How to Art: Books for Color Our World

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Updated May 28, 2025
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Botanical block print: a creative step-by-step handbook to make art inspired by nature
Morris, Rosanna.
Paper Book
Botanical Block Printing is your companion on the journey of crafting relief prints from scratch, always with a botanical theme and beautifully presented in, printmaker and author, Rosanna Morris' contemporary and gentle aesthetic. Richly photographed, the book is a practical...
Drawing is for everyone : simple lessons to make your creative practice a daily habit
Ewing, Kateri
Paper Book
Discover your unique inner artist through 21 intuitive, process-based lessons in drawing with graphite pencil, colored pencil, and ink--then joyfully share your works of beauty with the world. In Drawing Is for Everyone, artist Kateri Ewing--author of Look...
The Illustrator's Guide to Procreate : How to make digital art on your iPad
Burrows, Ruth.
Paper Book
Unlock your creativity with easy digital illustration techniques. Learn how to create professional-looking art and illustration in Procreate, the industry-leading digital painting app for iPad. In this step-by-step guide you will learn how to create unique art, make seamless...
Make art with nature
Pixley, Pippa
Paper Book
Get creative and make incredible pieces of art using rocks, wood, berries, flowers, and leaves. Learn how to pour paint onto a canvas, how to put pencil to paper and draw, how bits of old paper can make a beautiful collage, and how different mediums can come together to create...
Paper quilling : all the skills you need to make 20 beautiful projects
Moad, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Quilling is currently on trend and gaining in popularity. Elizabeth Moad is well known in the papercrafting world, and has created a range of beautiful quilled designs that are suitable for all occasions and life stages, from new baby cards to wedding gifts to sympathy cards. One reason that...
We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something
McNee, Amie.
Paper Book
In We Need Your Art, Amie McNee calls artists and aspiring artists of all kinds to do the work they're meant to do- create. Using her own experiences as a novelist and the inspiration she's shared as a creative coach, Amie guides you on why we need your art and how you can make...

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