Jade Mosinski: Bee Artisan Art Sketch Book
New title in the colourful Artisan Art Sketch Book collection by Flame Tree Studio, in a range of hues to suit the mood, crafted with decorated page edges and embellished with beautiful tactile art on the cover. Perfect for all artists, sketchers and doodlers. Artisan Art Sketch Books from Flame Tree come in a range of hues to suit the moment and are embellished with a wide variety of well-known art on their tactile, vegan leather covers. They're carefully crafted with decorated page edges overflowing with petals, teasing vines and patterns. A unique blend of the practical and beautiful, with two ribbons and thick white FSC-certified paper stock that makes them ideal for sketching and drawing. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for artists, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. And with robust flexi covers they're a pleasure to use. Simply, they feel good! Jade Mosinski is a Derbyshire-based designer and illustrator who loves to create beautiful and intricate illustrations inspired by the natural world, using detailed linework. She also likes to create more colourful, feminine patterns, with bolder shapes and imagery. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
Moomin Love Artisan Art Sketch Book
New title in the colourful Artisan Art Sketch Book collection by Flame Tree Studio, in a range of hues to suit the mood, crafted with decorated page edges and embellished with beautiful tactile art on the cover. Perfect for all artists, sketchers and doodlers. Artisan Art Sketch Books from Flame Tree come in a range of hues to suit the moment and are embellished with a wide variety of well-known art on their tactile, vegan leather covers. They're carefully crafted with decorated page edges overflowing with petals, teasing vines and patterns. A unique blend of the practical and beautiful, with two ribbons and thick white FSC-certified paper stock that makes them ideal for sketching and drawing. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for artists, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. And with robust flexi covers they're a pleasure to use. Simply, they feel good! Tove Jansson was a Finnish-Swedish writer and artist. She first started painting Moomintrolls in the 1930s and her last Moomin book was published in 1977, but her stories live on and continue to be adapted and enjoyed by many generations. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
Captured in Water and Light
Sarah Wood is a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists. She has exhibited her work in the UK, Germany, Spain and the USA. Her work is also in private collections.This beautiful volume features over 120 full-colour reproductions of her watercolour paintings from around the UK, including several that have won prestigious awards.From simple lichens and grasses, to showy blooms such as Peony and Poppy, Sarah showcases some of her best work including many of her signature raindrop paintings.This book will provide inspiration and enjoyment of the varied colours and forms found in gardens, woodlands and cliff tops.
Reading Design
In Reading Design, noted architect Craig Hodgetts sorts through the myriad of things that surround us with an eye trained by years of teaching at UCLA's world class School of Architecture In Reading Design, noted architect Craig Hodgetts sorts through the myriad of things that surround us with an eye trained by years of teaching at UCLA's world class School of Architecture. Since the success of the precedent-setting Blueprints for Modern Living exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Hodgetts has been immersed in the selection and appreciation of objects that are not only outstanding examples of contemporary design, but that exude an emotional connection to evolving lifestyles - attributes that range from the sublime to the brutal. Consisting of over two hundred hand drawn sketches illuminating themes and bold departures from the norm, this book can change the way we look at things, and break down the barriers that markets and tastemakers erect by their recommendations.
A Year of Reverse Coloring Page-A-Day(r) Calendar 2027
Forget drawing inside the lines--this calendar lets you unleash your true creativity! Based on Kendra Norton's bestselling Reverse Coloring Book series.NEW! From the creator of the beloved original Reverse Coloring Book that started it all, free your imagination with daily doodles--the pages have the colors, you draw the lines! MINDFULNESS AND CREATIVITY: Slow down, let go, and let your pen find its way. Trace, draw, shade, fill in or dot your way to a peaceful state of mind. THE ORIGINAL WORKMAN PAGE-A-DAY CALENDARS ARE THE BEST DAILY CALENDARS ON THE MARKET: Page-A-Day(R) Calendars are built on expert authorship, engaging subject matter, and uncompromising design and production standards. 100% recyclable and printed on responsibly sourced paper, with reverse pages printed for use as notepaper.
