Quarry Books: 217 books
by Kyra Sundance, Chalcy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Want to teach your dog some new tricks? The Most Amazing Dog Tricks offers eight tried-and-true dog tricks from the best-selling 101 Dog Tricks by celebrity dog trainer Kyra Sundance. Included are full-color photos of each trick and its training steps. The step-by-step approach, difficulty rating,...
Mixed-Media Dollhouses
Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2011
This book takes the artistic approach of assemblage and collage, and combines it with the long-loved tradition of making doll houses--but these doll houses are anything but traditional! Begun as an artistic challenge between a group of talented friends, these mixed-media doll houses include beautiful...
One Painting A Day
A 6-Week Course in Observational Painting--Creating Extraordinary Paintings from Everyday Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
One Painting A Day offers you an inspiring six-week course exploring the timeless traditions of observational painting through daily experience and routine.
This motivational guide is broken up into three parts to focus on the three major traditions of observational painting: still life, landscape,...
Paint Lab
52 Exercises inspired by Artists, Materials, Time, Place, and Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Paint Lab is packed with unique and experimental techniques and ideas in painting. This hands-on book is organized into 52 units, which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked on in any order, so that you can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or...
The Crafter's Devotional
365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
There is something elemental shared among artists and crafters, regardless of chosen medium: creative energy. Crafters dabble, collaborate, muse, and make, all in their own way and on their own timeline. For all crafts, there are established techniques to follow but wild, innumerable ways to experiment,...
Acrylic Fusion
Experimenting with Alternative Methods for Painting, Collage, and Mixed Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This unique reference book is designed to excite and motivate you to push beyond traditional techniques and to explore new approaches to painting. Acrylic Fusion frees you from traditional approaches to painting by exposing you to a diverse range of alternative techniques, unconventional processes,...
Creative Revolution
Personal Transformation through Brave Intuitive Painting
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Painting can be so much more than a mere hobby - it can be a vehicle transforming your mind, body, and spirit! Painting and bravely embracing the challenges of creativity sparks a revolution that involves heart, creativity, courage, and trust! Artistic pursuits such as painting have the power to soothe,...
True Vision
Authentic Art Journaling
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Featuring the artwork of over 25 leading artists with name recognition
As art journaling grows in popularity (even attracting a new breed of scrapbookers who call themselves "life artists"), there is a movement afoot toward creating more authentic, personal, what some people call...
Create Your Life Book
Mixed-Media Art Projects for Expanding Creativity and Encouraging Personal Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Inspired by Tamara Laporte’s art classes, Create Your Life Book presents 18 step-by-step projects that help you explore and work through issues surrounding creative fulfillment.
Based on much-loved mixed-media artist Tamara Laporte’s popular, multi-year series of online classes, Create...
Cat Lover's Daily Companion
365 Days of Insight and Guidance for Living a Joyful Life with Your Cat
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Cat Lover's Daily Companion is a unique, easy-to-use, and inspiring handbook filled with a year's worth of insight, helpful tips, and practical advice into the feline-human relationship for all cat lovers and owners. Whether you're a cat owner yourself or someone who just loves all things cat, this...
Print & Stamp Lab
52 Ideas for Handmade, Upcycled Print Tools
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Artist and popular workshop instructor Traci Bunkers can turn just about anything into an interesting stamp, printing block, or tool. In this book, she shows readers how to see overlooked, everyday objects in a new way, and how to "MacGyver" them into easy to use printing blocks and tools....
Mixed Emulsions
Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Over 25 unique effects illustrated with process photos, finished examples, and variations.
Mixed Emulsions is a follow up to Karen Michel's book, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery. Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery takes a slightly different tact, bringing...
A Modern Guide to Knifemaking
Step-by-step instruction for forging your own knife from expert bladesmiths, including making your own handle, sheath and sharpening
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
**In A Modern Guide to Knifemaking, well-known survivalist Laura Zerra shares her essential knifemaking tips and tricks, including step-by-step instructions for both forging and stock removal.
We all use a knife pretty much every day, but for Zerra, her daily life often depends on the blade...
Drawing in Black & White
Creative Exercises, Art Techniques, and Explorations in Positive and Negative Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Hone your drawing skills and you eye for design by learning to draw in black and white.
Working with only positive and negative lines and shapes keeps the focus on the basics: composition, balance, and harmony. And using white and black gel, ink, and paint pens on black, tan, and gray papers...