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How to Embroider Almost Everything is an inspiring, fun, and sophisticated collection of 500+ stitch motifs from embroidery designer Wendi Gratz that offers a fresh new take on embroidery.Get a detailed checklist of everything you'll need to embark on your stitch journey: threads, needles, fabric, and more.Find step-by-step tutorials for essential stitches and other techniques for creating the motifs, plus answers to common questions and invaluable tips and tricks.Explore an amazing 500+ modern motifs for almost everything, including people and pets, trees and flowers, everyday objects, food, home, and more. Either re-create the motifs exactly as shown using the accompanying templates and stitch guides, or give them your own creative spin by changing details and colors to suit your own style.How to Embroider Almost Everything helps you take your first steps to embroidering to your heart's content and creating beautiful drawings with needle and thread! Each book in the Almost Everything series offers readers a fun, comprehensive, and charmingly illustrated visual directory of ideas to inspire skill building in their creative endeavors.

How to Embroider Almost Every Cute Thingincludes 550 supercute, sweet, and little embroidery motifs for just about everything you could ever want to depict with needle and thread.From cheeseburgers and chihuahuas to earmuffs and exercise equipment, among the many charming motifs are flowers, food, animals, clothing, vehicles, sports and hobbies, letters, numbers, and decorative designs from Japan's leading embroidery artists. Use the motifs to embellish t-shirts, socks, bags, table linens, and more!What you'll find inside:Finished stitched examples, stitch guides, and templates for all the motifsEssential step-by-step tutorials for key stitches and techniquesBursting with fun little embroidery motifs, this book will give you the itch to stitch!

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants is a must-have visual reference for student artists, botanical illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. This comprehensive book features 600-plus step-by-step sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful botanicals, florals, plant structures, and more. Each begins with simple shapes and lines and builds on those forms, adding details like flower centers, leaf veins, and petal shading, and ending with a finished drawing. Helpful drawing tips are also included. Designed as a contemporary guidebook for artists who want to draw botanical forms, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants shows flower blossoms, leaves, and plants from a variety of perspectives. By following the guides, artists will become more skilled and confident in their ability to draw any flower or greenery. Among the botanicals featured are: Tropical florals such as plumeria, protea, and African violetHanging and vine blooms, including wisteria and morning gloryBirch, white oak, gingko, and maple leavesPlants with interesting shapes, such as cactus, zebra grass, and bamboo Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come. The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.

Get inspired and get glazing! Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations provides a captivating collection of sure-fire glaze recipes and electrifying combinations for low-fire, mid-range, and high-fire potters. Hundreds of photos and technically-edited recipes ensure youll get the best possible results. Whether youre searching for excitement at cone 6 or looking for the perfect high-fire shino recipe, youve come to the right place. Join Gabriel Kline, author of Amazing Glaze and founder of Odyssey Clayworks, for page after color-filled page of glazes. Start by learning the keys to success when applying glazes, then choose the temperature range you want to explore first. Gabriels collection of well-tested recipes draw on his decades of experience as an instructor and leader of a communal arts studioincluding current and past student favorites as well as a few timeless gems. Of course he doesnt stop there! In addition to plentiful tiles showing offtwo-glaze combinations, Gabriel shares multi-glaze combinations developed through years of trial and error. From waterfall blues to eye-popping bursts of red, theres a rainbow of options. Just as in Amazing Glaze, the recipes have all been technically edited and each one has a photo. By controlling specific gravity and application, the goal is always getting the perfect coat of glaze recipe after recipe. Special topics likemajolica and raku firingprovide welcome detours, and a variety of artist features serve as launching points for new explorations. Stunning galleries from todays top artists provide even more glazing ideas.