WowwArt Magazine Issue 3
Welcome to the third issue of WOWwART, where we celebrate the extraordinary journey through the fascinating world of storytelling and creative expression. This issue marks a significant milestone in our commitment to spotlighting exceptional artists and photographers who challenge our minds and stir our souls.We are profoundly honored to feature Dimitri "Dima" Beliakov on our cover-a virtuoso behind the lens whose career spans nearly thirty years of capturing unflinching realities. Beliakov has documented world-shaping events from the harrowing frontlines of Chechnya and Syria to the current Ukraine-Russia war. His work provides "direct, unfiltered evidence" of the human cost of conflict, serving as an anchor in an age of disinformation. Whether he is maintaining neutrality while moving between militias in the Chechen campaigns or capturing iconic moments like the Beslan school siege, his images pulse with an extraordinary ability to connect the viewer to the heart of the human condition.Beyond our cover story, this issue invites you into the minds of other visionary creators: Elizabeth Magill redefines our engagement with the natural world, using fluid paint pourings and photographic overlays to explore the delicate tension between beauty and the darker geopolitical history of Northern Ireland.Sienna Martz and Alex Diamond (J繹rg Heikhaus) use their craft as a form of "gentle activism". Martz transforms plant-based and upcycled materials into sculptures that challenge modern consumerism, while Diamond utilizes wood-based carvings to spark vital dialogues on democracy and social issues.Januario Jano and Galina Agafonova investigate the intersection of identity and technology. Jano uses interdisciplinary research to critique globalization, whereas Agafonova merges nature and technology through neural networks and mirror installations to explore mental discipline and personal growth.Diane Pieri and Cecile Chong bring cultural richness to our pages. Pieri's five-decade career highlights the beauty of authentic materials like gold leaf, influenced by Indian miniatures, while Chong weaves cultural identity into multilayered, universal narratives.WOWwART is a subsidiary of NewYox Media Group and is available in print and electronic formats in over 190 countries through thousands of retailers including Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Waterstones.As you dive into these pages, we hope these insights ignite your own passion for art and understanding. Thank you for being part of our creative community.Happy reading,
The World of Nathalie L矇t矇 Wall Calendar 2027
A year of whimsical paintings by the celebrated artist Nathalie L矇t矇.ENCHANTING ART: Nathalie L矇t矇's unique pop-meets-folk-art style will brighten any room. Step into her magical world filled with hand-painted flowers, bunnies, birds, and more. BEAUTIFUL GIFT: Fans of art and whimsy will love this joyful calendar that celebrates Nathalie's bright, fairytale-like style! NOW PLASTIC-FREE!: Workman wall calendars are completely plastic-free! Now printed with an extended paper flap closed with a fully recyclable seal--no more shrink-wrap!
Gnome Life Mini Wall Calendar 2027
A year of charming, colorful illustrations of trendy gnomes, mushrooms, and woodland creatures.GNOME SWEET GNOME: A tiny crew of gnomes brighten each month with woodland animals, mushrooms, and wildflowers, plus tidbits of gnome wisdom: Find solace in the ebb and flow of small tasks. ADORABLE ARTWORK: Marta May's delightful illustrations portray gnomes in fun scenes with tons of charm and detail. GREAT GIFT: A lovely 7" x 7" mini calendar, perfect for bringing some cheer to cubicles, lockers, and other small spaces. NOW PLASTIC-FREE!: Workman wall calendars are completely plastic-free! Now printed with an extended paper flap closed with a fully recyclable seal--no more shrink-wrap!
Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell's Fantasy Wall Calendar 2027
A year of amazing fantasy images from beloved artists Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell.ENCHANTING ART: Step into the wondrous world of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell, full of dark forces, awe-inspiring creatures, and fierce men and women who rule over it all. Monsters, warriors, and sorceresses await. BELOVED ARTISTS: Boris Vallejo is America's premier fantasy artist, famous for his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and many other fantasy characters. Julie is a world-renowned, award-winning fantasy artist and wildlife painter, winner of two Chelsea Awards, and the designer of the popular and award-winning Dragons of Destiny series; in 2023, she was the Artist Guest of Honor at DragonCon. GORGEOUS GIFT: With twelve beautiful full-color paintings and a bonus centerfold poster, fantasy fans will love this calendar by the premier fantasy artists. NOW PLASTIC-FREE!: Workman wall calendars are completely plastic-free! Now printed with an extended paper flap closed with a fully recyclable seal--no more shrink-wrap!
Art Page-A-Day(r) Gallery Calendar Refill Pack 2027
This is a refill pack for the Gallery Calendar. It includes the pages of the Art Page-A-Day(R) Gallery Calendar 2027, but there is no plastic backer included.
Hudinilson Jr.'s Cadernos de refer礙ncias
Hudinilson Jr.'s Cadernos de refer礙ncias presents the first comprehensive study of Hudinilson Jr.'s Cadernos de refer礙ncias, a collection of over 130 notebooks meticulously compiled throughout more than three decades (1981-2013 ca.). These scrapbooks bring together Greco-Roman mythology, U.S. pornography, French Theory, and the Brazilian pop-art scene, reflecting Hudinilson Jr.'s unique method of cultural critique through appropriation. By exploring this intricate fusion of seemingly disparate materials, the book positions scrapbooking not as a trivial or domestic hobby, but as a politically charged artistic practice of resistance. It argues that Hudinilson Jr.'s Cadernos interrogate the intersections of identity, desire, and mass media, challenging dominant narratives and opening spaces for subversive readings within visual culture.
