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Kirigami is a variation of origami. Create wonderful 3D sculptures of fairies, birds of paradise, and moonlight hares in 20 designs, all based on an enchanted theme. Colour and display them for beautiful decorations.
Apply your creativity large-scale, using your favorite mediums or a new one, to give your space big impact. These 14 projects, some easy and some more challenging, use a wildly creative range of techniques including manipulated paper, found object repurposing, laser cutting, casting, stickers, origami, and even cardboard taxidermy. First comes helpful guidance on getting your basic skills firmed up, including how-to's on selecting and using tools and materials, working with color, and using layout and scaling techniques. To allow you to find a wall project that fits any space, these range from mid-century modern to geometric, to folk art, pop art, and distressed vintage. New wall art creators are encouraged to succeed and experienced makers will enjoy projects that bring advanced skills into play. Includestemplates in print and digital download formats, enabling crafters with Cricut-type machines to work directly from files..
Follow your imagination and take a walk through the époustouflant(amazing) streets of the world's most romantic and inoubliable(unforgettable) city with Carlton Books' new colouring in title - Paris Night & Day Colouring Book. With its unique, 'night and day' approach, using both black and white backgrounds as a device to intensify your colouring in, each intricate Parisian pattern and design can take on a life of its own. From Moulin Rouge to Eiffel Tower, Pompidou Centre to Palais Garnier, Paris is stuffed to the tips of every croissant it bakes with brilliant sights to see. With Paris Night & Day Colouring Book, all ages can locate their inner zen with a colouring pencil or pen, and create their own vibrant technicolour masterpieces. With 90 beautiful and intricate Paris illustrations to choose from, and boasting a superior paper stock to help keep your colours looking bright and beautiful, this colouring book takes your mind deep into the heart of Paris, where you can let your imagination, and your pens, run wild. S'amuser!
Twelve-year-old Danny Woo had an unusual childhood. His parents were the star performers in the Mysterium circus—and they taught Danny plenty of tricks. But his parents' skills couldn't save them from dying in a suspicious fire. Now Danny and his aunt Laura, a journalist, are heading to Hong Kong so Laura can research the dangerous gang called the Black Dragon. Almost immediately, she's kidnapped and Danny realizes that the gang may be connected to his family's past. With the help of an old friend, Danny tries to free his aunt, and he uses every trick he knows to face off against the international criminal network that might be responsible for his parents' deaths.
These 25 projects show how ammonites, lichen rosettes, honeycomb, and other natural forms can help you apply the rules of mathematics to create complexly beautiful works. Clear, paper-art-focused explanations teach you the principles of mathematics we see in nature, including the Golden Section and Golden Angle, Fibonacci numbers, and symmetry. Learn about using flaps and piercings with various projects, including "A Murmuration of Starlings." Benefit from lessons in the Japanese art of kirigami and geometric principles, with projects such as "Kirigami Cascade" and "Rotational Symmetry." Tesselations and 2-D weaving, 3-D form assembly, woven 3-D forms, and stacked layers come into play for projects such as "Radiolarian" and "Sea Urchin." The role that display plays in your work is covered too, including flexagons in the "Undersea Frieze," black light in "UV Jelly Fish," and light-box effects in "Art Deco Scarab" and "Diatoms through the Microscope." Art really does mirror nature, as these fascinating cut-paper sculptures show.
In a world where all pleasures are severely restricted, Melkin Womper is apprenticed to a master painter where he discovers the Mirrorscape, a world inside paintings, and becomes entangled in a war between the restrictive Fifth Mystery and the rebels fighting to stop them.
Take an eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of Britain's railway network is also one of its least well known: around 150 of the nation's stations are request stops. Take an unassuming station like Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire--the scene of a fatal accident involving thousands of carrots. Or Talsarnau in Wales, which experienced a tsunami. Tiny Stations is the story of the author's journey from the far west of Cornwall to the far north of Scotland, visiting around 40 of the most interesting of these little used and ill-regarded stations. Often a pen-stroke away from closure--kept alive by political expediency, labyrinthine bureaucracy, ...
This is a tale involving kidnap, invisible burglary, tunnel-licking monsters and a battalion of moth bodyguards. Mel, Ludo and Wren are battling a new enemy - the sinister order of Ters, who have created storms over the city of Vlam. After a cry for help from a land in the Mirrorscape, the three friends go back into that strange and unpredictable world. They make new friends - and enemies - as they attempt to prevent the storms that threaten Vlam with a plague of demons. But the Ters and the terrifying demon-slayer Morg are sniffing at their heels. And it seems there is a traitor in their midst. The fate of more than one world is balanced on the tip of a brush...This story is an imaginative tour de force from a visual master that will have you on the edge of your seat.