventing ink bleed-through and allowing you to easily frame your finished masterpieces.
- Generous Size: With dimensions of 8.5×11 inches, this coloring book provides ample space for intricate coloring and creative expression.
Indulge in a coloring experience that not only soothes the soul but also ignites your artistic flair. Let’s Coloring be your companion on a journey of relaxation and self-expression.
Discover the perfect gift for a friend, co-worker, or children, and create lasting memories together!!
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Relaxing Christmas: Coloring Book for Adults with Santa Claus, Holiday Scenes, Festive Decorations, and More for Stress Relief and Relaxation
Enter a world of tranquility and holiday cheer with the Relaxing Christmas Coloring Book!
Within its delightful pages, you will discover a captivating collection of illustrations of the festive season. From Santa Claus, endearing reindeer, cheerful snowmen, sparkling Christmas trees, and delectable treats to serene winter landscapes, each page is adorned with enchanting imagery that embraces the spirit of the holidays.
Get into the festive spirit and embark on a delightful coloring journey that will fill your days with warmth, joy, and creativity!
This book features:
- 40 unique holiday illustrations
- Large-sized 8.5″ x 11” coloring pages
- Separately printed sheets to prevent bleed-through and allow for easy framing
- Hours of art therapy and relaxation
- An ideal Christmas gift for yourself, family members, and friends
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Affinities: A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review
An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review.Gathering a remarkable collection of over 500 public domain images, Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review, the book has been assembled from a vast array of sources: from manuscripts to museum catalogues, ship logs to primers on Victorian magic. The images are arranged in a single captivating sequence which unfurls according to a dreamlike logic, through a play of visual echoes and evolving thematic threads – hatching eggs twin with early Burmese world maps, marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways, and fireworks explode beside deep-sea coral.
At once an art book, a sourcebook, and a kaleidoscopic visual poem, Affinities is a unique and enthralling publication that will offer something different on each visit. Its playful and imaginative space invites the reader to transcend familiar categories of epoch, style, or historical theme, and to instead revel in a new world of creative possibilities played out between the images – opening up new connections, ways of seeing, and forms of knowledge.
Praise for The Public Domain Review
‘An Aladdin’s cave of curiosity … the best thing on the web’ Guardian
‘A gold mine of fantastic images and stories’ The New York TimesRead more
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Dog Notebook: Just a Girl who Loves Dogs | Journal For Girls Women Teens | Cute Dog Stationery Woof Woof
This super cute DOG design notebook is perfect for kids, teenagers, best friend, girlfriend, women in fact anyone who adores DOGS.The perfect gift for… Just A Girl Who Loves DOGS!
A useful and practical notebook… can be used as a journal / diary or to make notes / lists at work or at school.
If you LOVE dogs you need this awesome little book!White lined paper notebook for taking notes, essay writing, making lists, journaling or diary writing.
Dog stationery notebook… great for personal use, work or schoolYOUR JOURNAL WILL INCLUDE:
120 total pages in total
1 x ‘This BOOK belongs to:’ page with dog design from front cover (super cute)
3 x pages for notes
116 x line pages with a dog graphic at the top of each page.
6 x 9 inch handy side
Lovely soft matt finished coverJust a Girl who Loves Dogs Cute Journal for Girls Women Teens Dog Pattern Journal Birthday or Christmas Gift
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Yokai: The Ancient Prints of Japanese Monsters
The long Pax Tokugawa was founded on the blood of 40,000 severed enemy heads. Indeed, 1600 marked the end of the period of wars that saw the defeat of the troops opposed to General Ieyasu Tokugawa.The absence of wars, banishing the memories and horrors of past massacres, favoured the development of epic tales that gave rise to dark and terrifying atmospheres, such as the game of the hundred candles, a test of courage in which a handful of warriors meet on a summer night to tell each other scary stories populated by monsters from the national tradition. So we have the Joro¯ gumo, comely women who reveal their true nature as enormous spiders to their victims; the Tanuki, endearing badgers able to transform themselves; the Bakeneko, monstrous cats; the Kappa, aquatic beings that pester women; the Ningyo, mermaids whose fragrant flesh can give men renewed youth or an excruciating death.
The macabre ritual of the hundred candles is the great idea behind this original project that presents 200 works from the 18th and 19th centuries, including prints, rare antique books, clothes, weapons, swords, a samurai suit of armour, as well as seventy-seven precious netsuke, small ivory sculptures, from the Bertocchi private collection and a ten-metre long scroll that tells the story of Shutendoji, a mythological creature (Oni) at the head of an army of monsters that haunted Mount Oe near Kyoto. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Villa Reale in Monza, the book is a real journey of discovery of Japanese imagery, ranging from Hokusai’s famous manga notebooks (alongside his other masterpieces) to the works of Loputyn, the contemporary illustrator well known to hotaku manga enthusiasts.