Deviant Ornaments
Queer sexuality in art is nothing new. Through everything from historical manuscripts to contemporary works, the exhibition shows the abundance and complexity of queer expressions from the Islamic world. Text in English and Norwegian. Emerging from the expanding field of Islamic art history, Deviant Ornaments brings together historical and contemporary works from across the Islamic world to produce a more global understanding of sexuality. This catalog begins with an essay by external curator Noor Bhangu, followed by thematic essays by Dr. Anjali Arondekar, Dr. Andrew Gayed, and Dr. Laura U. Marks. The essays are accompanied by an interview with Oslo-based activist Rana Issa, a section on terminology, and curatorial texts on exhibited artworks. Text in English and Norwegian.
Teach Me the Love that Is Evergreen
A BOOK ABOUT PAINTING AND DOGSWhen Peter Shahrokh came home with his family and their new puppy on a dreary afternoon in February, he had no idea of the turn his life had taken. He hadn't wanted a dog, but his wife and daughter had insisted on it. The next day, the little fellow was following behind him in the backyard but got too curious and fell into the cold swimming pool.Peter pulled him out, of course, and from there, his evolution as a watercolorist changed as he came to understand and portray the nature of humanity's greatest companion, the dog. Teach Me the Love that is Evergreen captures this pilgrimage through the many portraits that show how one painter developed his skills to show his love of this special animal.The name of the book, Teach Me the Love that Is Evergreen, is a line from a poem, "In the White Giant's Thigh", by the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.
The Habit of Seeing
The Habit of Seeing explores perception as an active, cultivated practice rather than a passive act. Moving through a series of reflective essays, Tom McPherson considers how attention shapes what we notice, what we overlook, and how meaning slowly emerges when we learn to look more carefully.The book examines habits of perception, visual assumptions, and the quiet editing that takes place before conscious thought. Seeing is treated not as something that simply happens, but as something we do, shaped by experience, intention, and patience. Ordinary environments, familiar spaces, and everyday moments become sites of renewed clarity when attention deepens.Written in a calm, reflective voice, The Habit of Seeing offers a counterpoint to speed, certainty, and constant distraction. It invites the reader to slow down, question first impressions, and rediscover how much richness exists in the overlooked and the familiar.This book is for artists, students, and readers interested in perception, attention, and the relationship between seeing and understanding. It is not instructional, but exploratory, a companion for anyone drawn to observation, awareness, and a more thoughtful way of engaging with the world.
Red-Blue/ Blue-Red
Red-Blue/ Blue-Red is comprised of 8 drawings by Genie Poretzky-Lee. They are fragments of colour, red dipped in blue, blue dipped in red.The first drawings were created in Goa in 2020. In 2025 Poretzky-Lee revisited her collection of drawings, and added bleach, dripped across the paper.For Poretzky-Lee, these drawings are uncompromising in their minimalism.
Off the Coast of Paradise
Off the Coast of Paradise is the first major exhibition and publication to explore the profound impact of Ossabaw Island--an undeveloped, 26,000-acre barrier island off the coast of Savannah--on artists in the United States during the latter half of the twentieth century. The show, which opens at the Jepson Center, Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia in March 2026, focuses on a pair of revolutionary multidisciplinary residency programs known as the Ossabaw Island Project (OIP) and Genesis that ran on the island from 1961-1982 and their legacies in its examination of Ossabaw as a site for creative experimentation. Taking its name from a poem written by renowned poet and former Genesis member, Henri Cole, the exhibition and publication feature the work of internationally renowned artists who either participated in the residency programs or who have spent time on Ossabaw in the years since, including Harry Bertoia, Agnes Denes, Allison Janae Hamilton, Marcy Hermansader, Suzanne Jackson, Ellen Lanyon, Doris Lee, Sally Mann, Michael Mazur, Ross McElwee, Athena Tacha, Betty Tompkins, and Anne Truitt. These artists have considered the island through a myriad of lenses in their work, including the historical, the environmental, the social, the cultural, and the personal. The lavishly illustrated exhibit catalogue features new scholarly essays and first-hand accounts on topics including Sandy West's ecofeminist vision for Ossabaw, African American artists in the Georgia Sea Islands, and Gullah Geechee lived experience in oral history and film.
The Female Body in Art
From the Renaissance to the present day, this is the history of art told through the female form, with over 80 works of art. A cultural mirror of the times, the female body has captivated both artists and audiences for centuries. But what can we learn from these pieces of art? What are they trying to tell us about the world we live in? And how has that changed over time? Explore the luminous portraiture of Gustav Klimt, astonishing wartime photography from Lee Miller and the ground-breaking performance art of Marina Abramovic. Meet Leonor Fini's shepherdess, Barkley L. Hendricks's 'Madonna', Graciela Iturbide's 'Medusa', Toyin Ojih Odutola's adventuresses and Hayv Kahraman's 'army of fierce women'. Discover the idealized female body as envisioned by Sandro Botticelli and the gender non-conforming portraits of Zanele Muholi and Yuki Kihara, as Amy Dempsey looks at how and why the female body has been depicted time and time again, and why its portrayal has often delivered important messages about - and to - the world. With a foreword by writer and curator, Hettie Judah.
Stripped
A collection of personal art and commissioned work drawn by the talented Negy.
