Quarry Books imprint: 93 books
The Complete Mushroom Hunter: An Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms
An Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Do you know your mushrooms? This is the only mushrooming book that will introduce you safely and with confidence to the not-so "underground" hobby of mushroom hunting and gathering. Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate...
Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art
A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
"What is a good mail day?" A good mail day is a day when, instead of just bills, catalogs, and advertisements, your postal carrier delivers artful, beautiful, personal mail from friends and acquaintances all over the world. Mail art is a collaborative art form with a long and fascinating...
The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chicke
Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chicke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything...
Raw and Simple
Eat Well and Live Radiantly with 100 Truly Quick and Easy Recipes for the Raw Food Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Making smart, delicious food choices in a short amount of time is now easier than ever. Raw and Simple provides easy (and incredibly tasty!) recipes that will feed your body and spirit without requiring hours of prep work. Recipes include:
Oatmeal Walnut Raisin Cookies
Apple Pie Smoothie
Winterland...
The Sweet Book of Candy Making
From the Simple to the Spectacular-How to Make Caramels, Fudge, Hard Candy, Fondant, Toffee, and Mor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Create your own delicious, gorgeous, and professional-quality candies with The Sweet Book of Candy Making. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned candy maker, you will find mouthwatering recipes and expert tips to inspire you—and satisfy your sweet tooth.
Inside, you'll find:
—Candy-making...
Drawing for Joy
15-Minute Daily Meditations to Cultivate Drawing Skill and Unwind with Color--365 Prompts for Aspiring Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Give yourself the gift of creativity—take the first steps toward learning to draw. In Drawing for Joy, author and illustrator Stephanie Peterson Jones offers beginning artists a relaxing, rewarding way to build a successful daily drawing practice in just 15 minutes a day.
You’ll go on an...
Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists
52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media?For Budding Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
"Susan Schwake's Art Lab for Kids is a well-thought-out guide, making it easy to introduce art into children's lives. Simple, clear explanations of technique, combined with inspiration from established artists, will enable children to feel successful and encouraged to explore art as a form of...
Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects
Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Collage Lab offers artists and crafters a fun and experimental approach to making art. The book is organized into 52 different labs which may, but don't need to be, explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique...
Creative Wildfire: An Introduction to Art Journaling - Basics and Beyond
An Introduction to Art Journaling - Basics and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Art journaling is a vital activity for artists who need a place to experiment, draw, paint, document ideas, and continue an interior dialog. This lush, visual book is a must-have volume for both beginning and experienced art journalers. Each chapter presents crucial, basic information for how to get...
Jewelry Lab: 52 Experiments, Investigations, and Explorations in Metal
52 Experiments, Investigations, and Explorations in Metal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Jewelry Lab uses brevity to ignite a passion for working the metals processes and learning about all the ways metal can be used. It provides aspiring metalsmiths and jewelry makers a way to learn fundamental techniques that is quick and fun. In addition to the basic skills such as sawing, drilling,...
1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse: Remake, Restyle, Recycle, Renew
Remake, Restyle, Recycle, Renew
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Artists and crafters have always been recyclers, but for many, it has not only become a thrifty choice, it has become a moral imperative. 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse contains a cutting edge collection of the most inventive work being made with re-used, upcycled, and already existing materials. The...
Creative Cloth Doll Faces: Using Paints, Pastels, Fibers, Beading, Collage, and Sculpting Techniques
Creative Cloth Doll Faces: Using Paints, Pastels, Fibers, Beading, Collage, and Sculpting Techniques
Using Paints, Pastels, Fibers, Beading, Collage, and Sculpting Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
The face is the most important feature of a doll -- it is also the most challenging. So it is surprising that there is so little instruction available on creating doll faces. This book fills that void. Author Patti Medaris Culea began her career in art as a portrait painter and she puts that experience...
by Henya Melichson
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Papercutting is an ancient, elegant art that dates almost as far back as the creation of paper itself. In today's multicultural world, papercutting embraces any number of themes, designs, and images. It is an all-inclusive art that requires few tools and minimal materials. All one needs is instruction...
Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic
Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A workshop-style book, oriented to the wide community of crafters and artists including those interested in paint, surface design, mixed media, and collage, which explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction, texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text, and adding digital imagery.