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The NEW Mixed Media Photography Book: More techniques to upcycle your photos
Step-by-Step Instructions and techniques to transform your photos into beautiful prints, creative mixed media art and craft projects. This colorful book combines the art of mixed media and the craft of photography.
This book features fun image & photo transfer techniques, beautiful photo printmaking methods using a gel printing plate, photo editing for image transfer and other mixed media and photography tips.Chapter one / Photo Transfer – learn the beautiful process of image and photo transfer with more than 25 transfer methods and projects.
Topics covered: 5-minute transfer, blender marker, DIY vintage prints, art with essential oils, acrylic paint transfer, water transfer, solvent transfer with acetone, paper backing, painting image transfers, acrylic paint on glass, laser vs. inkjet, transferring with glue, Elmer’s vs. Mod Podge, homemade gesso and more.Chapter two / Gel Printing Photos – find out how to monoprint your own photos at home without a press. Discover the gel printing plate and learn to create stunning looking monoprints from your own images.
Topics covered: paints, textures & colors, magazine images, text, monoprinting laser photos, layering, homemade gel plate, vegan plate, stamps, large collages and more.Chapter three / Photo Editing – select the best photos for your projects and learn how to edit and prepare them for image transfer and other printmaking techniques.
Chapter four / Tips & Writings – art supplies don’t have to be expensive, homemade stamps, the creative block, inexpensive laser printers and more.
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Art Nouveau Posters Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
The turn of the twentieth century brought an exciting new art form: art nouveau posters celebrated the joie de vivre of the modern age through promoting both commercial products and cultural exhibitions in their own beautiful style. This calendar includes works by such celebrated artists as Alphonse Mucha, Eugene Grasset and Koloman Moser. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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Eccentric Cats of Louis Wain Art Prints: Ready-to-Frame Vintage Artwork to Cut Out for Wall Decor
Hand-curated collection of 24 vibrant full-color vintage Louis Wain cat artworks, from funny to odd, printed on 100 GSM paper sheets in standard 8.5 x 11 size, one-sided.Wall art prints in budget-friendly book form to cut out and frame.
Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist famous for his drawings and illustrations, which featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. Born in Clerkenwell in London.
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Angela Harding: The Wild Silence (Foiled Journal) (Flame Tree Notebooks)
A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.
BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.
PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.
THE ARTIST. Angela Harding is a fine art painter and illustrator based in Rutland, UK. The Salt Path was featured on the cover of the bestselling book (of the same name) by Raynor Winn, shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize and the 2018 Costa Book Awards in the biography category.
THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Annie Soudain: Foxgloves and Finches: 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzles
Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the charming Annie Soudain: Foxgloves and Finches. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Now includes an A4 poster for reference.
Born in Kent, Annie Soudain spent her early childhood years in Truro, Cornwall, where her interest in plants and nature began. Now settled by the sea in Sussex, much of her work continues to be inspired by the beautiful landscapes surrounding her. This colourful linoprint was created using the reduction method, which involves progressively cutting, inking up, and printing from the same block. The picturesque scene was taken from the view across the field overlooking Rye Bay in Hastings Country Park.
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Ed Ruscha / Now Then: A Retrospective
Published to accompany the most comprehensive presentation of Ed Ruscha’s work to date, co-organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), this catalogue spans 65 years of the artist’s remarkable career and mirrors his own cross-disciplinary approach.Spanning 65 years of Ed Ruscha’s remarkable career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary approach, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN features over 250 works, produced from 1958 to the present, in various mediums―including painting, drawing, prints, film, photography, artist’s books, and Installation. Published to accompany the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date, and his first solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the richly illustrated publication highlights Ruscha’s most acclaimed works alongside lesser-known aspects of his practice. Essays by an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine Ruscha’s work under a new light, beyond the categories traditionally imposed him, to present fresh perspectives on one of the most influential figures in postwar American art. No more a painter or a bookmaker than he is a Pop or a Conceptual artist, Ruscha is a keen observer of our rapidly changing world. Featuring rarely seen paintings and works on paper made early in his career to cross-media multisensory installations, the publication captures the ceaseless reinvention that has defined Ruscha’s prolific, six-decade career.
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Junk Journal Cutouts: Vintage Designs: From Botanicals to Travel, 350+ Timeless Images for Creative Journaling
Decorate your junk journal and relieve stress at the same time with these 300 vintage-inspired botanical cutouts (plus stickers).Relieve stress and express your creative side with junk journaling! Decorate your junk journal with 300+ vintage-inspired botanical cut outs and such as butterflies, herbs, flowers, plants, and more. Create your own journal for traveling, writing, or just inspiration with all the themes, colors, and aesthetics you love! This collection has everything you need to create the junk journal of your dreams.