Painting With the Colors of the Wind (Second Edition)
Paul Devito takes us with him on a journey through his latest exercise in artistic subversion, indeed, as he says, 'the style of these paintings I call illusionism: between impressionist and modern.'
The Sea Lion Pipe
The opposite side is inserted into the right eye breaking up into a thousand streams of coloredstars, which sometimes fall one on top of the other confusing and confusing me. It's strangeand beautiful, this continuous fall, it's whirling, I can't stop it in any way even if I wanted to.My hand becomes as big as a mountain, it detaches itself from my body and becomes a tractorthat grinds up earth and my nose. I've gathered my few things, I've made a strawberry cake.I swallow it whole without ever looking back. Behind me are the usual ants, my faithful friends.They greet me joyfully and I think they must be telling me something. But it's too loud tounderstand them, I can't hear any of their important message.It's already night and I realize I'm still wearing the same pajamas I was wearing two nights ago;I've always had them on. But how much me has passed? It doesn't matter, I like spending allmy me with my ant friends. I show them my latest paintings and ask what they think. But Ihave to stop right away because the rainbow dragon has arrived and wants the last threemonths' rent paid. I tell him firmly that I'll pay it whenever I feel like it, which is, never. Listento the rustling of the leaves, it's beautiful, isn't it? The wind is light and caresses my old skinlike a square balloon. Sometimes, often, never, I think that two of us are too many and thatmaybe three is better. Even if it's difficult to communicate, it's not necessary. So I finally decideto get dressed, because it's cold, and I put on a coat, scarf, and hat. I go out and fall repeatedlyon the stairs... I fall and fall again and find myself walking on my hands because my feet havebecome two yellow and green umbrellas.I want to paint because I bought beautiful new colors, and I'm curious. I mix them and theysmell so good that instead of using them for my painting, I eat them all... I'm full now and Isee that my stomach has become my last beautiful painting. I hang myself on a wall in frontof the mirror and I really like my stomach-painting and I want to sell it to the rainbow dragoneven if he's so ignorant, but I need the money because next month I want to go to Pluto viaSaturn and Mars, and I want to take my ant friends with me. Claudio Parentela
Stripped
A collection of personal art and commissioned work drawn by the talented Negy.
Stripped
A collection of personal art and commissioned work drawn by the talented Negy.
Time Again
For the last nineteen years my work has focused on painting found people from the 1890s, whose photos I found in the trash. Although I don't know who these people are, they changed my life. Initially, what they helped me understand is the finite time we have here on earth. That realization lit a fire underneath me and pushed me to go after what I love, using their visage as my symbol.Portraying anonymous people in this pop aesthetic urges viewers to ask "who is that?" This has led me to seek out stories I can actually tell. Some figures who were drawn to me over the last few years include: James Baldwin, Emmeline Pankhurst, Lucy Parsons, Frederick Douglass, George F. Johnson, Thomas Garrett, Louise Michel, Edward Bellamy, Assata Shakur... and the list continues to grow.When I realized what I had already begun to do, and looked around at what's happening today, that's when I decided to dig in a little deeper. Synchronicity and connection got me here and as I take a firmer direction on my path, it continues to guide my research. Open one book and it leads to another. All of these stories are connected.They're connected to you and to me.I can't tell every story, but I can point to a few and hope that the viewer takes it as an example. I don't know if I still believe in utopia, but I do believe in rebellion.It's Time Again.
Caf矇 Society
A wonderful volume which captures the central role of Parisian caf矇s as a source of inspiration in the development of modern art.Presenting over fifty-five works by a broad cross-section of major and lesser-known names in French and expatriate American art, the volume looks at the changing role of caf矇s as gathering places for a new type of urban bourgeois clientele, that increasingly dominated life in central Paris in the late nineteenth century.The redeveloped city centre saw a massive explosion in caf矇s, brasseries, and restaurants, as well as a host of music and performing establishments, that became social gathering spots for a wide range of artists, writers, intellectuals, political activists, and hangers-on, as well as a growing number of often exploited cabaret performers. These caf矇s included Caf矇 Guerbois in Avenue de Clichy, frequented by Manet and Degas; Caf矇-concert des Ambassadeurs in the Jardins des Champs Elysees, a favourite haunt of Jean Beraud, and Le Lapin Agile the informal cabaret in Montmartre, closely associated with the struggling modernist artist Picasso. These establishments ranging from formal restaurants and brasseries, to cabarets, small caf矇s, and table d'h繫tes attracted French - and international - artists, drawn to places where different social classes of men and women could freely mingle, and providing the kind of hedonistic sensory experience that became the subjects of these artists' work. This catalog accompanies a traveling exhibition with venues at the Ordrupgaard Museum, Charlottenlund, Denmark; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN; and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
Readings Against Type
