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South Beach: Two Decades of Deco District Paintings by Mark Rutkowski
Mark Rutkowski
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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really inspiring.......2005-12-14
I can't say enough about this book. It doesn't matter if you are experianced or have never touched a pastel before, everyone can gain something from this wonderful book. Not only does she lay out the different materials and papers, she touches on just about everything such as color theory, perspective and composition. This is so much more than just a book on pastels. Beyond all the useful info, the pictures are just so inspiring and beautiful to look at. If you only buy one pastel book, let it be this one.
Comprehensive and enjoyable.......2005-01-17
A practical and comprehensive instruction pastel workbook. Nicely laid out and easy on the eye too. The author has in mind the beginner who also needs encouragement to paint as well as adding ideas about creativity to the work not just frontal art instruction and just techniques. Definately a new generation of instruction where development of ideas, creativity, inspiration, confidence building, self assesment, demonstrations are all integrated. I also enjoyed looking at the examples used to instruct pastel painting and these were very varied giving a wide idea about what can be done with pastels. I really recomend this book for the beginner pastel artist as well as an art instructor who wants to develop an art workshop and needs some ideas. Jason Alster- author-
Creative Painting For The Young Artist
Book Description
Take Your Colored Pencils Out of the Box . . . and Combine the Best of All Mediums!
Creative Colored Pencil Workshop is your guide to exploring a new world of artistic possibilities. Following clear, step-by-step demonstrations, you'll try your hand at a range of exciting techniques that blend colored pencils with all kinds of dynamic mediums, including:
- Watercolor
- Gouache
- Acrylics
- Ink
- Graphite
- Oil pastels
- Metal leaf
More than 25 fun projects show you how to use each medium successfully, while offering in-depth guidance for working with various papers, textures and surfaces. Best of all, this book features the insightful instruction of two accomplished artists who offer different yet effective approaches to colored pencil creations.
From highly realistic art to more abstract representations, you'll learn how each medium and technique can accommodate virtually any artistic style or subject. Creative Colored Pencil Workshop gives you the best of both worlds: the fluid spontaneity and speed of mixed media and the control and precision of colored pencils. Mix it up, and see what happens!
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It is okay.......2007-08-03
It is okay. It has a lot in it but it has not given me what I wanted. I like the way Ann Kullberg illustrates her books. She doesn't have mixed media but with colored pencil in itself she makes it very visible in what to do. This book is a good book but not as exciting as some others.
Entering a competitive field.......2007-08-03
I was disappointed in this book for two reasons. Firstly the mixed media exercises use other mediums more as underpainting than as combinations with colored pencil to create new effects. By comparison, see Mary Todd Beam's demonstrations with colored pencil in mixed media in "Celebrate Your Creative Self." The results from Hershberger and Huff still look like colored pencil, not mixed media. In my view, this means it misses out as a mixed media book. How does it fare, then, as a colored pencil book?
I find the end results of the exercises in this book rather flat compared to works by established colored pencil artists, and this is my second reason. The book begins with some promising ideas, but adding other mediums should enhance, not muddy the result as I feel they do here.
The colored pencial medium has burgeoned into an extremely professional field in the last ten years or so, and this makes it a highly competitive market where new publications are concerned. The authors of this book have hard acts to follow, and this inevitably affects any assessment of its merits. The competition includes artist/instructors like Cecile Baird, Bet Borgeson and particularly Ann Kullberg, arguably the best of all colored pencil artists.
In fact, on Kullberg's website, even unsuccessful entries in her 2007 juried competition have a "zing' that is somehow missing in the illustrations in this book. The explanation that clarity is inevitably lost in simplifying the step-by-step lessons may be fair enough, but I suggest you compare these instructions with those on the Kullberg website. Although using colored pencil alone, Kulberg's exercises nevertheless achieve radiant, light-filled results.
Perhaps minor quibbles, but the exercises are not numbered (for easy reference) and the number is incorrectly given as 52 in the subtitle on the cover.
'Creative Colored Pencil Workshop'is beautifully bound and the authors undoubtedly convey a passion for their medium, but I find that the book comes nowhere near the high standard of books by the artist/authors mentioned above. For the higher price, I really expected something more.
Beautiful Illustrations.......2007-05-25
Beautiful paintings by the authors and other artists strike a nice balance between a how-to book and a must-have for sheer enjoyment. I uploaded two images so you could see into the book.
Herschberger and Huff share their expertise on an expansive range of materials making this an excellent entry point for beginners and great fun for experimental artists. In one demonstration, or technically two I guess, they both paint from the same reference photo, but make entirely different painting choices. Witty humor highlights their rapport as the two artists work together and play off one another.
I particularly liked the silver leaf demonstration and how it was used in a realistic, not decorative, painting. Can't wait to try that!
Eye Opener.......2007-05-04
I always thought colored pencils were for the grandkids. Wow, I read the entire book in one sitting and I can't wait to try some of the new ways of using not only colored pencils, but other media. Thank you to the authors for opening my eyes to new things.
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You'll Never Outgrow This.......2005-09-26
Though usually demonstrated in colored pencil, these are excellent for any colored media: dry or oil pastels, acrylics, aquarelle, oils, gouache, and so on. Following them will get you to stretch your skills: even if you are in an "orange period" you need to play with the other stuff occasionally just to remember why orange is fascinating by comparison. Especially valuable when you are feeling stale: start where you last left off, or start all over at lesson one. Each time you do them, you do them differently, and you learn new things.