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English Travel Posters Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
Recapture the nostalgia of yesteryear with these vintage travel posters, depicting scenic and enticing holiday destinations. This fantastic art calendar showcases the powerful illustrations of vintage advertising. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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Japanese Woodblocks Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
This calendar is filled with a visually dazzling array of woodblock prints from masterful Japanese artists Utagawa Hiroshige I and II. The artworks feature dramatic mountains, natural beauty and serene landscapes, all created in a mesmerizing style and displayed with vibrant colours. In this wall calendar, informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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Art Escapes: Hidden Art Experiences Outside the Museum: Hidden Art Experiences Outside the Museums
Art exists all around us: one just needs to know where to look. Escaping the conventional settings of the museum or gallery, a fascinating variety of art pieces exist everywhere from Ghanaian patios to the Las Vegas desert, from the forest in Scandinavia to the buzzing streets of Mexico City.
Art Escapes is a thoughtful journey through these little-known gems that become a destination in themselves, and should be part of every art-lover bucket list. Away from the queues, the crowds, and the constraints of the classic art spaces, these places invite you to discover creativity in a new light.
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Graffiti Lettering Guidebook: A Beginner’s Guide to Learn Drawing Graffiti Letters (Tags, Throw-ups, Old School, and Wildstyle) – Alphabets, Details, and Pieces!
GRAFFITI LETTERING GUIDEBOOK – LEARN TO DRAW GRAFFITI LETTERS EASILY :
This book makes learning graffiti lettering simple, from alphabet basics to making your graffiti pieces. It’s packed with easy-to-follow steps and different projects for you to practice.
What makes this book great is how it teaches different graffiti styles. You’ll get to try out Tags, Throw-ups, Old School, Wildstyle, and Other Styles, along with alphabets, details, and designs. Every section has tips and advice to help you find your unique style. This variety means you can create all kinds of awesome graffiti art. Even better, the book guides you through more advanced stuff, so you can keep getting better.
Book details:
- Popular graffiti styles – All with letter variations;
- 8.5 x 11″ – A big size for easy drawing;
- Simple lessons for beginners;
- Clear steps and tips;
- No need to be an artist already.
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Star Trek: Picard: The Art and Making of the Series
An in-depth look at the making of Star Trek: Picard, a three-season spin-off of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and a must-have for all Star Trek fans.
Star Trek: Picard stars Patrick Stewart, reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The book explores each of the three separate season-long narratives, which tell the story of Picard in later years, as he is brought out of retirement on his family chateau to face old enemies such as the Borg, take command of a new starship, and ultimately reconcile with his past.
New characters such as Doctor Jurati (Alison Pill), Cristóbal Rios (Santiago Cabrera), Soji (Isa Briones) and Elnor (Evan Evagora) feature alongside appearances by old enemies and friends, such as Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching), Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), Data (Brent Spiner), and Q (John de Lancie). Season 3 sees a full-scale Next Generation reunion, featuring Worf (Michael Dorn), Dr. Beverley Crusher (Gates McFadden), and Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton).
Alongside interviews with showrunners, writers, cast, and crew, discussing concepts and character arcs, “Spotlight” features explore makeup, costumes, art, and visual effects. A final section features reflections on the much-beloved character from its original incarnation in Star Trek: Next Generation through to its final satisfying conclusion.
This beautifully illustrated hardback, featuring behind-the-scenes and on-set photography, and a range of production art, is an in-depth exploration of a hugely popular and seminal Star Trek character.
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The Experience Book: For Designers, Thinkers & Makers
Contrary to what one might imagine, there is no such thing as an experience designer. At least not in the sense that we might talk of an individual recognised as such. To make experiences is to be human. Shaman, architect, food engineer – you name it, they are all experience designers. Informed by an understanding of people’s needs and wants – our stories, our rituals, our myths – the beautifully designed experience has the power to transform lives. The Experience Book is an ode to that power.
Essentially, it is a book about time and how we use it to design and make experiences that define the spaces we live, work and play in. Divided into a guidebook and a sourcebook, it begins by explaining what it is about the human mind that so deeply feasts on the notion of the experience, and then employs this knowledge to suggest a method or framework for designing experiences. The guidebook done, the sourcebook serves as inspiration for the art of experience design, with precedents drawn from the past 35,000 years’ worth of transformative experience making.
One of the first publications about the attributes that together make what is fast becoming a recognised discipline, The Experience Book is beautifully presented. Comprised of a wonderfully eclectic range of written forms, illustrated by a fantastic mix of drawings and photography, and backed by historical and contemporary examples from the worlds of architecture, branding, fashion, music, art, sport and business, it introduces the maker of experiences as part ethnographer, storyteller, master planner and performance artist.