I think of Albert Mobilio as a flâneur of culture. To follow the path of his criticism down alleyways and boulevards is to be immersed in the sights, sounds, and feel of literature and art. I've long been in awe of the breadth of his interests and the depth of his empathetic imagination, and this collection, a series of amiable detours ranging from road atlases to asemic writing to the art of list making, doesn't disappoint. His language, too, is a marvel-tactile, dazzling, and ripe, like fruit at the peak of summer. -Nicole Rudick, What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle Each piece in this book distills intently focused fascination, whether with maps, magic, cemeteries, aerial surveillance, collages of found objects, or how cities and landscapes change over time. Wherever he directs his gaze Albert Mobilio teases out unexpected perspectives, by turns playful or macabre or ironic or sublime. Tiny objects or odd hobbies may be tokens of cataclysm or prescient intuition. Glimpses discerned in a snapshot or a stretch of desert engender metaphors that blossom into narratives. A word-centered artwork by Ed Ruscha evokes "a bathroom graffito on a doomed U-boat," a falcon traces "the inseam of the void." Among the places on a West Virginia road map Mobilio finds "incantatory music" and in the argot of Mafia wiretaps "a poetry of the oblique." In the lives and works of artists (Harry Smith, Weegee, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Vivian Maier, and many others) he is alert to endlessly suggestive processes, and from what might seem random detritus (lists, manuals, hoarded mementos) he elicits hidden histories whose implications spread out in all directions. Readings Against Type is like a steamer trunk overflowing with the evidence of many lives and many places: at once memoir and urban chronicle and meditation on art, and, not least, acknowledgment of how mysteriously all its elements interconnect. -Geoffrey O'Brien, Arabian Nights of 1934 In Readings Against Type Albert Mobilio maps cultural curiosities like few others. Whether making sense of Gertrude Stein's sentences, reading travel guides and how-to books as literature, musing on a museum devoted to one man, or glossing photographs of men's footwear on city sidewalks, his sharp prose illuminates cultural artifacts that favor odd angles of approach. Read these pocket-size pieces of the planet for a keener sense of where we've been-and where we might be headed. -Louis Bury, Exercises in Criticism
The Goddess Fortunes
I am a visual artist who uses a variety of media to explore feminist themes and the self. My approach to both art and poetry is the same; collage. I find images or words I am innately attracted to, cut them out, arranging and rearranging until I find the perfect picture. I am heavily influenced by the found object; discarded magazines, the sky in a piece of junk mail, the still frame of a paused movie, the shape of a scrap of paper, any likeness or shape that calls to me. I consider the images of prehistoric goddess figurines, paramount and central to my own art, as a found object; Something someone was compelled to create that was lost or discarded, then found again. My poems are inspired by the found word; fortune cookies, passing billboards, my teenage diaries, made up and mis-heard songs, overheard conversations, grocery lists, and all other manner of words heard or seen in serendipitous encounters. I use collage to create a sacred space for these images and words, ancient and new. I feed myself found words and images; digesting, reconstructing, honoring form and phrase, creating a sacred place for each, and then gluing every one down in its rightful place. R.L. Edmondson Vance approaches feminism with a layered process. I'm forever looking deeper into the work, which reminds me of the layers of femininity, womanism, and the culture to which those identities subscribe. These collages make me question if hands mean "giving or taking" and if feet mean "coming or going"? Vance representing the ancient female figure by using digital medium, posits accusations that ideals of femininity haven't fundamentally progressed yet may be presented in a new way. An intentional irreverence to refinery comes to mind here; a slapdash heap of Amazon boxes, whiskers quickly cut out, geometric shapes of patterns that aren't quite anchored in any particular way all paired with the fecund, succulent depiction of the jungle and the rotund female figure demands the viewer to consider how time and place neither distracts nor diminishes certain brands of beauty. In many of Vance's collages, we only get a partial view of other animals and beasts while we get the entire feminine figure, centered and framed, demanding our attention. This curious cropping and positioning allows us to marvel at the form and perhaps even worship it. Vance's drawn or painted artworks call to question the function of a symbol, whether color or iconography, we wonder if pink is related to womanhood, if snakes and Eve are actually sinful, and whether or not hands indicate an inherent generosity. How do we hold an image? An idea? We manipulate our expectations and fantasies around the truth of others; a frame of sorts. As we look into this artwork, it's impossible to forget that we are removed, removed, removed from both the subject and the artist. The genesis of our humanity is perhaps easier to hypothesize than the origin of our ideas surrounding who we really are. Preconceived notions and expectations projected onto both the woman and motherhood are represented here with an unrelenting symmetry or structure, which some might refer affectionately to as the matrix. This translucent celebration doesn't forget where it came from, which seems to be a brightness, a nebula of yellow. What do we have to offer our mothers? Despite whatever offering that gave to us, here we are with hands again. This memento mori reminds us that this is the life we are given and that we must deal with the identities we originate with as we move forward into our own deeper understandings of ourselves and we are somehow pulled inward toward our own introspection.
Hello Kawaii!
