Charming Villas By The Sea

Make-a-Masterpiece! Enjoy coloring grayscale images of lovely villas, ocean waters, overflowing flower pots, colorful courtyards and cobblestone paths in the impressionist style 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!

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A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper) In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the “country place” as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. “The villa,” he reminds us, “accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality.” As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architect’s imagination.