Skittledog

Discover the absorbing art of whittling. An immersive and peaceful craft that rewards calm focus with beautiful objects. Samuel Alexander quickly built a strong following sharing his own compelling story about the healing power of carving. Now, in his first book he introduces this calm and gentle craft. Teaching beginners how to responsibly source fresh green wood, master the basic techniques for using a knife and sharing a range of step-by-step projects to work through at your own pace, The Green-Wood Carver is an important reminder of the therapeutic benefits of exploring a new craft. After learning the basics of how to get started, you can work through projects as varied as spoons, vases, simple buttons and household hooks. Working with the grain, you'll create tactile curves and textures, slowly revealing the character of each piece as you whittle. With Samuel’s thoughtful reflections on the joy of small movements and personal creativity charmingly woven throughout this how-to guide, his aim is not only to teach you how to create a beautiful object but to find the beauty in the process itself.

A no-nonsense beginner's guide to cyanotype: make your own beautiful prints and craft projects in just a weekend. One of the simplest and most elegant forms of photography, the cyanotype print gives distinctive white-on-blue results that are simultaneously graphic, intricate and mysterious. Drawing on Victoria Glover’s experience running workshops for beginners, this book will walk you through the process and presents a selection of projects for you to develop your skills. You'll learn how to print onto a cushion cover, T-shirt, tote bag and lampshade. And you can take your creativity further, toning your prints and using long exposures to create surprising X-ray effects.

Best-selling author/illustrator Marion Deuchars now takes her beloved bird through a daily workout in the natural sequel to Yoga for Stiff Birds. Marion Deuchars perfectly understands the difficult relationship some of us have with our daily fitness routine. In How to be a Fit Bird she raises a smile and brings levity to our workouts, using Bob the bird to see us through a number of routines: from holistic ten-minute workouts to more specific sessions focusing on particular parts of the body.

Discover a new craft with just a sheet of paper and a few simple tools. This simple guide will have you creating spectacular three-dimensional paper objects and artworks in no time! A growing craft trend; paper folding is easy to learn with a highly rewarding outcome. Join paper folding artist Kate Colin as she introduces different folding styles and shares contemporary step-by-step projects. With each technique surprisingly accessible, Kate skilfully guides you through creating centre pieces that wouldn’t look out of place in any cool, homemaker’s interior. From lampshades to wall art – and even vases, the projects in this book all have interior design addicts in mind. The LEARN IN A WEEKEND series is designed to bring craft to a whole new audience. Presenting accessible, stylish projects in a contemporary style, it’s aimed squarely at hip hobbyists who want to get started quickly, have fun and make something they’d be proud to share. Other titles in the series include Linocut: Learn in a Weekend, Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend and Paper Marbling: Learn in a Weekend.

Celebrated illustrator Marion Deuchars is on a mission. Sharing a host of inspiring projects and ideas, this book shows people of all ages and artistic abilities how a little creativity every day can make a big difference. Live the life of a true creative! With over 100 projects and ideas, Marion invites you to release your artistic potential. Spill some ink. Draw with a stick. Have a go at hand lettering, or painting with a mop! The ideas in this book are all about having fun and realising it's never too late to discover-or rediscover-your artistic side. Projects like hand printing, marbling, cyanotype, and rubber stamping will absorb you for an enjoyable afternoon; others like street photography, beach sculpture, and dog doodling can be done in the moment. Get painting, printing, drawing, making and imagining and discover how little moments of creativity can bring great joy.

The only hyper-realistic drawing book with the humour and taste that today's audience demands. You'll never look at a fried egg the in same way again! With this book, you'll learn how to draw your own super-real artworks. Twenty step-by-step tutorials show you each stage on the way to an impressive finished effect. From a simple spoon to an appetizing avocado and beautiful rosebuds, you'll discover the confidence to have a go, as Sarah Evans expertly guides you through the materials and techniques you'll need.

Reveal the true potential of forty kitchen staples: sardines, chickpeas, lentils, oats, tahini and many more – with five easy and modern recipes for each. Everyone's kitchen has a cupboard filled with tins, jars and packets that looked inviting on the supermarket shelves, but you haven't yet got around to eating yet. Simple but inventive meal ideas to bring new flavours to your table: with this book, you’ll never look at a sardine the same way again! Forty different store-cupboard staples are showcased, each with five easy recipe ideas. Elevating everyday staples like lentils, beans and olives, Anna presents a host of flavours from around the world, and with 200 recipes, you’ll never run out of ideas. Designed for real-world simplicity, every recipe takes only a single paragraph to explain – so they’re sure to become regular favourites, returned to time and again.

