A MYSTICAL JOURNEY OF COLOUR AND CREATIVITY Create your very own colourful collection of masterpieces and delve into the mystical realms of the sacred art of Tarot with these mesmerizing images Step into the spiritual world of Tarot and seek insight into your past, present and future while awakening your creativity with these striking illustrations. Within this bewitching colouring book you will find Tarot-themed images alongside essential details about the meanings of the cards, and how to interpret their symbolism and understand your Tarot readings. Inside you'll find: - Images that are great for developing fine motor skills, improving focus, reducing stress and relieving anxiety - A short history of Tarot and how and why it has been used as a tool for divination for centuries - Easy-to-follow information of the major and the minor arcana cards - Encouraging quotes to keep you motivated Go on a voyage of self-discovery and see what the cards are ready to reveal to you.

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Pages: 96

Dimensions: 215 x 280 mm

Publication Date: 12-10-2023

A HEALING JOURNEY OF COLOUR AND CREATIVITY Create your very own collection of artistic masterpieces, and discover how to bring balance and tranquillity to your life with crystals Immerse yourself in the spiritual world of crystals and bring this striking collection of images to life with colour. The Crystal Colouring Book contains a handy guide on caring for your crystals, as well as fascinating information on some of the most popular stones, including their unique properties and healing powers. Begin a voyage of self-discovery and creativity while learning what it is about crystals that has seen them treasured and admired throughout history. Inside you'll find: - Intricate, high-resolution pictures and a selection of elaborate patterns, which are great for developing fine motor skills, improving focus, reducing stress and relieving anxiety - Insightful crystal profiles with information about their appearance, healing properties and associated chakra - Top tips on how to care for your stones - Beautiful quotes to inspire you while you colour

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Pages: 96

Dimensions: 215 x 280 mm

Publication Date: 12-10-2023

The New Zealand Native Flower Colouring Book. More than just a colouring book. This book contains beautiful paintings done by a New Zealand Artist. The paintings give you a colour guideline to aid your creativity, accompanied by information related to the native flora. It is a unique colouring book you will love to keep. Artist - Born in New Zealand, Deby has always had a love for nature and as an adult began to translate that love to paper and canvas. Her work ranges from watercolour, acrylic, photography and mixed medium. She is also a commission artist. The complete collection of her artwork, including the paintings in this book, can be viewed and purchased as an A4 print or a framed print online at www.originzart.nz

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Pages: 22

Dimensions: 230 x 220 mm

Move beyond the basics of alcohol ink painting! A follow-up to their extensive and introductory painting book, Creating Art with Alcohol Ink, which teaches all the beginning techniques for those exploring alcohol ink, artists and instructors Laurie Williams and Sherry Williams return with this instructional resource to help you up your game in this versatile medium! Learn and master alcohol ink painting techniques including blending, masking, creating a barrier layer, brush painting, and more. Tutorials are provided for painting skin tones, fur, stones, rocks, water, botanical effects, trees, foliage, and animals, along with 17 projects to practice the skills you've learned and put them together into stunning works of art! Detailed opening sections cover need-to-know basics about alcohol inks, tools, materials, surfaces, color theory, storage, and more. The authors have years of experience working with alcohol inks, mastering the brushes, blenders, masking, control, and layering that enables artists to create magnificent realistic art, from portraits to landscapes. Laurie Williams is the founder of the Alcohol Ink Art Community, an online portal where she teaches, encourages, and helps artists of all skill levels build and grow their art business. Sheryl Williams is a self-taught artist who teaches painting classes to students across the globe and offers the building blocks of techniques and tools that develop crucial and fundamental skills. Achieve realism in your alcohol ink art with this inspiring and hardworking guide, Realistic Painting with Alcohol Ink!

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Pages: 168

Dimensions: 216 x 279 mm

Publication Date: 14-11-2023

Learn how to lean in to your unique style of creativity with this fluid art instruction book that combines creative inspiration and soulful introspection with practical instruction. Author and licensed psychotherapist Jessica Young is your expert, empathetic guide to developing your energy and feeding your creative flow. Through the diverse techniques and 10 expressive projects in this book, you’ll learn how to use the dynamic traits of alcohol ink, high-flow acrylic paint, and more to make beautiful works of abstract art that are reflections of your soul. By tackling the skill-building exercises first, you’re guaranteed success when you move on to the step-by-step projects. But you won’t just learn how to put paint to paper—you’ll also learn how to reflect and process your artistic experiences mindfully with the teachings, affirmations, and journaling prompts included throughout the book. As you journey through the pages, you will learn to encourage your creative process, face your inner critic, trust your unique voice, work past frustration, find your why, and embrace the fact that you are an artist. Be creative. Let go of fear. Find your flow.

