Art, Photography & Fashion

With clear step-by-step instructions, practical information about the composition of the face and head, plus helpful tips on developing a personal style, Drawing Portraits is the ultimate guide for art students who want to develop their abilities in producing great portraits. Accompanied by approximately ...

This title provides instruction for the beginner in transparent watercolour techniques that will lead into the more advanced concept of creating luminosity by layering with colour. Techniques use step-by-step instructions and cover colour theory and the basics of painting light and texture.

In this book, an intrepid crew of urban explorers shares dizzying photos and stories collected while journeying up, over and into the London skyline.

Jowls flapping, eyes rolling, ears and slobber flying in all directions—hound dogs are all shook up in this collection of canine portraits from Carli Davidson's wildly popular "Shake Dogs, Shake Puppies". With high-speed photography she creates double portraits (two images of the same dog, filling ...

Fly away from the stresses and strains of everyday life and lose yourself in the paradisiacal world of colour. Using a mixture of repeat bird patterns and motifs as well as more intricate birdlife scenes, these beautifully illustrated designs will help your mind to focus and to exercise your inner creativity. ...

The Painter RAs photographed in their studios with examples of their work accompanied by a brief biography.

This intriguing book investigates the very rare discovery of a huge, lost, Last Supper painting produced in the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. The discoloured canvas hung neglected in a parish church for 110 years until the conservator and art historian Ronald Moore removed centuries ...

Take four seasons, one photographer, eighty species, hundreds of miles on foot in a city of ten million people and through intimate and captivating portraits meet London's wild neighbours.

A great tattoo starts with a great tattoo drawing.

A Passion for Fashion provides an amusing
look at some of the clothes, underclothes, shoes and accessories worn by many
of the more colourful characters in Blenheim Palace's 300-year history, as well
as a cautionary look at the role that arsenic, lead, mercury and mousetraps
played in the fashions of ...

Features ten of London's most prominent galleries and
museums - The British Museum, Victoria and Albert, National Gallery, Dulwich,
Wallace Collection, Tate Britain, Courtauld, Tate Modern, National Portrait
Gallery, Royal Academy.
Showcases paintings, sculptures and objects from the
Ancient world to ...

The photographs are a compact summary of Bob Mazzers' work since the 1960s: photographs from London, including the famous Underground images; hippie life in Wales; loving life in France; expanding life in the USA and local life in Hastings.

Last great master of the Renaissance, El Greco, holds a singular place in the history of art. His work is still viewed today with the eye of modernity, seducing a wide audience of lovers of ancient and contemporary art.

This book focuses on Li Lei's abstract painting from the period 2006 to 2016. Important series include Shanghai Flowers, Flames at Pompeii and Memories of the South. Accompanying essays trace his influences, from the twentieth-century Abstract art scene in Shanghai and his childhood in the vast landscapes ...

Originally published: London: Thames and Hudson, 1973. With new afterword.

Chinese collector Liu Xinyan has been absorbed in the world of collecting for over thirty years. Under his influence, the husband-and-wife team Xiang Xiaoqun and Zhong Guomiao also early on began to collect glass. Their collection of Chinese Qing dynasty palace glass, exquisite beyond compare, magnificently ...

The painted world of Fred Dubery
was all about warmth and colour - a bright pattern of life reflecting a private
place of beauty, pleasure and merriment. Known from numerous solo exhibitions,
and from regular showings at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club, the
pictures are a record of joyful ...

A smartly selected anthology of photojournalism.

In this unique book the author shares his experiences as a mental health specialist, and as a sufferer of PTSD. Illustrated with his own stunning wildlife photography that helped him on his own journey to recovery, he hopes this book will inspire positivity and wellbeing for all.