101 Dog Tricks is an international bestseller in 18 languages with over a half-million copies sold worldwide! This beautifully designed book features step-by-step instructions with easy-to-follow color photos of each step. Each trick is rated with a difficulty rating and prerequisites to get you started quickly. Tips and troubleshooting boxes cover common problems, while Build on it! ideas suggest more complicated tricks that build on each new skill.Tricks range from simple ones like Sit, Shake Hands, Fetch, and Roll Over, to extraordinary ones like Tidy Up Your Toys into the Toybox and Get a Soda from the Fridge. Organized by theme, it's easy to find the next trick to work on with your dog. Just a few of the themes to choose from:Chores, such as Newspaper Delivery and Get Your LeashFunny tricks, such as Doggy Push-ups and Play the PianoDancing, such as Moonwalk and Chorus Line KicksLove, such as Kisses and Wave GoodbyeTrick training will help you bond with your dog and integrate him or her into your family. Tricks also help keep your dog mentally and physically healthy and establish paths of communication between you. Many tricks build skills used in dog sports, dog dancing, and dog therapy work. 101 Dog Tricks will inspire you to do more with your dog! Millions of people have found success with Kyra Sundance's step-by-step techniques—and you can, too.Also by Kyra Sundance, learn to do even more with your dog with: The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook; 51 Puppy Tricks; 10-Minute Dog Training Games; 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition; Dog Training 101; The Pocket Guide to Dog Tricks; Kyra's Canine Conditioning; and The Joy of Dog Training.

Perfect for aspiring designers,Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed-media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustrationstyle faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist andinternational workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy, and encouraging style. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces, Davenport guides you,step by step, through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting, and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed-media portraits.With this elegantly designed guidebook, you will quickly master a variety of techniques in a variety ofmediums, including:PencilMarkerPenWatercolorAcrylic paintInkPastelEphemeraDrawing and Painting Beautiful Faceswill have youdancingyour way through the exercises.In no time at all, you will have a selection of beautifully faced portraits ready to view, display, or even sell to a fashion designer.

Learn the key techniques, tips, and tricks for pit, barrel, raku, and wood firing. Fall in love with flames, wood, and the effect that unique firing methods have on pottery. Move beyond the electric kiln and explore the dramatic surfaces of raku, the flashes of salt firing, and the rustic look of ash rivulets. In this book, Lindsay Oesterritter provides a crash course in the most accessible methods of alternative firing.Raku firing requires minimal equipment and can easily be fueled with a standard propane tank. Likewise, pit and barrel firing do not require much in the way of initial investment. Yet all these techniques provide an immediate glimpse into the magic of firing. Bright reds and blues, dramatic black and white crackle, even metallic luster are instantly possible. For more experienced potters and studios looking to offer more, Oesterritter also explores wood-fired kilns. Drawing on years of experience and extensive interviews with fellow wood-fire potters, there is no comparable resource on the market.Features on top potters working today get to the heart of specialty techniques and asides show firing variations and traditional kilns in different cultures around the world. A gallery of showstopping work from a diverse group of artists round out the package and inspire you to get started. The Mastering Ceramics series is for artists who never stop learning. With compelling projects, expert insight, step-by-step photos, and galleries of work from today's top artists, these books are the perfect studio companions. Also available from the series: Mastering Hand Building and Mastering the Potters Wheel.

Creative Watercolor offers beginners a fun, modern, and practical approach to a timeless medium with instructions onhow topaint simple motifs, create elegant lettering, and embellishprojects beautifully. Popular watercolor artist and workshop instructorAna Victoria Calderon shares herstep-by-step techniques for painting modern designs in this classic medium. All the fundamentals needed to get started in watercolor are here, allowing you to quickly learn how to create beautiful watercolor paintings.Through a series of easy tutorials and projects, you will:Discover basic materials and tools, plus options for embellishing your paintingsMaster essential techniques, starting with easy warm-up activities. Then, learn to layer, and get into the flow with watercolorGet an introduction to scanning and digital editing for making multiplesPaint a variety of simple, beautiful designs: flowers and leaves, butterflies and critters, fruits and vegetables, and delightful letteringUse what you've learned to create unique, stylishstationery,including beautiful invitations, place cards, menus, monograms, recipe gift cards, thank you notesany project you can imagine, for any kind of event you can think of!There's never been a better time to dive into the world of watercolor, so why wait? Grab a brush and get painting! Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

