A Watercolour A Day

Download or read book One Day I Shall Astonish the World written by Nina Stibbe and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved author of Love, Nina, a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime. Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work, and, most importantly, friendship. Nina Stibbe's new novel is the story of the wonderful and sometimes surprising path of friendship: from its conspiratorial beginnings, along its irritating wrong turns, to its final gratifying destination.

Download or read book One Watercolor a Day written by Veronica Lawlor and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers forty-six daily watercolor exercises intended to stimulate imagination and help readers improve their skills.

Download or read book Thoughts Of A Watercolour Artist written by Brian D. Powell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian D. Powell is an artist and original founding member of ""The Three Brusketeers."" He also happened to revolutionise the search and rescue industry while being responsible for some of the most profound health & safety advances the western world has seen. Brian Powell is not your average inventive genius. He is simply one step ahead as a creative thinker, but more than that Brian is a man who understands the importance of taking steps to implement change. In addition to a career saving lives, Brian helped raise a family, then took time to see a bit of the world before recording those memories, through his art.

Download or read book A History of Tapestry from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day written by William George Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1913 written by Florian Illies and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Bestseller: This “absolute gem of a book” offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I—one of the most exciting times in the 20th century (The Observer). “A sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera” for history buffs interested in 20th-century art, music, and literature (Washington Post). It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring, and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented. It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I. In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafka’s love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in “one year” histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he delivers a charming and riveting tale of a world full of hope and unlimited possibility, peopled with amazing characters and radical politics, bristling with new art and new technology—even as ominous storm clouds began to gather.

Download or read book Watercolour Secrets written by Jill Leman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book showcases the work of the members of the prestigious Royal Watercolour Society, including Ken Howard, Sonia Lawson and many other fine and well-known contemporary watercolour painters. Each artist discusses their inspiration and gives their best practical advice for working in this medium, offering a fascinating insight into the methods and techniques of the professional artists. Have you ever wondered how an artist starts a piece, what keeps them working at it, how they make marks and mix colour or when they know a painting is finished? This intimate exploration of the daily creative striving of the artist and their patient technical procedures will fascinate professional and aspiring artists, collectors and anyone with a general interest in painting.

Download or read book John Brett written by Christiana Payne and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to John Brett (1831–1902) investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. In addition to exploring the familiar early works, including The Val d'Aosta and Stonebreaker, it provides information on his later, less-known coastal and marine paintings. Brett's turbulent friendship with John Ruskin is discussed, as are his relations with his beloved sister, Rosa, and his partner Mary, with whom he had seven children. His fervent interest in astronomy, his love of the sea, and his lifelong pursuit of wealth and recognition are all examined in this reassessment, which concludes with a catalogue raisonné of his works.