Get ready to capture the world's favorite pop phenom's wide array of likenesses, sticker by sticker, in the Ultimate Taylor Swift Sticker Mosaic Art, 13 Fearless Mosaic Art Designs and Fun Facts. This unofficial, yet distinctive, poly-art book for Swifties of all ages features a collection of 13 (Taylor's lucky number) geometric designs, mosaic art origin story and Taylor Swift Through the Eras biography and album chronology. Learn why 13 is Taylor's lucky number and how it has played such a significant role in her life and career such as her first album went gold in 13 weeks, she turned 13 on Friday the 13th, and when she won her 13th Grammy, she announced the upcoming release of her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department. Each design uses more than colored stickers to create bold images from her tours and appearances and includes fun facts and Taylor Swift trivia. Place each sticker in its appropriate spot according to its numbered section and watch as the shapes bring this musical icon into spectacular view. Stickers can be removed and adjusted as you work. Once you are satisified with its placement, simply press down to secure. Designs are printed on thick, perforated pages that can be framed and displayed. All true Swifties will want this fun hands-on activity book.

Have you ever experienced the peace of walking through the woods or the excitement of a storm gathering on a beach? Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner will help you capture these moments in artwork and share them others.

In their fun and friendly teaching style, Mark and Mary Willenbrink offer a great beginner's course on drawing nature, showing you how to realistically capture the world around you.

All you need to get started are some simple supplies, basic techniques, and inspiration. From field to forest, beach or mountain, begin with a structural sketch, apply values and textures, and, before you know it, you'll be drawing everything you see. You'll even learn how to render favorite wildlife such as chipmunks, deer and eagles!

- Follow along with easy step-by-step demonstrations to draw rocks, seashells, butterflies and even more developed nature scenes.
- Gain a working understanding of key concepts such as perspective, value and composition.
- Discover simple tools and tips you can use right away to improve your art.

Turn Your Notes into Art: Unlock the Elegance of Calligraphy

A Beginner's Path to Stunning Lettering

✨ Start with Confidence

Whether you're picking up a pen for the first time or rekindling a past passion, this guide takes you from simple strokes to beautifully crafted letters. With step-by-step instructions, learning calligraphy becomes effortless, rewarding, and fun.

�� Effortless Elegance

Transform ordinary handwriting into a work of art. Our structured lessons make calligraphy accessible, guiding you to create smooth, stylish, and legible lettering-without the frustration. Perfect for beginners and anyone looking to enhance their skills.

✍️ For Every Creative Mind

Embrace the beauty of calligraphy in your journaling, personal letters, or DIY projects. This book equips you with essential techniques and creative inspiration to bring your words to life.

�� Designed to Inspire and Last

Crafted with high-quality materials and practical exercises, this guide isn't just a book-it's a companion on your creative journey, blending elegance with usability.

�� Your Guide to Beautiful Writing

You don't need perfect penmanship to master calligraphy. With clear techniques and expert tips, anyone can create stunning script. All you need is patience, practice, and this book to guide you.

�� Start Your Calligraphy Adventure Today

Calligraphy is more than writing-it's a mindful, creative escape that fosters joy, relaxation, and accomplishment. Join a growing community of calligraphy lovers and let your artistic journey begin!

Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-winning PBS host.
Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent -- anyone can learn to draw All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. With Emmy award-winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you'll learn the secrets of sophisticated three-dimensional renderings, and have fun along the way -- in just twenty minutes a day for a month. Inside you'll find:

• Quick and easy step-by-step instructions for drawing everything from simple spheres to apples, trees, buildings, and the human hand and face
• More than 500 line drawings, illustrating each step
• Time-tested tips, techniques, and tutorials for drawing in 3-D
• The 9 Fundamental Laws of Drawing to create the illusion of depth in any drawing
• 75 student examples to encourage you in the process

* USA TODAY BESTSELLER *

Learn the basics of watercolor in a fun, accessible way with step-by-step tutorials and an included watercolor pad with drawings you can paint over.