From crayons to cough drops, cookies to candles, Beehive Alchemy offers a comprehensive introduction toincorporating the miracle of bees into everyday life.Beehive Alchemy is acontinuation of Petra Ahnerts best-selling Beeswax Alchemy. With this new book, beekeepers (and bee lovers)will learn about the benefits and attributes of beeswax, honey, propolis, and more alongside a full range of projects and techniques to process and harness the amazing gifts of bees. Inside, youll find instructions to make Ahnerts award-winning hand-dipped birthday candles, the classic French dessert canele bordelais,and much more, including:Alchemy for the BodyLiquid soap with honeyBeard balmOlive and honey lotionAlchemy of LightTaper candlesTea lightsPillarsAlchemy for the HomeFurniture polishWaxed cotton food wrapsWoodcutter incenseAlchemy in the StudioBeeswax crayonsEncausticBatikAlchemy in the KitchenCookies and candiesBeveragesFermentationsWhether you keep bees or just love them,Beehive Alchemy will become your go-to comprehensive guide for hive-to-home creations.

Take your doodles to a whole new level with this best-selling and preeminent guidebook to the meditative art of the Zentangle, featuring the incredibly beautiful and inspiring artwork of author Beckah Krahula. This step-by-step book is divided into six chapters, each with seven daily exercises. The Zentangle method was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a tangle, and you combine various tangles into patterns to create tiles, or small square drawings. Each of the six chapters explores a different aspect of Zentangle: Basics and EnhancementsTangles and Value PatternsGeometric and Organic PatternsUnderstanding and Using ColorDefining and Using StyleCreating the Rest of Your Zentangle JourneyEach exercise includes newtangles to draw in sketchbooks or on Tiepolo (an Italian-made paper), teaches daily tile design, offers tips on related art principles, and contains an inspirational ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art) project on a tile that incorporates patterns, art principals, and new techniques. Drawing Zentangles is a relaxing and replenishing diversion that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and skill levels. In addition to its soothing benefits, a Zentangle practice can also help with self-image, phobias, addictions, pain management, conflict resolution, and coping with grief. Step away from the daily hustle and untangle with a Zentangle.

Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists offers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the readers gain new skills and confidence, allowing them to take their work to a new level.

Expressive Sketchbooks shares a host of creative ideas and prompts, tools and techniques, methods for working around obstacles and barriers, and tons of visual inspiration to help you grow in your sketchbooking practice. An expressive sketchbook is a place for you to explore, express, and enjoy your own innate creativity on your own terms. It is a safe playground for the imagination—a place to mess about, play, and experiment—and to gain confidence in your abilities as you develop your skills.Expressive Sketchbooks offers techniques and creative exercises that incorporate mark making, watercolor, mixed media, collage, words and text, and more. It unpacks some of the obstacles and barriers that you may face along the way and offers wisdom and encouragement to help you decide why and how to start your sketchbook and how to develop and expand your artistic practice. This book is packed with ideas and exercises, including:Exploratory drawing exercisesHow to utilize color in your sketchbookHow to create dynamic and varied sketchbook pagesHow to find inspiration in nature and in your everyday lifeWays to mix media and art suppliesWays to kickstart your creativityHow to find and develop a process that feels personal to youThrough this book, you'll find out what lights you up, what makes you curious and fascinated, and what makes you expansive. Discover how to magnify your creativity and enliven your art skills by using an expressive sketchbook as your daily companion.

The Art of Distilling, Revised and Updatedpresents the techniques and inspirations of the most innovative micro-distillers working today and ties it together with incredible insider photography. In this comprehensive guide to artisan distilling, American Distilling Institute founder Bill Owens will teach you how contemporary master distillers transform water and grain into the full range of exquisite, timeless spirits.The Art of Distilling, Revised and Updatedis your exclusivebackstage pass into the world of small-scale distilling of whiskies, gins, vodkas, brandies, and many other spirits. Like no other book on the subject,The Art of Distillinggoes to lengths to explore the actual craft of distilling, in detail. Beginning with a brief history of distilling and introduction to the process itself, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the art of distilling today. The revised and expanded edition includes even more practical tips, tricks, and instruction and has been updated to include growth and development in the artisan distilling space over the past decade.The Art of Distilling, Revised and Updatedis the consummate insiders guide todistilling and its techniques.

Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a diverse assortment of animals drawn in classic cartoon styles, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Cartoon Animals is a must-have drawing and visual reference book. For student and aspiring artists, illustrators, character designers, and more, this modern step-by-step drawing guidebook demonstrates fundamental art concepts like proportion and anatomy as you learn to draw a wide array of cartoon-style animals and their poses and expressions, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Artist and author Keilidh Bradley's expert drawing technique will make this a go-to sourcebook for cartoonists, artists, and designers for years to come.Draw Like an Artist: 100 Cartoon Animals is a library essential for any artist interested in learning the fundamental techniques for drawing animals in classic cartoon styles. The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly illustrated visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.

Rediscover a more child-like approach to creating with Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals! Through fun and creative exercises, Carla Sonheim teaches you to draw a variety of fun animals and creatures, including:-Dogs- Birds- Elephants- Fish- Cats- Rabbits- And many othersYou'll also find a variety of unique mixed-media techniques to help you bring your creatures to life, resulting in a unique finished art piece. Improve your drawing skills, expand your creativity, and learn new art techniquesand have loads of fun doing it!with Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals.

Inspired by internationally acclaimed environmental activist, humanitarian, and adventurer Rob Greenfield,Zero Waste Kids fun and easy illustratedprojects and activities that will help your familyreduce, reuse, and recycle at home, at school, and in yourcommunity. While most kids probably aren't goingto grow all their own food for a year likeRob has, Zero Waste Kids features fun and practical projects for growing some of your own food, with advice and encouragement for why doing so is important. And, instead of wearing all their trash for a week like Rob did, withZero Waste Kids, they'll learn how to audit their trash, to really understand how much waste they're personally contributing to the earth's landfills. Zero Waste Kidshelps children to understand the world they live in and inspire them to start living in a more sustainable way. Of all the environmental problems we face, ';trash' is one that is easiest to understand because it is very visual, whereas many other problems are more abstract. Zero-waste isn't thesolution to the world's problems, but a very good place to start. Zero-Waste projectsinclude: Conduct a household trash audit to discover who throws away what and why. Swap disposable shopping bags and lunch boxes for reusable, zero-waste options. Compost your food scraps and grow your own food. Make natural-dye play dough, leaf prints, and more. Zero Waste Kids is every kid's go-to guide for making a difference. This book is printed on FSC-certified paper using soy inks. And, leading by example, Robis donating all of his proceeds from thebook to environmental nonprofit organizations. Activities contributed byApril Hepokoski,Zion Lights, Heidi Rose, Alyssa Binns Gunderson, andMichelle Cassar.

Create 25 amazing projects with 3D printing!With 3D Printing and Maker Lab for Kids, you can explore the creative potential behind this game-changing technology.Design your projects using free browser-based versions of CAD software Tinkercad and SketchUp.Follow the simple steps to create a variety of different projects.Learn about the fascinating science behind your creations.Get guidance on organizing team activities and contests.The popular Lab for Kids series features a growing list of books that share hands-on activities and projects on a wide host of topics, including art, astronomy, clay, geology, math, and even how to create your own circusall authored by established experts in their fields. Each lab contains a complete materials list, clear step-by-step photographs of the process, as well as finished samples. The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a yearlong curriculum of experiential learning. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, they are enriching for a range of ages and skill levels. Gain firsthand knowledge on your favorite topic with Lab for Kids. Be a part of the future with 3D Printing and Maker Lab for Kids!

