Jay Roeder

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Complete Creative Lettering Course

One workbook. 100 daily lettering exercises to hone your skills. Boundless creative inspiration.

 

When it comes to hand lettering, practice makes perfect! With 100 exercises divided into ten sections, this workbook offers a fun and friendly way to improve your lettering techniques every day. Each section focuses on building a particular skill or exploring a design application. Learn how to form letters, pair different lettering styles, and design motivational quotes. As you work on these beautiful full-color pages, featuring the striking artwork of author and illustrator Jay Roeder, you'll find plenty of ideas and encouragement to help you develop your own unique style.

100 Days of Lettering

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David Riche

Anna Franklin

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating the Fairy World

An inspirational guide to drawing and painting the fairy realm, this enchanting book looks at the origins and development of fairy art, and draws upon a wide range of art, literature, mythology, and folklore surrounding fairies. Readers are shown how to invoke the fairy spirit and bring to life the nymphs, sprites, and sylphs of a fabled realm. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations and photographs enable beginning artists to recreate flower fairies, celestial spirits, and mischievous dark fairies, as well as learn how to capture exquisite detail such as delicate wings and sheer gowns. Artists learn how to turn their brush into a wand and create an entire fairy kingdom in watercolor, the dreamiest medium with which to convey the spirit and nature of these fairy folk. • For aspiring fairy/fantasy artists, art students, and watercolorists • Worldwide popularity of fairy genre is growing • Features exquisite illustrations from some of the world's most prominent fairy artists working today • Also available:Drawing Faeries(0-8230-1403-7)

Watercolor Fairies

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Barbara Diane Barry

The Art of Getting Unstuck

"Based on author Barbara Diane Barry's popular course Art for Self-Discovery and supported by research in psychology and the science of brain function, PAINTING YOUR WAY OUT OF A CORNER guides readers through the process of overcoming blocks and expressing themselves freely in painting. Through a series of exercises that emphasize improvisation and risk-taking, readers will learn how to quiet their inner critics and strengthen their creativity"--

Painting Your Way Out of a Corner

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Jane Davenport

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop

An inspiring, mixed media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration-style faces.

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces

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Yvonne Perry

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Developing Intimacy with Yourself Through Written, Artistic, and Verbal Expressions

Journaling with Light Language

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Christine Watson

Inspirational and Practical Ways to de-Stress and Realize Your Creative Potential

Art Therapy

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Uri Shulevitz

How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books

How to write and illustrate children's books.

Writing with Pictures

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Laraine Herring

Embodying Your Authentic Voice

In this distinctive guide to the craft of writing, author Laraine Herring shows us how to tune into our bodies and connect with our emotions so that our writing becomes an expression of our full beings, rather than just an intellectual exercise. With warmth and wisdom, Herring offers a path to discovering "deep writing"—prose that is unique, expressive, and profoundly authentic. Lessons and imaginative exercises show you how to: stay with your writing when your mind or body starts to pull you away; explore the five senses in your writing; and approach your writing without judgment. Writing Begins with the Breath will open up a whole world of creativity for people who may not have considered themselves writers before, while also providing keen insights into the craft for seasoned writers.

Writing Begins with the Breath

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Fred White

Fred D. White

366 Meditations to Cultivate a Productive and Meaningful Writing Life

Make Writing a Part of Your Daily Routine

It isn't always easy to carve out time to devote meaningful thought and energy to your writing. Hectic schedules, distractions, and creative blocks all too often interrupt the dream - postpone it for another day.

But with 366 provocative entries - each addressing a specific facet of the writing craft, and accompanied by an in-depth reflection and a stimulating exercise - The Daily Writer provides you with easy entry points into that elusive space where words matter most and helps you to embrace writing as a way of seeing the world.

Whether you're looking for a way to better integrate writing into your life, get warmed up before you dive into a bigger work in progress, or overcome an old case of writer's block, The Daily Writer can help you establish and maintain an inspired devotion to the craft.

The Daily Writer

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Meredith Dillman

Learn to Paint the Enchanted World of Fairies, Angels, and Mermaids

Fairies, mermaids, and angels have captivated imaginations throughout the centuries. Embodying all that is feminine, sparkly, and magical, these fantastic creatures have found their ways into countless stories, films, and works of art that appeal to people of all ages. And now anyone can discover how to bring them to life in watercolor with this delightful 64-page guide. Inside, artist-author Meredith Dillman shares the methods of her unique artistic style, which is influenced by Pre-Raphaelite paintings, turn-of-the-twentieth-century book illustrations, and modern-day Japanese manga—a combination that results in beautiful, contemporary artwork. Meredith provides instruction specific to creating the mythical beauties and their whimsical surroundings, showing readers how to draw and paint faces, bodies, hair, clothing, and more. The author also guides readers through several inspiring projects, demonstrating how to re-create the magic step by step.

