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If I had only known............2006-05-02
This field guide has what I consider to be soso black and white photos and drawings of each type of barn and supporting structures. If you are looking for accurate information on a style of barn and where it may be located this is the book for you. I would perfer better quality photo's and some color. Rather boring presentation!
Fantastic Book on Barns!.......2001-04-02
For what I wanted the book for it is a fantastic resourse. I build model barns and covered bridges. This book has not only given me new ideas but also a history behind them. Love the book.
Frustratingly brief presentation.......1998-10-29
While the book presents numerous types of agricultural buildings from all over the U.S., it doesn't go into any sort of detail about any of them, making it of limited reference use.
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Draw 50 Birds: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Chickadees, Peacocks, Toucans, Mallards, and Many More of Our Feathered Friends (Draw 50 Series , No 25)
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ASIN: 0385471637
Release Date: 1996-12-01 |
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Most Useful.......2005-10-28
This was the most useful book for learning to draw birds that I have found to date. It was easy to follow, the drawings were accurate without being overly ornate, and the diversity of birds was perfect. I would recommend this book to anyone trying to learn to draw, and especially for those who want to draw birds.
Very good.......2003-02-05
good book. when Lee J. Ames draws with someone else it is a bit harder. still easy and fun.
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Whether it's cats, dogs, horses, sheep, or even ducks, artists love to create stunning masterpieces of their favorite creatures. And now, with Painting Animal Friends, it's possible to paint any animal--without fine art training. Jeanne Filler Scott applies the project-based approach (popular in decorative painting instruction guides) to the canvas. She provides over 27 demonstrations, featuring:
-Clear instructions of the entire process with photos clarifying every step -Template line drawings for each animal so readers at any level can start immediately -The most requested and frequently painted animals
The result? A reference book that appeals to two enormous audiences: fine artists and decorative painters.
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*Another addition to the bestselling "Problems and Solutions" series
*Flowers are one of the most popular subjects for painters
With Drawing and Painting Flowers, favorite artist and teacher Trudy Friend provides readers with the hands-on guidance they've come to expect from the bestselling "Problems and Solutions" series. In this volume, artists will find solutions to common problems in painting and drawing flowers--whether their medium is graphite pencil, colored pencil, watercolors, or pen and wash. From chrysanthemums and foxgloves, to dahlias, honeysuckle, and more, each spread highlights common problems and simple solutions to rendering flowers accurately and beautifully.
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The fourth title in the bestselling Problems and Solutions series, Drawing and Painting Animals highlights common problems and simple solutions for creating more realistic renditions of animals. This much-needed guide:
-Covers the portrayal of animals, one of the most popular--but also one of the most problematic--subjects for leisure painters
-Presents clearly annotated pictures and easy-to-follow technique demonstrations to help readers quickly correct problems
-Shares techniques applicable to watercolor, charcoal, pastels, acrylic, and more
With instruction on a wide range of popular animals, including farm animals, wild animals, birds, reptiles, and insects, this guide will appeal to any artist wanting to portray animals accurately and gracefully.
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Very useful book for the fledgling artist.......2007-05-20
I bought this book after struggling to draw birds. While it does not focus specifically on birds, it does cover many different mediums and teaches a few simple techniques that are invaluable to any artist, whether they paint or draw animals, landscapes or humans. While this book does not specifically deal with the subject of digital painting and drawing, many of the techniques within can be adapted to a digital format. I highly recommend this book to any artist, no matter their specialty. The lessons learned in this book have been invaluable, but may be difficult for a younger reader to understand.
Great Book.......2007-01-12
This was a very informative book. For anyone wanting to paint or draw animals.
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I'm Not From Germany And Yet Still, I Enjoyed This Guidebook.......2005-09-28
I always had trouble drawing Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron, until I found this guidebook sitting on top of a pile at a recent garage sale of a troubled family who had moved away from our neighborhood. The boy and girl who lives there grew up too fast, leaving behind their children's books and simple toys, and becoming crack addicts-or, to use the language of the animated feature SPIRIT, addicts of the crack. Thus their abandoned toys seemed to speak of a childhood pushed away too quickly, like a spoiled child will push away the food on the table he secretly craves, in order to illustrate some point of self-esteem! Sad the way we starve ourselves of the things that matter.
But happily for me, little Benji had not done much coloring in this how-to guidebook. Like I say, I always had trouble sketching in the faces and bodies of the CIMARRON crew-Spirit, Rain, Little Creek, the eagle. Nothing worked, and I couldn't find anyone skilled enough at Dreamworks Animation Technique to help me at my office. The faces of Rain, Spirit, Little Creek and others would haunt my dreams at night, and when the shadows of morning crawled in across the windowpane I would struggle for a pencil, trying to trace their faces on a pad of paper. But the faces I loved grew misshapen, and the eraser at the end of the pencil was in for a beating.
