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  Realistic Painting Workshop -...

  Dan Carrel

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  Anyone can learn to paint with this step-by-step, transformational painting method. 
   
  This is a unique, how-to art instruction book, taught by masterful artist Dan Carrel. Using Dan’s original method of painting, readers with little or no painting experience will easily learn to create realistic renderings of any subject. Through a simple process of layering and learning how to create light and shadow with paint, a complex and sophisticated image emerges. What begins as chaotic color is transformed into an orderly, realistic finished piece of art.  
   
  Dan Carrel has been teaching workshops for over thirty years with amazing results. No matter what your artistic inclination, and even if you have never picked up a paintbrush, you’ll find yourself painting beyond your wildest expectations. Anchored in a positive philosophy of creative discovery, this workshop teaches Dan’s no-fail techniques through accessible, step-by-step visual instruction and inspiration.

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  We Love Little India

  Singapore Urban Sketchers

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  Little India, often called Tekka, is popular with Singaporeans of all races, South Asian migrant workers and tourists alike.  
   
  Venture down the main thoroughfare in Serangoon Road with the members of Urban Sketchers Singapore and explore all of Little India's many side streets. From food enclaves serving traditional spicy fish head curries, to art galleries and beauty salons, take a stroll along the conserved shophouses and be surprised with what you can find.

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  Orphans

  Lyle Kessler

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  In a rundown house in Philadelphia live two orphan brothers: the reclusive, frightened Philip and the violent pickpocket thief, Treat. Into this savage and ferociously funny world enters Harold, a shadowy underworld figure of power and influence who irrevocably changes the precious balance between the two brothers. A Steppenwolf Theatre Company Production. Starring Kevin Anderson, Terry Kinney, and John Mahoney Written by Lyle KesslerAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Kevin Anderson, Terry Kinney and John Mahoney.

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  Fibber McGee and Molly: Finds A...

  Don Quinn

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  Fibber finds a gold watch at the corner of 14th and Oak. Who lost it?

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  George Washington's War - In...

  Kenneth Baker

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  A Revolutionary War history told through eighteenth-century illustrations: “Utterly absorbing” (The Times, London).   Americans are steeped in the history of the American Revolution, but often the fog of myth shrouds the reality. In these pages, the path to war is starkly documented by British caricatures of politicians and generals—for the most part favorable to the Colonists. For George III, Lord North, and Britain, the war was a disaster that need not have happened. The problems of coping with a country five thousand miles away with a tradition of representative government, a free press, and a spirit of independence were just too much. But they, together with Generals Howe, Burgoyne, Cornwallis, and others, were mercilessly lampooned. Washington, the hero, is spared, although there are surprising and dark elements to the American victory illustrated here.   Using prints and caricatures from the period—some never before published—and drawing on his own experience in politics, Kenneth Baker provides vivid and memorable images that illustrate these extraordinary historical events.

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  1000 Monuments of Genius

  Christopher E.M. Pearson

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  Since the mythical Tower of Babel, humans have continuously tried to erect monuments to match their oversized egos. With ancient ziggurats, the Taj Mahal or the Empire State Building, man has for centuries demonstrated his force by raising structures for purposes both religious and profane. As international cultural statements without words, symbols of a peoples values  devotion, patriotism, power  symbols of a civilisationÊs grandeur, these monuments still fascinate and attract an ever-growing public who is captivated by the createvity and ingenuity of these architects and stonemasons. Their historical message goes far beyond mere art history, for they tell us of the lives and evolution of the peoples of the past, as does the Parthenon in Athens, many times destroyed, rebuilt, reused, attacked, pillaged, and restored once again today. This work, featuring 1000 monuments chosen from around the globe, retraces human history, the techniques, styles, and philosophies necessary for the construction of so many splendours over the centuries, providing a panorama of the most celebrated monuments while evoking the passion of their makers. The reader can explore the changing values of humanity through the edifices it has built and understand these structures as triumphs of humankind

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