Reaping the joys of drawing doesn't have to be a long and painful process. With Secrets to Realistic Drawing, even complete beginners can get great results fast. It's easy to create lifelike sketches in no time, with: -Encouraging instruction on all the drawing basics, from proportion and scaling to values and shading -Answers to the beginning artist's most frequently asked questions, as well as recommendations for materials and supplies -Easy-to-follow advice for fixing parts of a drawing that don't look quite right
North Light's bestselling author Lee Hammond brings 20 years of professional experience to the popular medium of acrylic painting to provide everything the beginning artist needs to get started: -An introduction to essential materials, basic techniques and key terms -More than 25 step-by-step demonstrations covering such frequently requested subjects as still lifes, landscapes, people, flowers and animals -A fun, lighthearted and reliable approach
The third edition of this popular introduction to the classical underpinnings of the mathematics behind finance continues to combine sound mathematical principles with economic applications. Concentrating on the probabilistic theory of continuous arbitrage pricing of financial derivatives, including stochastic optimal control theory and Merton's fund separation theory, the book is designed for graduate students and combines necessary mathematical background with a solid economic focus.
Although it has only 126 pages the book is divided into: Introduction, Recipes, Appetizers and Salads, Soups, Meat, Seafood, Eggs and Cheese, Vegetables, Sides and Sauces, Desserts, Cakes and Pies, Cookies and Squares, Breads and Rolls, Confections, Entertaining, Table of Common Measure Conversions, Epilogue: The Official List of Cooking Skill Levels, Websites of Contributors. Over 100 recipes.
Mixed-media artists and DIY crafters will be excited about all the endless possibilities of working with a variety of plastic materials such as acrylic sheeting (otherwise known as Plexiglas), clear vinyl and even shrink plastic. In Sexy Plexi, readers will be amazed at the versatility of these various plastics, the ease of use and forgiveness plastic possesses, and how plastics can mimic glass in numerous applications. The author guides readers through 25 step-by-step projects including popular DIY craft items.