Unbelievably cute and easy-to-follow kawaii drawing, broken down into step-by-step exercises that anyone can master. A completely immediate and straight-ahead guide to drawing Japanese people and places in an appealing kawaii style. “Kawaii” means cute in Japanese, and often refers to a delightful range of drawing styles that Western audiences have come to love. Annelore Parot, an experienced illustrator and art teacher, has her own distinctive kawaii style based on cute objects, inviting places, and expressive people. Her fans have long demanded a guide to drawing Japan and Japanese things, so she put together the work-throughs in Kawaii!: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Cute Japanese Drawing. Each spread shows, in six or seven steps, how to build up a cute picture with just a few strokes of the pencil: and on the right page of the spread, there’s space for you to practice them yourself. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to create lively people, expressive faces, and evocative scenes. Parot traveled around Japan to choose the best subjects, and invites the reader to join her in experimenting with buildings, movements, and memorable aspects of Japanese culture. Myths, animals, and food are all included.

Fierce and irreverent, these dot-to-dots lead you to a fabulous finish! Pick up a pencil and prepare to go wild with it! Twenty fresh puzzles from the talented hand of Jennie Edwards will keep you guessing right to the end—when each reveals a stunning drag queen in their glorious pomp. The puzzles have been prepared and tested by the same team that created the first-ever series of dot-to-dot puzzles for grown-ups. That massive success revealed legions of enthusiastic dot-to-dot fans who will be thrilled to discover these brand new challenges.

The thirteen tricks and moves that all skaters need, stylishly presented. The beginner skateboarder will learn about their board and how to maintain it, a little about skatepark etiquette and safety, and all the basic moves necessary to get off to a confident start. The book then takes the thirteen key tricks that every skateboarder wants to learn and breaks them down into clear step-by-step instructions, with specially commissioned illustrations making them easy to follow and a pleasure to look at. With Jack's expert guidance you'll master the basic skills, and soon be popping doing ollies, kickflips, board slides, shuv-its and more.

Imagine mind-bending new worlds and express your creativity with more than 1,000 surprising images. From the same team that created the bestselling Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage comes this new collection of surprising images: a trip down the rabbit hole that will blow your mind and add new life to your collages. Every title in the Cut Up This Book series has all you need to create a host of surprising artworks of your own. There are more than 1,000 lively images—including backgrounds so you can create dramatic scenes—and a practical introduction will teach you the tricks of selection, composition, and juxtaposition that will fill your work with meaning and intrigue. Just bring scissors, glue, and your imagination!

By your own hand, prints to be proud of in no time at all. Nick Morley is a seasoned expert at guiding aspiring printmakers through their first projects, and this accessible book distils his knowledge into friendly step-by-step projects, each chosen to demonstrate a particular skill, and illustrated with clear photography. With templates accompanying each project making it easy to get started, the reader will quickly find themselves growing in confidence and skill.

Dog-loving puzzlers will love chewing on these relaxing dot-to-dots Fall in love with these cunningly canine line-art puzzles! Twenty new illustrations from the talented hand of Jennie Edwards will keep you guessing right to the end—when each reveals a lovable dog doing something irresistibly doggy. The photography is by Instagram sensation Doggy Pawtraits, and the puzzles have been prepared and tested by the same team that created the first ever series of dot-to-dot puzzles for grown-ups. That massive success revealed legions of enthusiastic dot-to-dot fans who will be thrilled to discover these brand-new challenges.

Loosen up with a smile on your face! Marion Deuchars has practiced yoga for many years and knows well the benefits it brings. Now she shares that passion with her illustrated character Bob the Bird, whose expressive poses will charm you into a reviving session of yoga breathing, stretching, posing, and mindfulness. Yoga for Stiff Birds rejects the clichés of studio photography in favor of a more immediate, inviting look. With a few brushstrokes Deuchars helps Bob into every position from the downward-facing dog to the tree. Both useful and inspiring, her art will raise a smile, whether you’re a regular practitioner or a yoga novice, and will encourage even the creakiest reader to breathe, stretch, and bend like they never have before.