Beads have been used for decoration for centuries. Available in a huge array of colours, shapes and sizes, they are beautiful, adaptable, and easy to work with. These practical projects show how you can add detail, texture, colour and originality to garments and accessories by incorporating beads into your knitting, crochet and needlework. Learn traditional and contemporary techniques such as ...

Offers advice on drawing portraits, the clothed figure, hands and feet and scenery. This book includes a section on the importance of light and shade. It is suitable for those learning to draw, or wishing to improve their drawing.

Explains how to create everything from openwork and lace through to woven and hairpin crochet. Useful for both the highly experienced and the absolute beginner, this book takes you through the basic techniques to a project section that provides guidance for making colourful and stylish garments for you to wear.

Offers a way to use up scraps of yarn or practice using novelty yarns to decorate clothing, hats, bags and belts, embellish home accessories, or make a beautiful bouquet as an unusual display piece. This work allows you to choose from simple spiral roses, pretty poppies, elaborate layered blooms, and fabulous felted flowers.

Includes guidance on materials and the basic drawing techniques, such as shading and perspective, you need in order to create spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, and aliens. This book offers numerous ideas and projects to guide you, and tips and background information to aid your own creative work.

Artist's Mailing Cards are a growing trend in the world of mixed media art. This book contains a selection of some of the best designs, with contributions from a number of well-known textile designers.

Using a range of simple and unusual techniques, this title shows you how to create amazing paintings full of light, texture and atmosphere. It explains pastel properties and techniques. It offers advice on mark making, blending and using fixative.

Combining the techniques with paper decoupage and adding beads, ribbons and shiny stars, this book contains numerous ideas for embellishing the designs for use as greetings cards suitable for Christmas, birthdays, birth congratulations and much more.

Presents twenty hand-knitted cakes. This title includes a selection of muffins, fairy cakes, carrot cake, scrumptious gateaux and more.

Shows how to create a great selection of abstract paintings using mixed media and a few simple guidelines.

Explores the versatility and beauty of watercolours, and shows how to create different elements for successful landscape painting. With over 20 step-by-step demonstrations and information, this title covers different aspects of this exciting medium in an easy-to-follow, inspirational way.

Helps you learn about the materials you need and basic drawing techniques such as shading and perspective, and use them to create the dark, mysterious atmosphere of the Gothic world. This book presents numerous ideas and projects to guide and inspire you, and tips and background information to aid your own research and creative work.

Presenting a range of popular subjects, this title contains one step-by-step demonstration, the full-sized finished picture, and an A3 tracing of the picture outline. It offers tips and ideas for using colour, creating distance, mixing greens and more.

A collection of mini gift boxes, decorated using pretty papers, glitter, ribbons and any other kind of embellishment you can think of.

Presents a range of popular subjects by some of the leading artists. This book contains one step-by-step demonstration, the full-sized finished picture, plus an A3 tracing of the picture outline.

Suitable for those interested in developing their painting skills, this title contains one step-by-step demonstration, the full-sized finished picture, and an A3 tracing of the picture outline. It features a project taken from Ready to Paint: Venice in Acrylics .

Suitable for those interested in developing their painting skills, this title contains one step-by-step demonstration, the full-sized finished picture, and an A3 tracing of the picture outline. It features a project taken from Ready to Paint: Flowers in Acrylics .

Presents a range of popular subjects by some of the leading artists. This book contains one step-by-step demonstration, the full-sized finished picture, plus an A3 tracing of the picture outline.

Offers insight into the world of inchies - one-inch square pieces of mixed media art - with guidance on materials and techniques as well as ideas and inspiration for creating gorgeous designs of your own.

Suitable for those interested in developing their painting skills, this title contains one step-by-step demonstration, the full-sized finished picture, and an A3 tracing of the picture outline. It features a project taken from Ready to Paint: Watercolour Doors & Windows .