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3D Street Art
Regular price $27.99 Save $-27.99Enter the world of gravity-defying 3D street art and the artists who have defined the movement.
3D Street Art is the first book to bring together the artists who have defined the immersive graffiti genre. From New York City to Tokyo, Berlin to London and beyond, it includes an exclusive list of graffiti artists from around the world such as Hoxxoh, Lady Pink, Daim, Peeta, Leon Keer, Cee Pil, JanIsDeMan, and Astro among others. This book shares their incredible full color artworks alongside everything you need to know about the artists themselves.
Curated and written by Erni Vales, one of the innovators of the 3D movement, this is a comprehensive look at the anamorphic artwork that has been sprawled over our street surfaces, buildings, and outdoor spaces. Vales also looks at their techniques and the critical – and public – responses, as well as their social and political messaging, making this an unforgettable overview of 3D graffiti scene and how it’s changed the face of modern art.
How to Draw Like Hokusai
Regular price $18.99 Save $-18.99Unlock Katsushika Hokusai's artistic secrets with this step-by-step drawing guide, featuring over 60 subjects.
Celebrated for his dramatic and beautiful Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji landscape woodblock prints, which included Under the Wave off Kanagawa and Fine Wind, Clear Morning, Hokusai also applied his phenomenal artistic skill to creating a series of drawing lessons. These lessons capture the beauty and style of his art, yet can easily be followed by beginners.
His first volume of these tutorials, originally called Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing, has now been distilled into this easy-to-follow book. Now with additional step-by-step stages, it has never been simpler to emulate the artistic style of a great master.
Learn to draw over 60 different animals, figures and objects, including swooping cranes, cherry blossom trees, butterflies, people, birds, and flowers. By breaking each subject down into simple lines and shapes, this drawing book for adults demonstrates with clear steps that even detailed drawings can be easily recreated. As you’ll soon discover, there is so much more to Hokusai than ocean waves.
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Narrative Threads
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Narrative Threads celebrates the immense beauty and significance of Palestinian embroidery in contemporary art. Joanna Barakat documents and features more than 200 works by twenty-four established and emerging artists, who incorporate the motifs and symbolism of tatreez across diverse media – from painting, sculpture and textile to film, photography and street art. While some artists preserve traditional forms, others transform tatreez to explore themes of displacement, resilience and belonging. Together, their works offer a dynamic reflection on Palestinian heritage and identity.
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