Add a burst of adorable to your day with more than one hundred cute and colorful temporary tattoos. Welcome to a world of pure, heartwarming cuteness with Hello Kawaii! Inside, you'll find over one hundred temporary tattoos that are guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Illustrated by Kidnichols, each design is inspired by the magic of kawaii culture--think pastel rainbows, fluffy animals, adorable treats, and the sweetest little flowers. These tattoos are perfect for adding a touch of whimsy to your day, whether you're curled up with a cup of tea, going to a fun festival, or just want to bring some extra sweetness to your world.
Los Santos Plays Itself
Los Santos Plays Itself begins with a simple claim: the most obsessively filmed city in contemporary art may be a fake Los Angeles built by Rockstar Games. Taking its cue from Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself, the book asks what happens when video art and post-photographic practices run on a commercial game engine. If Andersen traced how cinema framed a city, this study follows how simulation generates its own urban logic.Across more than seventy works made between 2013 and 2025, the book tracks artists who treat Grand Theft Auto V as software rather than a narrative. Their work exposes Los Santos as executable code: an apparatus in which ideology is encoded into traffic models, weather systems, and police routines. Machinima becomes a post-cinematic practice that scripts resistance into this procedural logic through ambient observation, modding, and infrastructural critique.
Los Santos Plays Itself
Los Santos Plays Itself begins with a simple claim: the most obsessively filmed city in contemporary art may be a fake Los Angeles built by Rockstar Games. Taking its cue from Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself, the book asks what happens when video art and post-photographic practices run on a commercial game engine. If Andersen traced how cinema framed a city, this study follows how simulation generates its own urban logic.Across more than seventy works made between 2013 and 2025, the book tracks artists who treat Grand Theft Auto V as software rather than a narrative. Their work exposes Los Santos as executable code: an apparatus in which ideology is encoded into traffic models, weather systems, and police routines. Machinima becomes a post-cinematic practice that scripts resistance into this procedural logic through ambient observation, modding, and infrastructural critique.
Human Marks
An exploration of the convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. Presenting a range of media by fifteen artists who also tattoo, Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art unpacks how the ethics, strategies, and concerns of tattooing shape the artists' studio practices in experimental and revelatory ways. Human Marks presents the full creative spectrum of artists who maintain both tattoo and studio practices to ask what the world of fine art can learn from today's tattoo community.With a range of surprising media--from paintings made with human blood to wearable works in silicone and even perfumery--themes of ritual, ethics, and identity tie together the materially dynamic, unexpected, and challenging artwork featured in Human Marks. Featured artists include Kaur Alia Ahmed, Oz Bardos, Makoto Chi, Nassim Dayoub, Evan Paul English, Gesiye, Don Ed Hardy, Ciara Havishya, Dr. Lakra, Christopher Martin, Duke Riley, Miller Robinson, Tamara Santiba簽ez, Lyric Shen, and Jayna Won, with additional contributions by Kaur Alia Ahmed, Makoto Chi, Nassim Dayoub, Don Ed Hardy, Tamara Santiba簽ez, Fiona Smith, Stevie Soares, Marcia Tucker, and V. Vale
Dark Gods of the Underworld: Illustrated by Jason Engle Wall Calendar 2027 (Art Calendar)
The Picture Book Book
A vibrant journey through Seymour Chwast's picture books--where graphic design reshapes storytelling. Seymour Chwast, legendary co-founder of Push Pin Studios, reinvented how we see and read picture books. The Picture Book Book gathers over 40 of his works, curated by Steven Heller, and offers a rare look at his playful, incisive approach to visual storytelling. From bold graphics to sly wit, Chwast's books expanded the boundaries of design and children's literature alike. As a collectible volume, it bridges gestalten and Little Gestalten--celebrating visual culture that is both sophisticated and accessible.The book features an "American Jacket" cover: a reversible cover that can also be used as a poster.
NFTs Unlocked
A file can be copied endlessly; a token can feel singular. This book begins with that tension and offers calm, jargon-free guidance for readers who want understanding rather than hype. It explains what an NFT is in practice, how digital ownership works, and why communities rally around provenance, status, and shared stories. You will learn the creator's toolkit (minting paths, creator royalties, editions and utilities), how markets set narratives in the nft art market, and where law draws the line between tokens and intellectual property rights. Clear chapters unpack blockchain for artists, digital scarcity, and safer participation, then widen to durable use-cases such as access, membership, and certification. There is an honest discussion of environmental impact blockchain in principle - focusing on choices creators and collectors can control - and a grounded look at web3 communities and metaverse identity. Designed for artists, curators, collectors, and the merely curious, it delivers a mental model you can reuse long after trends change: evaluate claims, read incentives, and make patient, human-centred decisions in a fast-moving cultural economy.
