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A practical guide that offers artists simple solutions to common drawing problems. It presents answers through annotated pictures and easy-to-follow technique demonstrations. It provides detailed solutions for common drawing problems including rendering trees accurately, drawing figures from life and how to recreate animal fur and feathers.

Highlights common problems and solutions to create effective drawings and paintings. This book covers a range of popular animals, including farm animals, wild animals, birds, reptiles, and insects. The techniques demonstrated are applicable to watercolour, graphite pencil, charcoal, conte, pastels, acrylic, and gouache.

Including an introduction to essential techniques and materials that help to sharpen the skills of the aspiring artist, this is a trouble-shooting guide to improving watercolour and drawing techniques. The problem-and-solution format is easy to follow and designed to help tackle any landscape subject with confidence.

This invaluable handbook for all watercolourists takes a practical problem-and-solution approach to painting a range of popular subjects, showing common mistakes and how to rectify them.

Offers information needed to rebuild a 2CV. This book covers body, trim and mechanical restoration. It provides advice on what to look for when buying a car or van.

This book contains an extensive selection of step-by-step projects for making miniature food items for the 1/12 scale dolls' house. The techniques of working with polymer clay involve shaping, mixing colours, texturing and finally, baking it. All necessary tools and materials are also listed.

This text celebrates 150 years of the Great Western Railway retelling the full story of this institution, with contributions from experts in all fields including many who worked on the line. Every aspect of the line's history is covered, including the locomotives, branch lines, summer Saturday peak traffic, GWR narrow guage and other operations.

15 animal themed party cakes, from favourite pets to an elephant, fish and hedgehog. Lindy uses sugarpaste, buttercream and clever techniques to create the colours, textures, patterns and shapes that make animal cakes so much fun. Variation design ideas, quick-and-clever cupcakes and delicious cookies continue the theme for a choice of party food

Sixteen step-by-step projects each show you how to make a different card, complete with advice and tips for maximum speed and ease.

Contains over one hundred time-saving designs.

The essential start-to-finish guide for knitters of all skill levelsincluding over twenty-five easy-to-follow projects. This indispensable reference includes: an overview of the yarns and equipment available todaya step-by-step guide to the basics, with knit and purl, casting on and binding (casting) off, and reading patternscreative options like cables, fair isle, and laceembellishments, embroidery, and other new ideas for more experienced knittersan extensive stitch librarya wide selection of patterns and projects, linked back to the techniques throughout the book With The Knitter's Bible, you can explore your developing skills and experiment with a variety of motifs to make your knitting sessions not only easier but more enjoyable than ever.

Create greetings cards with a difference with this collection of 14 innovative novelty desgins that are as fun to make as to receive.