Casa Malaparte

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casa malaparte.......2000-04-25

this little book is full of information about the house, architect, and owner. the drawings wonderful, the pictures really sets the house back in the time of Malparte, and the ideas that went behind the house is not hidden in the book.

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Casa Malaparte, Capri
Gianni Pettena
Manufacturer: Le Lettere
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 887166454X

Modern Italian Architecture: Casa Malaparte;

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Modern Italian Architecture: Casa Malaparte;
Karl Lagerfeld
Manufacturer: STEIDL
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OJOOFO

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excellent resource

Important for beginners.

Don't let the title fool you

Cathy keeps it simple...and affordable.

Fine for the Arteest on the Go

Guide to Sketching in Nature
Cathy Johnson
Manufacturer: Random House, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Painting Watercolors (First Step Series)

ASIN: 0871565544
Release Date: 1991-04-30

Book Description

The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature is a drawing and watercolor painting primer created to enhance any experience of the great outdoors. In a skillful blend of inspiration and practical instruction, nationally recognized artist, author, naturalist, and teacher Cathy Johnson encourages aspiring artists to use sketching and painting to deepen their understanding of the natural world, to savor its every detail.
Featuring simple, easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and more than 280 illustrations--in color and black-and-white--Sketching in Nature covers a broad range of subjects, including:
--Tools and equipment
--Choosing a subject to sketch or paint
--Artist's shortcuts to getting the angles right
--Rendering hard and soft edges
--Mixing paints and washes
--Understanding color and using a color wheel
--Using light to express volume
--Using a camera to supplement your work
--Using watercolor to suggest texture
--Sketching flowers, trees, and animals
--Depicting clouds and weather patterns
--Using field sketches as studies for future paintings
--Lists of sketching workshops and sources for art supplies

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excellent resource.......2007-03-26

I loved this book. I am a beginner and it was an excellent resource.

Important for beginners........2005-08-04

I am a novice artist and need all the tips and help I can get. This book is a big help and I refer to it frequently.

Don't let the title fool you.......2004-04-22

This book provides a tremendous amount of information on sketching in nature but don't let the title fool you- this is a terrific general sketching and drawing book. Johnson covers topics that are rarely covered in other books. The use of pens, watercolors, pencils and colored pencils (both water soluble and not) are covered. This is an invaluable book and is an asset to both the beginner and more advanced student. I'm on Amazon right now trying to find other books by Cathy Johnson- I'm that impressed.

Cathy keeps it simple...and affordable........2001-08-30

This is a very refreshing book. Cathy Johnson not only makes it look easy to draw and paint loose, yet accurate, watercolor sketches outdoors, but she tells you everything you need to know. This book will actually teach you how to draw and paint what you see, without making things overly complicated. Best of all, her supply list is well within the means of most people. I really enjoyed this book, and learned a great deal from it. This summer, I caught Lyme disease. It's nasty. For months, I could hardly walk, let alone hike and garden and do stuff I used to love. But Cathy's book has helped draw me back outside, and I'm learning to love nature all over again, one leaf, flower, and bug at a time. This book would make a great gift.

Fine for the Arteest on the Go.......2000-04-14

This is a pretty complete little volume. When you get it, you really do have to assume some knowledge and practice of making art and the media, however, she goes over materials and techniques, which can serve as a good refresher or initial exposure.

The best part is a discussion early on about how to pack all the materials so you don't keel over from exhaustion, hauling too much art gear, along with the usual standard hiking goodies. (I especially needed help with that, given my childlike adoration of way too many pretty colors.)

The emphasis is on SKETCHING, not doing the Mona Lisa. This is important in outdoor work as light changes and speed can be of the essence. I sometimes pick up this book so that I can just relax my techniques a bit.

The examples in the book, in many media and in monochrome or color are a delight to view. Sometimes, it's just fun to sit down with a cuppa and flip through the nice drawings of objects and scenes in nature.

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Sketchbook-Hunter Green Spiral Bound-Landscape Format, 10x7
Watson-Guptill Publications
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0823056376

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Sketching Landscapes
John Marsh
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0304351180

Book Description

Starting with ideas for keeping a sketchbook and choosing materials, artist John Marsh systematically teaches observational skills and techniques to master when portraying nature in all its variations. Try sketching cottages, villages, ancient buildings, and even the industrial landscape, paying close attention to the changes of the seasons, the light, and the atmosphere. Throughout, dozens of sketches illustrate the important points.

