The Mind at Hand: What Drawing Reveals

Stories of Exploration, Discovery and Design

by Michael J. Strauss

The Mind at Hand explores how artists, scientists, writers, and others - students and professionals alike - see their world, record it, revise it and come to know it. It is about the ...

How to Paint Tropical Sunsets

Step by Step

by Gina De Gorna

How to Paint Tropical Sunsets is the first and only instructional book about the art of painting tropical sunsets. The book will be of interest to art enthusiasts of all ages. No previous ...

Across the Pacific

From Ancient Asia to Precolombian America

by Christian Lemoy

In former times, even more than today, climatic changes had major influences on migratory flows, and consequently on ancient agrarian civilizations, leading to deep economic, social, political and ...

Networks of Design

Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference ...

by Fiona Hackney, Jonathan Glynne, & Viv Minton (eds.)

Networks of Design maps a new methodological territory in design studies, conceived as a field of interdisciplinary inquiry and practice informed by a range of responses to actor network ...

Fundamental Building Materials

Fourth Edition

by Ken Ward-Harvey

Written by an architect with many years' experience in practice and teaching, this book is a well-illustrated introduction to the great range of materials used in much of the world's building and ...

Life in Bright Colors

The Artist's Secrets by Maya Green

by Maya Green

"Painting is my passion. Painting is as natural for me as breathing. Having been attached to painting since childhood, I felt that the necessity to paint grows bigger year after year. I respond ...

A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology

by Melvin H. Schuetz

Chesley Bonestell has been called the "Father of Space Art." His photorealistic paintings of the Moon and planets, and other worlds beyond, have awed us since they were first published, over half a ...

Color Influencing Form

A Color Coursebook

by Roy Osborne

A compact coursebook for the study of color in art and design. Chapters examine color mixing, color illusions, light sources, surfaces, and vision, symbolic and functional color and the ...