Knitter's Sketchbook
Knitter's Sketchbook

Author: Emma Vining

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Published: 2019-01-21

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1785005383

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Inspiration for twist and cable designs can be seen everywhere in the natural world and the urban environment, from the cracks in the pavement to building walls, posts and pillars. In A Knitter's Sketchbook: Design Inspiration for Twists and Cables, creative designer Emma Vining shares her experience of capturing pattern ideas in many diverse locations and settings, offering a design-led approach to creating unique knitting stitch patterns. This inspirational book takes a new look at hand knitting techniques that uses twisted stitches and cables. It can be used in many different ways: as a stitch library, a collection of knitting patterns or as a starting point to inspire designers for a personalized knitter's sketchbook. This beautifully illustrated book explores: the history of knitted twists and cables; demonstrates how using different yarns affect stitch patterns; describes twist and cable techniques and terminology; presents a wide-ranging stitch library with ideas to inspire further designs; illustrates the techniques with ten creative accessory patterns. This book illustrates these techniques with ten creative accessory patterns in the form of 189 colour photographs and 141 line artworks.

Horseshoe Crafts
Horseshoe Crafts

Author: Barbie The Welder

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1631581473

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The sturdy metal of horseshoes meets exciting home crafting in this inventive book. Horseshoe Crafts provides thirty welding projects for you to try at home, whether you are a beginning welder or a more experienced crafter. Author and expert horseshoe crafter Barbie the Welder walks you through the steps. Providing introductory chapters on welding safety and introductory basics, Horseshoe Crafts enables you to learn the skills you’ll need to begin to make fantastic art and décor from new or used horseshoes. In this book, you’ll find step-by-step projects, a list of what tools you’ll need, and instructions on how to set your machines, as well as guidelines on how to finish up a variety of projects such as wine racks, paper towel holders, bowls, and picture frames. Additionally, included are tips on creating a host of outdoor ornaments such as wind chimes, flower pot holders, crosses, and more for décor that will be a welcome addition anywhere. Richly photographed and filled with step-by-step instructions, Horseshoe Crafts will help you weld an array of fun and inventive home furnishings.

J.M.W. Turner
J.M.W. Turner

Author:

Publisher: Tate

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781849764902

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One of the most popular painters of all time, J.M.W. Turner created a remarkable collection of sketchbooks over the course of his career. The 'Skies' sketchbook takes its name from its many richly coloured sky studies. Most of the sketches in the book were presumably observed in England, but a few many have been seen in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. The dramatic consequence of the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815m darkening skies and reddening sunsets around the world, surely caught his attention. Turner's more intensely-coloured studies may document these effects which lasted for over a year. This edition of the sketchbook reproduces all these beautiful drawings in near-facsimile.

Rutherford B., Who Was He?
Rutherford B., Who Was He?

Author: Marilyn Singer

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781423171003

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Forty-three men with forty-three passions, but with one thing in common: a presidential place in America's history. With her gift for unforgettable rhythm and innovative rhyme, Marilyn Singer brings the presidents of the United States to life-from Washington to Obama-and contextualizes them in their time. Illustrations by John Hendrix are full of hilarious wit and refined exuberance, and backmatter enriches the experience with short biographies, quotes by each president, and more.

Sketchbooks
Sketchbooks

Author: Richard Brereton

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2012-11-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780670225

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Now published in paperback, Sketchbooks provides a revealing glimpse into the inner workings and private inspiration of creatives from the worlds of advertising, design, graphic design, fashion design, art, street art, and illustration. The material is complemented by interviews in which artists explain how they use their sketchbooks and how they relate to finished works. These, along with the sketchbooks themselves, give readers a direct and unmediated insight into the process of research and creation.

Graphic
Graphic

Author: Steven Heller

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500288849

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Publisher's description: In this ambitious publication, some one hundred of the world's leading graphic designers and illustrators open up their private sketchbooks to offer a privileged glimpse into their creative process.

The Sketchbooks Revealed
The Sketchbooks Revealed

Author: Richard Diebenkorn

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780804799171

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Foreword / Connie Wolf and Alison Gass -- Private to Public / Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant -- Understanding Diebenkorn / Steven A. Nash -- Two Sides of a Coin: Reflections on Artistic Practice / Enrique Chagoya -- The Ace of Spades / Alexander Nemerov -- (With)Drawing from Mastery / Peggy Phelan -- The Sketchbooks -- Notes to Myself of Beginning a Painting / Richard Diebenkorn

Sketchbook Explorations
Sketchbook Explorations

Author: Shelley Rhodes

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1849944806

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A practical and inspirational guide to help embroiderers and textile artists make the most of sketchbooks to inform their creative work. The artist’s sketchbook offers an exciting platform to explore a host of mixed media techniques. Using a combination of paper, textiles, found objects, pencil, ink and paint, Shelley Rhodes shows how a sketchbook can act as an illustrated diary, a visual catalogue of a journey or experience or as a starting point for more developed work. Whether out on location or in the studio, Rhodes explores every stage of the creative process, from initial inspiration to overcoming the fear of a blank page, manipulating paper and images and incorporating ‘found’ objects to build a sketchbook that is both beautiful and inspiring. Sketchbook Explorations is the ideal companion for everyone from the beginner to the more experienced artist looking for exciting techniques to expand their repertoire in mixed media. The book explores: Why work in sketchbooks? The importance and joy of working in a sketchbook. Ways of recording and investigating ideas that inspire. Techniques in mixed media from found objects and layers to three-dimensional sketching. Creating on location. Using electronic devices to develop ideas.