Come one, come all! ----Beginners to experts!.......2000-06-12
What a great resource for artists of all levels to develop and improve their skills. I have searched extensively for a step by step program to help me become skilled with colored pencil. I love the format which gives an instructional narrative about an aspect and then gives a drawing assignment to direct the artist in an effective exercise to develop the skill. It breaks down the vast (and sometimes overwhelming) body of information into bite sized pieces for the beginner and progresses on to challenge an intermediate to advanced student as well. In all fairness, I must say that I am writing from the perspective of a relative beginner. I don't know exactly how advanced one would need to be to outgrow this book, but I think it would last all beginners and most intermediate students quite a long time! I found the author's illustrations very helpful and the displays of her own work is a feast for the eyes. I wish there were more of them. All told, this is a wonderful book of clear lessons and great assignments.
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Pastel Painting Workshop by Handell/Trainor.......2006-12-19
This book is old school having been written in 1988. The first half of the book , all pictures are in black and white. The rest are somewhat washed out and lackluster.It has the basic fundamentals and what not and good as a reference.Spend your money on up to date books and leave this one for the library.
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This book covers the necessary materials and equipment needed before the comprehensive technique section which covers such areas as mixing pastels, using charcoal, layering a textured ground, and much more. It shows clearly how to do the basic setting up and preparation, and takes the reader through all the first techniques, with step-by-step practical projects.
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Pastel
Practical Arts Workshop
Manufacturer: Atrium Publishers Group
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ASIN: 8495692155 |
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- Wish it were MORE Fabulous!
- Excellent book for Disco culture lovers
- This book is a time warp: everything the 70's wanted to be!
- Better than the fantastic symphony
- Just Fabulous! as its title
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Fabulous!: A Photographic Diary of Studio 54
Bobby Miller
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ASIN: 0312195672 |
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Wish it were MORE Fabulous!.......2000-10-31
After searching websites and finding some pretty interesting pictures, I expected this book to really contain what it boasts "downright shocking.... astounding", but doesn't show half of what is shown on the internet! Honestly I was disappointed - but DEFINITELY look at Studio 54: A Legend. Absolutely worth it - much more story and TRUELY Fabulous! pictures!!!
Excellent book for Disco culture lovers.......2000-10-19
Gives you a great idea on what the club-life was like in late 70s and early 80s...
This book is a time warp: everything the 70's wanted to be!.......1999-02-05
Bobby Miller is a friend and an artist. That's how I know him. He is a fun and fabulous friend, and his art in uncompromised and unadulterated fun and fabulousness. Let him take you by the hand into the womb of the 70's: smell the smoke, the sweat, the cheap cologne. ( Stained dresses were a dime a dozen, I'm sure.) This book is a pictographic history of the big bang of the Age of Aquarius. It's an authentic item for those culturally inclined, no matter what your persuasion. Give it to yourself and think of it as a history book with lots of pictures (and great writing, too)!
Better than the fantastic symphony.......1999-01-19
What a wonderful work. Clearly, Mr. Miller has a terrific eye and can capture the glit, glam, feels and smells of what Studio 54 must have been like. If only I could have been there too. Alas, I'm too young for that, but at least I can see what life was like in the golden age. Signed, A Fan From Ophir There
Just Fabulous! as its title.......1998-12-19
I found out that this photographic book is really bizarre, however you will enjoy it if you are a Disco-culture lover. Get it!
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- Interesting experimental format
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Mad's Don Martin Carries on
Don Martin
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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ASIN: 0446304514 |
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Interesting experimental format.......2005-04-03
When it was at the peak of it's popularity, Mad Magazine was everywhere an adolescent boy looked, and this set of paperback books was an interesting attempt to carry the appeal of the magazine into a paperback book format.
The book is not much different from the comic drawings that were so prominently featured in the magazine. In this particular book, Don Martin has some extended sketches that parody "The Fly," "King Kong," and a field guide for cockroaches. However, his best work is probably the shorter bits, if only because they pack in more jokes per minute, and the jokes aren't terribly funny.
Many of the comics derive their humor from a twist ending, such as the spider who builds his web only to have the last frame reveal that his support sticks are actually the fingers of a giant fly.
If you're a Madaholic, you should pick this collection up for nostalgia's sake; otherwise, there's no real reason to own this book.
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Mads Don Martin Carries on
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics: Volume I: Development, Markets, and Institutions
Kaushik Basu
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The field of development economics has witnessed major changes over the last tow or three decades. From being a largely descriptive discipline, it has now become much more rigorous and theoretically well-founded. Kaushik Basu's work has played a significant role in this transformation of
development economics, and the present book is a collection of his major papers in the field.
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The Dictionary of Banking Formulas
Paul J. Christopher
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Designed for bankers, commercial lenders, leasing specialists, and financial experts and advisors, The Dictionary of Banking Formulas contains all the major ratios and lending formulae used in business. Each formula and related term is cross-referenced for quick access. Readers will find the alphabetized desktop reference easy to use and accessible at a moment's notice. A complete description of all pertinent data, including the formulas themselves, is included.
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Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial America opening up new markets, employing an army of workers, and initiating the ties between capital and government that remain important to this day. The work went forward using simple tools and the brute strength of men and animals, with diggers working twelve-hour days and suffering the ravages of disease and injury. In this highly acclaimed study, Peter Way challenges conventional views of the part these workers played in the early republic and of the culture they created.
Increasingly made up of Irish immigrants, Way explains, the work force was housed in shanty towns hastily thrown up along the path of canal construction. Unlike the vibrant, proud working-class communities so beloved in labor history, these towns were the scene of considerable off-hours vice and violence. As wages fell throughout the 1830s, workers' discontent mounted to the point where riots were frequent and militia units often descended on the towns to enforce order. Common Labour traces a dark picture of powerlessness, depravity, and rage in the lives of America's canal diggers.
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on March 22, 1996. The length of the article is 1307 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Common labour: workers and the digging of North American canals 1780-1860.
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Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1996
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Issue: 37
Page: 319-21
Article Type: Book Review
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