artists

Introduces the life of the artist who painted the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but whose greatest love was sculpture.

Step-by-step instructions give budding artists all they need to learn how to draw heads, faces, hands, action poses, and backgrounds. Perspective and basic techniques are explained, and activities are included to start your budding manga enthusiasts on their way to creating fabulous original works.

Overview of this era, from early Renaissance and new architecture to proportion, perspective, and legacy. Offers facts on Leonardo da Vinci.

Budding artists will master drawing vehicles, such as mobile patrol armor, a riot buster, a troop-dispersal carrier, and a cruise ship. Each manga feature is accompanied by step-by-step sequences and a finished example. Examples have been drawn from different manga sub-genres to provide the most complete overview possible.

Contains twenty-six paintings, each concealing a letter of the alphabet, by Western art masters such as Picasso, Dal?, Van Gogh, Matisse, Giotto, Kandinsky, and Bosch, with information about each piece and where to see the originals.

An aspiring artist's daily routine of being embarrassed by his eccentric family is interrupted when he finds himself in the middle of an art museum fiasco involving Matisse's 1909 portrait of his son Pierre.

An introduction to the life and work of the French painter exploring the various influences on his style of art.

Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.

An idyllic seaside artists' colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.

Relates in free verse the experiences of sixteen-year-old Emily, a gifted artist and the daughter of immigrants to the United States, as she tries to reconcile her American self with her Chinese heritage.