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Layered Textiles
Автор: Thittichai Kim Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20132012-06-21
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The latest book from the bestselling author Kim Thittichai focuses on the range of ideas and techniques for layering your textiles. These layers can produce simple to extreme surfaces for stitch. Layering is a major feature of today's textile art, whether to create relief, colour, texture or dimension. The author takes you through a number of key materials — papers, synthetic and natural fabric, translucent materials, wires, paints and sprays — that can be incorporated into layered textiles. Various techniques are combined with these materials, from using heat guns, soldering irons and lazer cutting to machine and hand stitch to give the reader endless ideas for their own creative work. As always, the author has provided exercises for the creative process and the techniques but combined them with the work of the best textile artists around the world today. It provides the ultimate guide to the subject of layered textiles for readers looking to experiment with their own textile art.
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Fashion Exercise Book
Автор: Moffatt Frances Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20162016-02-16
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A great book to express your creative fashion urges, with doodling, drawing and colouring exercises to fill in. Fashion illustrator and lecturer Frances Moffatt provides suggestions and half-filled page of drawings and doodles for you to continue with sections on Designing your own fashion label, your own fashion tights, mix up your celebrity hairstyles, add them to your family drawings, create your own fashion patterns, Endless exercises to get the creative juices going and birng out the fashionista in you. For too long creative idea books and colouring books were the preserve of children, but grown ups as well as teens can enjoy this book and help unleash their creative ideas. Whether it's a simple colouring-in piece, or a more considered drawing, the suggestions in this book offer something for everyone and encourages them to make the book about their own style. It can be used by anyone, from an artist or designer looking to get the creative juices going to mum at home. A creative book for everyone.
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Exotic Botanical Illustration: With the Eden Project
Автор: Thurstan Meriel Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20172014-05-12
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An exciting approach to botanical illustration featuring exotic and extraordinary plant specimens. Striking plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables provide new challenges in colour, texture and form. Stunning finished paintings accompany simple instructions and step-by-step projects for a beautiful book that both guides and inspires. Strange and unusual specimens have never been more accessible — as more and more exotic fruit and vegetables appear regularly in our shopping baskets and our florists fill with flowers from every corner of the globe, this practical and beautiful guide to capturing strange and striking plants on paper has never been more timely. There is something for beginners and more experienced botanical illustrators alike, whether you wish to paint more familiar bananas, pineapples and other exotic fruits that are now widely available, or more complex orchids and even carnivorous plants. Acclaimed artists Rosie Martin and Meriel Thurstan (authors of the bestselling Contemporary Botanical Illustration and Botanical Illustration Course) run the popular botanical painting course at the Eden Project and are thus uniquely placed for this exciting take on the genre. The unusual colours and complex textures of exotic plants present a new challenge to the botanical artist, but this book guides you through each stage of the painting process with plenty of exercises and step-by-step projects. Fantastically illustrated with worksheets, colour swatches, sketches and stunning finished paintings this practical and inspirational guide is a must-have for botanical artists of all levels.
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Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures
Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 196 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20102009-07-21
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From her captivating debut in Roman Holiday in 1953, Audrey Hepburn redefined notions of Hollywood elegance and sophistication. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Audrey's popularity as an enduring icon, providing a unique insight into her career, personality and trademark style that still fascinate and captivates today. A detailed biography is accompanied by over 160 photographs, many reproduced for the first time and taken by some of the world's top photographers. Famous quotes on and from Audrey Hepburn complement the impressive iconographic research, which includes numerous family pictures as well as information from private collections, press agencies and newspapers. From her enchanting appearances on the big screen to her charity work for UNICEF and fascinating family life, this book is a highly individual portrait of a much-loved movie and fashion legend.
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Big Book of Fashion Illustration
Автор: Martin Dawber Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20102012-08-31
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This is a visual bible for fashion illustrators and graphic designers, giving an unprecedented variety of approaches for illustrating fashion with hundreds of stunning images. Illustrators from all over the world show a range of approaches, techniques and styles. With illustrators from Singapore to Italy, America to New Zealand, it is the ultimate resource for fashion expression. The chapters are arranged as follows: Introduction; Womenswear: seperates — knit, coats and jackets, eveningwear, couture, bridal, and lingerie; Menswear: Ts and shirts — outerwear, knit, casual, neckwear, smart, bespoke, and underwear; Childrenswear: babies — tots, juniors, tweenies, and teens; Youth Culture: music — clubland, tribes & vibes, street fashion girls, streetwise guys, and relationships; Sport & Leisure: gym — track, ball games, snow & ice, blades & boards, biking, and aquatics; Accessories: footwear — bags, headwear, eyewear, jewellery, techno, and umbrellas; and, Beauty & Glamour: grooming — cosmetics, make-up, and hair. It is an invaluable acquisition for students and college libraries internationally but it is relevant to all those involved in fashion and grahic design as fashion illustration continues its onslaught on today's media.
