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Spirit MattersRon (Gyo-zo) Spickett, Artist, Poet, Priest
Ronald Spickett (1926- ) is a Calgary-based artist, poet, and Zen Buddhist lay priest. During his long career, he also taught studio art, both at the Alberta College of Art and Design and at the University of Calgary.Today, Ronald Spickett, also known by his Buddhist name of Gyo-Zo, is best known for a series of ambitious paintings he executed during the 1960s, paintings with Western themes suc…
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The Writing on the WallThe Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert
The Writing on the Wall tells the story of artist, curator, writer and activist Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA. Although never claiming to be political and rejecting a feminist label, Cardinal-Schubert's work recognizes that the personal lived life of an Indigenous Canadian woman has social and political ramifications. During her time in the physical realm, Cardinal-Schubert supported and men…
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The Art of Hand-LetteringTechniques for Mastery and Practice
Author Helm Wotzkow, a commercial artist specializing in advertising, leads readers step by step from beginning to advanced skills. His extensive experience provides so many helpful suggestions and tips that even professional letterers will find useful new ideas on almost every page. Wotzkow begins with advice on the tools necessary to hand-lettering. He then proceeds to a detailed discussion a…
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The Colored Pencil ManualStep-by-Step Instructions and Techniques
The Winters book is clearly a great addition to a teaching library on colored pencil. It thoroughly covers whats needed from planning and design to execution as well as technical tips. Beginners on their own should find it very helpful. Melissa Miller Nece, CPSA, CPX , colored pencil artist and instructor Experienced artists looking to master a new medium will relish this comprehensive guide …
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Creative Approaches to PaintingAn Inspirational Resource for Artists
Discover how to find and keep your inspiration and how to advance your visual style with this collection of more than 200 imaginative ideas for painting. Students, teachers, and professionals alike can benefit from this guide, which suggests clever and resourceful concepts for paintings and shows how to identify sources of inspiration. In addition to tips on ways to organize ideas, it proposes …
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Drawing Farm and Zoo Animals
For the first time in a single-volume edition, this guide combines the works of two of Britain's leading 20th-century illustrators of animals, Raymond Sheppard's Drawing at the Zoo and Charles Tunnicliffe's How to Draw Farm Animals. Artists of all skill levels will benefit from the book's tremendous variety of domestic and wild animal studies, each accompanied by helpful pointer…
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- 9780486828190
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Drawing Birds
Throughout history, people have been obsessed with bird imagery, from carvings on the temple walls of ancient Egypt to modern-day murals, posters, and even tattoos. This helpful instructional volume by a renowned artist and teacher offers a wealth of well-illustrated advice on depicting all manner of birds. British illustrator Raymond Sheppard was celebrated for his nature and animal studi…
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A Handwriting Manual
"This famous manual . . . should be read by all those professing the slightest interest in lettering, writing, or the graphic arts." Printing World "Despite the spate of publications on this subject, this one remains far and away the best." Society of Industrial Artists Journal This classic introduction presents the fundamentals behind every aspect of the art of penmanship, from the necessary…
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LetteringFor Students and Craftspeople
Both a history and a how-to book, this landmark work by a great British calligrapher is required reading for every serious student of the art. Graily Hewitt introduces the general principles and the importance of the pen in the history of writing, tracing the development of minuscules and majuscules and other lettering styles. He then devotes a major portion of the book to Roman capitals, arran…
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Sculpture in GothamArt and Urban Renewal in New York City
Public sculpture is a major draw in today's cities, and nowhere is this more the case than in New York. In the Big Apple, urban art has become synonymous with the municipal "brand, " highlighting the metropolis as vibrant, creative, tolerant, orderly, and above all, safe. Sculpture in Gotham tells the story of how the City of New York came to be committed to public art patronage beginning in th…
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