Packed with joyful and educational art experiences for kids, Play, Make, Create offers fun and engaging imaginative activities focused on the fun and reward of creating, not just producing a final project. Founded in a process-based philosophy, this unique book includes more than 40 activities set up as invitations, or thoughtfully designed prompts to explore, create, and play. Author Meri Cherry has more than 20 years of teaching experience, and her blog(mericherry.com)has set the standard for meaningful and enriching process art experiences that are both manageable for parents, and appealing and fun for kids.Play, Make, Create begins with a guide for parents, teachers, and facilitators thatdiscusses how to set up materials in an inviting way, how topresent an activity andtalk to kids about art, and how to stock the right materials for ongoing creativity. Also included are best-practice tips for clean-up, answers to frequently asked questions, and more. The book offers fourtypes of creative invitations: Invitations to Explore (easy ideas for fun and play), Invitations to Create (open-ended, craft-based activities), Invitations to Play (sensory-based activities), and Big Projects (ongoing process-art activities). Most feature basic materials and tools (paper, inexpensive paints, pencils, glue) that require little setup. Among the projects and activities you'll find: A collage project that takes a no-rules approach to creating with cut-out drawings and pictures.Ideas for building a science station that allow kids to experiment with kitchen cabinet supplies such as soap, measuring spoons, cotton balls, and baking soda.A prompt to draw a self-portrait, using a mirror (parents can draw themselves, too).Instructions for making homemade colored playdough. The activities inPlay, Make, Create promote active, meaningful, and socially interactive learning. Children are encouraged to wonder, experiment, and use critical thinkingand most of all, enjoy the process.Byfollowing their own inclinations and making their own choices, childrengain self-confidence and hone their problem-solving skills. Get Play, Make, Create and give children the gift of creativity!

Learn how to grow wild and exotic, medicinally important, sustainable, and deeply delicious mushrooms right at your own home, just as people throughout the world have been doing for centuries. Mushrooms are healthy, packed with vitamins and antioxidants; rich with flavor, an excellent source of the fifth flavor know as umami; and can be used medicinally in teas and tinctures. By growing your own, you can enjoy these benefits while also enriching your soil, speeding up your composting, and even suppressing weedsthough the biggest draw may be the magic of watching this unique form of life grow. Understanding how mushrooms grow is crucial to successfully cultivating them, and Mushroom Cultivation offers photo-illustrated instruction both on how mushrooms grow and how you can cultivate them yourself, with a focus on six types of mushroomshiitake, oyster, wine cap, hericium, blewit, and agaricus. You'll learn how to:Grow mushrooms, step by step, in a variety of different mediums: logs, straw, wood chips and sawdust, and compostTroubleshoot problems, including identification, underwatering, overwatering, and insectsStore, dry, and freeze your mushroom harvestCook with mushrooms, including variety-specific cooking tips and 8 tasty recipesFind supplies and more information with the resources listed at the back of the bookAfter reading Mushroom Cultivation, you'll discover that growing a mushroom is really no more difficult than growing a tomato. You just need a slightly different set of skills.Picking your own fresh mushrooms at the peak of their flavor and nutrition is within your reach with this comprehensive, step-by-step guide.

Get nose to bloom with one of the most beloved subjects of painters for generations of artists withExpressive Flower Paintingand master pedals, stems, colors, and more. Its almost always one of the first things someone tries to paint--center, petals, stem, voila!Expressive Flower Paintingsexercises have a loose, free, contemporarystyle the likes of which youd seein galleries, in shops, and even on clothing and home design goods. Its not intimidating, and yet the paintings are colorful, immediate, and joyful and speak to the artists desire to play, be loose, and to create freely. Lynn Whipple paints wildly and in small to large formats with a combination of acrylic paint, charcoal, and colorful soft pastel.Expressive Flower Painting presents a range of creative painting exercises that help readers develop vibrant nature paintings. This exciting book is an in-depth expansion of Lynns class called Big Bold Bloom Wild Painting, with additional content.Expressive Flower Painting covers mark making, layering techniques, how to do spin drawings, color methods, painted backgrounds, working from life, and how to successfully combine a wide variety of media for the maximum effect.

