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10,000 years of Pottery
This is the definitive British Museum reference book reissued with a beautiful new jacket design and pbk-with-flaps cover.
This is the classic, comprehensive, colour survey of ceramic art and production worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. It offers a mine of information for students and anyone interested in pottery.
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500 Animals in Clay
Contemporary Expressions of the Animal Form
No other volume has ever presented such a diverse and captivating collection of contemporary animal-themed ceramics. This magnificent gallery includes pieces from an international group of artists; the beautifully crafted works range from the representational to the abstract, from artful realism to provocative surrealism (including animal-human hybrids).
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500 Figures in Clay
Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Humane Form
Presents some of the best figurative studies created by more than 250 contemporary ceramists from around the world, spanning a multitude of artistic styles, from realistic to abstract, representational to surreal, and starkly minimalist to flamboyantly narrative.
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Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
by Vicky Perry
Up until now, a veil of mystery surrounded the techniques used to create great abstract paintings. Abstract Painting Techniques and Strategies lifts that veil to reveal the exact methods behind the masterworks.
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Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks and Techniques for Working with the World's Most Versatile Medium
by Nancy Reyner
Acrylic Revolution will show readers everything they need to know to be successful in their acrylic painting projects. With over 101 of the most popular, interesting, and indispensable tricks for working with acrylic - each with its own step-by-step demonstration - there is literally page after age of acrylic instruction and inspiration for readers to discover.
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Arteffects
by Jean Drysdale Green
A compendium of hundreds of effects that can be created using the five major mediums of ink, watercolour, acrylic, oil and pastel in both traditional and experimental ways. Each of the five sections of the book begins with a discussion of the specific medium's properties and methods of application.
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Art Escapes
Daily Exercises and Inspirations for Discovering Greater Creativity and Artistic Confidence
by Dory Kanter
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, "Art Escapes" provides the ideas and the encouragement you need to discover greater creativity and artistic confidence, even when you're short of time. Professional artist and teacher Dory Kanter shows you how.
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Arthur Boyd: A Life
by Darleen Bungey
Arthur Boyd's legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself - enigmatic, inarticulate, modest - has remained in the shadows until now. Based on over six years of meticulous research and hundreds of interviews, Darleen Bungey sweeps us into the intimate circle of one of Australia's most fascinating families. Arthur Boyd emerges as a passionate, dramatic figure whose self-effacing demeanour cloacked a strong personality that refused to allow his turbulent and sometimes tragic personal life to interfere with his creative genius.
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Artists Observed: Blue Mountains Artists Close Up
by Carole Hampshire
This title features: stunning full-colour photographs of both the artists and their work. It includes insightful interviews with a diverse range of artists, from sculptors, painters and potters to performance and 'outsider' artists.
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Cezanne and Beyond
by Philadelphia Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover, 585 pages, 50 black-&-white illustrations + 400 colour images
In this monumental book, a team of distinguished scholars offers the most comprehensive view to date on Cezanne's vital role in shaping European and American art throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. More than forty paintings and ten works on paper by Cezanne - many of his best-known and most admired - are juxtaposed throughout the catalogue with approximately 120 works by a range of modern and contemporary artists
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Colour and Light in Oils
by Robin Capon and Nicholas Verrall
Often seen as dark and gloomy, oils can, in fact, be used to create colourful and light paintings that are wonderfully expressive. One significant characteristic of oil paint is its richness and depth of colour, something that is of particular interest to Nicholas Verrall. Immediately striking in all his pictures is the skilful way he handles colour to interpret the special qualities of light and mood found in a certain moment in time.
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Complete Metalsmith
by Tim McCreight
Format: Hardback, 304 pages, 500+ full colour images
This greatly expanded version of Tim's Metalsmithing for Students is an essential reference book for anyone working with metals be they a jeweller or a metalsmith. The book is filled with step-by-step sequences, line diagrams and drawings, safety notes and handy tips.
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Dance Me to the End of Love
by Leonard Cohen, Henri Matisse
Format: Hardback, 32 pages, 21 colour illustrations
In 1995, Welcome Books published the star of its "Art and Poetry" series, "Dance Me to the End of Love", a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen visualized through the warm, spirited paintings and collages of Henri Matisse.
