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Talk Art The Interviews
The second book from Sunday Times best-selling authors Russell Tovey and Robert Diament, Talk Art: The Interviews offers a beautifully packaged collection of interview highlights from the popular Talk Art podcast.
A follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask, this collection gathers together 24 of the most profound, interesting, moving, funny and informative moments from the wildly popular Talk Art podcast. These curated excerpts explore the inspirations, art experiences and favorite artists of a fascinating range of creative people from Grayson Perry to Elton John, and from Tracey Emin to Paul Smith, accompanied by images of the artworks that have influenced them.
Featuring interviews from:
- Jerry Saltz
- Laurie Anderson
- Stephen Fry
- Elton John
- Tracey Emin
- Paul Smith
- Sonia Boyce
- Chila Burman
- Rachel Whiteread
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Pierce Brosnan
- Grayson Perry
The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Manga
Award-winning manga artist Sonia Leong, with the help of other acclaimed manga creators and educators, gives you all the tips, tricks and tools you will need to get your ideas onto the page.
- Discover how to get started, build your confidence, and boost your skills, beginning from first principles.
- Learn how to draw faces, bodies, hands, feet, and create unique characters with their own styles.
- Get the most out of your drawing materials, from traditional pens and pencils to digital software, and discover how best to use them to work up your own manga stories and comics.
- Benefit from advice on pacing, layout, composition and lettering.
You Will be Able to Take Great Photos by The End of This Book
Do you want to take photos that make people say 'wow'?
Photography has never been so easy; nor has it ever been so hard. Digital cameras and smartphones can deliver perfect exposures and pin-sharp focus time after time, but the tech alone won't create draw-dropping imagery, or supply the sort of photos that stand out in a sea of online visual overload.
Stripped of pointless jargon and focusing instead on the most important element in the image-making process - the person holding the camera or phone - this book makes good on its promise to teach the key skills and mind-set for taking great photos on any device.
- Gain the core skills needed by every photographer
- Learn to see the world as a photo opportunity
- Discover the tools that will raise your photography to the next level
- Develop a visual sense that can be applied to a range of photographic situations
The Colour Bible
An essential source for graphic designers, artists, interior designers, fashion designers, illustrators and creatives of any kind who work with colour.
Colour is intrinsic to the human experience; it guides us with subconscious visual cues throughout our lives. Get it right in your design or art and you can enhance mood and atmosphere, and create a desired psychological or even physiological effect. The Colour Bible is a contemporary handbook for navigating this fascinating world of colour. It dives into 100 profiles of significant colours and tracks them through their genesis, historical usage in art and design, and contemporary connotations and uses.
- A potted history of each colour
- Key colour associations from around the world
- Contemporary connotations and brand design
- Practical advice on how to use and combine colours in your work
The Papercraft Ideas Book
Bursting with ideas for papercraft subjects, methods and styles, this book is a visual feast and source of inspiration for artists of all abilities looking to expand their papercraft skills. Discover more than 80 stunning papercraft artworks by contemporary, international artists, and reinvigorate your own practice with the help of their diverse and innovative approaches. Techniques include 3D collage, paper marbling and paper quilling, as well as stitching onto paper, paper embossing and traditional papercutting.
Through countless tips and guidance, you'll be empowered to work with paper, expand your creativity and create art that is original and exciting.
The Calligraphy Ideas Book
Packed with fresh ideas for calligraphy techniques, styles and subjects, this book is a visual feast of inspiration for all abilities, whether you're new to calligraphy or looking to reinvigorate your practice. Boost your creativity with the help of more than 80 artworks by contemporary, international calligraphers, each demonstrating an interesting or innovative approach.
Techniques include hot foiling, laser cutting and brush calligraphy, as well as general inspiration such as practising calligraphy on baubles, making calligraphy wrapping paper and customising your own tools. Explore both new and old methods and discover the basic skills to excel at this ancient art form. The art of calligraphy is the ultimate way to relax, restore and create beautiful pieces of art - and this book is sure to renew your creativity.