Learn how to create beautiful loose and expressive florals, still lifes, motifs, animals, modes of transport, and fruits and vegetables in vibrant watercolor with touches of pen and ink. In Go with the Flow Painting, author Ohn Mar Win (Instagram: @ohn_mar_win) offers beginner-friendly techniques, tips, and step-by-step lessons that show how to get the most out of these mediums and paint confidently in this captivating style. Discover a new visual language that renders subjects with soft edges and luminous color. Capture just enough detail to suggest familiar flowers, animals, and objects and allow your unique expression and style to flourish. Begin with essential supplies and learn the key characteristics of loose watercolor. Practice basic techniques that lay the foundation for this style, such as working wet-on-wet, creating color gradients, layering, and creating shapes. Learn the best way to use brushes, and explore easy methods of working with pen and ink to add striking linework and details. Step-by-step lessons show how to capture the essence of a subject without worrying about perfectly executing every detail. Learn how to paint captivating hot air balloons, tiger lilies, French macarons, a colorful chameleon, and more. Embracing this flowing approach to watercolor allows you to develop a freer style and create artwork that's alive and exciting, instead of overworked. Go with the Flow Painting also features: How to mix colors directly on paper to get unique and beautiful effects Warm-up exercises to help get into a flow state of mind Information on colors and color values, and how best to use them Ideas and inspiration for creating cards, invitations, and more Explore watercolor in a new way that will open up a new world of creativity.

In Knot Bad Amigurumi, discover a world of 25 adorable and unique crochet creatures you'll love to make, keep, and display.Create the unexpected: a smiling rocket ship, a jubilant glass of boba tea, a joyful acorn, a breezybeach hat, and much more. These modern characters spring from the imagination of crochet artist Vincent Green-Hite (Instagram: @knot.bad; TikTok: @knotbad), who loves sharing his designs and techniques with the world.In addition to beginner-friendly patterns, the book includes a rundown of basic materials such as yarns and hooks, step-by-step stitch tutorials, instructions for embroidering appealing faces, advice on working with color, and ideas for customizing patterns.You'll learn how to give your amigurumi a clean, professional look with easy methods for stuffing, attaching, and finishing pieces. Build your skills and become a more confident creative as you work your way through each charming pattern.Knot Bad Amigurumi also includes:The incredible versatility of a few easy stitches that can be used to create an abundance of imaginative figuresHow a simple magic ring is the key to stress-free amigurumiHow adding easy accessories, such as bows and hats, can add tons of personalityA welcoming attitude that embraces anyone who wants to try creating amigurumi Explore everything that amigurumi has to offer and watch your creativity soar!

From the Subtle Asian Baking community comes Modern Asian Baking at Home, must-have recipes for beloved sweet and savory treats found across Asia. Explore new ingredients, surprising techniques, and interesting textures through lush photography and rewarding recipes that include exciting yet familiar contemporary bakes with innovative Asian twists. The results are unforgettable delights like miso-mochi brownies and spicy gochujang flourless chocolate cake. There's even a recipe for homemade boba! This is the perfect cookbook for anyone nostalgic for Asian desserts as well as hobbyist and avid home bakers interested in using vibrant ingredients like miso, matcha, pandan, and soy sauce to expand their repertoires. No passport is needed when you can easily create and experience popular Asian sweets and one-of-a-kind Asian-influenced drinks, custards, cakes, and frozen treats at home. Recipes include: Quick Microwave Mochi Fluffy Japanese Pancakes Lemony Matcha Macarons Tangzhong Milk Bread Vietnamese Egg Dalgona Coffee Steam, fry, boil, and bake your way through this straight-from-the-heart collection of recipes!This book is #veryasian

Drawing and painting realistic flowers is achievable! Create a wide variety of blooms and greenery using an easy step-by-step method, then add watercolor for gorgeous effects. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers, discover how to draw flowers such as cosmos, hibiscus, canola, lily of the valley, hydrangea, foxglove, and morefrom various angles, and learn about perspective and shading. Once you have the skills to draw a single flower, learn how to draw groupingsand wreaths. Mix in leaves and smaller flowers to create a variety of looks. Then, learn simple techniques to add luscious watercolor, using shading, blending, and gradient techniques for eye-catching results. Popular Instagram artist Kyehyun Park shares her secrets for capturing realistic flower, leaf, and plant shapes. Artists of all levels love drawing and painting nature, and with these techniques they'll confidently render lifelike botanicals in an array of lovely palettes. The book also includes: Ideas and techniques for drawing and painting charming potted plantsInstructions for drawing and painting smaller flowers,buds, and branchesWatercolor techniques showing how to expertly blend colors, use brush strokes and brush pressure to create various shapes, and how to use color to shade and highlightWarm-up exercises that help develop skillsSimple methods for understanding perspective and composition, making it effortless to draw flowers from different angles Add these striking florals to sketchbooks, stationery, journals, and more. With Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers, creating true-to-life florals and plants is within your reach!