Challenging the orthodoxy of function, reasserting process over monument and product, delighting in the unexpected, and championing the spectator over the spectacle, this is a book for anyone interested in the power of design, be they creator, communicator or consumer.
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Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photos
If you were a graffiti writer in 1980s New York City, you wanted Martha Cooper to document your work―and she probably did. Cooper has spent decades immortalizing art that is often overlooked, and usually illegal. Her first book, 1984’s Subway Art (a collaboration with Henry Chalfant), is affectionately referred to by graffiti artists as the “bible”. To create Spray Nation, Cooper and editor Roger Gastman pored through hundreds of thousands of 35mm Kodachrome slides, painstakingly selecting and digitizing them. The photos range from obscure tags to intimate portraits, action shots, walls, and subway cars painted inside and out. They are accompanied by heartfelt essays celebrating Cooper’s drive, spirit, and singular vision. The images capture a gritty New York era that is gone forever. And although the original pieces (as well as many of their creators) have been lost, these resplendent photos feel as immediate and powerful as a subway train thundering down the tracks.Read more
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35 Black Raindrops
1990s. The London Underground system is emerging from the austerity of the 1980s. New budgets have created the financial backing for security fencing and CCTV. Despite this, graffiti persists on the trains and the playground of subterranean tunnels and infrastructure…
Two rival graffiti crews come head to head when a shadowy figure from the past threatens the balance on the lines. The old master ‘Stainer’ has warned of an oncoming war in which the trains themselves are the prize and, simultaneously, the target for destruction!
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Chance Encounters: Temporary Street Art by David Zinn
David Zinn’s amazing street drawings are created using chalk, charcoal and found objects, and each extraordinary drawing is only ever temporary. This book preserves Zinn’s art in all its colorful, hypnotic glory by collecting together never-before published images of his eye-popping creations. Created over the last two years on streets across the globe, these adorably zany and deceptively three-dimensional characters come to life on manhole covers and streetlamps, village squares and subway platforms. Zinn’s most frequent characters are a bright green googly-eyed monster and a phlegmatic flying pig―but the diversity of his menagerie is limited only by the size of the sidewalk and the spirit of the day. In a brief introduction Zinn describes his creative process, explaining how he seeks out everyday imperfections to situate his art–such as sidewalk cracks and chips, tufts of weeds and sewer grates–and brief captions describe the provenance of each work. While these amazing drawings can no longer stop pedestrians in their tracks on the streets, they live on in book form to mesmerize and inspire readers of all ages.Read more
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Football Murals: A Celebration of Soccer’s Greatest Street Art: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 – ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 – SPORT‘This book is a work of art about football’s works of art… Loved it.’ – Kevin Day, broadcaster
‘A beautiful showcase of such a distinctive part of the game’s culture… impossible not to get lost in the book’ – Miguel Delaney, The Independent
‘Gorgeous to behold… Unmissable’ – Danny Kelly, TalkSPORT radio presenter
‘I absolutely love this book’ – Jules Breach, football presenter
On high-rise buildings, street corners and stadium walls in countries around the world, eye-catching murals pay tribute to footballing greats. From Messi and Ronaldo to Rapinoe and Cruyff, these striking displays are remarkable testaments to the awe and affection fans feel for these football legends and cult heroes.
Join renowned football writer and broadcaster Andy Brassell as he explores this fascinating phenomenon. Offering a fresh, highly visual perspective on the global game, Football Murals is the first book to celebrate these towering works of art.
Beckenbauer and Cruyff, Rooney and Ronaldinho, Totti and Salah, Zlatan and Zidane – being honoured with a mural cements a player’s place in a club’s heritage and links them to the heart of the community. This richly illustrated book showcases the most impressive examples, explores their inspirational qualities and examines what they say about these icons and their sport.
Written and curated by respected football writer Andy Brassell, this ground-breaking book features more than 100 murals from around the world, capturing the scale, grandeur and wit of this powerful and popular art form. Through a series of short essays and extended captions, Andy shares the players’ stories, discusses the cultural politics and explains just why these men and women have been immortalised in mural form.
Covering such diverse topics as Home Town Glory, Football Fame and The Cult of the Coach, Football Murals addresses the issues important to fans worldwide. It spans Marcus Rashford’s inspirational mural in a Manchester suburb, the George Best tribute on the East Belfast estate where he was born, the 15-foot depiction of Megan Rapinoe in St Paul, Minnesota, and the Naples ‘shrine’ to Diego Maradona.
‘I can’t tell you how nice it is for players to see their face on a mural.’ – Jermaine Jenas, The One Show
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