How to Photograph Food
Food photography is a rapidly-growing genre, and whether you're a food blogger looking to take your presentation to the next level, or a professional photographer keen to expand into this lucrative market, this book has everything you need to make it all a piece of cake.
Using the techniques she has developed through years of professional success, Beata Lubas will teach you how to anticipate your clients' needs, articulate your own style, and skillfully manufacture sumptuous shots that leap from the page.
Learn how to tell food stories using light, colour and shape to evoke atmosphere.
Discover methods for shaping natural light to produce magical images in any environment.
Combine styling tricks and camera skills to create sensational compositions.
With clear, concise and comprehensive instruction to suite every skill level, this book takes you through all the stages involved in creating incredible food photography. So much more than just a guide to photographing food, this is a must-read manual for every photographer working with natural light.
Tate: Sketch Club Urban Drawing
Urban sketching has become one of the biggest art trends of the last decade, with artists preferring to capture a scene on location rather than relying on a photograph. Featuring 20 step-by-step exercises, Sketch Club: Urban Drawing is your essential guide to putting your drawing skills into practice on location. You'll learn how to start, when to stop and how to fix common mistakes.
Packed with all the energy and inspiration of a drawing group, this is the ideal book for anyone looking to take their urban drawing further. Perfect your urban drawing skills and develop your own unique style with professional urban sketcher, Phil Dean.
Chapters include:
- Loosening Up
- Building a Scene
- Adding Contrast
- Taking it Further
- Finishing Touches
The Rainbow Atlas
Discover 500 amazing global adventures for colour seekers. From natural phenomena and architectural wonders to art installations and cultural events, The Rainbow Atlas takes you around the world from one vibrant landmark to the next. It explores locations such as the extraordinary pink lakes of Western Australia, the brightly coloured fishermen's houses of Burano in Italy, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the old town in Antigua, the tulip fields of Holland, Bangkok's famous Damnoen Saduak floating market, and the otherworldly landscape of the Rainbow Mountains in Zhangye Danxia, China.
Each entry is organised by latitude, and details the best time of year to visit so you can start to plan your travels. It's the perfect gift for a jet-setting friend, or even someone who likes to explore the world from the comfort of their home.
Light & How to Photograph It
For professional photographers, chasing the light, waiting for it, sometimes helping it, and finally capturing it is a constant preoccupation and for some, an obsession. Drawing on four decades of working with light, Michael Freeman takes a simple but practical approach to interpreting, reacting to, and capturing photography's most valuable commodity.
Practical advice is organised into three straightforward sections: Waiting, Chasing, and Helping. Begin by mastering the art of patience, and recognise the immense value of anticipating and planning for gorgeous light that's just over the horizon. Then learn the techniques to meet otherwise transient and fleeting lighting conditions halfway, with quick thinking and fast reactions.
Finally, make the most of the tools at your disposal to enhance and manipulate light as you find it, covering everything from in-the-field shooting choices to technical transformations in post-production. This is the method of a working professional - to interpret, approach, and master whatever lighting situation is thrown at you and always get the shot, no matter what.
Get the Photos Others Cant
Getting the best possible photo is not a game of chance - there are proven methods and innovative approaches that the professional photographer uses to succeed. From Freeman's decades of reportage experience, he has developed proven methods for going beyond where tourists stop, and delivering the photographs that make the cover. Get the Photos Others Can't uses five 'nodes' or guiding principles, in various combinations, to elucidate each particular method of access: Right Place, Right Time - train yourself in the art of anticipationHearts & Minds - understand the importance of people skillsImmersion - involve yourself fully in your subjectDeep Learning - research and reflect Left Field - take an unexpected direction to find a new angle.
With examples from Freeman's own archive of images, as well as from iconic photographers including Weegee, Cindy Sherman, Guy Bourdin, W. Eugene Smith and Garry Winogrand, the secrets shared in this book will let you find your own modus operandi for overcoming the obstacles between you and the shot, so you can bring home your own world-class images.