Fairies and Fantasy

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Kay Lagerquist

Lisa Lenard

An updated guide to the popular divination system explains the basics of numerology and how to explore the future using numbers such as a birth date, birth name, and address. Original.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Numerology

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Nancy Garen

Teaches the interpretation of the ancient cards using various spreads, from one-card to Celtic cross and category spreads

Tarot Made Easy

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Sark

Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories, and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It

An introduction to the craft of writing and storytelling offers unconventional advice and inspiration to help aspiring writers get ideas and put them onto paper, explaining how to use different tools to open oneself to creativity.

Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper

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Susanne F. Fincher

Color and Draw Mandalas Using Ancient Principles

Unlock the mystery and magic of sacred geometry to create mandalas using ancient design principles. Pythagoras believed that mathematical truths shift the psyche closer to divine perfection. The Fibonacci sequence has been found to exist in patterns throughout nature. C. G. Jung thought that contemplating the mandala could unveil the unconscious. The designs here draw on the vast history and knowledge once thought esoteric, now available as tools for cultivating spiritual and psychological well-being. Create your own mandala based on geometry, numbers, and signs, or color a mandala as a meditative process to tap into your creativity and intuition. However you use this guide, geometry can be a pathway to grasping who you are, where you belong, and what you are to do. Discover how this timeless practice can help you on your journey of self-realization!

Creating Mandalas with Sacred Geometry

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Sanaya Roman

Being Your Higher Self

Once in a decade comes a book that can affect people at the very core of their experience. A contemporary masterpiece in the tradition of the world's great spiritual writings, Spiritual Growth is such a book. It contains the essence of the contemporary spiritual path, embodying joy, growth, and increased aliveness. The teachings are profound and inspirational.

Open the book to any page. Quiet your mind, read, savor the words. The effect is instantaneous. Your mind is uplifted, your heart is opened, and your body experiences the sensations of peace.

The techniques are practical. Spiritual Growth teaches readers how to move to higher consciousness, when to be an active force, and when to surrender and let things happen. Spiritual Growth will teach readers how to: be their Higher Selves in their everyday life, create a vision of their higher purpose, and manifest what they want rapidly and easily.


Spiritual Growth

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Alexis Cartwright

The Mysteries Revealed

Beyond Doorways

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Robert Khayat

The Education of a Lifetime

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Rebecca Halstead

The First Person You Must Lead Is You

The real-life experiences portrayed in 24/7: The First Person You Must Lead is YOU are told with a combination of introspective humor and heart-wrenching candor that will inspire you to consider your approach to leadership from a new perspective-you. The stories author Becky Halstead, retired Brigadier General, United States Army, shares in this book illustrate leadership principles that transcend age, gender, race, and profession. Her personal leadership journey will capture your attention and cause you to re-evaluate how you define leadership - whether you are a corporate CEO or a high school student. The book presents the author's five fundamental leadership truths, followed by her key leadership principles, which ultimately lead you to her inspirational definition of leadership. The principles and supporting personal stories cover a lifetime of leadership lessons: from playing sports in high school to taking responsibility for over twenty thousand soldiers and civilians in combat as a general officer in Iraq. Becky has built highly successful teams in demanding environments and stressful situations. In 24/7 she shares with you the heart and mind traits and skills that allowed her to do so.The book also provides multi-leadership perspectives: the author as a leader, the one being led, a peer leader, and as an individual who becomes part of an enduring leadership legacy. She explains how to learn from both toxic and ideal work environments and bosses. This book is a much needed guide that reminds you what is really important when you are in a position of leadership. Becky has effectively translated lessons learned as a child growing up in small town USA, as a member of the second class of women to attend the United States Military Academy, and as the first female general to command at the strategic level, to a practical guide for use in the civilian world. In recent years, women in the military -- especially in combat -- have been the center of controversial discussions and congressional policy. While not her intent, these stories also educate those of you unfamiliar with the role of women in the military, providing a new understanding of the greater effectiveness of a military that includes them. Her stories are humorous, sad, celebratory, intense, and consistently relevant. Because they range over a life-time-from being a junior level leader responsible for a small team to being a senior level leader with a complex mission and a widely diverse team-the stories provide a relatable path of lessons in self-leadership. Becky's authenticity and unique experiences enhance her powerful messages. 24/7 is a book that you will want to refer to again and again as you find yourself in tough positions as a leader or as the person being led.

24/7

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Jodi Ramsey

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