In this imaginative activity book, Marion Deuchars makes learning about art fun. Young readers discover new ways of making art by being introduced to 18 great artists, learning about the methods, materials, and ideas that made up their masterpieces, and how these can be applied to one’s own creations.

Grouped into sections by artist, each one unfolds a series of creative projects in drawing, painting, printing, and collage based on the artist’s own techniques. At the end of the book is a series of biographies about each artist providing the background on how they became artistic geniuses.
Take your pencil for a walk in the spirit of Paul Klee, experiment with colour and texture like Joan Miró or create your own surrealist-inspired artwork like Salvador Dalí.

Paperback with Flaps, 300 illustrations, 240 pages, Size: 11 x 8 in

ISBN: 9781780672816

Blank State is more than a coloring book: it is an exercise in collaboration, inviting the participant to contribute to the act of creation. Architecture and urban planning impacts our lives dramatically, dictating how we interact with our everyday environments, yet they are largely out of the layperson's control. This book allows everyone to make their mark through the use of color and value. Starting with prehistory and progressing through a re-imagined past, present and future, this book reinvents an architectural legacy, a "blank state" ready to be colored in or not. All that is needed is imagination and a willingness to dream.

Play with art like never before in this exciting new activity book from the bestselling author of the Let’s Make Some Great Art series. Marion Deuchars has created a surprising and engaging range of activities and games organized into seven sections of Drawing, Colour, Shapes, Paint, Paper, Printing and Pattern. Each section is not only a great opportunity to play, but also helps to shape and form artistic ability and confidence. Discover the joys of making your own marbled paper. Create your own language in pictures. Providing hours of endless fun and exploration, Art Play will bring out the artist in everyone. 224 Pages

A comprehensive history and interpretation of the Street Art movement, featuring all the key practitioners from Banksy to Swoon.

Street Art is a phenomenon and subcultural movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art fairs. Simon Armstrong examines how it evolved from its origins in the 1970s New York graffiti scene to embrace many new materials, styles and techniques along the way, tracing how this marginal art form graduated into art galleries and the art market, while also heavily influencing design, fashion, advertising and visual culture.

Despite having earned a place in the canon of 20th-century art history, Street Art’s qualifications are often disputed both by the art establishment and practitioners themselves, all concerned with notions of authenticity. Examining Street Art’s controversial history in detail, this book provides a full-colour worldwide journey, taking in all of the movement’s significant artists and artworks, styles, materials and methods, and showcasing the works that have come to define it more than any other. It also examines its close relationship to Pop Art and Digital Art, and explores possible futures for Street Art.

About the Author
Simon Armstrong is an author, artist, agent, editor and book-buyer for Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Tate Liverpool. He has worked as a DJ, club promoter, Head of Retail at London's Design Museum. He is the author of Cool Art and Cool Architecture.

• ISBN: 9780500294338
• Paperback
• Language: English
• Number Of Pages: 176
• Published: 19th September 2019
• Dimensions (cm): 21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm

Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present.

Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer.

This execrable exploration traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infra-structures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period.

It investigates and celebrates the work of the civil engineers whose pioneering integrated sewer systems brought to a close the devastating cholera epidemics of the mid-19th century and continue to serve a vastly increased

• Author: Stephen Halliday
• ISBN 9780500252352
• Hardcover
• Pages 256
• Dimensions 170 x 240mm

In the American Graffiti Coloring Book, more than 45 of America's most prominent graffiti writers have provided the initial outlines - now it is up to you to give them color!

With full pages devoted to the artwork, each spread becomes its own unique full color piece of art as you go along filling out the pages, and there is plenty of room for the small details. American Graffiti Coloring Book is printed on marker friendly paper. Use your markers and color-in on both sides of the page with no risk of the ink bleeding through.

This coloring book is an excellent way to release your creativity, whether you are new to graffiti or an experienced artist. Explore the medium, be creative, make an impact and immerse yourself in the world of color, style and shapes. The American Graffiti Coloring Book offers a relaxing approach to coloring at the same time as it is an informative art collection.

Remember: The American Graffiti Coloring Book is the real thing - it's not copying a graffiti "style", it's real graffiti. All illustrations are original artworks made by experienced American graffiti artists.

Young and old all over the world love the coloring books published by Dokument Press. In the American Graffiti Coloring Book, Dokument Press teams up with The Museum of Graffiti in Miami, Florida, to create a stunning coloring book with the best graffiti art that America has to offer. From New York pioneers who helped create the art form in the 70s, to freight train kings in Florida and hall of fame spray can wizards in California- they all come together to let us study their styles and color-in their outlines.

The content is carefully curated by the influential artist and Museum of Graffiti co-founder Alan KET, and the striking cover and book design is made by none other than Noah from the legendary AOK and TFP crews.

ISBN: 9789188369581

ISBN-10: 9188369587

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Number Of Pages: 50

Dimensions (cm): 25.0 x 20.0 x 1.27