Here for every teacher's resource shelf is a book of reproducible graph paper masters prepared expressly for schools. 163 grids of different types and line weights answer a wide variety of classroom needs. You'll find: square, triangular, hexagonal, and polar coordinate grids ; faint-line sketching grids and dot pattern paper ; standard measure graph paper with divisions from 1 inch to 1/16 inch ; metric measure graph paper with divisions from 2 cm to 0.2 cm. Simply choose the grid pattern and size you want and copy as many sheets as you need for plotting, charting, measuring, sketching, or exploring patterns. -- from back cover.
Blank (1/4 inch square-grid) composition notebook for the most epic and creative games ever played. Draw maps, create monsters, forge weapons, invent spells, design characters, write narrations, plan campaigns, etc. Made from the bark of thousand-year-old Gridwoods in the enchanted forest of Darkleaf, and printed with ink from the distilled Ambrosia of Everthought, this seemingly ordinary quad-rule notebook is in fact imbued with epic and mysterious power - and gives the bearer: +10 Creativity. Specs: 50 sheets/100 pages | 60 lb cream paper | 4x4 sq/in | double-sided | paperback binding | 9.75 x 7.5 in
Spark Your Creativity with Calligraphy #1 New Release in Handwriting Reference Lettering artist Phawnda Moore has been teaching calligraphy and design for 25 years. An award-winning author, she steps into beginning students’ shoes to select content, address anticipated questions, and offer solutions to the unexpected yet inevitable problems that are encountered in hand lettering. “Lettering from A to Z . . .” stands out from the crowd! It was written for all levels of experience and nourishes creative thinking through mindful practice. Blending traditional design principles and modern tools, it will inspire you to find your own style. Your creative life will be enriched with step-by-step tutorials “from A to Z.” Written in conversational narrative, this full-color book includes more than 200 images of Phawnda’s professional work, published articles, and guidance from her class demos to make beautiful projects. Phawnda's instruction includes: • 12 styles (Uncial calligraphy, Italic calligraphy, script calligraphy, brush lettering, faux calligraphy, rainbow lettering, monoline letters, handwriting and drawn letters) • Customized, printable practice sheets • Recommended writing tools, papers, sources, printing tips • How to troubleshoot • Layout, color and design basics • Mail art to keep correspondence alive • Lettering projects for mentoring youngsters • Real-life tips on how to organize your studio space • Tips on sharing your skills in teaching, business, events, home, garden and community • Making background papers from tea • Original gifts with the meaning of names for family and friends • Illustrating with calligraphy tools • Projects to make handmade birthday cards, holiday cards, journals of your life, and easy-to-design art books If you enjoyed Hand Lettering 101, The Lost Art of Handwriting, or Hand Lettering for Relaxation, then it’s time to grab a copy of Lettering from A to Z and reconnect to your natural creativity.
"Good Questions" - or open-ended questions - promote students' mathematical thinking, understanding, and proficiency. By asking careful, purposeful questions, teachers create dynamic learning environments, help students make sense of math, and unravel misconceptions. This valuable book includes a wide variety of good questions for classroom use and offers teachers tips on how to createopen-ended questions of their own.
30 sheets of cream-colored, quad-ruled, 8.5" x 11" graph paper for drawing epic fantasy maps, battles, and worlds. RPG Masters makes blank notebooks with RPG-themed covers for the most creative gamers on Earth. As you cross the threshold of the dimly lit, paper supply dungeon, shivering with fear and anticipation, certain of your impending doom and dismemberment, you glimpse a light! A stationary light, piercing the darkness like a needle pierces the bowels of a mosquito. The light emanates from a book. You approach. Equip Map Paper: Quad Ruled Notebook for +5 Creativity, +3 Speed, and +10 Sense of Direction. Specs: 30 sheets/60 pages | cream paper | 1/4" squares | double-sided | paperback binding | 8.5" x 11"
Over 25 unique effects illustrated with process photos, finished examples, and variations. Mixed Emulsions is a follow up to Karen Michel's book, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery. Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery takes a slightly different tact, bringing traditional and digital photography front and center, showing the many ways that photographic imagery can be manipulated, not electronically, but using various art materials and techniques. The chapters explore ways to add color (paints, oil sticks, watercolors, inks), ways to add texture (embossing powders, gessos, pastes, wax), and special effects (printing on unusual substrates, imprinting, photo mosaics, using tissue, fabric, cardboard). Altered art continues to grow as an area of interest for many kinds of crafters. A great technique book for artists looking to expand the creative possibilities for altered photography A gallery of artwork by other well-known artists offers further inspiration
