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In Drawing and Painting Animals, exceptional artwork and step-by-step lessons help aspiring artists draw wildlife that’s not only accurate but also captures the personality of the animal! First, readers will find sage how-to advice for finding the right subjects, working on location, drawing from photographs, and more. Next, captivating text and clear exercises help readers practice everything from preparing the working surface to painting, glazing, and varnishing. They’ll see how to add depth and texture, as well as discover tested tips for depicting fur, feathers, features, and even specific animals like big cats, monkeys, and birds. Finally, aspiring artists will be treated to hundreds of extraordinary, full-color reproductions from some of the world’s best wildlife artists, including Bob Kuhn, Dino Paravano, Raymond Harris-Ching, and Roland Jonsson. This all-in-one guide is the next best thing to having your own private teacher!
A reference dictionary containing over 1,400 entries covering the period 1639-1660, including 625 biographies of English, Scots, and Irish rulers, politicians, soldiers, sailors, and philosophers, and over 300 battles and skirmishes.
A city blazing with rebellion. An evil growing in power. A girl with a gift... Aura Jax has tasted freedom, and now she's coming for those who want to take it away. Sixteen-year-old Aura Jax has always known her own mind, whether The Society she grew up in knew it or not. Now, after returning to the totalitarian city set against everything she believes in, Aura finds herself in need of an impossible escape. Betrayed by allies she thought she could trust, she faces her biggest challenge yet: resisting the evil that would steal her power and enslave everyone. With her father's execution now imminent, Aura's only option is to conspire with people she barely trusts to save The Society from total destruction. The Spark is the second book in the electrifying 'Aura Jax' YA dystopian series. If you like futuristic realms, intriguing twists, and dynamic characters, then you’ll love R. J. Wade’s thrilling adventure.
In 1840, twenty-three-year-old George Long Brown migrated from New Hampshire to north Florida, a region just emerging from the devastating effects of the Second Seminole War. This volume presents over seventy of Brown’s previously unpublished letters to illuminate day-to-day life in pre–Civil War Florida. Brown’s personal and business correspondence narrates his daily activities and his views on politics, labor practices, slavery, fundamentalist religion, and local gossip. Having founded a successful mercantile establishment in Newnansville, Brown traveled the region as far as Savannah and Charleston, purchasing goods from plantations and strengthening social and economic ties in two o...
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