Discover how easy, satisfying, and fun it is to create with acrylic paints and mediums in Creative Acrylics. Acrylics are one of the most versatile, affordable, and accessible art mediums, and you'll learn all the tips, tricks, and techniques for blending colors and building texture, plus excellent instruction on how to paint a range of different subjects. Confused about which types of paints to use, and how to use them? Creative Acrylics cuts through the clutter and offers clear fundamentals for working with a variety of paints and mediums to produce beautiful results. Acrylic paint is water-soluble, dries quickly, and is forgiving, making it perfect for those starting out. Begin your acrylic painting journey with an expert who will guide you through enjoyable techniques and projects as you build confidence and ramp up your skills.Step-by-step techniques, lessons, and projects cover a wide range of styles and genres, including color mixing, brushwork, glazing, and how to paint easy florals, still lifes, landscapes, and animals. Take your new skills even further and paint on different surfaces to create an apron, painted shells, a paintbrush rest, clay pot, and more. In Creative Acrylics you'll find: How to set up your workspace to make painting more enjoyableA guide to the different types of acrylic paintBasic techniques such as understanding color and value, and how to add texture and other effects using paint and mediumsLessons and projects that build skills: creating still lifes, florals, landscapes and skies, and painting on fabric, wood, shells, clay, and more With all these ideas and inspiration, your acrylic painting journey can begin today! Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

Explore the human form in depth, from concept sketches and armatures to detailed instructions for constructing legs, torso, arms, hands, and head from clay. In Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay, renowned sculptor and instructorCristina Cordova teaches everything you need to know to replicate the full human figure using clay. Start by developing meaningful sketches and reference points.Then learn how to make and use an armature to create hollow forms that are safe to fire in a kiln.Using patterns and slabs, you can move on to develop a full human form, head to toe.Work along with the author to create a form about two-feet tall, or choose your own size: the patterns and instructions can work in a variety of scales.Photographic demonstrations and diagrams cover the construction and articulation of feet and legs, the hip area and upper torso, arms, hands, neck, and head. Cristina includes supplementary tips and insights throughout to support the sculpting process and enhance naturalism. You'll also find a brief section on general anatomical concepts and modeling strategies to facilitate accuracy and expression as all the components come together.Whether you are a clay artist with limited experience in figurative sculpture or a figurative sculptor outside the world of ceramics looking for a straightforward fabrication strategy to create permanent compositions from clay, Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay will expertly guide your way.

With the detailed visual and written instructions in Let's Draw Dinosaurs, budding artists will be creating their own amazing, lifelike prehistoric animal masterpieces in no time at all!

Relax with Color Beautiful Flowers, featuring 30+ original designs by F. Sehnaz Bac, ready for your paints, markers, pencils, or pens.

The Joy of Dog Training is a fun and inspirational guide to teaching your dog the 30 tricks most fundamental to their training. This interactive program will enhance not only your dogs performance, but also your overall relationship with your dog. Learn the core concepts of dog training, and apply those concepts in training 30 different tricks. As you work from level to level, you will master the key elements of dog trainingtiming, technique, motivation, and building on known behaviorsas you achieve a stronger bond with your dog. The tricks are explained with step-by-step instructional text and photos, and range from basic (Sit, Shake Hands, Paws Up) to advanced (Newspaper Delivery, Tidy Up Your Toys, Get a Soda from the Fridge). With this complete curriculum in dog tricks, you will establish a conscious and consistent pattern of relating to your dog in a meaningful partnership based on trust, communication, and respect.Also by Kyra Sundance, learn to do even more with your dog with: 101 Dog Tricks; The Dog Tricks and Training Workbook; 51 Puppy Tricks; 10-Minute Dog Training Games; 101 Dog Tricks, Kids Edition; Dog Training 101; The Pocket Guide to Dog Tricks; and Kyra's Canine Conditioning.