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Eco Colour: Environmentally Sustainable Dyes
by India Flint
Eco Colour fills a gap in the literature and uses an exciting range of projects to demonstrate a variety of techniques, some of them entirely new processes developed by the author. Projects range from solar dyeing to dyeing with 'ice-flowers'. The result is a range of pure natural colours produced with the least possible harm.
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Expressive Drawing: A Practical Guide to Freeing the Artist Within
by Steven Aimone
The many people who long to draw — but feel too intimidated to try — will rejoice at the wonderful first entry in this brand-new creative series. Written by arts educator Steven Aimone, it’s packed with solid, friendly, hands-on instruction, as well as inspiring images.
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Fairweather
by Murray Bail
Scottish-born artist Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) is a giant amongst Australian painters. He is revered by fellow artists. With 233 reproductions, most in colour, many of paintings and drawings never seen in public, "Fairweather" is the definitive account of the life and art of this great painter.
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Hans Heyson: Into the Light
by Jane Hylton and John Neylon
Considered one of Australia's greatest landscape painters, Hans Heysen reached critical acclaim--as well as knighthood--during his lifetime for his art, particularly his expressive watercolor paintings. This collection discusses the progress of his career as seen through his watercolors as well as the technique he employed in the paintings. A brief biography is also included.
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Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
by Esther M. Sternberg
How could a pleasant view speed healing? The author pursues this question through a series of places and situations that explore the neurobiology of the senses. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety or instill peace.
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Henri Matisse
Rooms with a View
This book brings together for the first time the rich collection of Matisses paintings of interiors and windows. With perceptive text and scores of luscious illustrations, "Rooms with a View" reveals the key role of the window in Matisses oeuvre.
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How to Draw What You See
by Rudy De Reyna
A best-seller for 35 years! This is a timeless classic that has taught generations of artists - and will teach generations more. "How to Draw What You See" shows artists how to recognize the basic shape of an object - cube, cylinder, cone, or sphere - and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how much detail it contains.
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I am a Professional Artist - the Key to Survival and Success in the World of the Arts
by Gilli Moon
I am a Professional Artist offers Artists who have chosen the Professional path, practical tools in succeeding and surviving, staying creatively motivated and enjoying your artistry at the same time.
Consider it an Artistic soul’s survival guide in business! It will certainly change the thinking of any professional Artist who may doubt themselves or their Art, who may feel pressured by the industry, or may feel the hardship of the roller coaster ride.
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Keys to Drawing
by Bert Dodson
Bert Dodson's successful method of "teaching anyone who can hold a pencil" how to draw has made this tome one of the most popular, best-selling art books in history -- an essential reference for every artist's library! Dodson offers a complete system for developing drawing skills, basing his approach on 55 "keys" to drawing -- rules that don't need to be memorized, but realized. Dodson helps artists learn to trust their eyes and sharpen their observation skills through 48 practice exercises, reviews, and self-evaluations.
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Learning to See Creatively
by Bryan Peterson
Almost everyone can "see" in the conventional sense, but developing photographic vision takes practice. This work helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light. This revised and rewritten guide takes a radical approach to creativity. It explains how it is not some gift only for a few, but actually a skill that can be learned and applied. Using inventive photographs from his own portfolio, the author deconstructs creativity for photographers.
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Louise Bourgeois
One of the UK's pre-eminent artists, Louise Bourgeois is a unique figure in contemporary art.
An extraordinarily influential sculptor, she has worked, often experimentally, with materials varying from alabaster, plaster, latex, bronze, and marble to found objects.
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Naked Clay: Ceramics without a Glaze
by Jane Perryman
This book deals with ceramic work that does not have a glaze, but instead is finished by other methods such as Burnishing, terra sigillata, engobes, oxide washes, laminating, smoke firing and other methods. The book will look briefly at the historical uses of alternative methods of decorating/finishing work, but essentially will give a chapter to each method, looking at techniques and more importantly the work of specific artists in each field. It will be well-illustrated and a much needed manual on this subject.