Watercolor This Book: Learn to Watercolor features 20 gorgeous paintings paired with step-by-step instructions for replicating them at home. Paint directly on the watercolor pad with supplied outlines to create beautiful artwork of your own--no sketching required! The beginner-friendly projects teach you all the painting skills you need as you create frame-worthy art. From social media star Lacey Walker (@rebelunicorncrafts) comes this delightful, relaxing painting experience.

In Watercolor This Book: Learn to Watercolor, find:

• Tutorials detailing each step so that you can paint the projects in the book
• Subjects to suit all tastes, from backyard birds to a whimsical whale, mountains to the moon
• Complete tools and materials section so you can ensure you have everything to paint the projects
• Outlines that can be painted over within the watercolor pad; there's no need to sketch or trace
• Watercolor painting techniques, including wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, layering, blooms, and more
• Video tutorials linked via QR codes included within the book

If you are new to watercolor painting or looking for a fun, relaxing painting experience, Watercolor This Book: Learn to Watercolor provides your perfect companion by combining an innovative format with painting instruction and a watercolor paper pad with templates.

Whether you are new to watercolor or not, the Watercolor This Book series provides a fun watercolor painting experience with no sketching required. With information on all the basic skills you need to start watercoloring, step-by-step tutorials, and an included watercolor pad with templates, you have everything you need to create frame-worthy art!

Also in the series: Watercolor This Book: Beautiful Butterflies and Flowers.

Return to the Lands Between... reunite the fractured world... reforge the Elden Ring!

The two-volume Elden Ring: Official Art Book contains a plethora of artworks from the game's 'Lands Between' and its inhabitants in stunning oversized hardcover editions.

Volume I features key art from the game's opening movie, concept and development art of the large open-world and claustrophobic dungeons, and the game's many characters and armors.

This translated English art book contains the same content found in the Japanese edition.

A wide-ranging exploration of the birth of impressionism centered around the landmark exhibition in Paris in 1874

The catalogue, in unusual tall format, is particularly attractive and vivacious, full of fresh material and images, expanding the Impressionist cast of characters, exploring Paris as their tumultuous inspiration.--Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times, Best Books of 2024: Art, Design and Fashion

Discover the origins of impressionism in this revelatory look at the context for the radical 1874 exhibition that is considered the birth of the French art movement. Featuring works by not only Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley, but also many other lesser-known participants and those who exhibited at the official Salon that year, this book explores how artists of the time responded to the shifting social and political currents during this singular moment in history, as well as the norms that these artists rebelled against in their new approach to art. This is a milestone reunion of many of the show's artworks, which include paintings, works on paper, prints, and sculptures, that made the exhibition held by the société anonyme 150 years ago an event of international and lasting significance.

Paris 1874 draws on new scholarship to offer a multidisciplinary approach to impressionism. It explores the important role played by the contemporary press and also contextualizes the movement in relation to the devastation of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, as well as the subsequent process of reconstruction. Above all, it challenges established narratives surrounding the origins of impressionism itself by reexamining its position within the larger artistic landscape, particularly in relation to the Salon--which exhibited works strikingly similar to those included in société anonyme's exhibition. With an engaging design that uses motifs from archival materials to suggest the look of Parisian publications of the 1870s, this book is a handsome and compelling addition to our understanding of the dawn of impressionism and why it is considered a pivotal moment in the history of Western art.

Distributed for the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Exhibition Schedule:

Musée d'Orsay, Paris
(March 25-July 14, 2024)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(September 8, 2024-January 19, 2025)

One of USA Today's 100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis

A dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume.

Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers. --NPR, Best Books of 2017

The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.

In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture.

This passionate and majestic compedium will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light. --Elle

Let's JoJo A-Go!Go!

Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a beloved epic with dedicated fans everywhere under the sun. The art book JoJo A-Go!Go! collects exclusive illustrations and color pages as it dances through Stardust Crusaders, Diamond Is Unbreakable, and Golden Wind--and it even includes a peek at Stone Ocean!

Available for the first time as a standalone hardcover, this collection of Araki's beautifully bizarre artwork is a truly deluxe package, a funky look at the all-star characters and good vibes that made JoJo's Bizarre Adventure a success!

From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the Terrible Year by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans--then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee shows, it was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist movement was born--in response to violence, civil war, and political intrigue.

In stirring and exceptionally vivid prose, Smee tells the story of those dramatic days through the eyes of great figures of Impressionism. Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas were trapped in Paris during the siege and deeply enmeshed in its politics. Others, including Pierre-August Renoir and Frédéric Bazille, joined regiments outside of the capital, while Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro fled the country just in time. In the aftermath, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. That feeling for transience--reflected in Impressionism's emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things--became the movement's great contribution to the history of art.

At the heart of it all is a love story; that of Manet, by all accounts the father of Impressionism, and Morisot, the only woman to play a central role in the movement from the start. Smee poignantly depicts their complex relationship, their tangled effect on each other, and their great legacy, while bringing overdue attention to the woman at the heart of Impressionism.

Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the pressures of the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

Originally published in 1814, this remarkable volume features 110 colour swatches paired with poetic descriptions that capture nature's vibrant palette.

In the eighteenth century, German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1750-1817) set out to establish a standard reference guide to colour for use in the general sciences. Decades later, Scottish botanical artist Patrick Syme (1774-1845) extended Werner's work, refining it into a comprehensive catalogue of the most prominent shades and hues found in nature. The result was a timeless compendium of colour that showcases the beauty of nature across the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.

Each colour swatch in Syme's edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is accompanied by examples found in nature, offering a practical tool for scientists, artists, and explorers alike. Notably, Charles Darwin used this guide during his voyage on the HMS Beagle to accurately describe his observations.

This exquisite collection of colours celebrates the harmony of art and science, capturing the beauty found in the natural world.

The New York Times bestseller and one of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024

The gift book of the year, a volume that should have broad appeal and deliver many hours of pleasure to the recipient. The Work of Art is a gorgeous book. --John Warner, The Chicago Tribune

From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art

What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and more. Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss breaks down the work--the tortuous paths and artistic decisions--that led to great art. From first glimmers to second thoughts, roads not taken, crises, breakthroughs, on to one triumphant finish after another.

Featuring: Kara Walker, Tony Kushner, Roz Chast, Michael Cunningham, Moses Sumney, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Meiselas, Louise Glück, Maria de Los Angeles, Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Twyla Tharp, John Derian, Barbara Kruger, David Mandel, Gregory Crewdson, Marie Howe, Gay Talese, Cheryl Pope, Samin Nosrat, Joanna Quinn & Les Mills, Wesley Morris, Amy Sillman, Andrew Jarecki, Rostam, Ira Glass, Simphiwe Ndzube, Dean Baquet & Tom Bodkin, Max Porter, Elizabeth Diller, Ian Adelman / Calvin Seibert, Tyler Hobbs, Marc Jacobs, Grady West (Dina Martina), Will Shortz, Sheila Heti, Gerald Lovell, Jody Williams & Rita Sodi, Taylor Mac & Machine Dazzle, David Simon, George Saunders, Suzan-Lori Parks

Unleash your creativity with 50 no-sketch watercolor projects from the best beginner watercolor book on the market, complete with watercolor paper and gorgeous reference illustrations.

From a classic dogwood rose, to a sly fox, to feathers that take on a dreamy quality, you can create polished artwork in just a few easy steps―no sketching required. Dana Fox, creator of Wonder Forest, is known for her unique and whimsical sense of style, and her popular watercolor workshops have introduced thousands to the joys of painting.

