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Create gorgeous paintings with this fun and easy guide to acrylics!. Always wanted to paint with acrylics? This easy-to-follow, full color guide gives you expert instruction and simple exercises in acrylic painting techniques and styles. The step-by-step projects let you practice your skill and stir your imagination — and give you the foundation to create similar projects with your own subjects and surfaces!.: Get your feet (and brushes) wet — assemble your materials, prepare your surfaces, and sort out additives and enhancers;. Try out basic acrylic techniques — work with brush strokes, control and thin your paint, experiment with textures, and use stencils;. Practice design and composition principles — mix and use color, balance elements, make changes, and pull your painting together;. Imitate several kinds of styles — use acrylic paint to mimic the effects of watercolor and oil paints;. Build your repertoire — explore texture and dimension, work with glass, rocks, bricks, metalwork, and more. Open the book and find:.: Clear step-by-step instructions with illustrations;. A variety of projects and styles to suit all tastes;. Quick tricks and techniques to get started painting right away;. Lots of colorful paintings to inspire creativity;. Helpful hints for improving your drawing skills;. Full-scale projects at the end of most chapters;. Exercises to jump-start your artistic passion more...

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The illustrated book gives historical and cultural background of Christmas. Navigate easily to any chapter from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Who is Mrs. Claus?. How to make an apple pie. What are the lyrics of "O Little Town of Bethlehem". How to take care of Christmas Cactus. Read Charles Dickens''s Christmas Stories. What is Advent and how it is celebrated?. Use your down time to read about your favorite holiday. . Table of Contents. Christmas: About | History | The Nativity | Bringers of gifts | Decorations | Economics | Christmas Eve. Christianity: Nativity of Jesus | Nativity Scene | Three Wise Men | Star of Bethlehem | Saint Nicholas Day | Twelfth Night | Epiphany | Advent | Christmastide. Folklore: Father Christmas | Saint Nicholas | Santa Claus | Mrs. Claus | Santa Claus'' Reindeer | Rudolph | Elves | Ebenezer Scrooge | Other Characters. Traditions: Twelve Days of Christmas | Christmas tree | Wassailing | Yule log | Stockings | Ornaments | Lights | Christmas markets | Plants | Food | Feasts | Events | Christmas worldwide | Christmas music and songs | The Nutcracker. Carols: About | Best known | List. Literature (Fiction): The Dead by James Joyce | The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories | A Christmas Carol | The Haunted Man and The Ghost''s Bargain. Recipes: Apple pie | Christmas Cake | Christmas Ham | Christmas Pudding | Cream Cheese Mints | Pumpkin Pie. Society: Christmas Controversy | Christmas Creep | Christmas Truce | Xmas | Quotes regarding Christmas. more...

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Readers of Anticraft will be introduced to craft ideas they'd never see in Family Circle or Martha Stewart Living. Filled with projects such as the Curse Your Boyfriend sweater, the Snowball's Chance in Hell arm warmers and a sleek black duct-tape corset, AntiCraft takes an approach much sought after by the growing audience of hot publications like BUST, Ready Made and Craft: transforming traditional crafts into quirky wearable fashion. Featuring a variety of knitting, stitching and beading projects the book instructs, inspires and entertains. Includes quirky sidebars such as "How to tap into your dark side" and "The top five reasons it's good to be an AntiCrafter", plus comic strip art, recipes and more. About the Author. An avid seamstress, Renée has been designing knitwear for eight years. Her work has been published in Stitch 'n Bitch Nation and she has been teaching knitting, crochet and beading classes for the last two years. Zabet is a lifelong artist and has been writing poetry, songs and short stories for more than a decade. She has been designing knitted objects for the last five years. Together, the two are the co-owners of the highly popular Internet site www.TheAntiCraft.com more...

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Whether playing at defending their own castle or simply chucking pumpkins over a fence, wannabe marauders and tinkerers will become fast acquainted with Ludgar, the War Wolf, Ill Neighbor, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey—ancient artillery devices known commonly as catapults. Building these simple yet sophisticated machines introduces fundamentals of math and physics using levers, force, torsion, tension, and traction. Instructions and diagrams illustrate how to build seven authentic working model catapults, including an early Greek ballista, a Roman onager, and the apex of catapult technology, the English trebuchet. more...

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