Painting on mirrors, glass, china/porcelain, wood and mat board with acrylics? Susan shows us that it’s possible. She became a “mad scientist” in her art studio and developed a fast, easy way to prepare glass,mirror and slick china surfaces for painting with acrylics. Soft yellow roses decorate a china dresser set. Whimsical birds brighten a wooden cabinet and china plates. Lovely irises and tulips enhance inexpensive picture frames. Includes two color worksheets. Acrylics
The Art & Elegance of Beadweaving: New Jewelry Designs with Classic Stitches
“Elegant contemporary jewelry....What artist-author Wells and her 30 colleagues conjure up in more than 30 bracelets, earrings, and necklaces is nothing short of breathtaking. All the projects can be readily mastered by beginners....One hundred percent of the fundamentals, from graphic illustrations and charts to accompanying text and great color photographs.”
New trends in knitting fashion in the new collection Fall - Winter 2010 by Kim Hargreaves. 21 designs for women - the embodiment of taste and elegance.
Finally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner's immensely popular short puzzles; along with a few new ones from the master. For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and elegance of his explorations in physics, probability, topology, and chess, among others.