In Watercolor With Me in the Forest, Dana provides light outlines of each project, and every page is printed on premium watercolor paper, so you can focus on different techniques―wet-on-dry, wet-on-wet, painting fur and ink and wash. Even if you've never picked up a paintbrush before, Dana's creative tricks will ensure that every piece of art is frame-worthy.

Whether you're looking to try a new style, learn the basics or find a new way to de-stress, this step-by- step guide makes it easier than ever to create stunning watercolor art.

Check out Watercolor With Me in the Ocean and Watercolor With Me in the Jungle for more great projects from Dana Fox!

Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars at auction.

Yet as he was painting the canvases that would subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences but also devastating bouts of mental illness, with episodes of depression and paralyzing anxiety which would eventually claim his life in 1890, when he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday.

This comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) pairs a detailed monograph on his life and art with a complete catalogue of his 871 paintings.

B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh. . .

A striking small-format illustrated edition of one of Edward Gorey's dark masterpieces of surreal morality (Vanity Fair)--a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving meditation on the beauty and complexity of women's lives and roles, revealed in the things they hold.

What do women hold? The home and the family. And the children and the food. The friendships. The work. The work of the world. And the work of being human. The memories. And the troubles. And the sorrows and the triumphs. And the love.

In the spring of 2021, Maira and Alex Kalman created a small, limited-edition booklet Women Holding Things, which featured select recent paintings by Maira, accompanied by her insightful and deeply personal commentary. The booklet quickly sold out. Now, the Kalmans have expanded that original publication into this extraordinary visual compendium.

Women Holding Things includes the bright, bold images featured in the booklet as well as an additional sixty-seven new paintings highlighted by thoughtful and intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations. Most are portraits of women, both ordinary and famous, including Virginia Woolf, Sally Hemings, Hortense Cezanne, Gertrude Stein, as well as Kalman's family members and other real-life people. These women hold a range of objects, from the mundane--balloons, a cup, a whisk, a chicken, a hat--to the abstract--dreams and disappointments, sorrow and regret, joy and love.

Kalman considers the many things that fit physically and metaphorically between women's hands: We see a woman hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up, hold her own. In visually telling their stories, Kalman lays bare the essence of women's lives--their tenacity, courage, vulnerability, hope, and pain. Ultimately, she reveals that many of the things we hold dear--as well as those that burden or haunt us--remain constant and connect us from generation to generation.

Here, too, are pictures of a few men holding things, such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Anton Chekhov, as well as objects holding other objects that invite us to ponder their intimate relationships to one another.

Women Holding Things explores the significance of the objects we carry--in our hands, hearts, and minds--and speaks to, and for, all of us. Maira Kalman's unique work is a celebration of life, of the act and the art of living, offering an original way of examining and understanding all that is important in our world--and ultimately within ourselves.

Explore a Beautiful Woodland Realm with 30 Charming Projects
Illustrator Jane Carkill invites you into her storybook world with this collection of beginner-friendly art tutorials! With easy-to-follow directions to guide you through every swish of your brush, these cozy tutorials come to life on the page with each step. As enchanting as they are easy, these wonderful watercolor projects--with sketch templates included for added simplicity--are sure to bring joy and delight to every artist.

Go on an adventure with captivating creatures such as the Red Fox, Wood Mouse and the Wild Rabbit. Take flight through the forest with the Robin, Goldfinch or Peacock Butterfly. Discover the breathtaking blooms of the Dog Rose, Poppy and Primrose. Find fanciful flora and fungi with Hedgerow Strawberries and the Grooved Bonnet Toadstool. With so many lovely projects to choose from, every aspiring artist can learn to capture the beauty of a cottagecore world in watercolor.

• Showcasing the grim and chilling artwork behind the fan-favorite Dark Souls game in a gorgeous hardcover collection, Dark Souls: Design Works features key visuals, concept art, character & monster designs, rough sketches, and an exclusive interview with the game's creators.

Why do we need art?

What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us.

Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring call to imagine a different future.