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History and Landscape: The Guide to National Trust Properties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Автор: Lydia Greeves Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20102007-06-15
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The Guide has been described as the National Trust's bible — and indeed it is. This latest edition takes a larger, squarer format, to do full justice to the Trust's illustrious collection of colour photographs, and to showcase recent acquisitions such as the Gothic wonder of Tyntesfield, John Lennon's childhood home Mendips, and William Morris' Arts and Crafts Red House. Magnificent landscapes, including the breathtaking coast of Cornwall, Snowdonia, the Peak District, and the lunar scenery of Stragford Lough, are set beside the Trust's great gardens such as Sissinghurst Castle in Kent and Stourhead Landscape Garden in Wiltshire. The Trust's country houses of course feature in all their varied beauty — from the Tudor splendour of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire through to the magnificent Victoriana at Cragside in Northumberland. Not everything is on such a grand scale; Lydia Greeves describes T.E. Lawrence's modest cottage at Clouds Hill in Dorset, a spade mill in Northern Ireland and even a duck decoy at Boarstall in Buckinghamshire.
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The History of Seafaring
Автор: Donald Johnson Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 344 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20092010-04-17
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This is a large format, meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and fully international history of mankind's seaborne voyages from the Phoenicians and Chinese to modern navies and round-the-world sailing yachts. Royal prestige, intellectual curiosity, commerce and territorial expansion all propelled mankind to make perilous voyages across unpredictable oceans to find out what lay beyond the horizon, and the art of navigation allowed them to do so. From initial conjecture and philosophical reason, man ventured forth to glean first-hand information of the seas by exploration and scientific investigation. Author Donald Johnson pieces together the advances in astronomy, navigation, shipbuilding and surveying through the ages to tell the fascinating and absorbing history of navigation and exploration in an elegant volume that is beautifully illustrated with manuscripts and rutters, portolans and sea charts, ship's instruments and artefacts. The meticulous research, based on original sources, has brought to light a lot of new information, which in some cases contradicts popular held beliefs. Certain navigational instruments have been tested in real circumstances, such as the Viking instrument for determining a ship's course to enable us to fully understand how people crossed vast, limitless oceans. The book opens with the basic questions and challenges of navigation. Part 2 unravels the development of science and seafaring from the ancient times to the Mediterranean era. This created a basis for longer sailings, which are at the heart of Part 3 and in Part 4 the book ends with the advanced technology that made it possible to determine a ship's exact position at sea.
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Jack Vettriano: A Life
Автор: Anthony Quinn Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092006-10-30
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In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano, a coalminer's son, met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame — emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, he has become Scotland's most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell Van Gough, Dali and Monet and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. Vettriano's images have an often mysterious narrative and are a gateway to an alluring yet sinister world. Daylight scenes of heady optimism, painted against backdrops of beaches and racetracks, are counterbalanced by more disquieting canvases of complex night-time liaisons in bars and clubs, bedrooms and ballrooms. Both sexes are clearly styled — the men hard-edged and mysterious, the women seductive and enigmatic. Yet beneath the confident posturing, Vettriano recognizes our inherent human frailty, that there is no victor in the struggle between duplicity and desire. Men and women are ultimately trapped by the machinations of intense love.
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Marilyn Monroe: А life in pictures
Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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Icon, legend, actress, star — all these words can be used to describe Marilyn Monroe and yet they simply do not do her justice, because she was so much more. Norma Jean has inspired and created more headlines than any other movie actress — yet her marriages, affairs and life choices all distract us from the talent of this very beautiful woman. Part of the successful «Life in pictures» series, this book presents Marilyn at her very best. Following her from toddler to teen, to one of Hollywood's best-loved celebrities, we gain a unique insight into her life, loves and career. Over 160 pictures represent impressive iconographic research, including personal photos, images from national archives, private collections and press agencies — some not published before. Famous quotes on and from Monroe further reveal the thoughts of her closest friends, collaborators and admirers. This is both a unique collection and a visual reminder of why Marilyn has endured as one of our most fascinating and best-loved Hollywood stars.
