Always feminine, often erotic, and usually tinged with irony—fantasy artist Rowena takes modern dilemmas and presents them in a fanciful and powerful fairy-tale world. Above all, she paints extraordinary images of women. More than 100 artworks and insightful commentary show the influences behind this artist who has done covers for Anne McCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, Piers Anthony, Madeleine L’Engle, Samuel R. Delaney, and even National Lampoon.
At once a sumptuously illustrated survey of Christian art over time and across the globe as well as a study of what RChristian artS really means, Loverance concludes with an assessment of the current state of this art form at the beginning of the 21st century.
Symbols are often seen as constituting an international language and to some extent they do, but that language is far from universal--context means everything in this complicated but engrossing form of communication. Take, for example, a cross, a crane, or a swastika: each one has a different and distinct significance and meaning for a Buddhist, an art historian, or a student of the occult. 1000 Symbols resolves the problem by offering groupings of related symbols, every one with a neat definition of its history and its cross-cultural meanings.
In her magnificent Sacred Ground to Sacred Space, visionary artist Rowena Pattee Kryder weaves together the scientific and spiritual traditions to reveal how the sacred is inherent in nature, and how we can get in touch with the qualities of subtle energy and light that are the power and codes for manifesting harmonious culture.
A hands-on book design students and designers alike will welcome. Elements of Design is a tribute to an exceptional teacher and a study of the abstract visual relationships that were her lifelong pursuit. Rowena Reed Kiostellow taught industrial design at Pratt Institute for more than fifty years and the designers she trained-and the designers they're training today-have changed the face of American design. This succinct, instructive, invaluable book reconstructs the series of exercises that led Kostellow's students from the manipulation of simple forms to the creation of complex solutions to difficult design problems. It includes her exercises and commentary along with selected student solutions, and concludes with examples of work from former students who became leaders in the field, including such well-known figures as Tucker Viemeister, Ralph Applebaum, Ted Muehling, and many others.
Upon discovering that she has the gift of Second Sight, Blossom also learns that whether glimpsing the future or traveling into the past, one is powerless to alter history.
After introducing alchemy and art, the author takes her memoirs into four stages: Innocence, Experience, Empowerment and Wisdom. The second part of the book reveals combinations of themes that enter into her art: Spirit, Nature, Abstraction and Symbolism. These four interact through many different styles of art through nearly 70 years of painting and drawing.
Wielder of the god-sword, bearer of the god-bonds - Jarik Blacksword knew no peace. . .except the peace born of the heat of battle-rage! And this he would find aplenty on his god-sent quest past world's end, where Jarik found the warrior-sister who would be his future -- and the knowledge that would bind his fate.