The book guides you through key fashion drawing and design techniques. Starting with basic figure templates, you quickly progress to produce visually exciting and creative illustrations, which are developed into dynamic presentations and your design portfolio - the passport to your career. Thorough text, self-explanatory drawings, photographs of the fashion model, together with artwork from international designers and illustrators, this book demonstrates the accepted design standards used in the fashion industry.
The second book by award-winning intarsia artist Judy Gale Roberts includes a collection of exciting patterns and all-new projects for small-scale intarsia, the art of making picture mosaics in wood, using different woods and wood grains. Includes a comprehensive how-to section, 13 ready-to-use patterns, and more than 150 color photos.
Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual: Completely Revised and Updated
This super-handy manual has received a major upgrade. Seventeen chapters' worth of fixer-upper opportunities are enhanced with more than 3,000 photos and illustrations that would look equally at home in an upscale home decorating catalogue. The first few chapters cover hand and power tools, fasteners and adhesives, and are enough to incite hardware envy among even dwellers of tiny apartments. There is strange beauty in the cutaway views of five different hollow-wall fasteners and the machinations of nine types of pliers.
Beginners are guided through the fundamentals of detailed observation, use of materials and elementary tips whilst more advanced artists will be inspired by sophisticated techniques, superb demonstrations and invaluable advice. Projects include poplar trees, leaves, seeds and fruits and reflections. An essential addition to any artist's library, this superb book will delight specialists and beginners alike.
Butterscotch Fingers, Chocolate Crinkles, Gingerbread Cut-Outs, Peppermint Meringues: all these Christmas cookies sound delectable, but nobody can bake dozens of recipes at the same time. The solution? A swap! All across America, families, neighbors, community, and church groups gather at Christmas cookie swaps, where each participant brings a large batch of his or her favorite recipe to share. Everyone fills a plate or tin with samplings of the tasty treats; the more people, the merrier—and the more kinds of cookies to try.