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Contemporary Celtic Motifs (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Alex Sherman Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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An invaluable resource for designers and crafters looking for designs and motifs that have their heart in the Celtic tradition but are new, fresh and original – also available on the CD inserted in the book. New twists on Celtic knotwork, tessellation and spiralwork are mixed with stunning figure work to create great designs, suitable for those working in wood, glass, textiles, embroidery and quilts, as well as general designers looking for ideas. All the motifs can be used by the reader for creative work. There are over 40 large-scale designs made up from a range of smaller composite motifs (most provided separately). In addition, there are hundreds of smaller motifs that can used in isolation or linked together to make large-scale designs. The author provides grids for those wanting to make large-scale designs from the smaller motifs.
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Grace Kelly: Life in Pictures
Автор: Verlhac P.H. Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092009-04-17
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Presents an illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly, one of Hollywood`s brightest stars. This work includes a biography and over 160 pictures and contact sheets. It also features family pictures, national archives, private collections, press agencies, and newspapers.
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Lady Cottington Pressed Fairy Book (+ DVD)
Автор: Terry Jones Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-04-17
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This book claims to be the facsimile edition of the notebook of Lady Angelica Cottington, who, it is said, took the infamous photograph of a group of fairies that was authenticated by Conan Doyle, but later discredited. Lady Cottington was determined to prove the existence of fairies, and began to capture them between the pages of her notebook, in which she had previously pressed wild flowers. In the introduction to the book, it is explained that one of Lady Cottington's notebooks was recently discovered, intact and in good condition, and has been reproduced complete with biographical information about the near-reclusive Lady Cottington, and a photograph of her holding the original book between the pages of which so many fairies, goblins, pixies and elves were unceremoniously flattened and preserved for ever. What Lady Cottington did not realise was that the actual fairies were unharmed; as they are made of astral matter, only their psychic images remained on the pages and the fairies grew to enjoy the game, leaping between the closing pages in an effort to outdo each other to produce the most imaginative and (it has to be said) outrageous poses. This is a hilarious, imaginative and highly creative record of the fairies caught by Lady Cottington, and of the disruptive influence they had on her otherwise sheltered life, all of which is painstakingly recorded in her personal diary. A revised edition to include eight additional pages, a new introduction by Terry Jones and Brian Froud, new digitization and design for pages, endpapers and cover as appropriate including new pressed fairy images; a DVD and a new sticker. DVD to include previously unreleased material from the Cottington Archive: a Pressed Fairy art gallery, interviews with Brian Froud, Terry Jones and Ari Berk and 5-minute filmed interview with Lady Cottington. DVD to be produced by Imaginosis.
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Jack Vettriano: Studio Life
Автор: Jack Vettriano Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112010-05-06
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Jack is one of the UK's most popular, and yet most controversial, contemporary artists. His pictures sell for a record amount of money, the paintings in his exhibitions are always sold out before the opening and 'The Singing Butler' made history for being the most expensive painting by a Scottish living artist ever to be sold at auction. (And surely the same painting is one of the world's most replicated fine art images?) Here, for the first time, we get up close and personal with Jack in the studio. We see how he works in his studios in Scotland, London and Nice and we see how these locations influence his paintings. The book also includes brand new paintings never before seen. We analyse Jack's own cultural influences and the influences his work has come to have on popular culture in turn. With outstanding and revealing photography by Jillian Edelstein and a foreword from friend and fellow son of Fife, author Ian Rankin, this is a book to delight Jack Vettriano's fans.
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Fabulous Frocks
Автор: Sarah Gristwood Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20102011-09-27
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No item of clothing has endured for longer than the dress. Yet the last century alone has seen the most radical changes of style — hemlines swinging from ankle to thigh; outlines alternating between the body-hugging and the bell — and our fascination with the 'frock' has not gone away. From Gres’ draping to Dior’s New Look, from Mary Quant’s mini to Hussein Chalayan’s mechanical marvels, this book looks at the dress in twentieth century fashion. Thematic chapters (Changes, Feminine, Sex, Must-haves, Fantasy, Classical and Art) set out the inspirations and implications for each new change alongside the stunning photography. It is more than eighty years since Coco Chanel invented the little black dress, but every woman still has one in her wardrobe today. It’s decades since women discovered trousers and separates, but every woman dreams of wearing a glorious, glamorous gown at least once, whether it’s on a Hollywood red carpet, or just on her wedding day. 'Fabulous Frocks' is a book to fire a fashionista's imagination.