How to Be Avant-Garde
"Art has poisoned our life," proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-garde artists and writers sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life. Following the evolution of these revolutionary groups, How to Be Avant-Garde charts its pioneers and radical ideas.From Paris to New York, from Zurich to Moscow and Berlin, avant-gardists challenged the confines of the definition of art along with the confines of the canvas itself. Art historian Morgan Falconer starts with the dynamic Futurist founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose manifesto extolling speed, destruction, and modernity seeded avant-gardes across Europe. In turn, Dadaists Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings sought to replace art with political cabaret, and the Surrealists tried to exchange it for tools to plumb the unconscious.He guides us through the Russian Constructivists with their adventures in advertising and utopianism and then De Stijl with the geometric abstractions of Piet Mondrian. The Bauhaus broke more boundaries, transmuting art into architecture and design. Finally, the Situationists swapped art for politics, with many of their ideas inspiring the 1968 Paris student protests. How to Be Avant-Garde is a journey through the interlocking networks of these richly creative lives with their visions of a better world, their sometimes sympathetic but often strange and turbulent conversations, and their objects and writings that defied categorization.
Stained Glass Owls Coloring Book
An artistic adult coloring book featuring elegant owls inspired by stained glass art. Clean outlines and refined compositions offer a relaxing, meditative coloring experience designed for stress relief and creative focus.
Caroline Walker
Scottish artist Caroline Walker (b.1982) is known for her accomplished paintings which offer a lens into the everyday lives of women. Bringing together work made over the past five years, exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care, this important publication reveals the evolution of Caroline Walker's highly original artistic language.Through her large canvases, intimate panels and ink sketches, Walker portrays diverse female subjects in settings that blur the boundaries between public and private worlds, and reveal the complex social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society. Walker's considerable skill in fusing a mastery of her medium with subjects that invite debate has ensured her standing as one of the leading painters working in Britain today.
Japan Art Revolution
The 1960s in Japan were a time of profound social change, political unrest, and student protests. The turbulent years of the postwar era inspired an artistic explosion, with the emergence of a revolutionary scene of avant-garde artists who pioneered many disciplines: experimental and erotic photography, "Angura" theater and underground street performances, apocalyptic butoh dance, surreal illustrations, and seminal graphic design.Taking design cues from Japanese luminaries Yokoo Tadanori and Awazu Kiyoshi, Japan Art Revolution showcases more than six hundred captivating artworks, encompassing photographs, film stills, theater posters, and illustrations by visionary artists including Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eiko, Araki Nobuyoshi, Ishiuchi Miyako, Tanaami Keiichi, Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Terayama Shuji, Tenjo Sajiki, Kawada Kikuji, Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi--Red Center, Hanaga Mitsutoshi, Nakahira Takuma, and Tanabe Santaro, to name a few of the artists featured in this book.Drawing on extensive interviews with these iconic artists, this comprehensive publication offers readers a nuanced understanding of the thriving world of Japanese avant--garde art, complemented by insightful texts and quotes from esteemed experts, curators, academics, and archivists.
SHEILA Portrait of an Unknown Artist
Sheila: Portrait of an Unknown Artist is an intimate examination of the life of SHEILA DENNING, one of the many women painters who worked in Britain in the twentieth century, but whose work received little or no attention from the art establishment. Sheila was the author's mother. Born in 1920 to an Anglo-Irish family, Sheila lost her favourite brother in WWII. In the grief-filled years that followed, and despite a dispiriting experience at Camberwell School of Art, she painted a series of compelling self portraits. Once married, Sheila allowed the needs of her clay-worker husband to set the agenda and her career floundered. But in the late 1960s, newly separated and a lone parent, she produced a stream of extraordinary portraits of people in her immediate circle. These were brave, honest paintings, the work of an artist who looked deeply into the faces of her sitters. Working within the genre of memoir, Thornhill interrogates Sheila's paintings with her own painter's eyes in an attempt to understand who her mother was. She dramatizes incidents and conversations remembered from childhood; she quotes from Sheila's letters, poems and an incomplete autobiography. The narrative is driven forward by the author's deep love for her mother, her need to disentangle herself from an overly close mother-daughter relationship and her desire to fathom what got in the way of Sheila thriving as an artist. The book is fully illustrated with 22 colour plates and 8 black and white plates.
Edmonia Lewis
A richly illustrated volume accompanying the first retrospective of Black and Indigenous American sculptor Edmonia Lewis. Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) broke international, racial, and gender barriers as a young artist who traveled to Rome in 1866 to join the leading American sculptors of her generation. She created acclaimed figurative works in marble and achieved great success, but her status as a Black woman of Indigenous (Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation) descent complicated the critical reception of her oeuvre. After her death, her contribution to American sculpture was largely overlooked. Accompanying the first monographic retrospective of the artist, this lavishly illustrated volume reproduces examples of all Lewis's known works and shares new discoveries that illuminate her artistic vision of community, reform, and resilience. Essays place her sculptures in conversation with abolitionist and feminist movements and consider the themes Lewis's art addressed, including Indigenous artistry, social and political reformers, and religious and mythological subjects.
Mandalas Relaxing Patterns
Twenty five images to color! Mandala coloring book for all ages! Fun patterns to color while relaxing on a rainy or sunny day! Good for stress relief! Hand drawn images! Fun to color! Promotes mindfulness!
