Creativity

Learn the versatile technique of entrelac knitting and choose from 40 stunning projects to make.

A beginner's guide to drawing people in 10 simple steps and short explanations.

Learn to quilt with twelve modern projects from experienced teacher Jo Avery. Gain new piecing skills and sharpen your technique.

Pour and paint your way to stunning fluid effects. In Creative Alcohol Inks, artist and Instagrammer Ashley Mahlberg of @inkreel shares step-by-step techniques for creating spontaneous, organic effects with this vibrant transparent medium.Get an overview ofessential materials, substrates, and finishes.Explore techniques for applying alcohol inks, such as pouring, creating texture, lifting, masking, adding embellishments, and more.Learn helpful troubleshooting tips and tricks.Use what you've learned to create one-of-a-kindartworks and stylish projects.Find your creative flow with Creative Alcohol Inks! Perfect for creative beginners, 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.

Create 16 beautiful crocheted animals with pretty fabric additions in calming pastel colours.

Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful animal forms, detailed faces, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Realistic Animals is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, scientific illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. This contemporary, step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental art concepts like proportion, anatomy, and spatial relationships as you learn to draw a full range of creatures, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.Draw Like an Artist: 100 Realistic Animals is the third book in the Draw Like an Artist series following Faces and Figures and Flowers and Plants. 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.

Explore and create expressive palettes and paintings withColor Harmony for Artists. Watercolor author, artist, and teacher Ana Victoria Calderon guides you through choosing, mixing, and using color with watercolor and mixed media tocreate the most expressive and appealing combinations and effects for a wide range of moods and subjects. Youll explore a variety of subjects and themes,including flowers, foliage, landscapes, skies, cities, figures, art movements, and historical eras.Begin with a quick overview of the basics of color, color mixing, and mixed media.Explore a variety of color and media combinations, including brilliant brights, muted neutrals, high-contrast complements, and special effects.Find inspirationin evocative photos, abundant palettes, and beautiful paintings.With Color Harmony for Artists, every artist, from beginner to advanced, will be inspired to embrace the creative possibilities of color and paint!

Creating A Napoleonic Wargames Army 1809-1815 describes the creation of a wargames' army and provides essential guidance for someone starting out in wargaming through to the more experienced gamer. With more than 290 colour photographs, it describes how the armies of the main nations - France, Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria - were organized.  It illustrates the uniforms and battle formations using computer-aided plans and demonstrates practical modelling techniques from basic to more advanced. Detailed painting guides with accompanying step-by-step photographs are included as well as a chapter on the flags carried by these five armies during the wars.

An original and accessible guide to drawing in ink, the artist's most versatile medium.

This book includes 100 templates for aspiring fashion designers to draw the designs of their dreams. A sequel to Hart's bestselling how-to-draw book 'Fashion Design Studio'.

Take your first steps with pastels and learn how to produce modern, lively and colourful artwork with this exciting medium.

The Complete Beginners Guide to Quilting and Patchwork will show you everything you require to start completing your own patchwork projects, from the basic tools you will need through all the best techniques and block patterns so you can create your very own quilt.

A wonderful portable edition of the bestselling Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland.

Japanese woodblock printing is a beautiful art that traces its roots back to the eighth century. It uses a unique system of registration, cutting and printing. This practical book explains the process from design drawing to finished print, and then introduces more advanced printing and carving techniques, plus advice on editioning your prints and their aftercare, tool care and sharpening. Supported by nearly 200 colour photographs, this new book advises on how to develop your ideas, turning them into sketches and a finished design drawing, then how to break an image into the various blocks needed to make a print. It also explains how to use a tracing paper transfer method to take your design from drawing to woodblock and, finally, explains the traditional systems of registration, cutting and printing that define an authentic Japanese woodblock.

Create authentic-looking maps of fantasy cities, hamlets, fortifications and more in a popular tabletop, RPG style.

This book is a highly practical step-by-step guide to working with gouache. It not only teaches and inspires novice painters but also introduces more experienced artists to the advantages of using this much overlooked, but wonderful, medium.

Conventional shaft loom weaving constricts the weaver into making only a single layer of fabric that is no wider than the loom. Increase your loom's capabilities with Doubleweave Revised & Expanded!

Create 45 simple projects with a Scandinavian flavour, including home decorations, garlands and beautiful gifts.

Disney Princess Coloring Book captures the timeless magic of classic Disney stories while letting you create your own interpretation.

Project: Collage is packed with great ideas for creating eye-catching collages, with 50 step-by-step projects to inspire you.

Learn to create over 50 fun, gorgeous pompoms including animals, emojis, sushi and cakes guided by simple instructional diagrams and beautiful photography.

From inspiration and design to the finished vibrant picture, learn to become the felt artist you've dreamed of becoming through this third book by bestselling author and renowned felt artist, Moy Mackay.

Grab your hook and discover the joy of crocheting stripes with these 20 beautiful stripy blankets inside by Haafner Linssen, author of the bestselling book Mandalas to Crochet

This lavish title presents the best work of Ira "Iraville" Sluyterman van Langewedye, a popular illustrator beloved for her idyllic paintings.

Discover the endless possibilities of coloured pencils in this interactive book.