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Steve McQueen: A Life in Pictures
Автор: Yann-Brice Dherbier Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 196 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20102010-07-21
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Steve McQueen, the self confessed ‘King of Cool’ is as popular today as in the 50s and 60s when he became famous in films such as The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven, The Thomas Crown Affair and later The Towering Inferno. McQueen began his career in television and moved into film in the mid 1950s when he became a true cinema icon, and classic images of him are reproduced today. In many of his films his real-life passion for fast cars and motor racing was evident, and he was always keen to do his own stunts. This beautiful collection shows the different sides of his professional and personal life with many images not seen before. It will be a delight to his multitude of fans. — Latest stunning addition to the Life in Pictures series — Many classic and unseen images of this stylish 'anti-hero' — Incisive account of the life of Steve McQueen
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Jack Vettriano: Lovers and Other Strangers
Автор: Jack Vettriano Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112011-05-06
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Jack Vettriano's erotic, provocative and emotionally charged paintings have made him one of Britain's most successful contemporary artists. Collected by celebrities the world over, his exhibitions have regularly sold out and paintings now change hands for millions of pounds. In this beautifully packaged collection, Jack chooses 100 essential canvases that reflect the intensity and passion of his work. An elegant accompanying essay by critic Anthony Quinn recounts Jack's early years and his emergence as a successful artist. Filled with mysterious men and curvy, seductive yet enigmatic women, Jack's paintings are tales without text, storyboards about love and lust, possession and longing, pursuit and conquest. Understanding perfectly the stylish sexiness and intrigue that occurs when high life and low life collide, Jack also hints at memories of golden times, past and lost.
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The Best of Cosmopolitan
Автор: Cosmopolitan Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20112010-05-25
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Launched in March 1972 priced 20p, 'Cosmopolitan' began as it meant to go on: The diet worth eating for; I was a sleep-around girl; How to turn a man on when he's having problems in bed; Jilly Cooper on what makes David Niven and Roy Jenkins fantastic lovers. 'The Best of Cosmopolitan: The 70s and 80s' is a fascinating trawl through these hallowed pages, the woman's Bible to all things sex, fashion and romance. Featuring the very best of the big name interviews, frank relationship advice and just the occasional fashion faux pas, this is a must have purchase for all fans of the magazine.
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Big Book of Contemporary Illustration
Автор: Martin Dawber Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132011-05-22
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Following on from the hugely successful Big Book of Fashion Illustration, the Big Book of Contemporary Illustration covers the broadest range of illustration today from digital drawing, pixelated pictures, Photoshop fantasies to the traditional techniques of sketching and painting from over 160 international artists. With close to 1000 illustrations, the categories covered range from the technical, architectural through nature, people to fantasy, fashion and pop culture. This is an essential sourcebook for any creative professional or student and all those who appreciate the world's best illustration.
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1960s Fashion Prints
Автор: Marnie Fogg Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092011-04-15
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A sourcebook of 1960s fashion print – the apogee of fashion print – that will be the inspiration for designers for years to come. The creativity of the period is given full expression in this sourcebook of hundreds of designs that makes it an essential for contemporary design practitioners and students. The book contains exclusive illustrations and original artwork from designers as well as finished prints. Each short chapter introduction is followed by a range of illustrations with captions to give provenance and relevance. The prints are arranged in the chapters: • Art into Pop: fashion prints that saw the influence of Pop Art • Revivals and Reflections: Biba''s revival of 19th-century designs • Flower Power: floral designs, from Marimekko to Ken Scott • Lost in multicoloured hues, kaleidoscopic colours and psychedelia prints • Magical Mystery Tour: the influence of other cultures on print design
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500 Tattoo Designs
Автор: Henry Ferguson Жанр: Anova Books Издательство: Anova Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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More and more people are getting into body art, but how do you go about choosing a design? It is, after all, a lifetime decision that’s going to cost thousands of dollars to erase or alter? Now in paperback, 500 Tattoo Designs is the ultimate source for inspiration and guidance. Neatly organized by theme, the clearly-executed line drawings cover every conceivable subject area, from historical and traditional to modern. A variety of imagery includes native American Indian tribal symbols, Japanese and Chinese characters, arcane hieroglyphics, Gothic skulls, Celtic amulets, Maori armbands, nymphs, dragons, talismans and religious symbols. In addition to the designs, this book also includes sections on health and safety, how to choose a tattoo parlour and tattoo aftercare. Whether you want to start from scratch or elaborate on an existing tattoo, show off your design or conceal it, this book is packed with hundreds of ideas and possibilities.
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