Frida
A sweeping new assessment of Frida Kahlo's place in modern art, from her self-made image to her lasting influence for contemporary artists Few artists have shaped popular culture as profoundly as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), whose striking self-portraits and deeply personal symbolism have captivated audiences for decades. Remembered, too, for her tumultuous marriage to fellow artist Diego Rivera and her passionate political activism, Kahlo's legacy transcends her artistic oeuvre. To this day, contemporary artists draw on Kahlo's life and work for creative inspiration. Showcasing Kahlo's paintings alongside the work of other artists from around the world and from midcentury to today, Frida: The Making of an Icon investigates the profound and lasting nature of Kahlo's impact. With essays by leading researchers, scholars, and curators, Frida: The Making of an Icon is the first major examination of how Kahlo became a global icon and an important artistic influence, especially beginning in the 1970s. In seven sections, addressing themes from Kahlo's role as a gender-fluid intellectual to her political activism, and including conversations with contemporary artists Magali Lara and M籀nica Mayer, this important book celebrates and bridges the complexities of her iconic status and cultural, political, commercial, and artistic legacy. Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Exhibition Schedule: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (January-May 2026) Tate Modern, London (June 2026-January 2027)
David Remfry
British artist David Remfry RA (b.1942) is perhaps best known for his large-scale watercolours, often of people dancing, as well as his landscapes of New York and his images of residents and friends painted and drawn during his twenty years living and working at the Chelsea Hotel, New York City. Yet this focus underestimates the breadth of Remfry's artistic contribution, as this book, the first in-depth account of his work, makes clear.With chapters written by leading figures within the art and literary worlds, this insightful publication covers themes such as the influence of dance and fashion and the role of abstraction within Remfry's oeuvre. Featuring over 150 images drawn from across Remfry's varied career, this book will provide an unrivalled account of a truly innovative, original artist.
Digital Painting with KRITA 2.9
Krita is a free painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry. It has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike. Discover how assistants can speed up your creative process. Understand the powerful brush engine system. Includes illustrations teaching how individual concepts are applied. Master the user interface and customize it to your own preference. Learn how to stay on top of future changes and new features.
The Kanga an African Cloth
The Kanga an African Cloth, attempts to fill a gap in the cultural history of the Swahili coast with its vibrant connections to central Africa, west Africa, Europe and the Middle East by exploring stories of the kanga. In addition the book contains the only printed collection of kangas from the mid-1880's to the present. There are color photos of more than 150 kangas with many translations of the text. It concludes with an excellent bibliography for those interested in further research into this highly interesting cloth.
Picturing Gratitude
Susan Simmons is a full time artist and has just gotten her feet wet in the poetry areas, with the intention of implementing gratitude through fifty years of artwork with her uplifting, inspiration words. "The road here on the earth is a short and bumpy path. It brought me solace to create this book. This isn't a "candy-coated" view of my life, but a real visual glimpse of emotions of my life although the details are not specified." Artwork takes center stage in Picturing GratitudeThe artist says, "As we fly around the sun year after year on this great blue and green ball we call "home:, we experience all the surprises of being on the planet - good times, bad times, easy and difficult ones. Yet, if we truly live in present gratitude, we can recognize and appreciate the blessings and gifts that bring us little joys from one moment to the next.As I assembled the artwork for this book, I realized I had gone through many transformations during my life so far, and yet, I am still me! I am grateful to be me and have this amazing human experience! The incredible attributes that grace this planet continue to astound me with joy every day. I've had good times and bad times. I've had wins and losses. The way I keep myself moving forward is to be grateful for what I have now versus what I have lost. I continue to paint and live life for what it is - life!"
The (Mostly) Misadventures Of JOHNSON
Johnson Frempong has one simple goal: Survive his family.That's tough when his brother Joseph is busy eating the homework, his sister Lisa is redecorating with industrial amounts of glitter, and his other sister Hannah is selling tickets to the resulting mess.From disastrous resort trips to the unexpected award, Johnson is the hilarious, long-suffering bearer and doer of all the mayhem. Every day is a new adventure, a new disaster, and a new chance for chaos to reign.
Out of the Mansion of the Motoyasu
This is an autobiography, in which the author's life story is told not only from deep within her soul, but also from a place outside the narrator and hovering above her. It is a historical novel, telling the story of Japan's encounter with the West at the end of the 19th century, and through the years a er World War II. This is a book of personal mythology and spirituality documenting the growth of the author's soul, starting from the age of four as she starts painting on scraps of cardboard while hiding in hand-dug bomb shelters during the bombings, and then as she grows into an intensely serious artist. This book will be attractive to anyone interested in psychology, selfrealization, spirituality, feminism, religion, language, different cultures, or the relationship between life and death: the passionate integration of all these themes makes this book extraordinary. And it is a compelling account of the essence of art--of the artist's role as a passionate witness, and as a constructive outsider.
