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Author
Publisher
Adventure Publications
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"See nature with the eyes of a naturalist. Feel nature with the heart of an artist. If you enjoy birding, gardening, or the great outdoors, Drawn to Birds is for you. Naturalist and watercolorist Jenny deFouw Geuder combines her vast knowledge of nature with her artistic expertise to create a book like no other. This collection begins with an introduction to bird anatomy. From there, more than 60 different bird species are showcased in watercolor,...
484) The art of custom sneakers: how to create one-of-a-kind kicks : paint, splatter, dip, drip, & color
Author
Publisher
Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With Art of Custom Sneakers, learn to make your own one-of-a-kind kicks from YouTube superstar Xavier Kickz"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Artist: Frank Bowling is packed with make-and-dos and inspiring activities for budding young artists. Experiment with paints and glue in ways you never imagined, make layered collages using recycling and design your own world using stencils and fantasy maps! Bursting with inspiring activities, the revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books introduces children to internationally renowned artists in a fun and engaging way....
Author
Series
Let's get lost in a painting volume 5
Publisher
Garrard Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the well-known painting of an Iowa farm couple which has come to be considered a controversial masterpiece of twentieth-century American art.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A painter becomes famous when his paintings come to life. A very laid-back artist is oblivious to the havoc his paintings cause. An unknown painter becomes an overnight sensation when his paintings imitate life too well by quacking, crawling, and erupting all over Paris.
494) Wolfwood
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Indigo finds a series of paintings made by her mother that could be the solution to their financial insecurities; however, her mother refuses to revive the series, so Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself and falls into the paintings' dangerous world which blurs fantasy and reality.
495) BRUSH OF THE GODS
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Tang dynasty, master painter Wu Daozi creates an extraordinary mural for the emperor.
Author
Publisher
Des Moines Art Center
Pub. Date
[2009].
Language
English
Description
"After Many Springs is the title of a Thomas Hart Benton painting that evokes nostalgia for a fertile, creative time gone by. This new book - taking the name of this work by Benton - examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist paintings, photography, and film during the Great Depression, a period when the two approaches to art making were perhaps at their zenith." "It is commonly believed that Regionalist artists Benton, John Steuart...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"In J.L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's extraordinary depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored...
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