art

Introduces famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and more than twenty others, exploring the subject matter, media, and composition of the pieces as well as facts about the artists.

Television host Mark Kistler offers thirty lessons on drawing, covering foreshortening, surface, shading, density, contour, size, overlapping, and other related topics.

Presents step-by-step directions for drawing the flag and national emblem of India, as well as a Bengal tiger, the Taj Mahal, Buddha and other sights and symbols of India, and includes background information on the subject of each drawing.

Explores a variety of careers for people who have an eye for color and design; includes detailed job descriptions and current salary statistics.

"Provides easy-to-follow instructions for many creative art projects including: perspective drawing, photo collage, watercolor painting, and many more. Helps readers develop important artistic skills in a fun and engaging format"--Provided by publisher.

Discover how artists use clever illusions to create images that fool the eye into thinking a flat surface is really three-dimensional.

An alphabetical reference to fantasy and science fiction art creation with sections on tools and materials, techniques such as computer enhancement and illusion of space and death, and themes.

Presents the art of Flanders, the Netherlands, France, and Germany in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with themes of the church and state, Protestant and Catholic, man and woman, artist and patron, and city life and court life.

Relates the works of Depression-era American painter Edward Hopper to the personality of the artist himself.