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Pages: 192

Dimensions: 229 x 267 mm

Publication Date: 28-12-2023

Hand lettering just got a whole lot more fun with this instructional guide from professional lettering artist Dawn Nicole Warnaar. This comprehensive book, perfect for beginners and experienced lettering artists alike, begins with three foundational lettering styles and then expands to ten playful variations. Each style comes complete with a full alphabet of letters, detailed instructions, tracing practice, and creative worksheets. But that’s not all! Dawn also includes lessons showing how to embellish your lettering with cute elements to create expressive word art. Just as inspirational as it is instructional, the book is filled with the author’s gorgeous art and is printed on high-quality art paper with a lay-flat binding, making it perfect for users to practice right inside the book. It’s time to add serious style to your art with playful lettering!

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Pages: 208

Dimensions: 216 x 279 mm

Publication Date: 28-12-2023

Large-format collection of photography featuring the flora, fauna, and pristine landscapes of the Alps’ protected regions. Capturing the allure of this grandiose legacy of the ice age is difficult, even in superlatives, but this photo book provides up-close natural experiences throughout the parks and preserves of six Alpine nations: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, and France. From the snowy heights of Mont Blanc in France, to the Alpine fields abloom with wildflowers in Italy's Tre Cime, to the lakes and forests of Austria's Tyrol region, hundreds of color images show where the Alps still exist in a wild, unfettered state. Accompanied by species identification, geological history, and websites for trip planning, the book is both inspirational. and informational. Also included are tips on the best spots for hiking, skiing, and all types of climbing. This expansive trip through the Alps includes the following and more: • Little to no traces of human settlement and culture throughout the 750+ images • Beautiful, painterly photos that capture the region’s majestic landscapes at magic hour and with the best seasonal lighting throughout the year • More than ten UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserves and Parks and several UNESCO World Heritage Sites • Hundreds of plant and animal species captured, including underwater photography from pristine lakes and streams • Photos range above and below the treeline and feature everything in between, such as picturesque waterfalls and plains This is the definitive documentation and photographic escape into the wilds of the Alps.

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Pages: 424

Dimensions: 228 x 292 mm

Publication Date: 28-10-2023

A gorgeous, large-scale photo book packed with unexpected perspectives of the Atlantic and western European coastal areas, to inspire European visitors and residents as well as armchair tourists and photography buffs around the world As the most visited region in the world, Europe offers a tremendous range of attractions—a diversity that is even reflected on the continent's coastline itself. Europe's nearly 750 million residents and hundreds of thousands of annual visitors can make for crowded cities and congested towns, but the coastal areas offer plenty of spots for people to get in touch with nature—and to experience the majesty of the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly 450 awe-inspiring photos spotlight the Atlantic, which looms off the coast of western Europe as a mercilessly untamed, rugged, and endless expanse. The ocean is characterized by shoals and foaming spray, surging waves, and treacherous currents, yet it is also a unique habitat for whales and seabirds—and an inviting sight for us humans as it gleams in the light of the setting sun. Where rock, wind, and water collide—on coasts from Iceland to the Canary Islands, from northern Norway to Algarve—the range of the sea’s strength becomes evident in the empty beaches and imposing cliff faces, the black lava rocks, and the high surf pent up against stone walls.

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Pages: 360

Dimensions: 381 x 254 mm

Publication Date: 28-10-2023

Profoundly shaped by the events, forces, and overflow of today's disjointed, social-media-heavy life, these artists' paintings are “disrupted” stylistically, thematically, or sometimes both. They allow us to appreciate how art relates to the "super-fast, simultaneous, almost dizzyingly paced scrolling" of our lives. • Foreword by artist Nicholas Wilton, founder of Art2Life • Features a special essay on artist Jenny Saville, who has inspired many contemporary representational artists to disrupt their art • More than half of the artists are from outside the US; includes women and BIPOC artists • Artists' comments presented in an engaging question-and-answer style • Artists include Casey Baugh, Jenny Saville, Joseph Lee, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Justin Mortimer, and dozens more • Art writer and curator John Seed is the foremost authority on disrupted realism and is the author of Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World

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Pages: 224

Dimensions: 228 x 304 mm

Publication Date: 28-10-2023

Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer’s remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes. We find ourselves in Vermeer’s studio next door to a rowdy alehouse and meet a Bonnard nude day-dreaming in her bathtub. There’s a contemplative poem capturing the calm of a Vuillard interior, and then there’s life as one of Miró’s dots: “So here I am, on the edge of animation, a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction, A child’s adventure.” from ‘I Would Like to be a Dot in a Painting by Miró’ by Moniza Alvi. These poems are sure to delight every art lover, reminding us that any painting worth its salt has a thousand different meanings. This title is the second co-publication by Candlestick Press in association with Pushkin Press. Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. His books have been translated into 24 languages. Poems by Fleur Adcock, Moniza Alvi, WH Auden, Sue Hubbard, Mark Doty, Linda France, Mimi Khalvati, RS Thomas, Tomas Tranströmer and William Carlos Williams.

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Pages: 24

Dimensions: 137 x 210 mm

Publication Date: 01-08-2019