Charming Landscapes

A full-color guide teachers budding artists how to paint beautiful scenes with 12 step-by-step demonstrations from a master artist.

Make-a-Masterpiece! Enjoy coloring grayscale images of cozy cottages, colorful courtyards, overflowing arbors, peaceful paths, picket fences and flowers galore to create your own wall-worthy art. In this unique coloring book, 30 impressionist paintings are printed in color across from a grayscale version of the same image to be hand colored. Color along with the Color Guide for the ultimate in relaxing coloring! Imitate the Color Guide to make your own stunning reproduction. Or use the Color Guide for inspiration...and innovate to develop a fresh color palette. The grayscale shading will show through your transparent pigments for beautiful results. Features: 30 single-sided grayscale images to color 30 full-size Color Guides showing each image's original colors 2 small Test Images for each coloring page to try out your colors before you apply them to your art 2 pages of Tips & Techniques including the Make-a-Masterpiece method and recommended supplies Professionally optimized grayscale calibrated by photo-industry experts Printed on 70 lb. medium weight acid-free paper Fun & rewarding for all skill levels 126 pages From the Color Guides and Test Images to the instructional advice and premium paper, this thoughtfully-planned book is much more than a typical coloring book. It is designed to ensure your success in creating beautiful pieces of art that will make you proud. Discover the complete Make-a-Masterpiece adult coloring book collection by Linda Wright for more charming coloring adventures!

Create beautiful landscapes and flowers using handstitching and only six simple stitches. Handstitched Landscapes and Flowers is a beautiful exploration of the potential of embroidery in depicting the natural world. Katrina Witten, who is a regular on crafts channel Hochanda, uses just six simple stitches, delicate embellishments and an array of techniques and fabrics to portray pastoral scenes of fields, flowers and creatures with eye-catching three-dimensional effects. There are ten detailed step-by-step projects that depict, among others, a hedgerow, a bluebell-emblazoned woodland, sunflowers, a butterfly, a poppy field and a summer scene of buddleia and bees.

Explains how to draw lifelike landscapes through use of perspective, shading, texture, and value.

This book is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres. In a series of essays written by scholars in the field, the book focuses on landscape in the Gothic and the ways landscape both reflects and reveals the dark elements of culture and humanity. It goes beyond traditional approaches to the Gothic by pushing the limits of the definition of the genre. From landscape painting to movies and video games, from memoir to fiction, and from works of different cultural origins and perspectives, this volume traverses the geography of the Gothic revealing the anxieties that still haunt humanity into the twenty-first century.