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Papunya: A Place Made After the Story - The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement
by Geoffrey Bardon, James Bardon
In 1971 a young Sydney art teacher, Geoffrey Bardon, was posted to the government settlement at Papunya in Central Australia. There he found more than a thousand Aboriginal people living in a state of dislocation and degradation. Bardon was not the first European to show interest in the traditional sand mosaics of these dispossessed people, nor the first to recognise them as evidence of a powerful, ancient culture. but his empathy with the artists and his patient encouragement won the confidence of the tribal elders. Illustrated with over 600 paintings, 60 photographic portraits, and hundreds of explanatory diagrams and maps, it is an essential work of incomparable importance.
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Studio: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity
by John McDonald
This book photographed showcases 61 of Australia’s most respected and important painters working in their studio environment. The selection of artists was made with the aim of representing a broad cross-section of men and women working in a variety of styles, from abstraction to the most exacting realism, as well as a representative group of Aboriginal painters.
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The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self
by Julia Cameron
This work provides a 12-week course that guides the reader through the process of recovering their creative self. It aims to dispel the "I'm not talented enough" conditioning that tends to hamper the creativity of many people.
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The Artist's Lunch: A Visual and Culinary Feast with Australia's Most Prominent Artists
by Alice McCormick, Sarah Rhodes
What is it about artists and food? From the canvas to the table, the visual and culinary arts are linked by colour, texture, form and taste, and the process by which artists combine these elements is captivating and revelatory. Artists have this symbiosis, a connection between making art and making food, which make most artists as creative in the kitchen as in the studio.
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The Art of Abstract Painting
by Rolina van Vliet
This detailed guide to abstract painting teaches you how to compose dramatic, beautiful, thought provoking and evocative abstract paintings. It provides information about the background, aims and procedures of the abstract method, focusing on creativity and self-expression, the goal being the development of the reader's own talents.
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The Oil Painting Book
by Bill Creevy
Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist
This reference to painting with oils compares leading brands of paints. It describes mediums, solvents and varnishes; illustrates brushes, pallettes and other tools; and shows both traditional and unconventional techniques.
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The Watercolor Book
by David Dewey
Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist
The most thorough guide to watercolor materials and techniques ever assembled in a single volume, this is the book for anyone working with watercolors, from beginners to experienced artists looking to develop more professional skills.
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Victor Greenway: Ceramics 1965-2005
by Timothy Jacobs
The Beagle Press released this great monograph, Victor Greenaway: Ceramics 1965 - 2005 and said, "Victor Greenaway is one of Australia's most respected figures in the ceramic art world and this book encompasses the past 40 years of the artists' work, revealing the strengths, diversity and refinement that he seeks." It comprises 140 pages including 110 colour plates, biographical notes and bibliography.
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Warm Glass
by Philippa Beveridge, Ignasi Dom Enech, Eva Pascual
A Complete Guide to Kiln-forming Techniques - Fusing, Slumping, Casting
An authoritative, extensively illustrated guide to making glass objects in a kiln. Provides detailed information on the history and traditional techniques of using a kiln in glasswork, along with instructions and examples designed to help you understand all the steps each technique requires.
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Watercolorist's Essential Notebook, Landscapes
by Gordon Mackenzie
A Treasury of Landscape Painting Tricks and Techniques Discovered Through Years of Painting and Experimentation
This inspiring guide provides artists with the knowledge they need to paint watercolor landscapes. It features easy-to-follow exercises illustrated in an accessible format that invites readers to jump in and begin painting right away. Artists of all skill levels will learn from: 30 step-by-step demonstrations.
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Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s
by Leonie Norton
Showcases artists whose meticulous and beautiful works contribute just as significantly to botany as they do to early Australian art. Leonie Norton examines the role of these women artists in Australia’s botanical history, giving insight into the lives and persons of these quietly creative documenters. From the famous waratah to the rare Caladenia pulcherrima (Eastern Mantis Orchid), Women of Flowers is a feast for the eyes, bringing to life the vibrancy and intricacy of Australia’s native flora.
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