Watercolor: Seasons: Discover Techniques for Painting Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter--Step by Step by Ronald Pratt
$13.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
Learn to paint breathtaking spring, summer, autumn, and winter scenes with Watercolor: Seasons. From sunny spring days to snowy cold mornings, this book explores numerous techniques to create mood, use color, and convey different times of day. Featuring the beautiful work of Nancy Wylie, this book showc ...Show more
National Portrait Gallery: 100 Portraits by Nicholas Cullinan
$21.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
The collections of the National Portrait Gallery, which consist of more than 11,000 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and over a quarter of a million photographs, provide a fascinating commentary on British history and culture, addressing questions of identity and achievement and promoting engage ...Show more
Claudia Schiffer by Claudia Schiffer; Ellen von Unwerth (Foreword by)
$49.99 NZD
$139.00 (64% off)
Category: Art & Design
This stunning book, curated by Schiffer herself, is a highly personal collection of her favorite fashion moments and a tour-de-force of beauty, tracing her work from übermodel to muse to modern-day icon, as captured by the greatest photographers the fashion industry has known: Richard Avedon, Patrick De ...Show more
A Day with Claude Monet in Giverny by Adrien Goetz
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Series: A Day with | Reading Level: General Adult
This beautiful, slipcased volume offers an intimate tour inside Monet's home and through the idyllic Giverny garden that inspired his most iconic paintings. Monet first spotted the village of Giverny from the window of a train and then relocated to the rural haven outside Paris in 1883. An artist with a ...Show more
The History of Tarot Art - Demystifying the Art and Arcana, Deck by Deck by Holly Adams Easley; Esther Joy Archer
$79.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
The History of Tarot Art offers a fresh and accessible look at the art styles, artists, and history behind more than a dozen of the world's most noteworthy tarot decks.Guided by Holly Adams Easley and Esther Joy Archer, hosts of the popular Wildly Tarot podcast, this deluxe collector's book provides a f ...Show more
Dick Frizzell: The Painter by Dick Frizzell
$50.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Reading Level: Very Good
Dick Frizzell has reached iconic status in NZ - we love him, he's one of our own. Dick has a great story: After going to art school he found himself in his 20s married and with a young family to support. He worked in advertising until 1974, when his artistic urges made him leave the ad agency to take up ...Show more
Renoir by Peter H. Feist
$29.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Series: Taschen's Basic Art Series
La belle vie: impressionism's most joyful paintings. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ...Show more
Undreamed of ...: 50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship by Priscilla Pitts; Andrea Hotere
$59.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
In 1966 Michael Illingworth, whose oil painting Adam and Eve appears on the front cover of this book, was awarded the inaugural Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. For the first time in New Zealand a practicing artist was given a studio and paid a salary to make art for a whole year. Fifty years later, the Fra ...Show more
The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study by Kimon Nicolaides
$39.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
Learn how to draw over the course of a year, in the space of 64 exercises. 'Kimon Nicolaides' The Natural Way to Draw is a sure bet . . . will improve your technique no end' - Artists & Illustrators This essential guide to drawing by renowned art teacher Kimon Nicolaides is valued by both early stud ...Show more
Marvel Age of Comics 1961 - 1978 by Roy Thomas
$90.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design
An Era of the InvincibleThe making of Marvel's household heroesIt was an age of mighty heroes, misunderstood monsters, and complex villains. With the publication, in November 1961, of Fantastic Four No. 1, comics giant Marvel inaugurated a transformative era in pop culture. Through the next two decades, ...Show more
Muse: Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces by Ruth Millington
$37.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design
Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces. Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history. Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti? How did Francis Bacon meet the burglar who became his muse? The perception of the muse is that ...Show more