Literally meaning pictures of the floating world , ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world's visual characterization of Japan. This book contains 120 illustrations along with a description, describing the ukiyo-e artist's landscapes.
Shows you how to turn your airplane doodles into aviation masterpieces. This book offers advice and instruction on perspective, light, and shadow; sketching, drawing, and painting planes, horizons, skies, and backgrounds; detail work on aircraft wings, cockpits, and landing gear; and, creating cutaways and scale drawings.
Deals with drawing and painting various types of cars. This title takes you through the history of the car from its conception in 1885 onwards with sketches and paintings created in a variety of mediums, with examples and step by step guides. It teaches various techniques short cuts accumulated over decades by a commercial artist.
This is a highly visual and practical approach to drawing boats and harbours. The author, a professional artist, discusses various media and shows how to achieve a wide range of effects and to get your perspective right. An ideal book for the beginner.
This collection encompasses the full range of Wootton's art, from his intense early years as official artist to the RAF during WWII, to the very recent past, including his impressions of Concorde and modern high-tech fighter planes.
Contains the story of Canada's most famous canoeing artist - Bill Mason. This book examines Bill's entire artistic career - his photography, cartoons, books and films. It provides an insight into a man driven by a passion for nature.
Trench art is the name given to an array of objects made from the waste of industrialized war. Each object, whether an engraved shell case, cigarette lighter or a pen made from a shrapnel, tells a story about its maker.
Robert Wall provides a dictionary of marine artists and gives advice on the collecting ocean liner postcards. It offers an insight into the art of a particular school of marine painters in the early part of the 20th century and into the history of a time of great technological change.
The Canadian War Museum's art collection is one of the finest in the world and the single largest repository of official war art in Canada. This title takes readers into a time and place, enabling a deeper understanding of the artists, their compelling, often disturbing, but always profound images.
Ejnar Fugmann served as an architect-in-chief on two Danish archaeological expeditions to Syria, first to Hama (1931-38) and much later to Gabla (1958-61). He was a skilled artist and spent much of his time painting watercolours of local monuments and daily life. This book presents his work in their cultural and historical context.
Contains demonstrations for drawing and painting 50 fantasy-art robots, and innovative suggestions for adapting and modifying designs. This work covers a range of stylistic approaches, and features advice from professional artists for finding inspiration, rendering details. It also includes designs to complement the complex approaches.
Teaches readers what they need to know to create successful finished vehicles. This work includes over twenty demonstrations, each ending with finished art that address drawing issues specific to depicting each type of vehicle, including the basic engineering of each different make and model.