"Learn how to create your own Deep Impasto masterpieces using a palette knife and oil paints with this book featuring tips, techniques, and 8 complete step-by-step projects. Professional artist Lisa Elley works from her studio in the San Francisco Bay Area with the purpose of inspiring and bringing joy to people through her art. In Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto, Lisa shares her techniques with you through easy-to-follow step-by-step projects....

A beginner friendly guide to making stained glass art using the most popular and accessible method, copper foil.

"This practical book explains the art of stained glass for the maker. Focusing on leaded glass, it introduces types of glass, cutting and designing for glass, and the processes involved in building your own panel. It also covers installation and restoration of glass, repairing and rebuilding, and quoting for work. Written by a leading maker, this book provides the practical instruction and the inspiration for everyone ready to try this most uplifting...

"Presented in four chapters that each focus on a specific technique, palette, and set of projects, Watercolor Your Way meets artists at their current level so they can enjoy the process as they build skills"--

"Take a walk through each seasons with Waltraud Nawratil in this vibrant and inspiring guide to painting nature in watercolor. Discover new and traditional watercolor techniques: textural effects, backgrounds, exciting color combinations and much more to create 30 stunning watercolor paintings that bring the natural world to life. Paint your way through a landscape of flora and wildlife, from Spring flowers to poinsettias that mark the coming of Christmas...

"Capture the beauty of light in gorgeous watercolor scenes. From a lonely mountain highway bathed in midday sun and glittering city lights reflecting off a calm ocean, to a haunted house peeking out of early morning mist and a winter sunset illuminating a snowy forest, this brilliant collection of watercolor masterpieces is an essential primer on representing light in all its varied forms." --

Artist Sakumat and eleven-year-old chronically ill Madurer forge a beautiful friendship as the painter brings landscapes to life in the boy's windowless rooms.

"When Joanne Lefson took on a piglet at her animal shelter, the young sow proceeded to eat everything in her stable but a paint brush. In a flash of inspiration, Joanne attempted to introduce the pig to the art of painting - and thus Pigcasso was born. Starting out with a humble canvas on the sanctuary wall, Pigcasso's paintings are now owned by the likes of George Clooney, she has a Swatch watch design partnership, a wine label, and has eclipsed...

"Through a 30-day challenge that's structured yet flexible, Bold and Beautiful Watercolor Skies teaches aspiring artists how to master accessible techniques to create beautiful images of striking skies, from day to night to the cosmos"--

"A writer studies a famous work of art and finds herself and her own cultural moment revealed at its heart. Jeannie Marshall lived in Rome for ten years without visiting the Sistine Chapel: she didn't want to have a superficial experience of the frescos, but she wasn't sure how, amidst the crowds of tour groups and the noise of pop culture allusions, she could have anything but. What's more, she wondered what this very old, very Catholic art, created...