Provides pull-out tracings for five floral paintings, along with instructions for how to bring them to life with watercolour paint. This book offers guidance on how to transfer the tracings to watercolour paper, along with a section on what materials to use.

Teaches the art of adding borders and embellishments, construction and fastening ideas, and embroidery and other decorative techniques, with step-by-step guides and practical illustrations. This book includes ten projects for garments, accessories and articles for the home, with instructions on how to customize them to your own individual style.

A comprehensive guide that is suitable for jewellers who want to create unusual and unique pieces. It features an inspirational gallery of contemporary pieces made by jewellers around the world. It offers techniques and processes for working with plastics, ceramics, glass, textiles, paper, natural and found objects, and mixed media.

Helps readers discover how to substitute yarns and accurately estimate the amount required; and adapt patterns to create tailor-made garments. This book demonstrates various stitches, from basic chain stitch to filet and Tunisian crochet, and provides advice on mixing and matching stitch patterns and dealing with gauge variations.

A comprehensive guide to watercolour painting that draws on the expertise of seven well-loved artists and includes a variety of techniques and styles. It includes easy-to-follow instructions that show how to paint skies, trees, water buildings and flowers. It contains sections that are accompanied by inspirational paintings.

A guide to abstract painting that teaches you how to compose abstract paintings. It provides information about the background, aims and procedures of the abstract method, focusing on creativity and self-expression, the goal being the development of the reader's own talents.

Offers information on what materials to buy, how to use sketches and photographs, how to look at landscape shapes and how to use tone and composition to good effect. This book demonstrates a variety of acrylic techniques and explains elements of the landscape such as foregrounds, distances and skies.

Helps you create beaded jewellery. This work enables you to experiment with different shapes, colours and materials, from tiny seed beads to feature beads made from crystal, shell, or agate. This book explains the tools, materials, and techniques you will need, and features 100 designs for necklaces, bracelets, and earrings.

Helps you learn how to create beautiful models with a combination of traditional papers and modern prints. With easy-to-follow diagrams and step-by-step instructions, this book also helps you to learn simple fold sequences that can be used as the base for hundreds of different designs. It is suitable for the beginner and experienced folders.

Once again knitting is at the forefront of popular crafts and leisure time activities. Today, however, people turn to it not simply as a money-saving activity, but also as an opportunity to exercise their creativity, produce something original to wear or use, and do something relaxing and therapeutic away from the regular stresses and strains of modern life. Most patterns readily available to ...

A comprehensive guide to making mixed media artefacts. It includes techniques section that leads into the three projects.

Teaches how to paint landscapes with oil without relying on drawing skills. This book features reusable tracings for five step-by-step demonstrations.

A unique A-Z directory of acrylic techniques with step-by-step guidance on their use.

Helps readers discover how to read patterns and charts; choose colours and yarns; mix and match stitch patterns and deal with gauge variations; and adapt designs for the perfect fit. This book demonstrates various stitches, from stockinette and ribbing to lace, Fair Isle, cables, and intarsia work.

Shows you how to paint flowers and how to use them in larger paintings. This title teaches how to use watercolour techniques, including stippling, masking and more, explained in simple steps, and accompanied by helpful photographs and useful tips.

Reveals how to paint a range of flowers in watercolour, from delicate bluebells and daisies to intricate hyacinths, roses and liles. This book helps readers learn how to analyse the structure of flowers and break them down into shapes; create compositions; and mix flower colours, from delicate pastels to rich and vibrant hues.

Offers advice on a variety of drawing media including graphite and coloured pencils, charcoal, chalks, pastels, conte crayons, water soluble pencils and various pens. This title explores various techniques that can be used with these media from making marks and creating tone and texture to mixing and overlaying colours.

Presents a collection of bags and purses for various occasions. This title explains different techniques, including how to make your own fabrics using ribbons and bondable fibre and how to make cords to give your bags and purses a personal touch. It includes photographs that show how to construct and decorate five beautiful bags and six purses.

A resource for sewers of various abilities, offering advice and help with sewing projects, from simple repairs and alterations to making soft furnishings, fashion garments, and couture tailored designs.

Learn to paint quickly and easily with Terry Harrison's unique guide to watercolour landscape painting. Using a range of brushes, he demonstrates how simple it is to create all the different landscape elements - from skies, trees, bushes and hedgerows to footpaths, fields, water and reflections. With many hot tips and a wealth of practical advice, he presents an inspiring sequence of step-by-step