Shows how to make cute and funny sugar animals for cake decorating using sugarpaste and a few simple tools and techniques. This title helps to learn about the simple shapes that are the basis for all the animals, and the few basic tools that are needed.

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.

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.

Uses instructions and step-by-step photography to show how to paint five famous London scenes, from the drawing stage, which is provided as a tracing, to the finished painting.

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.

From capturing light and reflections in water, to building up the vibrant colours of a Mediterranean landscape or the delicate mood of morning mist, this book shows how to create landscape paintings in oils that are filled with compelling atmosphere and interest.

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

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.

Explains over 200 crochet stitches, each accompanied by a photographed sample, row-by-row instructions, and easy-to-follow symbol charts.

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.

A collection of 1000 cross-stitch motifs. It covers the basic techniques and materials. It is suitable for cross stitchers of all abilities.

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.

Containing instructions for 65 abstract paintings, this book provides basic information relating to picture elements, composition, theme and design. It explores the meaning of abstract painting, and its importance as a means of self-expression and creativity.

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

Features photographs of techniques and demonstrations, which offer a course for those wanting to learn how to paint all the elements in the landscape, from mountain views and rustic scenes to sea-lashed rocks and sun dappled woodlands.

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.

Offers tips for working quickly, correcting mistakes, adding colour, creating texture, capturing detail and more. This book demystifies the painting process and shows how to produce perfect pictures.

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.