painting

"Claudia loves butterflies. Blue ones. Yellow ones. Purple ones with dots. And since she can't take them home, she paints them in all their beautiful colors. But when winter comes, there are no more butterflies to paint...until she finds a little moth. Suddenly, Claudia sees winter in a whole new light"--Dust jacket.

Offers step-by-step instructions for creating more than thirty characters, including spirits, elves, mermaids, and other fairytale characters, using fingerprints as paint brushes, as well as adding to each character to provide variations and background scenes.

Traces the development of Islamic art and architecture from the Umayyad dynasty to the present day.

Encourages children to express their ideas in art and have fun.

An imaginative fish dreams about what is beyond his bowl and uses watercolors to paint what he imagines.

Fantasy artist Jeff Miracola describes his oil painting process, covering thumbnail drawing, final sketches, color study, solvents and mediums, underpainting, glazing, varnishing, safety, supplies, and more.

Readers will learn and use fun techniques, such as printing and stenciling, to create their own one-of-a-kind masterpieces.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating paintings using varied techniques, including adding texture, laying a gradated wash, and glazing.

"When thrift-store aficionado Julie discovers a series of antique paintings with hidden glowing images that are only visible in the dark, she wants to learn more about the artist. In her search, she uncovers a century-old romance and the haunting true story of the Radium Girls, young women who used radioactive paint to make the world's first glow-in-the-dark products--and ultimately became radioactive themselves. As Julie's obsession with the paintings mounts, truths about the Radium Girls--and her own complicated relationships--are revealed"--Provided by publisher.

"Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd, spoiled, charming, world weary and cynical, he comments perceptively on Annie, and the modern world and tells tales about his previous owners: Louis XV, Voltaire, Catherine the Great among others. The story unfolds through this voice and many others--unexpected, entertaining, and strangely authentic. Annie will have her apartment ransacked and be pursued by dealers, buyers and an auctioneer in an attempt to get back the painting. With The Improbability of Love, Rothschild has spun a dazzling tale--both irreverant and entertainng--of a many-layered, devious world where, in the end, love triumphs"--.