Batsford imprint: 183 books
Learn to Paint People Quickly
A practical, step-by-step guide to learning to paint people in watercolour and oils
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
A practical guide to learn painting individual people and crowds, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations. Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time. Learning to paint is one...
3D Fashion Design
Technique, design and visualization
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Digital technologies in fashion are becoming more accessible and now any creative with a basic knowledge of fashion design and computing can create convincing still or animated 3D visualizations of styles, designs and products. With this technology, the designer is able to present a lifelike design...
by Paul Littlewood
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
This comprehensive book describes and analyses the intriguing array of tactics available to every chess player. With the help of progressively more difficult exercises and problems, Paul Littlewood shows the reader how to deploy a variety of tactics for attack and how to defend against each type of...
Conversations with Jack Cardiff
Art, light and direction in cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Jack Cardiff was responsible for some of the most visually stunning fims in cinematic history. Tile Red Shoes, A Matter of Life of Death, Black Narcissus, Rope, The African Queen, Sons and Lovers, Girl on a Motorcycle and the blockbuster Conan the Destroyer are just a handfulof films that bear his...
Directing Films
From Pitch to Premiere
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed film director Ken Russell unpacks the creative insights, technique, know-how and sheer determination that have enabled him to realise on screen more than fifty diverse and yet intensely personal films. Drawing on his parallel experiences of producing, screenwriting...
by Neil Fulwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
A detailed look at the work of one of America's great film directors. Sam Peckinpah helped to redefine the Western, clearing the board of genre cliches in order to present an intelligent examination of the motivation behind, and effects of, violence. The accusations against Peckinpah for making violent...
Collage, Colour and Texture in Painting
Mixed media techniques for artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
In this ground-breaking art book, leading artist Mike Bernard reveals every aspect of working with collage, paint and other mixed-media approaches. Everything from the initial inspiration for a painting through to design, colour, surface qualities and finishing touches is covered. With detailed information...
Sunlight and Shadows in Watercolour
painting light from interiors to landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Lucy Willis is a well-known and successful watercolourist, renowned for her atmospheric paintings full of sunlight and shade. In her third book, Sunlight and Shadows in Watercolour, Lucy Willis shares her professional tips and expertise on painting inspirational landscapes and interiors full of light....
D-Day
Operation Overlord' from its planning to the liberation of Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
The D-Day landings in Normandy on 6th June 1944 have been described as the greatest amphibious operation in the history of warfare. The scale was majestic; 5,000 ships, together with thousands of lesser craft and backed by 11,000 aircraft. If the scale of the military undertaking was heroic, so too...
by John Richards
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The classic text on primulas updated and revised by the leading expert, Professor John Richards of the University of Newcastle. Primula is one of the greatest garden genera, in terms of the number of varieties grown and its popularity. It is also among the largest and most widespread - approximately...
by Caroline Taggart
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Wherever you are, whatever the company, the ability to engage and entertain your companions will always stand you in good stead. For many though, summoning up the courage to be heard in a crowded room, or seated next to a stranger at a dinner party, can test one’s nerves to the limit. What to say,...
by Clare Gogerty
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
The official TV-tie in to the popular Channel 4 programme 'Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages'
Explore the most interesting and beautiful examples of British village life in this lavishly illustrated book, published as a companion volume to the highly successful Channel 4 television series, 'Penelope...
by Victor Mollo
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The Hog, insufferable and all but insuperable, brings off one coup after another and seldom fails to triumph over his hated rival, Papa the Greek. Neither is a match for the Rabbit, for though R.R. rarely knows what he is doing or why, he is always saved from himself by a guardian angel.
Play Bridge in 10 Minutes
The Quickest Way to Learn the Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
A short gift book explaining the basic rules of Bridge.