Chilly realizes that his house needs to be freshened up with some new paint. He orders all kinds of paint but his attempts end in disaster. Finally, he takes some advice and orders some paint chips. In short order the paint chips become a bigger problem. Sue's friend, Pam is an artist and comes to aid Chilly in solving his problem with the paint chips and the house gets painted properly.
Chilly wants to learn how to play an instrument and ends up buying a piano. His friends want to join in the fun and play with Chilly but he keeps playing the only song he knows. His friends all get bored and piano refuses to play for him any longer. Sue calls a music teacher friend and she gets Chilly and his friends on track again by expanding their repertoire.
This is the first book of the Chilly series, although no particular order is required. In this story we learn how Wonton Willy became known as Chilly Wonton Willy in the town of Soupville. His friends, including his good friend Egg Drop Sue, help Chilly find his heat and return to work at Joe's Chinese Buffet.
Pura Belpré Award, Illustrator Honor Latino Book Award, Winner Green is a chile pepper, spicy and hot. Green is cilantro inside our pot. In this lively picture book, children discover a world of colors all around them: red is spices and swirling skirts, yellow is masa, tortillas, and sweet corn cake. Many of the featured objects are Latino in origin, and all are universal in appeal. With rich, boisterous illustrations, a fun-to-read rhyming text, and an informative glossary, this playful concept book will reinforce the colors found in every child's day! Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.
Innovate while you renovate! It's Decorating 101! Here is a comprehensive guide to decorating styles and terms, design basics, inventive solutions, tips on working with a professional, and more-presented in the illustrated format that home improvement readers love. From a room at a time to a whole house, start-from-scratch to dazzling makeovers, this book offers everything aspiring decorators need to know. Photos and line drawings throughout plus a lush 32-page color insert A back-of-the-book decorating kit offers templates, graph paper, and a sketchbook so readers can get started on their projects right away Particularly timely as Trading Spaces hits the NYT bestseller list!
Imagine waking up one day realizing you're immortal without knowing who you are or where you belong? At an early age Jacob Handel realizes that something about him is just a little bit different. As a child, raised in an orphanage, Jacob begins to feel the struggle burn inside. With the help of his mentor, a kindly man named Ian Meredith, Jacob’s direction remains positive, even under harsh conditions…That is until his tenth birthday when Ian disappears and Jacob feels that he has been betrayed by his only friend. As the years unfold, Jacob becomes a recluse, ignoring his singleness; he drowns his fears with the bottle. Then one day, a mysterious blackbird delivers a golden medallion and he has to face the greatest challenge of his existence. With a pre-determined destiny, Jacob holds the fate of a kingdom in the balance as he endures his awakening. As the sides line up, good vs. evil…one man must make a decision. Medallion is a fast paced fantasy set in San Antonio, Texas.
Example in this ebook In may of its elementary principles the art of carriage and wagon painting as at present exemplified does not materially differ from the art as it was interpreted in the remote past. Processes and systems have changed and adapted themselves to the swifter modes of life, but not a few of the paint materials, especially those used in the foundation and surfacing coats, remain practically the same as used in former times. The P. W. F.'s, as surfacing agents expected to take the place of white lead and oil and their assistant pigments, tossed merrily upon the topmost wave of favor for a brief period some two decades ago, but the fiat of their decline went forth and at the present time the great majority of carriage and wagon painters still adhere to white lead, raw linseed oil, ochres, and regulation roughstuff pigments for their foundation materials, as did their instructors and predecessors. The abbreviated time allowance accorded the painter for the painting and finishing of a vehicle has made necessary a readjustment of proportions of both liquid and pigment ingredients which, it must be confessed, has operated in a way harmful to the natural durability of the material employed. The painter, however, can in no wise be held responsible for the general lack of durability which is said to distinguish the painting of the present as compared to that of the past. The great inexorable Public is the master, the painter its unwilling but submissive servant. Nevertheless, conditions of permanency and durability are still wrought and achieved in the modern field of carriage and wagon painting, conditions which conform, with a large measure of credit to the art of painting, to the other resultant durable effects obtained along nearly all other lines of industrial activity. Our painting today fails to excel the painting of tradition simply because the exactions of a wonderfully fast age tend directly to promote failure rather than to aid success. The job of painting which withstands fierce and continuous attacks of service for a reasonable length of time must be justly registered durable, regardless of what it would have been termed in the past. Past conditions and circumstances cannot fairly be used as yardsticks to measure what we at present call beautiful and enduring in the art of painting. In the matter of tools, appliances for handling work, colors and varnishes used, carriage and wagon painting, amid the advances made in all the other constructive departments of industry, has enjoyed improvement. Brushes in greater variety, finer in quality, and better adapted to the practical needs of the painter, are in evidence. Colors of a wider range of hues, tints, shades, and incomparably finer as to quality than were obtainable formerly, are now at the disposal of the painter. And the varnishes—surely they have been improved, made more reliable, more uniform in quality, better behaved and more suited to the ever-varying requirements of service. Carnage and wagon painting has become as much of a business as an artistic venture. Commercial conditions have of late years so shaped themselves that the painter, to successfully conduct a painting business, must of necessity study the profound science of business quite as thoroughly as he does the science of building paint structures and developing color effects. He imparts a moral, business, and mechanical force to the community. He now has available sources of education more easily within his reach than at any former time. Paint trade literature, so far as it is represented in magazine form at least, is at hand to render him aid and encouragement. He is rapidly becoming better fitted to meet the expanding limits of competition, to critically analyze both the theory and practice of painting, to become, in short, a greater power for good in the community as well as a studious and original mechanic. To be continue in this ebook
In this book, Caroline Linscott offers the perfect introduction to the exciting world of watercolor! Inside Watercolor 1, you will find an array of beautiful paintings that will inspire you to explore the medium further. Caroline covers a range of popular subjects as she introduces a number of basic art concepts and painting techniques, all clearly explained and illustrated. You will master techniques for adding texture, creating special effects, and using color to convey emotion. Then you will be ready for Watercolor 2, where you will find step-by-step demonstrations to help you further your painting skills.