The Best of Sketching and Drawing: A Collection of Still Lifes, Portraits and Landscapes

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The Best of Sketching and Drawing: A Collection of Still Lifes, Portraits and Landscapes

Manufacturer: Rockport Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice

ASIN: 1564965104

Book Description

Collected in these pages are sketches and drawings that capture the true essence of their medium. Moods, textures, nuances of tone and gesture, all are here - in an amazing range of artistic styles and approaches. Selected from hundreds of entries, these beautifully reproduced drawings make a rich gallery of new work from some of today's most gifted artists.

More than 150 sketches and drawings in charcoal, pencil, or pen-and-ink. Work in a variety of genres: portraits, landscapes, abstracts, and still lifes. An international collection of sketches and drawings.

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Top Rate.......2001-08-15

The problem with most books on drawing that have an instructional bent to them is that they are dependant on the work of second-rate draftsment and tacky artists to illustrate them. This is obviously counter-productive. Though this is not an instructional book, it is filled with nothing but the best graphic work done in all mediums by a good variety of contemporary artists. Seeing the higher level of what is being produced now is instructional and inspirational in itself.

Countryside Sketching: Pen & Pencil Techniques for Drawing Covered Bridges, Barns, Old Mills, and Other Rustic Settings

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Countryside Sketching: Pen & Pencil Techniques for Drawing Covered Bridges, Barns, Old Mills, and Other Rustic Settings
Frank J. Lohan
Manufacturer: Contemporary Books
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Binding: Paperback

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The Pleasures of Sketching Outdoors
Clayton Hoagland
Manufacturer: Dover Pubns
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Binding: Paperback

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Rambling Thru Baja California With Pen and Brush Painting and Sketching Bajas Landscapes and Missions

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Sketching Outdoors in Winter
Jim Arnosky
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Sketching at Home & Abroad: British Landscape Drawings, 1750-1850

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Three Brief Essays

Sketching at Home & Abroad: British Landscape Drawings, 1750-1850
Evelyn J. Phimister , Stephanie Wiles , and Cara D. Denison
Manufacturer: Pierpont Morgan Library
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0875980945

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Three Brief Essays.......2005-09-09

This little monograph consists of three brief essays:
The Development of the English Watercolor by Evelyn J. Phimister
The Picturesque Landscape by Stephanie Wiles
Turner, Girtin, and the Rise of Romanticism by Cara D. Denison
There are several nice drawings and watercolors. Two dollars is about what it's worth.

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Sketching Landscape
Victor Perard , and Victor Semon Pberard
Manufacturer: Putnam Publishing Group
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ASIN: 0448005344

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Just as mountaineering developed from a leisure-time pursuit into the high-tech, intense sport it is today, photography has evolved into a favorite activity as well. This parallel growth created a distinct genre of mountaineering photography. As much a history of mountaineering as a history of photography, Souvenirs from High Places offers a fascinating collection of images from both ground-breaking photographers and amateur enthusiasts that demonstrates not only how much has changed, but how much has remained the same.

Souvenirs from High Places : A History of Mountaineering Photography

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Souvenirs from High Places : A History of Mountaineering Photography
Joe Bensen
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books, The
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Another hilarious must-have!.......2002-04-06

This 4"x7" paperback book is a collection of Hägar the Horrible comics by the incomparable Dik Browne (1917-89). Here in this book are many adventures of Hägar, his friend Lucky Eddie, his formidable wife Helga, his beautify though self-conscious daughter Honi, his bookish son Hamlet, and Hägar's less than competent crew. Along the way, they have adventures and hijinks with friends, enemies, hermits, beer, and many others.

Recently, while digging through an old box full of books, I came across several of my treasured Hägar books, of which this is one. My children (girl eleven, boy eight) grabbed it away from me, and were soon happily reading the jokes out loud to all present. It is so nice to see that Hägar can entrance the young of today, much as he did me. They loved it when Hägar planted the tulips upsidedown, surprising a Chinese family, and his hilarious misuse of Lucky Eddie.

We all love this book. If you can get it, then do so!

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Key to the Common school arithmetic
D. B Hagar
Manufacturer: Cowperthwait & Company
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Peerless Paris and its marvelous universal exposition ;: An artistically prepared photographic panorama of the most stately and unique buildings and notable ... picturesque places in the great metropolis
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Manufacturer: Universal Exposition Publishing Company
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Peerless Paris and its marvelous universal exposition: An artistically prepared photographic panorama of the most stately and unique buildings and notable ... with the great world's fair of 1900
George J Hagar
Manufacturer: Martin-DeGarmo Co
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The Portsmouth works
Stansbury Hagar
Manufacturer: Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College
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A Sampler of UMC research and service
Ann Summers Hagar
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