Now along comes a book which shows you exactly how to get the results you desire. From the slightly square, trim face of plucky little Spirit, to the bold human planes of brave Little Creek, the whole range of anatomy is stripped bare. I said to my dog, "You'd be able to make your own tattoo of these guys if you wanted to," for as all animators know, once you know the secrets, a few brisk strokes in the right direction will bring recognizable faces to life, just as though we see them in our hearts. I went through the whole course in a little under ten weeks, turning this into the "Summer of Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron, and Friends."
A very great book!.......2003-08-05
You can't buy the book "How to draw Spirit and Friends" in Germany, but you can order it! I'm come from Germany and I've order this book! I hope, it is a great book. You sad it's great and the booktitle sounds very good!
Super Spirit.......2003-05-18
This is one of the most greatest spirit produts, It has step by step drawing tips on how to draw spirit and Friends.
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Easy-to-Make Teddy Bears and Animal Friends Stained Glass Projects: With 36 Full-Size Templates
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Captivating teddies, bunnies, puppies, kittens, elephant for creating delightful stained glass projects.
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Beatrix Potter loved the English Lake District and painted many beautiful watercolor sketches there. In this book, pairs of sliding pictures show how she used Lakeland scenery as background for her Peter Rabbit Tales and how she peopled real places with her imaginary characters. Ideal for collectors and also children.
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The advertising campaigns launched by Kodak in the early years of snapshot photography stand at the center of a shift in American domestic life that goes deeper than technological innovations in cameras and film. Before the advent of Kodak advertising in 1888, writes Nancy Martha West, Americans were much more willing to allow sorrow into the space of the domestic photograph, as evidenced by the popularity of postmortem photography in the mid-nineteenth century. Through the taking of snapshots, Kodak taught Americans to see their experiences as objects of nostalgia, to arrange their lives in such a way that painful or unpleasant aspects were systematically erased.
West looks at a wide assortment of Kodak's most popular inventions and marketing strategies, including the "Kodak Girl," the momentous invention of the Brownie camera in 1900, the "Story Campaign" during World War I, and even the Vanity Kodak Ensemble, a camera introduced in 1926 that came fully equipped with lipstick.
At the beginning of its campaign, Kodak advertising primarily sold the fun of taking pictures. Ads from this period celebrate the sheer pleasure of snapshot photography--the delight of handling a diminutive camera, of not worrying about developing and printing, of capturing subjects in candid moments. But after 1900, a crucial shift began to take place in the company's marketing strategy. The preservation of domestic memories became Kodak's most important mission. With the introduction of the Brownie camera at the turn of the century, the importance of home began to replace leisure activity as the subject of ads, and at the end of World War I, Americans seemed desperately to need photographs to confirm familial unity.
By 1932, Kodak had become so intoxicated with the power of its own marketing that it came up with the most bizarre idea of all, the "Death Campaign." Initiated but never published, this campaign based on pictures of dead loved ones brought Kodak advertising full circle. Having launched one of the most successful campaigns in advertising history, the company did not seem to notice that selling a painful subject might be more difficult than selling momentary pleasure or nostalgia.
Enhanced with over 50 reproductions of the ads themselves, 16 of them in color, Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia vividly illustrates the fundamental changes in American culture and the function of memory in the formative years of the twentieth century.
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Capturing the Essence of Memory.......2003-03-17
Congratulations to Nancy Martha West for so beautifully capturing the essence of Kodak's contribution to the twentieth century, and the resulting impact upon both American and world cultures. More than simply addressing Kodak advertising, this text speaks to the larger concerns of the modern human family and the legacy we leave behind.
The text is developed with the discipline of a focused scholar, and yet communicates the author's sense of discovery and wonder as she experienced the project.
West's approach to the subject of reflecting cultures through their photographic representations is both fresh and timely. Her research reveals that while these images become locked in our continuing memories of events and relationships, the images themselves are only a partial glimpse into events as they actually happened. The implications of this thesis are faithfully developed, yielding an essential read for any student of history and cultural development.
An exceptional work.......2000-10-04
As a student of Professor West's at the University of Missouri-Columbia, I was excited to read her work after enjoying her as a teacher. With "Kodak," she has meticulously reconstructed the campaigns used by Kodak throughout the late 1800s to mid 1900s. Initially, snapshots were seen as a means of leisure. Towards the early 1900s, however, Kodak's advertising scheme shifted the emphasis towards nostalgia and preservation of memories (more specifically, familial). Kodak even went so far as to use their advertising for propaganda (see "The Death Campaign"). All of this and more is included with beautiful illustrations. The book is a fascinating read, one that will provide a true sense of Americana through the ever-changing Kodak lense.
A fascinating survey of photography and advertising........2000-08-03
The history of Kodak photography and Kodak's advertising, which influenced American culture and the arts, is revealed in Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia, a survey of the Kodak campaign to make photography a part of daily American life. Included are unused campaigns never published, in this fascinating survey of Kodak's ad history.
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