Tate: Brief Lessons in Seeing Differently
This essential guide delves into the techniques, routines and mindsets of boundary-shifting artists, and the ways in which seeing differently can lead to creating something original. Learn the advantages of a different angle with Georges Braque, view everyday sights in a new way with Alex Katz and open your eyes to the possibilities of colour with Josef Albers. In every chapter, inspiring anecdotes and practical exercises will you help you gain a new perspective and reinvigorate your work.
How to Be an Artist
The New York Times Bestseller "I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I've followed most of them at some point but it took me a lifetime as an artist to find what worked. They are the generous, loving, enthusiastic, bullshit-free advice of a master communicator, just reading them makes me want to charge back into the studio" - Grayson Perry"Being an artist is a lonely pursuit - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the rest of your life.
Most of the time it hurts. This book will help the pain" - Tracey EminOne of Elizabeth Gilbert's 2020 Quarantine Book Recommendations"Joy is palpable in these pages. We need such thinking right now" - Apollo MagazineAs the witty and passionate chief art critic for New York magazine, Jerry Saltz is often approached by artists, both amateur and professional, asking him for advice: How do I get started? How do I get better? Is what I'm doing even art at all? They want to know, in short, how to be an artist.
Now, expanding on his viral cover story for New York magazine - and drawing on his decades of immersion in the art world - Saltz has the answers. How to Be An Artist is an indispensable book of practical inspiration for creative people of all kinds. Brimming with dozens of brand new rules, prompts, exercises, and tips designed to break through creative blocks, ignite motivation, and conquer bad habits, this book is designed to help artists of all kinds - painters, photographers, writers, performers - realize their dreams.
Includes such advice as:- Make art for now, not the future- No, you don't need graduate school- Recognize convention, and resist constraint- Get lost- Listen to the wildest voices in your head- Know what you hate (it's probably you)- Finish the damn thing!- How to recover from critical injuries
The Story of Pop Art
In this age of insta-stardom and selfies, Pop Art still defines the world we live in.
Emerging in the 1950s, Pop Art arrived in an explosion of colour, offering bold representations and plenty of humour. All of the celebrities, events and politics that came to define two turbulent decades are encapsulated in their work. Pop Art challenged the establishment and offered a new modernism, blurring the line between art and mass production.
Uncover 100 stories in this essential guide to a groundbreaking movement. Enjoy enlightening critiques of iconic works; meet key figures including Warhol and Hockney; and discover inspirational ideas and novel new methods.
What They Didnt Teach You in Photo School
Outpace the competition and put your photography skills to work with this enlightening, hard-working, no-nonsense guide to professional shooting in the real world. Passing on hard-earned lessons from his successful business, Demetrius Fordham shows how to snag the best internships and assistant roles, prepare an amazing portfolio, impress clients, and lay the groundwork for your own thriving career.
Make the transition from talented amateur to respected pro, building your own personal brand, network, and style along the way. With a fresh design and a grounded, practical approach, this is the crucial companion that will make you and your work stand out.
"Essential reading for anyone looking to make the leap from making great pictures to making them for a living" - Rob Haggart
What they didnt teach you in design school
Learn how to make your design skills pay with this enlightening, engrossing, no-nonsense guide to visual creativity in the real world. Passing on the lessons of a lifetime in graphic design practice and education, Phil Cleaver shows you how to create the best portfolio, impress at interview, develop strong client relationships, and produce great work in the studio. Enriched with quotes and advice from some of the best and brightest in the industry, this book is where you will find out what they didn't teach you in design school.
"There is a sea of books aimed at students produced every year. Most are overly complex and illustrated with unnecessary eye candy. Few are logical, legible, sensible, affordable and (above all) helpful for a young designer taking their first steps into the design jungle following the comfort of university. But Phil Cleaver's book has all that and more. Keep it in your bag, by your bed or on your desk: you won't regret it" - Mike Dempsey















